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Living Architecture Systems Group and Riverside Architectural Press proudly announce 'CITA: Complex Modelling', a compilation of five years of computational modeling in architecture.

The book is authored by LASG partner CITA, the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and published by Waterloo Architecture's Riverside Architectural Press.

Elizabeth English shares her ideas on amphibious housing in the Wall Street Journal article, Climate-proofing homes for extreme weather ahead.

In the face of climate change, historic communities are becoming more vulnerable to increasingly frequent storm and flood events. Adapting to changing water levels requires forward-looking strategies to limit disastrous impacts on the well-being and cultural heritage of these communities.

Congratulations to Kelsey Rose Dawson, Nathanael Sheffler, and Mia Milanovic, finalists for the 2020 Best of Year Awards in the student category for Twisted Brick!

Interior Design's Best of Year is the design industry's premier design awards program, honoring the most significant work of the year and recognizing designers, architects, and manufacturers from around the globe. 

Congratulations to Jason McMillan whose thesis, Unsettling Ground: Studies on Building and Fluid Geology in Arviat, Nunavut received a 2020 Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence. 

Pearl Sullivan, former Dean of Engineering at the University of Waterloo and the first woman to hold the position, died on November 28 after a 12-year battle with cancer.

Passionate about supporting students, she was dedicated to ensuring they had a full understanding of engineering principles as well as the tools and facilities they needed to succeed.   

Congratulations to Waterloo Architecture alumnus Alison Brooks and Alison Brooks Architects! 

Winner of architect of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020, Alison Brooks Architects is a London-based studio of architects, thinkers and 3D designers from around the world, led by Alison Brooks.

Every project is the result of invested research, so that the studio's design solutions emerge as unique and relevant to the constituencies they serve.

Philip Beesley is featured in the NYC Metropolitan Museum’s new exhibition ‘About Time: Fashion and Duration’. A ‘Hybrid Holism’ Iris van Herpen dress inspired by the 2010 Hylozoic Ground Venice Biennale project is on the cover of the Met’s publicity. View the exhibition tour on YouTube for a closer look (beginning at 12:08).

Congratulations to Dereck Revington Studio, recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award in the Commemorative Landscapes category for the Welland Canal Fallen Workers Memorial inSt. Catharines, ON.

The Waterloo Architecture community wishes to congratulate the students who have completed their Bachelor of Architectural Studies degree and Master of Architecture degree. While we can't celebrate in person, graduates were sent a video of congratulatory messages from faculty, participated in a virtual toast, and on October 24th joined the Class of 2020 Virtual Convocation Celebration.

Warm congratulations to all – we are so pleased to welcome your wonderful group to our growing family of alumni!