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Congratulations to Elizabeth English, who has received funding from the Water Institute in the latest Seed Grant competition.

Global water issues are becoming increasingly complex and often require a collaborative approach across a breadth of disciplines. Facilitating collaboration and promoting innovation in interdisciplinary research is part of the Water Institute’s mission. One of the ways this is accomplished is through the Water Institute’s Seed Grant Program.

The Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) has announced the short list for its 2017 Design Excellence Awards.

Congratulations to all the nominees, especially Waterloo Architecture alumni and adjuncts:

An excerpt from Jane Hutton’s forthcoming book, Reciprocal Landscapes: Cases in Material Movements, titled, "Inexhaustible Terrain," has been published in the Canadian Centre for Architecture web journal. The text links the production and distribution of guano, used in trace amounts to fertilize Central Park’s meadows, to a changing global metabolic regime and slavery in the Americas.

The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition asks University of Waterloo research-based master's students to have 1 static slide and 3 minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research to a non-specialist audience.

Congratulations to Waterloo Architecture students who placed in the Architecture faculty heats on Friday March 3.

1st place - Christopher Chan

2nd place - Georgiana Nicoara

3rd place - Anne Sewell​

Water Institute member and architecture professor, Elizabeth English, is leading a team of Waterloo School of Architecture researchers who want to build a floating pavilion in a flood zone of the Grand River. This will be the first step in plans to design amphibious houses that rise and fall with flood waters to help protect First Nations and other vulnerable communities devastated by flooding every spring.

Congratulations to Bennett Oh, Jinsu Park and Bryan Seunghun Choi for taking 3rd Place in the Shelter International Architectural Design Competition for Students 2016! 

Congratulations to Waterloo Architecture students Nicola Augustin, NegarBehzad Jazi, Anne Cheung, Bryce Clayton, Catherine Cohen, Mona Dai, Sarah Donaldson, Parshan Fatehi,  Allegra Friesen, Golnaz Jamshidi, Carly Kandrack, Ryan Pagliaro, Elida Pletikapic, Alexandra Sermol, Kirsten Sheppard-Neuhofer, Eric Sviratchev, Joel Tremblay and Danny Wei.  

Flotsam and Jetsam is one of 8 projects selected to transform Toronto's Beachfront in the 2017 Winter Stations Design Competition.

Congratulations to Waterloo Architecture graduates Uros Novakovic & Sebastian Bartnicki, and Nicolas Koff from Office OU.

Three out of four "Best of Show" Student Awards from the American Society of Architectural Illustrators were awarded to Waterloo Architecture students in the AIP 31 Student Competition.

Congratulations to Rui Hu, Marisa Musing and Tsz Kit Justin Ng for their outstanding illustrations, along with Shin Hang Chiu who received an Award of Excellence.

Rui Hu

Waterloo Architecture was included as one of only seven great non-European Schools in December’s Domus issue, Europe’s Top 100 Schools of Architecture and Design guide.

The relocation of the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture to Cambridge, Ontario, has produced an extraordinary bond between school and city. Its long-time former Director, Eric Haldenby, and the Director of the Waterloo Rome Programme, Lorenzo Pignatti, give their account of one of the most innovative universities in Canada.