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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.

BES, Pre-professional Architecture (1990); BARCH, Architecture (1992) Paul Backewich's birdhouse inspired four-season getaway was featured in the September 13 issue of The Globe and Mail.

Read the full article online.

Launched in 2008, Bracket is a research collaborative operating as a nonprofit association registered in Canada. School of Architecture Interim O’Donovan Director Maya Przybylski is editor and member of the collaborative led by four architect-academics based in Canada and the United States.

Jane Mah Hutton's keynote address at the 2022 Living Cities forum in Melboune, Australia is now online to view.

The 5^th edition of the forum, organised by The Naomi Milgrom Foundation took place on Thursday 21 July and was based around the theme 'Material Flows'.

More information on this annual gathering of architects and urban thinkers to explore the role of design, planning and architecture in shaping our society can be found on their website.

Images courtesy of Montreal Holocaust Museum. 

Congratulations to Emily Chen, Glenn Lu and Lyric Barnik for winning the 3rd/4th Year category in the 2022 CASA Student Showcase with their project Variance. 

Hive is an interlocking masonry wall composed of 175 unique 3D-printed clay bricks. Combining traditional ceramics, smart geometry and robotic precision, the design embraces the natural material properties of clay, allowing its malleability and fluidity to shape the clay units’ form and surface quality.

Associate Professor Jane Mah Hutton to speak at two upcoming international keynote talks.

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. 

Architecture alumnus honoured for innovative tech to reduce fashion's environmental impact.

A graduate of the Waterloo School of Architecture has been recognized by a national organization for young entrepreneurs for her work to make fashion greener.