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The College of Fellows of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) bestows Fellowship in recognition of outstanding achievement. Criteria include design excellence, exceptional scholarly contribution, or distinguished service to the profession or the community.

Congratulations to Waterloo Architecture's Philip Beesley, who was named as a 2017 Fellow.

Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion opened at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) on May 19. The Voltage collection was created in collaboration with Waterloo Architecture's Philip Beesley. The New York Times article features an image of Beesley and van Herpen's collaboration.

An emerging technology poses an intriguing solution to rising tides: homes that float only when it floods.

Elizabeth English is featured in a Dwell magazine article regarding amphibious housing.

The second International Conference on Amphibious Architecture, Design and Engineering (ICAADE) will be held at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada from June 25 to 28, 2017.  

Lola Sheppard & Mason White's new book, Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory, charts the unique spatial realities of Canada’s Arctic region, an immense territory populated with small, dispersed communities. The region has undergone dramatic transformations in the name of sovereignty, aboriginal affairs management, resources, and trade, among others. For most of the Arctic’s modern history, architecture, infrastructure, and settlements have been the tools of colonialism.

A project called Analogous Space by Waterloo Architecture graduates Elaine Chau and Kristina Seo has been named winner of the 2017 Urban Marker competition, presented by the RAIC Emerging Practitioners.

Cultural Topographies: The Complexities of History and Identity in Canada
Curated by Julie René de Cotret

​April 9 to August 24, 2017

Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery
25 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

The Evidence Room will open at the Royal Ontario Museum on June 24 for a seven month run.

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.

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.