Waterloo School of Architecture is proud to announce the recipients of its Annual Student Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in academic excellence, leadership, and community service.
Waterloo Architecture alumni Andrea Shin Ling (BES '02, MArch '07) and Vincent Hui (BES '00, GCERT '03, MArch '03) will represent Canada at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture as members of the Living Room Collective.
We Have Never Been Postmodern: A Conversation with School of Architecture Professor David Fortin was recently featured in Azure Magazine.
This summer, Engineering Science Quest is offering summer day camp programming for children entering grades 2 to 5 at the School of Architecture Campus in Cambridge. Brooks camp, named in recognition of School of Architecture graduate, esteemed architect, Alison Brooks, offers hands-on STEM activities throughout the summer.
Designed and built by School of Architecture students the Tiny Home prototype is now on display at Civic Square at Cambridge City Hall from now until mid-November. Researchers from the University of Waterloo are working in partnership with the City of Cambridge to explore the possibility of tiny homes to create housing solutions for people experiencing homelessness in the region.
The 2021-22 competition theme asked students in Canadian schools of architecture to design a pedestrian bridge that spans two sites “to establish a meaningful connection. The bridge, by its elegance and gesture, should draw attention and be the symbol of a link between an origin and destination.”
Images courtesy of Montreal Holocaust Museum.
Congratulations to Elisia Neves, a Waterloo Architecture Alum, who won the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award at the 2022 Cambridge Chamber of Commerce's Business Excellence Awards for Fabrik Architects Inc. after establishing her business in 2017.
LeiLei Zhao is one of two winners of the American Galvanizers Association's (AGA) 2022 Galvanize the Future Scholarship. He participated in an essay contest with applicants throughout North America enrolled in architecture, construction or engineering programs. Two scholarships are awarded annually ($2,500 each) for the top essays submitted. He is currently working on his Architectural Studies Degree with a major in Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Student designers and builders of the tiny house: Jennifer Chen, Nini Chen, Johannah-Gwyneth Del Rosario, Marc Eugenio, Anita Hu, Ernest Lee, Lauren Mok, Max Perry, Kenneth Siu, Niara Alexandra van Gaalen, LeiLei Zhao, Catherine Zheng. Studio faculty: Adrian Blackwell, John McMinn.