Where are you from?
Poorna Patange shares experiences she and others have had as Canadians working in Europe. (more…)
HUMANS OF WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE 11-30-2016
“I’d always painted before school, and for my interview to get into Waterloo actually, I brought in some of my paintings. There’s something very cool about doing something with your hands, there’s a freedom that I feel gets lost a lot from projects that we do at school sometimes. The focus is on the technology — sometimes you might find that when you’re designing something in your head, you’re limiting yourself to what Rhino can do,...
HUMANS OF WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE 11-16-2016
What’s something that’s been inspiring you recently? “One thing that I’ve noticed inspires me most is watching people make things without knowing what they’re doing. Basically, taking on a project having no idea what the outcome is going to be, and it turns out to be something extraordinary. It doesn’t necessarily have to be beautiful, but the experience of taking something on like that for the first time is, I find, very inspiring. When I do...
HUMANS OF WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE 10-31-2016
What are some things you’ve noticed while you’ve been here for thirteen years, anything you find stays the same or something that’s changed? “Well, mainly that there are a lot more students now then there were in the beginning. But it’s always been a smaller community, different from main campus. And every term we notice that there are new kinds of projects, new kinds of things we see hung up.” Is there anything in particular that you love...
HUMANS OF WATERLOO ARCHITECTURE 10-24-2016
A documentation series of the unique University of Waterloo School of Architecture community in Cambridge, ON.
RAIC Emerging Practitioners Group: Resources for Students & Interns
The RAIC Emerging Practitioners / IRAC Relève professionelle, established this year, is a national organization founded, directed and governed by emerging practitioners in the field of architecture. The team is made up of students, intern architects and recently licensed architects from across Canada, and is looking to grow in order to strengthen the voice of and connect emerging practitioners across Canada. Their mission is to ‘serve, inspire and advocate for the continued professional growth of emerging practitioners on their path to licensure.’
Studio Soundtrack 020: Canada’s East Coast
Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This week, Dave Holborn brings you some music from Canada’s East Coast. From greasy dive bars and house parties to independent music festivals, the east coast boasts a vast selection of relatively unknown artists who play punk, indy, electronic, and everything in between.
Bright Whispers: Tales of Homecoming
This fall, Paniz Moayeri and Haneen Dalla-Ali created an installation to shed light on the experiences of newcomers to Canada. Bright Whispers is a forest of lanterns, each inscribed with a different story of immigration, written in the native language of the story teller. Samuel Ganton invites us to take a closer look at the installation, and reflects on the significance of these stories for Canada and for this moment in history.
Get ready to VOTE!
BRIDGE gives you all the information you need to register and vote in the 2015 Canadian Federal Elections. Make sure your voice is heard!