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The Toronto book launch for /Bracket [Goes Soft]/ will be hosted by creatures:collective on March 1, 2013 starting at 7:00pm.

[Soft] refers to responsive, indeterminate, flexible and immaterial systems that operate through feedback, organization and resilience. These complex systems transform through time to acknowledge shifting and indeterminate situations -- characteristics that are evident both in the dynamics of contemporary society and the natural environment.

Come Up To My Room 2013 opens Thursday, January 24th, celebrating a decade exhibiting transformative design. Toronto's biggest alternative design show includes over 20 original site-specific installations by over 50 makers. This year, CUTMR introduces new initiatives that will transform the historic Gladstone Hotel both inside and out, spilling onto the hotel's exterior and into the surrounding neighbourhood.

Our 'Protocell Mesh' aluminum hyperbolic meshwork and glass filter system in collaboration with Nottingham Architecture has just opened at the London Building Centre Gallery. Waterloo Architecture team members include Jonathan Tyrrell, Andrea Ling, Adam Schwartzentruber and Eric Bury.  Please visit Archdaily to read a recent article.

Knowledge Clouds is an installation that examines how architecture can engage the scale of geography of the Arctic, and tests the possibility of an incremental, expandable, mobile system of education, that responds to climate and can serve as seeds of knowledge exchange and production in the North. 

Where: Harbourfront Centre, Architecture Gallery, Toronto

When: 6-10pm, Friday, Jan. 25th

The Architecture Exhibition Winter 2013 runs from January 26 - June 9, 2013.

Lola Sheppard has been given the prestigious Young Architect Award by the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada for 2012! For more information, please read the full press release on the RAIC web site.

Prestigious architecture and design magazine AZURE has named the Waterloo Architecture one of the top North American schools in its recent article Higher Learning.

Next North: Architecture in Shifting Terrain, a project by Lola Sheppard and Maya Przybylski of Waterloo Architecture with Mason White of the Daniels Faculty of Architecture at the University of Toronto and Neeraj Bhatia a Waterloo Architecture graduate and former Adjunct faculty member has been awarded an Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Faculty Design Award for 2011/2012.

Press Release February 13, 2012 from the National Consortium of Housing Research Centers (NCHRC) 

Recognizing Innovative Wood Design in North America 2011 Wood Design Award Winners Announced Ottawa, ON, January 13th, 2012 – The Wood Design & Building magazine is pleased to announce the award recipients for the prestigious 2011 North American Awards Program. Sixteen projects were hand selected from over one-hundred entries by an esteemed jury panel: Andrew Frontini from Perkins+Will, James Cutler from Cutler Anderson and Robert Hull from Miller Hull.