Our own Philip Beesley has just completed another collaboration with the incredible fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Iris uses various fabrication methods to develop materials and textures unique even for haute couture. Current students Adam Schwartzentruber and Anne Sewell drew key details, led by Waterloo Architecture grads Andrea Ling, Eric Bury, and Jonathan Tyrrell. A great video profile of Iris and footage of the show are below. (more…)
The WASA Student Project Fund was created to assist with the costs of unique one-time projects that promote the work of UWSA undergraduate students outside of academia. Submission deadline for Winter 2013 term: April 30th, 2013. Fill out your application! Submit your application via email to: emily.stafford@uwaterloo.ca ELIGIBILITY – All applicants must be undergraduate students and on full time academic study during the term which you apply. – Projects are not eligible if they are the product...
Regarding Publication Opportunities (Show and Tell) February 7th in the UWSA Main Lecture Hall.
Winter 2013 marks the continuation of the Arriscraft Lecture Series – ARCHITECTURE OUTSIDE THE LINES – investigating the edge of professional architecture, where architects, clients, planners, and other participants in the building world talk about particular aspects of their work outside of the conventional boundaries of the architectural profession. Thursday January 31th | 6:45 PM Jennifer Keesmaat Chief Planner, City of Toronto Best Practices in City Building
Winter 2013 marks the continuation of the Arriscraft Lecture Series – ARCHITECTURE OUTSIDE THE LINES – investigating the edge of professional architecture, where architects, clients, planners, and other participants in the building world talk about particular aspects of their work outside of the conventional boundaries of the architectural profession. Thursday January 24th | 6:45 PM John van Nostrand planningAlliance Settlement/ Resettlement Photo: www.planningalliance.ca
15,000 Rosaries is one of nine room installations at the Gladstone Hotel’s 10th Annual Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) Event, open this weekend as part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival. UWSA students Shane Neill and Virginia Fernandez comprise 2 of the 3 part non-profit art collaborative Fictional Territories. 15,000 Rosaries Traditions contain within themselves latent opportunities to undermine the totalizing forces of globalization; that which is freely given over can be incomparably more...
Workplace Affairs is an exploration of the relationship of space to the creative process. The exhibition is part of the Toronto Design Offsite Festival and runs Saturday January 19 to Sunday January 27, 2013 at East of Keele. Curated and photographed by LeuWebb Projects, the exhibition gives visitors a peek into the creative spaces of a selected group of local artists; examining artefacts of production and documenting the workspaces that enabled their creation. Featuring the...
Two 3B chair projects will be featured at the Gladstone Hotel’s 10th Annual Come Up to My Room (CUTMR) Event: a chair for Jorge Luis Borges by Aidan Mitchelmore and Andrew Ashbury and a chair for Jiro Ono by Haley Zhou and Lauren Tom. In both cases, digital fabrication made the designs possible. The poetry and short stories of Jorge Luis Borges are often driven by complex philosophical themes such as labyrinths, dreams, recursion,...
Architectural designers often need to strike an uneasy balance between idealism and reality. Under most circumstances, architects are restricted by clients, budgets, and available technologies. However, divorced from traditional constraints, visionary concepts of new dwellings, new cities, and new “worlds” will spark greater forms of innovation and drive creativity for future generations. The exploration of new spatial boundaries and conceptual environments for design will irrevocably alter the human experience while adapting new challenging roles for...
Winter 2013 marks the continuation of the Arriscraft Lecture Series – ARCHITECTURE OUTSIDE THE LINES – investigating the edge of professional architecture, where architects, clients, planners, and other participants in the building world talk about particular aspects of their work outside of the conventional boundaries of the architectural profession. Thursday January 17th | 6:45 PM Peter Clewes architectsAlliance Toronto Intensification: Policy, Politics and Design Photo: http://www.architectsalliance.com/
