Amr El-Bahrawy will defend his thesis, “A House of No Importance: The rise and fall of Nasr City’s middle class extended family houses” on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 11:00 am in ARC 2026. The thesis critically explores the relocation of middle-class, intergenerational households in urban apartment building typologies in the Cairene residential district of Nasr City to emerging suburban developments on Cairo’s periphery.
Magdalena Miłosz will defend her thesis, “‘Don’t Let Fear Take Over’: The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools” on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 10 am in the Architecture Loft. The thesis explores the design politics and collective memory of the Indian Residential School system in Canada, which existed for 150 years until about 1970.
Talayeh Hamidya will be defending her thesis, MAKING THE CITY, at 82 Divadale Drive in Toronto on Friday, December 12, 2014, at 2 pm. Four projects were undertaken as experiments for examining the effectiveness, techniques and possibilities within Tactical Urbanism.
Alireza Takook will defend his thesis, the narrative of a destructive natural phenomenon depicting an architect’s evolving understanding of the natural world, on December 10 at 10 am in the Architecture Loft.
Joel Sanders presents his lecture, “Immersive Environments: Media, Architecture and Landscape,” on October 30 at 7pm in the Main Lecture Theatre at Waterloo Architecture. Through a cross-disciplinary approach to environments, Sanders combines architecture, landscape, and new media to instigate meaningful human interactions in actual and virtual space.
To garden is to draw with the land. This tending is the primary act of culture: to perpetuate a people by negotiating with a place.
Art, Design & Architecture, a documentary film series presented at the Original Princess Cinema in Waterloo, brings thoughtful explorations of the creative industries to a broader public audience starting this Monday. From architects to cartoonists to chefs and musicians, the subjects are as diverse as the lenses through which they’re viewed.
The Northern Pass || El Paso del Norte spills through the narrow Rio Grande Valley that separates the southernmost extent of the Rocky Mountains from the Sierra Madres, dividing the bi-national metropolis of El Paso, Texas || Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua. The two halves of this border landscape are interlaced in an intricate choreography of disparities that mine the strategic overlap of territories.
Philippe Elsworthy’s poignant images in Evolving Urban Landscapes, part of Building Waterloo Region, take us on a journey through the layers of time accrued in the urban fabric of Waterloo region.
Waterloo Architecture graduate student, Chanel Dehond, has been selected to exhibit her current master’s thesis work in the Future Identities – Bodies . Places . Spaces exhibition, alongside the Biennale in Venice, Italy.