Ever wonder what kind of life students have outside of the studio? When we’re not being drowned by deadlines, what do we choose to do to fulfill our life? Perhaps some beautiful calligraphy, or even running a small business? We know someone who accomplishes both. This month, we’re unearthing this inconspicuous hobby of a 1A student – Michael Salib! “I think words are so beautiful; and also for me, I try to have a lot of art as well,...
I’ll explain how we got here, a graduate architecture student, a non-quilter, initiating a three-city-wide quilt project in a pandemic. Rendering of guests and participants viewing the quilt at a culminating exhibition Workshop Partnering with BRIDGE, we are able to bring two From Behind the Mask workshops to UWSA students! Kits have been mailed to participating distanced students, and local students can find a kit near them via the project website. Both of the workshops are...
At the beginning of October, BRIDGE created an online event titled “BRIDGE x Inktober” that put a twist on Inktober, an art challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009. Inktober provides participants with prompts every day in October, encouraging them to improve their sketching skills, build positive drawing habits, and share their creations online! BRIDGE combined Inktober’s 2020 ink prompts with terms that are inspired by “What is Solidarity?” Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and...
As we all know, COVID caused a ripple in many of our lives. In the spring of 2020, the 3A class’ job search was abruptly impacted by COVID as a number of co-op positions fell through. Even so, throughout the summer, we saw our friends posting cool things on their instagrams! In this episode of Keeping up with the Kovids, 3B students Dani and Razmig decided to dig up some insider info as to what...
In the Autumn of 2019, the co-directors of BRIDGE, Jade Manbodh and Zach Ropel-Morski, had the first of many meetings with the Cambridge Art Galleries to plan out what was to be their second collaborative art project. After bringing on Kate Brownlie, Nicole Rak and Zaven Titizian, the team spent five months spent developing a vision for the project, releasing a call for submission, reviewing proposals, conducting interviews, finalizing artists and writing up contracts, we...
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture takes pride in its tight-knit culture. Working collaboratively with all our peers, building relationships with upper-years, and running into students in the hall are among many of the perks mentioned at the school’s open houses. The great sense of family in Waterloo makes it like no other. The University of Waterloo School of Architecture Campus; a place we will have to wait a little longer to visit (image...
With much of its territory lying only metres above sea level, Lagos is a city with a complex relationship with the waters that rise to meet it. Here, the ocean is a source of food and a dumping ground for waste, a mode for transportation and an eroding force washing away at the land. Finalists Christa Hu and Sparsh Gandhi designed “A House to Fish in”, a response that aims to build on the existing...
Calling all creative minds with a pen and paper! Whether you consider yourself an artist or you can barely draw a stick figure, you’re all invited to join this year’s Inktober x Bridge challenge. Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the...
Emerging in 2018, the Waterloo Architecture Sustainability Collective has had a continually evolving role within our school, community, and profession as we advocate for environmental justice. For today’s global day of Climate Action, September 25th 2020, members of the Sustainability Collective would like to take a moment to draw attention to some of our previously unpublished work. The following two documents were developed following the workshops and discussions which took place at the School of...
“We live in the midst of a pandemic, but climate change is just as much of a crisis as it was before. As society is starting to open up in many places in the world, global emissions and resource use is rapidly increasing and we are running out of time. Therefore we call for a global day of action on September 25th. Anyone will be able to participate in a way that is safe for...
