In January and February, representatives from three student initiatives at the School of Architecture attended “CAFE”s – Canadian Architecture Forums on Education – to discuss the role of architectural education and research in Canada. BRIDGE/Common Waters (represented by myself), Treaty Lands Global Stories (by Amina Lalor) and the Sustainability Collective (by Devin Arndt and Nicole Rak) participated in discussions will inform the development of an architecture policy for Canada, incorporating the perspectives of students, educators,...
Common Waters is an experimental exhibition designed by the BRIDGE team and curators from Cambridge Art Galleries. It is ongoing, with a program that began in June and runs till September 15, 2019. Common Waters addresses our relationship with water through community-generated conversations between academics, indigenous leaders, students, artists, community members, and researchers. The exhibition’s collaborative curatorial process, adaptable structure, as well as the breadth of voices is most evident in the Archive Wall, which is...
What is Common Waters? You may have been following the social media updates and reading the posters, but some of you might be wondering how Common Waters has evolved, and continues to grow. In Fall 2018, the current co-coordinators of BRIDGE, (Omar Ferwati, Nicholas Frayne, Tony Kogan and Julia Nakanishi) were approached by Cambridge Art Galleries with a proposal to collaborate on a community project that would follow BRIDGE’s motives to connect the school with Cambridge beyond....
Would you like to see your work exhibited on the BRIDGE website? We are inviting you to submit your past or ongoing studio projects and other course work to be included in a series that will weekly feature student work. Graduate students are encouraged to submit segments of their thesis or elective work as well! Please submit your course descriptions, supervising professors, project manifestos and 3-6 images, 900px wide, here. Above: Past featured student work, courtesy of Amir...
Common Waters is an upcoming summer exhibition series curated by BRIDGE Waterloo Architecture and Cambridge Art Galleries. We invite the students of Waterloo Architecture to propose a piece of this exhibition about the problems of our time relating to water and identity. Please submit your ideas using IDEA Exchange’s online submission platform here. Our Common Waters website can be accessed here. Below is the full brief and exhibition description.
For its second issue, galt explores the method of breaking. The website’s proposal form can be accessed here. For more information on the publication’s first issue and launch, click here.
The first project of the 3B Option Studio, “Creative Instincts and Architectural Imagination” was a film illustrating a narrative about landscapes, rituals and urban artifacts. (more…)
Above: Katherine Chiles, Founder Nestled in a secluded spot on the Grand River, inside a restored red brick building, is Blackwing Coffee Bar. Blackwing is Galt’s new spot for locally roasted coffee, Ontario micro brews and a wide array of wines and whiskeys. (more…)
Would you like to see your work exhibited on the BRIDGE website? Every term, the BRIDGE team features student work in a weekly series titled ‘Studio Mondays’. We are inviting you to submit your past or ongoing studio projects to be included in a series that will weekly feature student work. Graduate students are encouraged to submit segments of their thesis or elective work as well! Above: Images from past Student Work posts, courtesy of Will Fu, Fysal...
Monday and Thursday are studio days. On these days in particular, the third floor undergraduate studio is filled with a frenetic energy of design, research, and exploration. Students can usually be found talking excitedly with design professors and classmates in a habitat saturated with trace sketches, study models, and empty coffee cups. Every week we’ll share a completed project, churned out from this energetic studio environment. Interested in having your work featured on our STUDENT WORK series?...
