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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.

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!