Land Marks is a community-centric art project that challenges us to consider our relationship with the land we live on through the marks we make, and the responses we receive. From fences to footpaths, contaminated to cultivated soil, each mark left tells an intricate environmental, social, and cultural story, describing our relationship not only with the natural world, but the people we share it with. BRIDGE is seeking submissions of both completed and in-progress work...
Viennese coffee houses symbolized the city’s public living room, acting as an informal gathering space for conversation and contemplation. This proposal for The Brewed, designed by 3B students Danielle Grabke and Chris Qiu, modernizes the coffee house by retaining its role as a gathering space while nesting programs that promote local innovation. (more…)
This proposal for EVOLO’s 2020 skyscraper competition was designed by 3A students Byron Cai, Chi Un Lee and Annie Wang. As the palm oil industry struggles to meet zero carbon emission and deforestation targets without halting economic activity, RE: Forest 2020 suggests a solution. The skyscraper acts as an “artificial lung” that harvests forests and captures carbon dioxide, while maintaining Indonesia’s palm oil industry.
Helsinki is an international city built on an intimate scale. Through harsh winters and heavy monsoons, Helsinki has become a city of interiors. Its society blooms indoors. This proposal for HelsinkiCall: The Design House competition, designed by Lyric Barnik, embraces this quality. It provides opportunities for cultural and artistic exchange. It borrows elements from the vernacular of the countryside, the ubiquity of the sauna and the evolution of Helsinki as a city. Form The form...
On Tuesday, July 14th, 2020, students chalked a call to action on the sidewalks surrounding the University of Waterloo School of Architecture (UWSA) in Galt. We, the Collective Resistance—an intersection between The Sustainability Collective and Treaty Lands, Global Stories—are calling on the university to “Break the Canon”. In response to the Western worldview reinforced in our curriculum, we call on UWSA to confront the canon through which we are taught to think as architects. We...
Dear all, On Friday, July 24th at 6 pm, Andrew Levitt will guide an On Empathy conversation entitled: COVID-19 & the Loss of Studio. Andrew’s talk will focus on mental health and well-being around issues and challenges of this time. We are grateful for Andrew’s meaningful contributions and resources related to mental health and well-being over the years. We look forward to your virtual presence. Time: Jul 24, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)Link:...
Copenhagen consistently ranks high in international surveys for its standard of living. Aside from its stunning mix of architectural styles and a never ending list of fun activities, the city is a leader in city planning, environmental sustainability, and design. While this makes for a great co-op experience, living there is not cheap. From housing to dining out, your expenses can add up pretty quickly. But this doesn’t mean you can’t have a fulfilling and...
At the end of the 2B semester, my friend Lyric and I decided we wanted to backpack Chile, its long coast stretches across many latitudes creating many distinct climates from the Glacial lakes of Patagonia to the deserts of San Pedro de Atacama. After landing in the capital city, Santiago, we took a day trip to the port city of Valparaiso. We liked the city so much that we spent the next several nights there...
Dear Friends, We would like to invite you to the second On Empathy conversation this term. Join us on Friday, June 26th at 7 PM for a conversation on the relationship between identity, space, and making as a form of expression and research into the two. The talk will feature Waterloo Architecture alumni Haneen Dalla-Ali, Jessica Hanzelkova, and Danielle Rosen, who each tackled these questions, in their own unique ways, with their masters’ theses.…
Home to the petrol-powered car, built over high rolling hills, and widely known for engineering and research prowess: Stuttgart is a city of modernism in the truest sense of the word. The city has maintained its traditional culture as the heart of Swabia and the capital of Baden-Württemberg with beautiful historical architecture and vineyards sprawled across its hills. Meanwhile it continues to develop industriously in engineering, science, and inventive architecture since first established. View of...