2018 graduate Yuxun Emmeily Zhang's thesis, Spaces for Economic Diversity won the Award of Merit in the Student Category of the 2019 Toronto Urban Design Awards.
The ancient Greek term isonomia implies political equality. Associate Professor Adrian Blackwell’s two site-responsive, non-hierarchical structures at the inaugural Toronto Biennial of Art (September 21-December 1, 2019) are spaces to gather for weekly programs and contemplate isonomia in the face of colonial governance structures that have overtaken those of Indigenous peoples.
Associate Professor Adrian Blackwell’s Anarchitectural Library (against the erasure of Chicago’s common spaces) was commissioned by the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial: …and other such stories curated by Yesomi Umolu, Sepake Angiama and Paolo Tavares and is installed in the Chicago Cultural Center until January 5, 2020.
Elizabeth English, Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Waterloo, has been awarded top prize in the "Sustainable Products" category of the Architecture MasterPrize Product Design Award.
Each year, the Faculty of Engineering, with the assistance of the Sanford Fleming Foundation, honours faculty members for their outstanding commitment to excellence in engineering education.
Climate Strike! Arriscraft Lecture Series
Architects are often noted for having bad work-life balance, a lot of stress and little free time. How can you take time off while still improving your skills as an architect? Can that time off even give you an extra edge? Compared to other fields, architecture stands out as a field in which you need to “know a little bit about everything." Thus, in order to live up to our name we must also do a little bit of everything, and as they say, a little goes a long way.
Master of Architecture student Amal Dirie will receive a Certificate of High Merit for her essay, focusing on the temporary dwellings built by nomadic people in Somalia. Headshot and essay available in the drop box link below.
The City of Kitchener invites artists/artist teams to submit proposals for a one-stage competition to provide a site-specific work of public art that combines an artistic vision with functionality for an outdoor seating installation at the Doon Pioneer Park Community Centre, Kitchener, Ontario. The competition is open to all emerging and established artists/teams residing in Canada. Each artist(s)/team is limited to one entry.