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.
Congratulations to Professor Philip Beesley and his team for being awarded the STARTS – Grand prize of the European Commission honouring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts 2016.
The Magnetic Motion project with Iris van Herpen received the grand prize for ‘artistic exploration and art works where appropriation by the arts has a strong potential to influence or alter the use, deployment or perception of technology’.
Congratulations to the finalists in the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) competition. Suspend, the 15th annual Architecture Student Design Competition, challenged students to design a structure that explores ‘suspend’ on a site of the designers’ choosing.
Congratulations to Alison Brooks, who received an Honorary Doctor of Engineering on Saturday, June 18 at the University of Waterloo Engineering convocation ceremony. Brooks is one of the leading architects of her generation, and she has designed some of the most original and important buildings in the United Kingdom over the last two decades.
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture contributed The Evidence Room to the international exhibition "Reporting from the Front," curated by Alejandro Aravena for the 15th Architecture Biennale.
The Evidence Room examines the role of architecture in the Holocaust, and was organized by principals Anne Bordeleau, Sascha Hastings, Donald McKay and Robert Jan van Pelt. Team members included Siobhan Allman, Piper Bernbaum, Anna Beznogova, Anna Longrigg, Michael Nugent, Bradley Paddock, and Alexandru Vilcu.
Architecture graduate student Evelyn Hofmann has been selected by the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts (RCA) jury to receive this year’s Arthur Erickson Travel Study Award. Established by the RCA, Arthur Erickson Foundation (AEF), and Erickson Family (EF), Ms. Hofmann was chosen from a group of highly talented and skilled applicants, as it was felt that her work was most in tune with Arthur Erickson’s philosophy and worldview.
Professor Anne Bordeleau has been appointed as the Director of the School of Architecture for a four year term beginning May 1, 2016.
Congratulations to Architecture graduate students Samuel Ganton and Safira Lakhani, who were finalists in the UW 3 Minute Thesis (3MT) competition!