Join us Tuesday April 16 at 6:30pm in the Design at Riverside Gallery for the opening of STUDIO 2013, an annual exhibition of student work.   This exhibition brings together exemplary graduate and undergraduate projects from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. These projects demonstrate the infectious energy, craft, commitment and creativity that are […]

The human being may no longer be reduced to the bounds of organic matter. An organism – a life form constructed from interdependent components that maintain various vital processes – may now reach beyond the limits of biological materials. Beyond the skin, thumbs, eyes, and organs of the average human being, we may notice the […]

The reality of cities is that, no matter how designed, controlled, or planned they are, people will do as they like. They will find ways to live and move through them that suit their purposes, even if this means going against a ‘designed’ system. In the case of South Africa during apartheid, this movement was […]

The winter term UNCOVERED lecture series begins Monday March 11th, with a talk by UWSA graduate students Shane and Virginia about their 2013 Come Up to My Room installation 15,000 Rosaries.

A collaboration between Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, GAD/RC2 (London, UK) and Waterloo Architecture (Cambridge, Ontario), at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Professors: Anne Bordeleau, Marjan Colletti, Guan Lee BARTLETT Students: Shuchi Agarwal, Cindy Charisa, Alexandra Chutitada, Kai Li Xiaoxu Li, Francois Mangion, Maria-Silena Patsalidou, Dimitra Poulokefalou, Eleftheria Varda, Zachary Saunders, Rukmani Thangam, […]

On March 14, 2011 the Bloomberg Administration unveiled New York City’s 10-year comprehensive waterfront plan entitled, “Vision 2020.” Though the document follows a long line of waterfront revitalization proposals, it offers an extraordinarily profound and historically unprecedented ambition to re-establish New York as one of the world’s premiere waterfront cities by transforming its post-industrial harbour […]

15,000 Rosaries is one of nine room installations at the Gladstone Hotel’s 10th Annual Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) Event, open this weekend as part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. UWSA students Shane Neill and Virginia Fernandez comprise 2 of the 3 part non-profit art collaborative Fictional Territories. 15,000 Rosaries Traditions contain within […]

Architectural designers often need to strike an uneasy balance between idealism and reality. Under most circumstances, architects are restricted by clients, budgets, and available technologies. However, divorced from traditional constraints, visionary concepts of new dwellings, new cities, and new “worlds” will spark greater forms of innovation and drive creativity for future generations. The exploration of […]