Masters student Mark took third place in a recent competition for designing a pavilion in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park.

Reconstruction Site Re-designing the disposable Expo Scott Proudfoot Building, supported by the practice of architecture, is churning resources into waste at an alarming rate. Our method of construction has its inevitable conclusion in a pile of rubble. Lamentably, the natural resources we build with are finite, and our exploitation of these has nearly reached its peak. As […]

Abstract by Cassandra Cautius Rammed earth is an ancient and imperishable material-process. Traditionally associated with rural construction and underdeveloped settings, the material has begun to enter the modern vernacular. While its use is not yet wide spread in the contemporary built environment, its benefits and positive applications to that setting are numerous. Rammed earth as a building material possesses ripe […]

Photos from KLH UK (top right) and Ecobuild (bottom right). ABSTRACT by Henry Murdock Our built environment is constantly adapting to changing factors: technology, the state of the economy, material resource availability, and, in turn, environmental conditions. The latter has gained notable importance in popular discourse, and especially in the architecture and construction professions. However, as much as we see […]

I rode my bike through Toronto, past the architecture ghetto, over the Don Valley to the east side of the city to office of Sustainable.TO. It was founded less than five years ago by Paul Dowsett, a Waterloo Architecture alumni, and is housed in an old bank on Queen Street East. I entered the office […]