Sarah Gunawan, Author at Bridge

ASAI “Architecture in Perspective” Awards

Apr 15, 2015

Each year the American Society of Architectural Illustrators’ selects architectural representations for publication and exhibition as part of the “Architecture in Perspective” international competition. This year, five Waterloo Architecture students and alumni have been awarded within the student category for their evocative renderings. Congratulations to undergraduate students Ella den Elzen, Mina Vedut, and Ji Shi, graduate student Nashin Mahtani and alumnus Fraser Plaxton.

Cambridge Common Exhibition

Apr 7, 2015

Cambridge Common: A Paradoxical Public Space is an exhibition of student work on display in the Cambridge City Hall atrium from May 31st – April 14th. The exhibition was designed and fabricated by Adrian Blackwell, Dan Jessel and Sarah Gunawan and features work by the 2A Design Studio course from the Fall of 2014

THESIS WORK / Tristan van Leur / Social Place Networks

Mar 29, 2015

Tristan van Leur’s thesis “Public Place networks in Privately-Owned Space” employs networking online spaces will reactivate and redefine the public realm. His design proposition,Spacebook, is a spatial social network situated within the POPS, that uses the abilities of network and data-driven technologies to affect the physical environment.

THESIS: Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter

Mar 25, 2015

Holland Young’s thesis entitled “Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter” explores how storytellers use overlapping real and fictional architectural environments in order to propel narrative and precipitate an immersive experience for an audience. Her defence will take place on Friday March 27, 2015 10:00 AM in the Main Lecture Theatre.

THESIS WORK / Kanika Kaushal / Decoding Urbanity

Mar 24, 2015

This week we share Kanika Kaushal’s ongoing thesis work entitled “Decoding Urbanity – Learning from and for Old Delhi.” Her thesis argues that the walled city of Old Delhi is a morphological output of a complex and dynamic process of urban morphogenesis that can be decoded through the lens of parametric urbanism which simulates the city’s generating principles at any given point of time.

THESIS: Living beyond Subsistence

Mar 24, 2015

Paula Lee defends her thesis entitled Living beyond Subsistence on Tuesday, March 24th at 5PM in the ARC Loft. Her work re-imagines the singular idea of home as functional space in the low-income tower context of 200 Wellesley Street East, Toronto through the design of a mediating social space.

THESIS: Phantom Limb

Mar 22, 2015

“We fold memories of the dead into the space of the living. We embrace death, even while we turn away from it.” Deborah Wang’s thesis entitled Phantom Limb presents a series of encounters with death, and a reflection on loss, in photographs and sculptures. Her defence is on Monday March 23, 2015 at 3:00PM in room ARC 110.

THESIS WORK / The Generic Spectacle / Kurt Kraler

Mar 10, 2015

Kurt Kraler’s thesis entitled “The Generic Spectacle” explores the phenomena of the generic spectacle in relationship to the Las Vegas Strip and the resulting architectural and social implications of an increasingly hybridized urban form founded on the basis of an exploitive service economy in order to maintain the illusion of leisure.

THESIS WORK / Beyond Genius Loci / Stela Popovic

Mar 3, 2015

Stela Popovic’s thesis work “Beyond Genius Loci” unpacks the spatial and social conditions of place in order to question the agency of architecture in making meaningful places. It argues that within every act of architecture, an understanding and response to the genius loci is vital to ensure a relevant thoughtfulness is present in its design.

Re:POST Symposium 2015 | Thesis to Practice

Mar 1, 2015

The Re:POST Symposium explores the translation of thesis to practice and is scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday, March 17, 2015 beginning at 1:00pm. The theme asks, how does architectural design and research disseminate into ongoing professional exploration?

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