The Stop’s Night Market are once again looking for designers to create unique food carts for the fifth annual night market being held this June in Toronto. The selected carts will be used as vending stations for some of the city’s best restaurants and local wineries. This popular event brings together creatives from Toronto’s culinary, design, performance, and graphic arts sectors, celebrating diversity, community, and the power of food.
Martin Bressani, Professor and Director of McGill University’s School of Architecture, will be lecturing as part of the Winter Arriscraft lecture series. His talk is called ‘Prosthetic Fantasies in the First Machine Age’, and will be on Thursday, February 4th at 6 p.m. in the main lecture hall (MLH) in UWSA.
Omer Arbel will lecture at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture on Thursday January 21st at 6pm as part of the Arriscraft lecture series. Omer explores the intrinsic mechanical, physical, and chemical qualities of materials as fundamental departure points for making work. His interdisciplinary practice spans multiple scales and cultural-economic contexts to include architecture, industrial design, materials research, sculpture, invention, and high craft manufacturing.
The first speaker in the winter 2016 Arriscraft lecture series will be Pat Hanson. Pat Hanson is a founding partner of gh3, a practice based on a new paradigm that explores the overlap of architecture, landscape and sustainability. Pat has directed a number of architecture, urbanism and planning projects which have involved complex programs and extensive public consultation processes, as well as the realization of competition winning designs. She has designed many institutional education projects, which bridge beyond architecture into urban design and landscape.
Kyle’s thesis ‘States of Dependency’ is concerned with exploring architectures relationship to socio-political and ethnographic conflict within Jerusalem. Specifically, the work examines the districts of west and east Musrara, sites just to the north of the Old City, and reimagines the civic function of the no-mans land that runs between them. The project works to literally bridge the Israeli western half and the Palestinian eastern half of this area, and explores the educational and civic role that a truly public space may provide in this context. Kyle’s defence will take place on Friday January 15th, 2016 at 9 30 AM in ARC 2003.
Students Tin Huang, Chris Hardy and Sneha Sumanth interview Dr. Ila Berman about ‘Material Matters’, an exhibition that took place in Design at Riverside in the fall of 2015, and showcased five design firms that innovate in the combination of material experimentation and digital fabrication.
Arturo’s thesis ‘Second Home’, proposes the design of a socially-driven building and public space located in a suburban neighborhood in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico. The goal of the project is to provide an environment that assists in the prevention of children entering the world of drug-related violence by encouraging the creation of good holding environments within the community.
He will defend his thesis on Tuesday December 15th, 2015 at 9 30 AM in ARC 2026.
Tegan’s thesis explores alternatives to the existing and growing condominium typology in Toronto and asks the question: How can we prevent the large scale takeover of Toronto’s evolved vernacular fabric, while still providing a means of growth and intensification of urban land use and building density without sacrificing the distinctive street culture of that area? Her defence will take place on Wednesday December 16th 2015 at 10am in ARC 2026.
Katherine’s thesis explores the opportunities provided by this concept of ownership and mobility. Individual units could become highly tuned to the person(s) occupying them – morphing each unit into an indispensable platform from which users occupy a city. This new concept of home would allow an increasingly mobile population to resituate with ease – finally reconstituting home with our wandering lifestyle. She will defend her thesis on Wednesday December 16th, 2015 at 10 AM in ARC 1001 [Cummings Lecture Theatre].
In his thesis, Yasir states that architecture does not need to be either closed and subdivided, or open and gradated. He instead explores amalgamations of both through a design proposal of a hypothetical library based in Amman, Jordan. The program of a modern library calls for variations in privacy, climate and storage, making it ideal for such an exploration. The site’s predictable climate also allows greater degrees of experimentation in the enhancement of spaces. He will defend his thesis on Monday December 14th, 2015 at 10:30 AM in ARC 2026