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.
The OAA announced the winners of its 2022 Design Excellence Awards, as well as the recipients of this year’s OAA Service Awards.
School of Architecture students, Enoch Liu and Niara van Gaalen, created blueprints for potential Indigenous community hub for the redevelopment of the Charles Street Bus Terminal. They have been working together with Landback Camp to transform this space for the Indigenous community to connect and celebrate. They created a petition, which currently has over 3,000 signatures and is only growing.
Adjunct Professor, Anwar Jaber, recieves grant from the Palestinian American Research Center (PARC) for her research project titled “Palestinian Museums and the National Struggle: Spatial Analysis of three Palestinian museums.”
PARC is a US-based institution that promotes Palestinian studies and exchange among scholars interested in Palestinian affairs Anwar will be a ‘PARC fellow’ for 2022-2023, and she will be conducting fieldwork in Palestine this summer.
Christina Vogiatzis, a graduate student here at the School of Architecture, placed second out of more than 100 entries from 26 universities across the U.S. and Canada. Now in its fifth year, the competition invites interior design, architecture and furniture design to create furniture pieces using Formica® Brand products. This year's theme called for students to express the future of design through a furniture piece using Formica® Laminate woodgrain products.
Waterloo Alumuni and Adjunct Instructor Ella den Elzen has been named one of the inaugural members of the JAE Fellows Program.
The Canada Council for the Arts has announced that Architects Against Housing Alienation (AAHA)’s Not for Sale! will represent Canada at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia.
Living Dialogs is a podcast series presented by @lasg_research that brings together scholars and thinkers to collectively reflect on living architecture and its implications for our changing world. The latest episode, featuring Behnaz Farahi, Bianca Weeko Martin, Michael Lee Poy, Brian Porter, is now live on their website and available through all major podcast apps. In this episode, four guests from diverse backgrounds and practices explore the connections between inclusivity and the philosophy and practice of Living Architecture.
COVID-19 sewage monitoring startup cracks global TIME list of 100 most influential companies
A company that was co-founded by a Waterloo Engineering architecture alumnus is in elite company – for the second time – on a worldwide list announced this week by TIME magazine.