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Scapegoat 10: NIGHT Launch – June 19th, 2017

June 15, 2017

Scapegoat Journal Launch @ Bridge Centre for Architecture and Design Monday June 19, 2017* Drinks 8:30 PM* Talk 9:05 PM Join Issue Editor Christie Pearson, Contributors Marie-Paule Macdonald, Kurt Kraler, and Marcin Kedzior, Double Double Land founder Daniel Vila, and Scapegoat Board Members Adrian Blackwell and Jane Hutton, for drinks and a discussion about the latest issue of Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy: Issue 10 NIGHT. This issue of Scapegoat Journal proposes an active...

Studio Soundtrack 027: When house every weekend isn’t enough

June 15, 2017

Studio Soundtrack features songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. I’m Brandon Mooi, you may have seen me at a few parties around here, and when a weekend jam isn’t enough, I extend that same vibe and energy into the rest of the week in my music, so this playlist is aptly named “When house every weekend isn’t enough.” (more…)

THESIS: Library: A Social Infrastructure

May 4, 2017

The Library A Social Infrastructure Parisa Kohbodi For many centuries, the mission of the library as a civic institution has been seen as the collection and dissemination of information. Likewise, the library typology continuously responds to the dominant paradigm of information and communications technologies. Following the digital revolution of the late twentieth century, information has been transcoded into electronic signals, thus allowing its storage and distribution to take place independent of time and space. Today,...

THESIS: Embracing or Not Enclosing

April 27, 2017

Embracing or Not Enclosing Caelin Schneider The simultaneously archaic and hypermodern “archetypal fact” of twenty first century architecture and urbanism will be the enclosure, the wall, the barrier, the gate, the fence, the fortress. -Lieven De Cauter I no longer know what there is behind the wall, I no longer know there is a wall, I no longer know this wall is a wall, I no longer know what a wall is. I no longer...

THESIS: The Reflexive Urban Fabric: The Re-imagining of Toronto’s Rail Corridor

April 27, 2017

The Reflexive Urban Fabric The Re-Imagining of Toronto’s Urban Rail Corridor Andrew Cole The thesis The Reflexive Urban Fabric: The Re-imagining of Toronto’s Rail Corridor is concerned with architecture’s role in shaping infrastructural systems into designed composite networks that respond to local, social, and ecological conditions. Infrastructural systems present a dichotomy between the technical and cultural influences that are inseparable from urban planning. They have been given technical priority over natural and urban landscapes for an agenda of higher mono-focused productivity, while also shaping urban fabrics...

THESIS: Mediations of Shattered Water: Environmental Intimacy & the Dissolution of the Self

April 14, 2017

Mediations of Shattered Water Environmental Intimacy & the Dissolution of the Self Kate Holbrook-Smith In a time of accelerated environmental degradation, a human-centric approach to engagement has engendered a pervasive cultural passivity towards the environment. This fatalistic detachment amplified by technological advances and, in Canada, the vastness of our landscape demands that we reanimate our perception of the natural world. Environmental intimacy aims to dissolve the “I-it” relationship through an affective merging of subject and...

Call for Submission: A Year of Things

April 12, 2017

BRIDGE is taking a look back at the last year in A Year of Things, an exhibition that frames three terms of student and academic life through artifacts of historic value. We are now taking submissions from anyone and everyone who has produced posters, graphic design, or physical objects (models or otherwise) that represent, in some way or another, the last three terms of architecture school. What will we accept? Anything you made that isn’t...

THESIS : The Other Place: Building a Retreat of One’s Own

March 24, 2017

The Other Place: Building a Retreat of One’s Own Brock Benninger How is one to ground themselves in an increasingly virtual and abstract world? The Other Place offers a complimentary environment to daily life. Here one can establish the necessary critical distance from the conditions which define day to day life, and gain the perspective required to position ones self within, or against, these conditions. Interpretations of The Other Place, beginning with the ideology of...

STOPGAP CAMBRIDGE: A CALL FOR ARTWORK SUBMISSIONS

March 15, 2017

The Stop Gap Foundation, the Cambridge Accessibility Committee, the Cambridge Seniors Woodworking Club, local businesses, and students from the UWaterloo School of Architecture are working together to bring StopGap Ramps to Cambridge, and we need your help with artwork! Storefronts with single steps up from the sidewalk can provide considerable barriers to the elderly, shoppers with strollers, and people with disabilities. StopGap ramps are small, easily-made accessibility devices that make storefronts with single-step barriers...

On Empathy Recording: Poverty and Homelessness in Cambridge – with Philip Mills

March 6, 2017

We live in Cambridge, but much of the time I’m not sure how well we see it. What kinds of poverty persist here? And how do we fit into that picture?

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