Michelle Sprackman, a first-year student at UWSA , shares her experience founding OKO – a Toronto-based handmade jewelry brand available at select boutiques across Ontario.
Humans of Waterloo Architecture is an ongoing series of portraits that paints a picture of the quirky, diverse and aesthetically pleasing world that is Waterloo Architecture.
Cambridge Common: A Paradoxical Public Space is an exhibition of student work on display in the Cambridge City Hall atrium from May 31st – April 14th. The exhibition was designed and fabricated by Adrian Blackwell, Dan Jessel and Sarah Gunawan and features work by the 2A Design Studio course from the Fall of 2014
This is a template for anyone interested in creating a City Guide. First, introduce yourself! Begin with a body text section that provides a narrative as to your experience in whichever city. The below format is for listing specific locations with things to do, see, eat, drink at each. Try to include an image for each and hyperlink it to the destination’s website or Google Maps location. If you need more list items, go into the...
Tristan van Leur’s thesis “Public Place networks in Privately-Owned Space” employs networking online spaces will reactivate and redefine the public realm. His design proposition,Spacebook, is a spatial social network situated within the POPS, that uses the abilities of network and data-driven technologies to affect the physical environment.
Homage is a restaurant that offers locally sourced, sustainable, and feel-good food. A chat with Paul reveals some of the restaurant’s philosophies accompanied by a delicious “Well-fed” Burger and a Drink special for only $10.
SWAG is hosting Pecha Kucha on March 27th at 6pm featuring the academic and professional work, personal interests and musings of professors from Waterloo Architecture. Join us for a series of concise and intriguing presentations. Appetizers provided, dinner and beverages available for purchase.
Holland Young’s thesis entitled “Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter” explores how storytellers use overlapping real and fictional architectural environments in order to propel narrative and precipitate an immersive experience for an audience. Her defence will take place on Friday March 27, 2015 10:00 AM in the Main Lecture Theatre.
This week we share Kanika Kaushal’s ongoing thesis work entitled “Decoding Urbanity – Learning from and for Old Delhi.” Her thesis argues that the walled city of Old Delhi is a morphological output of a complex and dynamic process of urban morphogenesis that can be decoded through the lens of parametric urbanism which simulates the city’s generating principles at any given point of time.
Paula Lee defends her thesis entitled Living beyond Subsistence on Tuesday, March 24th at 5PM in the ARC Loft. Her work re-imagines the singular idea of home as functional space in the low-income tower context of 200 Wellesley Street East, Toronto through the design of a mediating social space.