"Buried Treasure: Reclaiming Restricted Sites through Landfill Mining" by Andrea Murphy

Re:Post (Regarding Publication Opportunities Show and Tell) will be featuring ongoing work by Waterloo students who are presenting or exhibiting at conferences. The posts are intended to both communicate the research that UWSA students are presenting and describe the conference

Visit to the ETH Zurich

Architectural education in Switzerland: Waterloo Architecture student Sam Oswald documents a visit to the ETH Zurich. The hill is small, by Swiss standards. Still, as the bus reaches the top, the view over Lake Zurich and the surrounding Alpen foothills

Delandfill: Reclaiming Ontario’s Closed Landfill Sites

ABSTRACT by Andrea Murphy: There are over one thousand closed ‘small’ landfills in Ontario, each with differing circumstances and potential problems. This project proposes a method of addressing such dormant sites in situ, based upon a case study in Hamilton.

Wild School: A conversation with Adam S. of Boko

Sam Oswald discusses the design collaborative Boko with founder Adam Schwartzentruber, and learns about new ways to engage our environment. I am driving with Adam Schwartzentruber from Cambridge to his family’s farm near Wellesley, Ontario. He has been telling me

OPEN FORUM FRIDAY: SUMMARY

In The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt outlines three fundamental human activities: labour, work, and action. Labour represents the basic, cyclical activities that are necessary for survival. Work is what we are normally concerned with, as architects: the fabrication of a