“We fold memories of the dead into the space of the living. We embrace death, even while we turn away from it.” Deborah Wang’s thesis entitled Phantom Limb presents a series of encounters with death, and a reflection on loss, in photographs and sculptures. Her defence is on Monday March 23, 2015 at 3:00PM in room ARC 110.
Hand-drafting isn’t just a lesson on how to hold a pencil – it crucifies us to the studio culture and leaves us with memories we would never make elsewhere.
Student Work features The Museum of the City by Sheelah Tolton and Monica Lalas which creates a relationship with the Tiber River and reintroduces the wall as a datum for connecting public spaces.
As we approach the future, we have a strong urge to remember and obsessively conserve every object of the past. This is where Michael Guggenheim, a present day sociologist, brings up one of the relationship between building and time, where ‘buildings represent time’ itself. It is important to understand the role of memory in this context. Memory has the ability to ‘recreate or re-enact former states’ from the various objects or elements that are present in the...
Join us Saturday March 28th at 2:00pm to celebrate Scapegoat 07: Incarceration Issue Launch at 60 Main Street. Scapegoat is a journal of architecture, landscape, and political economy that examines the relationship between capitalism and the built environment, the coercive and violent organization of space, the exploitation of labour and resources, and the unequal distributions of environmental risks and benefits.
Introducing the third panel for the Re:POST Symposium, which includes Jonathan Enns of SolidOperations, Alexander Josephson of PARTISANS and Andrea Ling of GUILD. Everyone is welcome to engage in the conversation on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015, beginning at 1 pm.
Introducing second panel for the Re:POST Symposium which includes Matthew Kennedy and Mark Erickson of Studio North in Calgary and Elizabeth Paden of KPMB Architects in Toronto. Everyone is welcome to engage in the conversation on Tuesday March 17th beginning at 1PM.
Kurt Kraler’s thesis entitled “The Generic Spectacle” explores the phenomena of the generic spectacle in relationship to the Las Vegas Strip and the resulting architectural and social implications of an increasingly hybridized urban form founded on the basis of an exploitive service economy in order to maintain the illusion of leisure.
Introducing the first panel for the upcoming Re:POST Symposium, which includes Dan Adams of Landing Studio in Sommerville and Fionn Byrne of Office of Pedonic Operations in Toronto. Everyone is welcome to engage in the conversation on Tuesday, March 17th beginning at 1 pm.
Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This week is dedicated to Toronto artists Drake and The Weeknd.
