Master Works 2018: Traces opens on Monday, October 22.
This year’s Master Works exhibition is a collaboration between six friends – two recent graduates of the Masters program (Ala Abuhasan and Marco Chimienti) and four very close to becoming graduates (Paniz Moayeri, Victoria Ngai, Thomas Yuan, and Victor Zagabe).
Reminder that campus will be closed on Monday, October 8th for the Thanksgiving Holiday, and that there are no classes on Tuesday, October 9th and Wednesday, October 10th for the Fall Break.
Follow your Tuesday schedule on Thursday, October 11th and your Wednesday schedule on Friday, October 12th.
Adrian Blackwell’s installation Scaffold and Horizons (Earth and Sky) opened on Saturday September 22 as part of the launch of Toronto’s new Museum of Contemporary Art.
Toronto’s MOCA opened on September 22 after years of planning and the opening weekend featured 4 exhibitions. Blackwell’s installation functions as an "office of useful art", a set of agile furniture that can be organized to accommodate workshops, meetings, thinking and studying – for the Art in Use exhibition.
Congratulations to Waterloo Architecture graduates Uros Novakovic, Sophia Szagala & Sebastian Bartnicki, and Nicolas Koff from Office Ou.
MArch student Jason McMillan has won the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) Scholarship for Sustainable Design and Research. The annual scholarship was awarded for McMillan's proposal "Unsettling Ground: Arctic Urbanism on Fluid Geology."
The jury believed that "the proposal demonstrated a wholistic approach and was head and shoulder above the rest of the submissions". They felt that McMillan's project "has tangential and addressed hot topics such as indigenous architecture."
Two of the amphibiously retrofitted homes in the Mekong Delta from the Buoyant Foundation's current project are floating.
For three weeks in May and two weeks in June-July, 2018, Canadian team members travelled to Vietnam to coordinate the retrofitting of four homes in particularly vulnerable locations of the Mekong Delta.
The UWSA Design Build program provides an opportunity for Waterloo Architecture students to work directly with First Nations communities on cultural building projects in the Grand River region.
The 2018 Design Build project involves students working in collaboration with the Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nation near Hagersville Ontario, for the construction of a new pow wow arbor, to be used for their annual Three Fires Homecoming Pow wow held in late August each year. Students are working during the Spring term 2018 prefabricating elements of the pow wow structure at the School of Architecture workshop. This will be followed by a ten-day on site construction period in mid-August.