Jesse Reiser | Arriscraft Lecture
Jesse Reiser, Principal of Reiser + Umemoto, RUR Architecture PC, will be presenting in the Main Lecture hall at Waterloo Architecture on Thursday October 16th, at 7pm. The event is free and open to the public.
Nader Tehrani | Pedagogical Constructs
Nader Tehrani presents his lecture, “Pedagogical Constructs,” on October 9th at 7pm in the Main Lecture Hall at Waterloo Architecture. Through the the re-thinking of academic institutions, Tehrani challenges contemporary modes of learning and sharing information through the advancement of technologies and organizations to define a new Space of Learning as a didactic instrument, a form of built pedagogy.
Jenny Sabin | Elasticity and Networks: Computing BioMatters
Tonight, October 2nd at 7pm in the Main Lecture Hall, we will have the third lecture in this fall’s Arriscraft Series and features the experimental work of Jenny Sabin who operates an experimental architecture, design and art studio in Philadelphia. Can buildings behave more like organisms in their built environments?
LECTURE: David Gerofsky with Jon van Nostrand and Leslie Woo
David Gerofsky of Great Gulf Group will be giving the last lecture of the season with Jon van Nostrand and Leslie Woo. The lecture is entitled “The Chicken and Egg Dilemma: Infrastructure or Development?” and will be given on Thursday, February 13 at 6:45pm in the main lecture theatre. Current: Great Gulf Group of Companies, President and Chief Operating Officer Experience: Lawyer; Senior Vice President, TD Investment Real Estate. David Gerofsky began his career...
LECTURE: Susan Zielinski
Listen up UWSA! As part of the Arriscraft Lecture Series, Susan Zielinski will be giving a lecture tomorrow, Thursday February 6th at 6:45pm, in the main lecture theatre. The lecture is titled “The Whole Enchilada: A Systems Approach to Transforming Transportation.” Susan Zielinski Managing Director, SMART, Michigan Transportation Research Institute: http://www.umsmart.org/ Susan Zielinski is Managing Director of SMART, which moved its administrative operations to UMTRI in July 2009. Just before joining SMART/CARSS, Zielinski spent a year...
LECTURE: Jane Farrow; Paul Hess
Come down to the main lecture hall TODAY, Thursday January 30, at 6:45 pm, where writer Jane Farrow and Professor Paul Hess will be giving a lecture entitled “It’s Not All Café Latté: Walking Toronto’s Inner Suburbs”. Jane Farrow Journalist; Founding Director of Jane’s Walk, an NGO based in Toronto engaged in walkability initiatives that celebrate the ideas of urbanist Jane Jacobs. Experience: CBC Radio One host and producer of programs including Workology, Home,...
LECTURE: Leslie Woo
As a part of the Arriscraft Lecture series, Leslie Woo of Metrolinx will be giving a lecture entitled “Mobility Choice: Who Will Save Us From Ourselves?” this Thursday, January 23 at 6:45pm in the main lecture theatre. Leslie Woo leads innovative and award-winning urban planning initiatives transforming urban development in one of the world’s most liveable city regions, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Canada. As Metrolinx’s Vice President of Policy, Planning and Innovation, Leslie...
LECTURE: Kelly Shannon
Kelly Shannon of the Oslo School of Architecture will be kicking off the winter term of the 2013-2014 Arriscraft Lecture Series with a lecture entitled: “Interplays: Policy, Politics, and Design” this Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 6:45pm in the main lecture theatre. Current: Professor of Landscape Architecture at Oslo School of Architecture & Design, Institute of Urbanism and Landscape; Associate Professor of urbanism at the University of Leuven; Co-Author of the book The Landscape...
Arriscraft Lecture Series 2013-2014 Winter Schedule
The Arriscraft lecture series is back for the winter term with new and exciting lecturers who, by complete coincidence, have incorporated some form of food into the title of their lecture. Either they happened to be hungry while writing it, or food and architecture will always go hand in hand. Maybe they are trying to hint at some obscure spatial metaphor… Architecture is food? Food is architecture? #ThoughtsThatKeepMeUpAtNight This last year [2012-13] the Twenty-Fifth...
LECTURE: Pamela Blais
Pamela Blais will be the last of the lecturers from the Arriscraft series for this fall term. Pamela will be giving a lecture entitled “Building On Transit” this Thursday, November 21 at 6:45pm in the Main Lecture Hall. Pamela Blais is an urban planner and Principal of Metropole Consultants Ltd. Her professional focus is in creating better cities by integrating planning, economic and environmental thinking in the analysis of urban issues and the development...