Unreal Estate: a conversation about the relationship between architecture, landscape, and value. March 21, 2013 / 12:30-1:30pm / Auditorium / School of Architecture University of Waterloo, 7 Melville Street, Cambridge Ontario. Andrew Herscher, author of The Unreal Estate Guide to Detroit Chris Lee & Adrian Blackwell, editors of CURRENCY, Issue 04 of Scapegoat: Architecture/ Landscape/ Political Economy. Moderated by Etienne Turpin, Scapegoat Editorial Board Scapegoat’s new issue CURRENCY, illustrates the foundation of...
Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at the UWSA. These tunes are great—sometimes white noise is even better. With good headphones it can sound like you are in a giant vacuum, but hey! when everyone else is on some crazy 3 a.m. caffeine bender, that’s not necessarily a bad thing… If white noise just isn’t for you, take a listen to this week’s song picks instead: Darkstar – Dear Heartbeat Beach House...
THURSDAY MARCH 14th, 8pm If you are interested in participating contact Will Fu at willcongfu@gmail.com
The winter term UNCOVERED lecture series begins Monday March 11th, with a talk by UWSA graduate students Shane and Virginia about their 2013 Come Up to My Room installation 15,000 Rosaries.
Tony Shi (3A) received an honourable mention for his design of the Tokyo Replay Centre in a competition hosted by ArchMedium , an architectural competition site for students. The challenge was to design a recreational centre in the Akihabara, a central district of Tokyo. The center would need to encompass the lifestyle of Japanese society, while focusing on the theme of entertainment. The best technology would be used to include karaoke, anime, manga and video games within the...
On February 25th a design pin-up was held to share ideas about redesigning the new BRIDGE Storefront gallery on Main Street. One of the common themes included concepts of flexible and transformable space. By using adaptable equipment and well-concealed storage space, students could easily transform BRIDGE from gallery to workspace. Adaptable equipment also could allow for a variety of exhibition types and installations, which could be easily modified to suit the needs of students or...
A collaboration between Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, GAD/RC2 (London, UK) and Waterloo Architecture (Cambridge, Ontario), at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. Professors: Anne Bordeleau, Marjan Colletti, Guan Lee BARTLETT Students: Shuchi Agarwal, Cindy Charisa, Alexandra Chutitada, Kai Li Xiaoxu Li, Francois Mangion, Maria-Silena Patsalidou, Dimitra Poulokefalou, Eleftheria Varda, Zachary Saunders, Rukmani Thangam, Dali Xu, Ran Yan, Ali Zolfaghari. WATERLOO Students: Justin Breg, Tiffany Chiang, Virginia Fernandez, Emad Ghattas, Danielle Gignac, Miriam Ho,...
A living organism connected at multiple ends by arteries and veins, the island of Manhattan pumps blood through it’s buildings and cavities every day. One of the most heavily photographed places on earth, each photo is depicted as a slice being cut away from a body. The imagined blood of New York is rich with experience, history, events, and feelings . In this series of architectural photographs the biological quality of Manhattan is exhibited as...
Further Reading features relevant articles, readings, and videos that some of us wished we had come across earlier to help us with school. We welcome submissions at bridge@waterlooarchitecture.com For our first installment, we have an article covering Rem Koolhass/OMA, a firm with an immense influence in our field. If you name five prominent practicing architects, chances are that at least one of them walked through the doors of OMA during their career (see image below)....
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