BRIDGE is opening up the storefront for its first event of the term! Join us for an evening of board and video games. (more…)
With the first-year class on a field trip in Montréal this weekend, Rain Mäki revisits her 4-month experience in the dynamic, creative city. (more…)
Danielle Rosen writes a review of a local shop you should not overlook, with photography by Wesley Chu. (more…)
Evelyn Hofmann (MArch candidate) and Nick Revington (PhD Planning candidate) collaborated on a photo essay last fall recently published on the Berkley Planning Journal’s blog The Urban Fringe. (more…)
BRIDGE is proud to play host to a report prepared by two graduate students, Mona Dai and Allegra Friesen, on the subject of critical feedback at our school. (more…)
To change the way we build, we must first change the way we learn to build. Check out the full text of our research paper on designing an inclusive curriculum, initially presented at the SSAC Layered Histories conference in May 2017.
Treaty Lands, Global Stories will be representing Waterloo Architecture with an installation at the OAA MOVE Party on September 15th, and you’re invited! “What Binds Us” is a reminder that we need to make space for stories that are missing.
Join this year’s 4B class as they present a retrospective of their term in Rome. WHERE: BRIDGE Center for Architecture + Design WHEN: Wednesday August 2, 2017, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
The River is for Washing Carpets Safira Lakhani Contemporary peacebuilding, notably as it is practiced in Afghanistan, consistently fails to address local needs in favour of international priorities for global security. Despite the significant presence of foreign agencies and aid mechanisms in the country, peace in Afghanistan remains elusive. Any semblance of peace achieved is neither durable, nor sustainable, particularly because of international ignorance of on-the-ground environmental and social realities, with specific reference to natural resource management and gender dynamics. These failures are localised in Bamyan,...
What Makes a Space a Place? Waterloo School of Architecture July 4 – 26, 2017 Led by Jonathan Friedman of PARTISANS Architects, a team of Waterloo Architecture students will create a site-specific built installation on the outdoor plaza at the Gardiner Museum of Ceramics. Coinciding with Waterloo Architecture’s 50th anniversary, visitors will be invited to embellish colourful benches with mosaic tile as part of a month-long communal art-making activation exploring the scarcity of meaningful public...