Dark Matter U, a democratic collective responsible for the design, content, and co-editing of the October 2023 issue of ARCHITECT, was formed in 2020 alongside protests for the reinvigorated Black Lives Matter movement and the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Class of 2023 Waterloo Arcihtecture Bachelor of Architectural Studies (BAS) graduate Alexa Holder was profiled in Waterloo News.
Building Community & Belonging, an exhibition of student work created in 3B Option Studio: Creativity, Identity, and Belonging (Fall 2022) was on display in the Gaslight District throughout their grand opening weekend festival in late July.
Quan Thai has been appointed the position of Emerging Practitioner with the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
The School of Architecture 2023 awards ceremony was held on June 22, 2023.
Avery Thorne and Matthew Beecroft were recently announced as the winners of the Client Favorite price in the Buildner Yoga House in the Bog international design competition.
Nicole Cao's ARCH 392 project Solar Steps has been revealed as a finalist for the 2023 Azure AZ Awards' A+ Student Awards.
Julia Nakanishi (BAS '18, MArch '20) and Ivee Yiyao Wang (BAS '18) have been awarded the 2023 Prix de Rome in Architecture — Emerging Practitioners.
Assistant Professor Linda Zhang's short film 'Chinatown 2050' recently premiered at the 22nd annual DOXA Documentary Film Festival in Vancouver. The film, a collaboration with Maxim Gertler-Jaffe, is "a visual collage of dreamlike LiDAR 3D modeling scans" that asks how might the pandemic shape the future of Toronto’s Chinatown? Five scenarios tackling this question are imagined through this technology by Asian-Canadian youth with the hope to preserve vibrant streetscapes rather than create an empty tourist attraction.
The Downtown Cambridge BIA and University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture have partnered to exhibit student work in a local business.