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The Waterloo Architecture community wishes to congratulate the 2 students who have completed their Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree and the 31 students who have completed their Master of Architecture degree. While we can't celebrate in person, the Class of Spring 2021 were sent a video of congratulatory messages from faculty and staff, participated in a virtual toast, and on June 19th joined the Class of 2021 Virtual Convocation Celebration.

17th International Architecture Exhibition

BIENNALE ARCHITETTURA 2021

HOW WILL WE LIVE TOGETHER?

Congratulations to MArch candidate Bianca Weeko Martin, who has been selected for the AGO X RBC Emerging Artists Exchange for her project, The White House.

Congratulations to Fiona Lim Tung and Anne Bordeleau, who both received a 2020 Outstanding Performance Award.

"I am very pleased to announce the Outstanding Performance Award recipients for 2020 and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them for their outstanding contributions to the University of Waterloo," writes James Rush, vice-president, academic & provost. Anne and Fiona were both named for the Faculty of Engineering.

Grove by Philip Beesley and the Living Architecture Systems Group will be open to the public at the Venice Biennale of Architecture from May 22 to November 21, 2021.

An alumnus of Waterloo Architecture was recently announced as the winner of a prestigious award through the Canada Council for the Arts.

Samantha Eby (BAS ’14), who works as an architectural designer at Batay-Csorba Architects in Toronto, is the recipient of the 2020 Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners.

The prize is awarded annually to a recent graduate of a Canadian architectural school – Eby went on to earn a master’s degree at the University of Toronto in 2018 – who has demonstrated exceptional potential in contemporary architectural design.

The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Excellence Award recognizes educators who excel at unlocking the potential of Ontario’s young people. Successfully engaging individuals in the learning experience depends on an instructor's ability to spark students' curiosity and desire to learn. An excellent instructor will be able to engage their students in the process of learning and discovery and help them develop the critical skills that form the foundation of a robust education.

The Living Architecture Systems Group’s GROVE project opens this month at the Venice Biennale. The pool-shaped form in the middle acts as a kind of well that will receive a CGI-based film entitled Grove Cradle. 40 channels of sound will weave in and out around it, enacting a death-to-life-to-death cycle that includes mineral, liquid and organic forms rising and transforming into a child’s form who wakes and explores, touching and communicating hesitantly. Sound includes extracts from Flaubert’s Temptations of St.

A synagogue designed by Basel-based architect Manuel Herz for the Babyn Yar site in Kyiv, Ukraine, held it's official opening. It is a pop-up synagogue that stands in the tradition of the wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe that were all destroyed during the Holocaust. It is a building that is inspired by the children’s pop-up book.

Congratulations to Anya Moryoussef (MArch '06), who has received the 2021 Emerging Architect Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

The Emerging Architect Award is to recognize an emerging architect for excellence in design, leadership and/or service to the profession. It is intended that this award will inspire other individuals to become licensed and to strive for excellence in their work.