Professor Robert Jan van Pelt joined host Steve Paikin and panelists Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, and writer Dara Horn, author of "People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present;" on TVO's 'The Agenda' this past Wednesday.
Longtime professor Terri Meyer Boake, who earned two undergraduate degrees at Waterloo and has been a teacher at her alma mater since 1986, will be honoured by the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) at a conference in Charlotte, North Carolina in April.
Professor Elizabeth English and her work as founder of the Buoyant Foundation Project was featured in a recent CNBC piece 'Amphibious houses and floating cities could protect coastal communities from sea-level rise'.
The piece profile's English's work alongside Bjarke Ingels' Oceanix City.
Professor Anwar Jaber talks about architecture, politics and conflicts in Canada, the Middle East and beyond in an interview on Beyond the Bulletin with Pamela Smyth.
Beyond the Bulletin is a weekly podcast from the University of Waterloo with hosts Pamela Smyth and Brandon Sweet highlighting news, events and commentary from the Daily Bulletin of the University of Waterloo.
Haneen Dalla-Ali's (B.Arch, 2017, M.Arch, 2019) digital installation, Between a Rock and a Hard Place has been selected for Nuit Blanche 2022. The project will be hosted by TIFF at the TIFF Bell Lightbox throughout the event on Saturday, October 1st 7pm - October 2nd 7am.
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.
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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 5th 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.
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.