TR+D Open Studio and Mx Reviews

With the fall semester coming to a close, the school has experienced a proliferation of intriguing and unique thesis defences. We continue this week with several more great events including Mx Reviews and TR+D Open Studio. Vikkie Chen will be defending her thesis Curating Architecture at 9AM at BRIDGE Pop-Up followed by Fernie Lai’s defence at 10AM in the Loft Gallery both on Thursday December 18th. Before you disappear for a much deserved holiday, join the graduate students in celebrating the tremendous work this term.

Mx Reviews

Thursday December 18th from 1-5pm in the Loft

Mx Reviews provides current graduate students the opportunity each term to present in-progress thesis work to faculty members and fellow students to garner feedback and gain new insights on their research and design development. It also gives everyone an opportunity to see what fellow graduate students are working on secretively hidden away in our master’s offices. Everyone is welcome to attend to see the vast scope of thesis topics being explored by students in the school.

Masters students presenting thesis work include:

Christina Chan, Dan Kwak, Gail Rodrigues, Karine Quigley, Kassie Miedema, Kimberley Adamek, Mark Kim, Michael Kim, Qinyu Lu, Patti Beaulieu, Piper Bernbaum, Sarah Gunawan, Sonia Yuan, Wei Xue

TR+D Open Studio

A social event on Thursday December 18th from 5-7pm at BRIDGE Pop-Up at 60 Main St.

As students defend and move on, transitioning into practice, a new graduate student body has emerged. In September we welcomed the first group of graduate students to enter into the newly restructured Waterloo Masters of Architecture program. Since then each of the 42 new students has been immersed in one of three graduate studios. Each Thesis Research and Design studio and seminar was centered around a different theme; Matthew Spremulli led Mutant Systems: Environmental Infiltrations, Interfaces, and Inventions, Lola Sheppard directed State of Imbalance: Architecture’s New Territories and Mona El Khafif orchestrated URBAN_ISMS: Designing the Metropolis.

Over the course of the TR+D studio, graduate students developed their individual research topics in preparation for a thesis in architecture. The term was structured in six sequential projects which served as a methodical roadmap towards the formation of a critical argument and thesis question. The intention of TR+D is to establish a theoretical, historical and intellectual framework through a diversity of representational modes; mapping, diagramming, photo essays, writing, which will serve as the foundation for a graduate thesis to be pursued over forthcoming academic terms.

On Saturday December 6th the TR+D graduate students presented Sequence S5 “Thesis Talks” in the Loft. Each gave a 20-30 minute presentation of their thesis framework and development to external guests, current faculty and fellow students. It was impressive to see the volume and caliber of research and development produced across a diversity of topics over the past four months.

To conclude the semester, the faculty team and students have organized TR+D Open Studio on Thursday December 18th from 5-7pm. Everyone is invited to attend this social event at the BRIDGE Pop-Up located at 60 Main St. Cambridge.

Photos from TR+D “Thesis Talks” on December 6th