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...
The Field Trip Project Lecture will be presented tonight by curator Daisuke Takeya and two artists whose work can be found at the Field Trip Project exhibit, including UWSA professor John McMinn. The exhibit, currently at Design at Riverside on the ground floor of Waterloo Architecture, features thirty-five artists from Japan and thirty-five from Canada. Together, they have transformed seventy backpacks donated to schools in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in North Eastern Tohuku, Japan...
MasterWorks 2013: Cambridge Galleries, Design at Riverside Exhibition: September 17 – October 6 Opening: Tuesday, September 17, 6:30pm MasterWorks 2013 is an annual juried exhibition selected from proposals for solo and/or group exhibitions by graduates of the Masters of Architecture program at the University of Waterloo, School of Architecture. Vernacular and Anonymous Architecture: Beijing Courtyards & Toronto Chinatown Vernacular architecture is a form of building fabric, indigenous to a specific place that evolves over generations...
This November the walls at the Design at Riverside gallery will be covered in cards created by Canadian artists. Put your laser cutting, photo-shopping, and hand sketching skills to good use and submit a card or two. The gallery will also be hosting a pop-up shop for the sale of cards (70% for artist/30% gallery commission). The submission deadline is September 16th. If you have any questions or if you would like a pdf copy...
For the first exhibit of the summer Design at Riverside is collaborating with the Association of Registered Graphic Designers to showcase two distinct groups of work: projects by local designers in Design at Work: The Best of Western Ontario, and winning entries of the first-ever international Social Good Design Awards (or So Good). As its name suggests, So Good aims to encourage designers to tackle the challenging prospect of designing for a cause, whether for...
A large and diverse group gathered on Tuesday for the opening reception of UWSA’s ninth annual exhibition of exemplary student work, this year renamed STUDIO to highlight the working process behind the finished projects on display. Faculty curator Andrew Levitt says the driving force behind the exhibition is not only recognizing student achievement, but also getting the creative energy of the studio “from the third floor to the ground floor.” He cites a desire to...
Join us Tuesday April 16 at 6:30pm in the Design at Riverside Gallery for the opening of STUDIO 2013, an annual exhibition of student work. This exhibition brings together exemplary graduate and undergraduate projects from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. These projects demonstrate the infectious energy, craft, commitment and creativity that are the internationally recognized hallmarks of the school. From space stations to settlements in the Middle East, from the implications of...
