Philip Beesley’s work makes The New York Times, as one of his collaborative designs with Iris van Herpen is featured as a vignette.
Congratulations Philip!
Adrian Blackwell had a solo exhibition at the Art Gallery at Laval University called Inverted Barricade from November 9-December 18, 2016. The exhibition interrogated the barricade as the only truly popular form of architecture through three works: a video showing students building the barricades of Occupy Central in Hong Kong in 2014, a broadsheet called “Inverser la barricade”, and a sculptural cast of a barricade turning inside out.
Adrian Blackwell received a Hong Kong Design Trust Seed Grant of $50,000 Hong Kong Dollars for his project: Shenzhen As Model: Tracing the Topologies of Neoliberal Urbanization. He will be travelling to Shenzhen, China for 6 weeks in the Winter term to conduct this research. Congratulations Adrian!
It is with great pride and pleasure that we share the news that the Canada Council has awarded the 2016 Prix de Rome for Emerging Practitioners to Piper Bernbaum.
Waterloo Architecture graduate student Sarah Gertler and her thesis adviser Mona El Khafif were featured on the CBC's Metro Morning for a series called, "A Place to Go: Designing the city for dogs and people." It is a 5-part series that investigates the role of design in relieving some of the growing tensions around dogs.
Reminder that campus will be closed on Monday, October 10th for the Thanksgiving Holiday, and that there are no classes on Tuesday, October 11th and Wednesday, October 12th for the Fall Break.
Follow your Tuesday schedule on Thursday, October 13th and your Wednesday schedule on Friday, October 14th.
Associate Professor Dereck Revington is the artist selected by the Toronto Lighting Collaborative to design the first in a series of proposed annual lightworks for Nuit Blanche. He and his collaborator, Jonathan Tyrrell (teaching this term in Arch 192) will lead the design team.
Congratulations to Waterloo Architecture students Scott Proudfoot, Mengdie Zhang, Sarah Donaldson, Gabriela Chorobik, and faculty member Terri Boake, who took 2nd place for their project Diagroup Tower in this year's ACSA/AISC Steel Student Design Competition.
Congratulations to Eveline Lam and Dave Holborn! Eveline and Dave were selected as the 3rd place prize winners out of 84 entries in the Rome Concrete Poetry Hallinternational architecture competition.
Waterloo Architecture alumnus (2007) Kfir Gluzberg's Kilogram Studio has been featured in July's Canadian Architect magazine, Emerging Practices section.