Congratulations to Anne Bordeleau, O'Donovan Director, Waterloo Architecture, for being elected Canadian At-Large Director for the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).
Elizabeth English is featured in New Yorker magazine, speaking about current climate conditions and amphibious architecture as a solution.
Amphibiation reflects a growing consensus that, at a time of climatic volatility, people can’t simply fight against water; they have to learn to live with it.
With amphibious construction, water becomes your friend. The water gets to do what the water wants to do. It’s not a confrontation with Mother Nature—it’s an acceptance of Mother Nature.
Terri Boake will be presenting as a keynote speaker at the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) Educators Conference on March 2, 2018 in Ottawa.
Terri's presentation is titled, The Dynamic Phraseology of Structures: Enabling Complex Design in Steel.
Held on February 2, 2018, the Building Common Ground Symposium featured Indigenous and non-Indigenous educators and scholars, addressing issues of place making, acquisition of embodied knowledge through design and hands-on making, and Indigenous conceptions of space and narrative. Discussions examined key questions of collaborative research, related to decolonization and reconciliation, that are central to the Waterloo Architecture Design Build Program, building connections between academic research and educational practice, through engagement with First Nations communities.
Waterloo Architecture graduate, Bryce Clayton, received the Award of Excellence for the 2017 Edmonton Urban Design Awards in the category Student Projects. Bryce's Thesis, 53 North: Tactical Infrastructure in Edmonton, explores creating a new design tool whereby the intrinsic values of snow can be utilized to create winter public spaces to temporarily occupy the urban void.
Waterloo Architecture wishes to congratulate Bennett Oh and Team Interlace, who won the Celebration 2017 legacy project.
Celebration 2017 was a year-long, three-stage challenge that saw interdisciplinary teams of Waterloo students compete to design an innovative and creative student space in the centre of our campus.
UWSA recent graduates Isabel Ochoa + James Clarke-Hicks have been announced as one of the winners of the 2017 IIDEX Woodshop Competition with their steam bent light fixture titled "SPLIT". Exploring the role of "craft in production" using both digital and traditional wood fabrication techniques, the fixture was developed as part of their 4B independent study under the advisory of Heinz Koller and David Correa.
Nada Nafeh’s thesis [UWSA MArch 2015] just received the Next Generation 3rd Prize Middle East Africa Award from the LafargeHolcim Foundation. With her project, Nada aims to improve living conditions in informal settlements in Cairo.
The LafargeHolcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction, which is responsible for the Awards, seeks designs that go beyond current standards and deliver new, surprising, or truly visionary solutions to the way we build.
Robot Made: Large-Scale Robotic Timber Fabrication in Architecture
Research Associate Oliver David Krieg of the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), and Assistant Professor David Correa from the University of Waterloo will hold a workshop on robotic fabrication at the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, from September 9th to 13th.