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Architect and engineer Dr. Elizabeth English shows how amphibious designs can allow communities to maintain their vibrancy, even in flood zones. Dr. Elizabeth C. English is a pioneer in the emerging field of amphibious architecture. Her current research focuses on developing amphibious foundation systems as a flood risk reduction and climate change adaptation strategy.

Waterloo Architecture's Robert Jan van Pelt's popular Auschwitz exhibition is featured in CNN travel.

The Fuwafuwa Series are experimental and unique furniture made with translucent corrugated plastic paired with light-toned oak wood. The corrugated plastic is a material that is commonly used for commercial signs, political promotions and for making containers or packaging.

Lateral Office has installed 12 oversized seesaws on the streets of New York City's Garment District.

Material Syntax: 3D Printed Masonry Façade Systems

On December 4, the president of SSHRC, Ted Hewitt, presented the 2019 SSHRC Impact Awards to the five winners at a ceremony held at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. Government officials, policy-makers, academics, and other thought-leaders came from across the country to celebrate the significant contributions of these exceptional researchers to their research fields and their impact on society—nationally and internationally. As part of the awards ceremony, the 2019 winners of the annual Storytellers contest presented their winning submissions highlighting the impact of SSHRC-funded research projects.

Waterloo Architecture graduate Cameron Parkin's thesis, Coding a Biophilic Core: Digital Design Tools for Toronto’s Avian Networks, won a 2019 Canadian Architect Student Award of Excellence.

The annual awards honour design excellence for projects in the design and construction phases, as well as graduating student work. Awards are given for architectural design excellence.

Join Associate Professor Adrian Blackwell on Saturday November 16th and Monday November 18th at the Toronto Biennial.

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.

Adrian Blackwell, Isonomia in Toronto? (harbour), 2019, Photo: Toni Hafkensheid.

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.