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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 the winners of the 17th annual Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) Architecture Student Design Competition 2017/2018: link. 

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.

ARCHITECTURE OF CAESAR'S ROME
​Friday, August 17, 2018

Listening to Design is focused on the inner world of the designer. The book is not concerned with a particular style, formal approach or choice of materials. Instead it is about the way designers can transform the doubts, desires and psychological trials of the creative process into authentic and meaningful design decisions. After many years teaching design to architecture students and also working as a psychotherapist I wanted to share my passion about the powerful way our inner world shapes the built world.

How can architects and designers help communities understand and identify their complex cultural layers and narratives? Valeria Nuyanzina, a Masters of Architecture student at McGill University, has been awarded $5000 to find out. Nuyanzina’s research proposal entitled Stitched Imprints of Living Memory has been awarded the 2018 Scholarship in Honour of Michael Evamy.