Design at Riverside: Carrot City Canada
Alexandra Hucik profiles the new exhibition in Design at Riverside, Carrot City. (more…)
A Weekend On The French River
This month, the 2B class was taken out into Northern Ontario for a field trip supporting their studio’s current focus on interfaces between landscape and architecture, particularly those on the Canadian Shield. Students were sorted into three distinct cottages along the French River and left to fend for themselves in the great Canadian wilderness (sort of). There was a great deal of canoeing, hiking, and exchanges of interesting campfire stories late at night. The following...
THESIS: Hybrid Thresholds
Saba Amini will defend here thesis entitled “Hybrid Thresholds” on September 16 at 10:00 AM in the Photo Studio Room 2003. Her thesis weaves infrastructure and public space into a threshold which filters water at the edge of the Don Valley in Toronto.
ARRISCRAFT LECTURE | Joel Sanders
Joel Sanders presents his lecture, “Immersive Environments: Media, Architecture and Landscape,” on October 30 at 7pm in the Main Lecture Theatre at Waterloo Architecture. Through a cross-disciplinary approach to environments, Sanders combines architecture, landscape, and new media to instigate meaningful human interactions in actual and virtual space.
Another Visit to the Landscape Installations
A few weeks ago now, the sun beat down, the humidex was beyond bearable, yet the fourth year class persevered through conceiving, mounting and exploring twelve landscape installations throughout downtown Galt. The study of Contemporary Landscape, led by Elise Shelley, first tasked groups to investigate the pedagogy of a specific landscape architect who has been influential in the development of the profession. Through this understanding of an approach to landscape design, students were then challenged...
A Tour of Landscape Installations
Last week the sun beat down, the humidex was beyond bearable, yet the fourth year class persevered through conceiving, mounting and exploring twelve landscape installations throughout downtown Galt. The study of Contemporary Landscape, led by Elise Shelley, first tasked groups to investigate the pedagogy of a specific landscape architect who has been influential in the development of the profession. Through this understanding of an approach to landscape design, students were then challenged to test their...
UNCOVERED: Full Circle by John Hofstetter – Thursday, May 23rd @ 12:30pm in the WARD ROOM
FULL CIRCLE – an Uncovered Lecture by John Hofstetter Thursday, May 23rd @ 12:30pm in the WARD ROOM* John Hofstetter has a long-standing career in the visual arts. A graduate of the Fine Arts programme at the University of Waterloo, John’s experience includes printmaking, ceramics, sculpture, art education and graphic design. His work explores the association between the manufactured and natural environment and the affinity artefacts of human activity develop for their surroundings over time....
The Green Line Ideas Competition: BBQ May 4th
This past winter, an international ideas competition was launched to develop creative ways of reimagining the 5km-long hydro corridor that cuts across Toronto from Davenport Village to the Annex. Called The Green Line, the focus of the competition is to find a unified vision for further development of the site and to create a dialogue about the potential of hydro corridors in urban situations universally. Of the 77 entries in this open call, two teams...