Guan Lee is a practicing architect, lecturer, and director of Grymsdyke Farm. He will deliver a lecture titled ‘Shelf Life: Architecture of place at Grymsdyke Farm’ on Thursday March 10th at 6 p.m in the UWSA Main Lecture Hall.

Daniel D’Oca is an Urban Planner, Principal and Co-founder of the New York City-based architecture, planning, and research firm Interboro Partners, and Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He will deliver a lecture ‘Guilt by Appropriation’ as part of the Arriscraft Lecture Series on February 25th at 6 p.m in the UWSA Main Lecture Hall.

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.

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture will host the first of the series of lectures sponsored by Arriscraft on Thursday Oct 22 at 7pm at the Lawrence Cummings lecture hall. The lecture is titled ‘The Illusion of Stasis in Structures: Recent Findings from Mark West and Pressure Building Laboratories’.

Sean Lally will present a lecture about the work of his Chicago based office,WEATHERS on Thursday November 13th at 7pm in the Main Lecture Hall. The practice explores new opportunities to design and build the environments we live in through the harnessing on energy.

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.

Jenny Sabin visited Waterloo Architecture last week to lead a workshop entitled Matrix Architecture: Modeling Biological Reciprocity – A Landscape Takes Shape. The workshop was conducted as a two-day seminar and hands-on lab which explored the potentials of integrating biological phenomena into architecture and design practices.

Jesse Reiser, Principal of Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture PC, will be presenting in the Main Lecture hall at Waterloo Architecture on Thursday October 16th, at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public.