Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This week, Dave Holborn brings you some music from Canada’s East Coast. From greasy dive bars and house parties to independent music festivals, the east coast boasts a vast selection of relatively unknown artists who play punk, indy, electronic, and everything in between.
Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This week, Samuel Ganton takes us deep into the strange world of Scandinavian traditional folk music, serving up a smorgasbord ranging from electronic to orchestral.
Stela’s thesis explores the contributive role of the genius locus, or “spirit of place”, in the identity of cities and the production of meaningful places. The research addresses the analysis of genius loci as historical phenomena as well as their modern role within suburban landscapes. Focusing on the suburban city of Mississauga, urban and architectural failures bring the agency of architecture into question in order to contest architecturally indifferent development. The design intervention embodies Mississauga’s genius locus – an urban simulacrum born from commerce, speculation, and the resistant debris of city growth – into a matrix of architectural and landscape inserts. Stela’s defence will take place on Monday February 8, 2016 at 12:00 pm in the Loft.
This fall, Paniz Moayeri and Haneen Dalla-Ali created an installation to shed light on the experiences of newcomers to Canada. Bright Whispers is a forest of lanterns, each inscribed with a different story of immigration, written in the native language of the story teller. Samuel Ganton invites us to take a closer look at the installation, and reflects on the significance of these stories for Canada and for this moment in history.
Soaring spaces. Sudden caves. Unexpected cathedrals. Explosions. Join Samuel Ganton in experiencing the Death and Life of Great Saskatonian Grain Elevators. With stunning images and an intriguing narrative, Samuel takes us through Saskatoon’s powerful identity – its infrastructure.
In this article, Samuel Ganton explores Robert Wood’s 1753 book on Palmyra, Syria and reconnects us with Palmyra’s archeological sites that are currently being lost to IS terrorist attacks. He reminds us how important it is to let history inform our attitude towards current events.
In celebration of the Class of 2014’s recent convocation, this week’s STUDENT WORK series shares a selection of their final 4B Comprehensive Building Design projects. Congratulations to the entire class on your commendable work and on the culmination of five years at Waterloo Architecture!
As you may have learned from another recent post, the graduating class of 2014 is hosting our Rome Show on Friday, August 8. As part of that event, we will be selling copies of the soundtrack from our 2011 Cultural History Play – Ilion. The album will be available for purchase via download codes at the event, and can also be purchased online at any time. You can listen to the soundtrack over at ilion-soundtrack.bandcamp.com. The liner notes are included in...
More than 50 people packed the upper floor of Monigram Coffee Roasters for the Summer 2014 Coffee House on Friday. Under a full moon which we could not see, as the evening grew older and darker, a diverse set of performers and a committed and energetic audience celebrated the extraordinary non-architectural talent hidden inside our school. Check out some photos below (photos by Stanley Sun), with authentic captions added by me, Samuel Ganton. And let me just say...
4B DESIGN STUDIO SPRING 2014: THE VOSS SPA – P1 Coordinator: Andrew Levitt This summer, the Comprehensive Building Design Studio focuses on a site in Vossevangen, Norway. Students are asked to design a spa for use by both local people and visiting tourists. The programme includes saunas, treatment rooms, a movement studio, communal kitchen, accommodation rooms, and camping areas. In the P1 assignment, projects were developed to a working schematic level in preparation for detailed...