Update: John’s Street Level exhibition at the Princess Twin Cinema Odeon Gallery has been extended until June 25, so go have a look if you haven’t already! Opening of Street Level: Poetics of Urban Infrastructure. Photo by John Hofstetter. Street Level is an exhibition of work by Waterloo-based artist John Hofstetter, also known as the friendly man behind the counter at the Musagetes Architecture Library. It is currently on display at the Princess Twin Cinema...
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To all UWSA students, BRIDGE has exciting news! After some hiatus and a year of behind-the-scenes work by dedicated BRIDGE members, the BRIDGE Storefront is finally opening. The anticipated soft launch will be this June, so we’ll need a lot of help to get the space ready for full occupancy. If you haven’t already seen the bright orange vinyl on a Main Street store door promoting our opening, check it out at 37 Main Street....
Waterloo Architecture undergraduate student Simon McKenzie is a winner of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators Juror Student Award for his atmospheric renderings. The project, entitled Proteus Moves, was completed in Professor Dereck Revington’s 3B Option Studio in the fall of 2012. Simon’s work will be exhibited alongside that of graduate student Chanel Dehond at the twenty-ninth annual Architecture in Perspective exhibition beginning October 15 in Dallas, Texas. Design statement from Simon McKenzie This studio explores the art of architecture imagined through space, time, and motion. Focusing...
Has your bike been gathering dust all winter? It’s time to get back out on the road and join the Waterloo Architecture Cyclists! Join your fellow architecture cyclists as we take advantage of the warm weather and explore Cambridge’s beautiful countryside. If you are interested in riding together, please join the WAC Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wac.club/ Weekly group rides will be scheduled every Saturday beginning May 17th. The club also provides the opportunity to connect with...
ABSTRACT by Meredith Vaga All cities set up a condition of disjunction as they are inherently manmade ‘built’ places separate from the natural wilderness they abut. The cities that emerge over time are then places held in tension between the kinetic and static forces of civilization, nature, people, ownership and infrastructure. These conflicting pieces manifest as division within the city. The division can be physically seen in specific gaps in the physical infrastructure: urban slips...
ABSTRACT by Michael Bootsma Positioning itself as an investigation into the affective capacity of transport, this thesis argues that the potential of a city is both composed and revealed through its systems of movement, contending that the sensorial and expressive qualities of a city’s transit govern how its citizens perceive and access the scope of experiences available to them. Essays on movement and identity, the delimitation of the city, immobility, adaptation, and eccentricities, move in...
Further Reading features reviews of relevant articles, readings, and videos that we have found interesting and useful in our time at school. We welcome submissions at bridge@waterlooarchitecture.com. Breakfast Lecture Series for the Creative Community Perhaps the biggest challenge of creativity is what will be added to our world and what is the next phenomenon? We hardly think about what we leave behind and in this quickly transforming world, things continually become outdated. These are questions...
The annual awards banquet is a time to highlight the successes of our many students and recognize all their hard work and achievement. The faculty awards certain candidates from our current undergraduates, off-term undergrads, master’s students, and recent alumni awards in all disciplines – from design, technology, academic standing, and cultural history to thesis work and exemplary contributions to the school. A special note of recognition from Rick Haldenby highlighted Andrea Hunniford‘s admirable and extensive...
This year’s Projects Review marks the tenth annual exhibition of student work at Design at Riverside. New Realities: Recent Student Work is up now until May 18, 2014. This year’s faculty curator Andrew Levitt worked with master’s student Reuben Grin and recent graduate Melissa Ng to put together the exhibition. Come out for the opening reception tonight, April 22, at 6:30 pm or see it during extended gallery hours throughout first-year admissions interview week. Bamboo Skyscraper by Richard Mui, Alexandru Vilcu, and...
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