Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This week, Caelin Schneider takes us west to Seattle. Things may have settled down after the heyday of the 90’s, but the Seattle sound is as alive and well as ever. When it is overcast 200 days a year, you spend a lot of time sitting inside making music.

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.

Call for Submission: We are looking for inspired photographers interested in the potential of experimental photography. Our theme is analogue; a play of developing, experimenting and progressing. Join the LOMO 10×10 exhibition and share the beauty of creative mistakes. To participate in the event please contact us at uwsa.lomo10x10@gmail.com.

BRIDGE is pleased to bring back our Art Battle and Art Exhibit! The extended deadline to submit/enter is noon on February 23rd! Email uwsa.artbattle@gmail.com with an image of your art piece. If you are interested in participating in a live battle make your subject line ‘Art Battle’, and if you would like to just exhibit a piece make it ‘Art Exhibit’. We can’t wait to battle!

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.

The Unwind Fiber Arts Club, originally called the UWSA Knitting Club, was started in Fall 2014 by a group of graduate students who shared a passion for knitting and an interest in learning new textile crafts and techniques. Unwind is currently looking to expand its knowledge of textile crafts and would love to learn more about the fiber talent at UWSA so if you have a skill that you’d like to share such as leather working, bookbinding, embroidery, etc. then we will use all of our resources and experience to help make your workshop happen!

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.

Inspired by last term’s 100 Notebook Project and moved by the people and landscapes of an alien land, I began to document my stay in Bali through the entries of a travel journal. Although my week was taken up largely by my internship duties, I made it a point to see and do as much as […]

In an intriguing and engaging discussion, Eveline Lam interviews Ciguë, a Montreuil based interior architecture firm that is eagerly sought out for their distinctive creativity in transforming unassuming materials into unexpected tableaus. Alphonse Sarthout sheds some light on how the firm came to be started while the founders were still in architecture school and how their unique methodology and collaboration with artisans contributed to the success of their agency.