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THESIS: Sprezzatura

December 16, 2016

Sprezzatura Dennis Tang The dramatic spectacle is dazzling, alluring, and seductive. Glimmering, it draws you into a maze of turns, distractions, and clues. The sparkling veil conceals objects of desire, while displaying them with pride. Slits entice desiring glimpses revealing moments of clarity ina shimmering cloud. These glimpses paint a picture of the world beyond, with your imagination finishing the partial image. Never is everything apparent; a centrefold would destroy all illusions. As your interaction...

THESIS: Mapping the City: Narrative of Memory and Place

December 16, 2016

Mapping the City Narative of Memory and Place Desiree Geib How do we discover a new place and begin to get acquainted with it? In Canadian cities, the sense of place can be difficult to grasp. The relative youth of the built form of the cities and a constant influx of new people from other cities, provinces, and countries continuously re-calibrate what place means. In Calgary, the sense of place includes relationships to the...

HUMANS OF WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE 11-30-2016

November 30, 2016

“I’d always painted before school, and for my interview to get into Waterloo actually, I brought in some of my paintings. There’s something very cool about doing something with your hands, there’s a freedom that I feel gets lost a lot from projects that we do at school sometimes. The focus is on the technology — sometimes you might find that when you’re designing something in your head, you’re limiting yourself to what Rhino can do,...

THESIS: Erosion: Designing with Materiality in Impermanent Landscapes

November 29, 2016

Erosion Designing with Materiality in Impermanent Landscapes Kunaal Mohan Using the Buddhist notion that we conceive of time through observing change, this thesis attempts to answer the question ‘how can we create the sensation of time in architecture?’ It is important to acknowledge the fact that buildings will change over time. No building is above aging. “The transformation of a building’s surface can… be positive in that it can allow one to recognize the necessity...

Save us from the list of figures! Automating thesis drugery with InDesign

November 23, 2016

Two years ago Vikkie Chen published an excellent article on formatting your thesis in InDesign. This piece is a supplement which explains the automation of tables of contents and lists of figures. Updating these two sections with each draft is a tedious exercise, one that computers are perfectly capable of automating. As a side benefit, generating tables automatically creates hyperlinks in the resulting PDF file for easy navigation. Let’s jump in. Table of Contents By...

HUMANS OF WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE 11-16-2016

November 16, 2016

What’s something that’s been inspiring you recently? “One thing that I’ve noticed inspires me most is watching people make things without knowing what they’re doing. Basically, taking on a project having no idea what the outcome is going to be, and it turns out to be something extraordinary. It doesn’t necessarily have to be beautiful, but the experience of taking something on like that for the first time is, I find, very inspiring. When I do...

Position, Identity, Story: Help! I’m Lost in the Curriculum

November 5, 2016

Since cultural literacy is one of the key values of this school, we should be leaders, not followers, in the diversity and inclusiveness of our curriculum. Here, Paniz Moayeri speaks about the struggle with her identity as a Muslim Persian, and the importance of seeing one’s cultural history reflected in architectural education.

Teaching Architecture / Terri Meyer Boake

November 2, 2016

Teaching Architecture is a series of interviews with faculty at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. They are asked why they teach, what drives them, what brought them here, and their opinions on academia in architecture today. The conversations are motivating, inspirational, and reveal great stories about people who shape the way we learn today. This article is a conversation with Terri Meyer Boake, a Professor at UWSA.

HUMANS OF WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE 10-31-2016

October 31, 2016

What are some things you’ve noticed while you’ve been here for thirteen years, anything you find stays the same or something that’s changed? “Well, mainly that there are a lot more students now then there were in the beginning. But it’s always been a smaller community, different from main campus. And every term we notice that there are new kinds of projects, new kinds of things we see hung up.” Is there anything in particular that you love...

HUMANS OF WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE 10-24-2016

October 25, 2016

A documentation series of the unique University of Waterloo School of Architecture community in Cambridge, ON.

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