As the world today recognizes International Day for Disaster Reduction, Waterloo architecture professor Dr. Elizabeth English’s work with amphibious housing as a means to provide innovative, sustainable and low-cost flood mitigation strategies is being honoured as a Best Climate Practice by the Initiative on Climate Change Policy and Governance (ICCG). Three winning projects out of a field of more than 200 entries will be celebrated at a special awards ceremony to be held on November 8, 2017, at COP23 in Bonn, Germany.
UWSA recent graduates Isabel Ochoa + James Clarke-Hicks have been announced as one of the winners of the 2017 IIDEX Woodshop Competition with their steam bent light fixture titled "SPLIT". Exploring the role of "craft in production" using both digital and traditional wood fabrication techniques, the fixture was developed as part of their 4B independent study under the advisory of Heinz Koller and David Correa.
