Guan Lee is a practicing architect, lecturer, and director of Grymsdyke Farm. He will deliver a lecture titled ‘Shelf Life: Architecture of place at Grymsdyke Farm’ on Thursday March 10th at 6 p.m in the UWSA Main Lecture Hall.
Omer Arbel will lecture at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture on Thursday January 21st at 6pm as part of the Arriscraft lecture series. Omer explores the intrinsic mechanical, physical, and chemical qualities of materials as fundamental departure points for making work. His interdisciplinary practice spans multiple scales and cultural-economic contexts to include architecture, industrial design, materials research, sculpture, invention, and high craft manufacturing.
The first speaker in the winter 2016 Arriscraft lecture series will be Pat Hanson. Pat Hanson is a founding partner of gh3, a practice based on a new paradigm that explores the overlap of architecture, landscape and sustainability. Pat has directed a number of architecture, urbanism and planning projects which have involved complex programs and extensive public consultation processes, as well as the realization of competition winning designs. She has designed many institutional education projects, which bridge beyond architecture into urban design and landscape.
The Lecture Series this term includes Torben Østergaard of 3XN, Marc Fornes of theverymany and Gregg Pasquarelli of SHoP Architects.
Meejin Yoon of Howeler + Yoon / MY Studio will lecture on Thursday November 20th at 7pm in the Main Lecture Hall. Her professional practice and academic explorations operate in the space between architecture, art, and landscape at the intersection of the conceptual and the corporeal.
Sean Lally will present a lecture about the work of his Chicago based office,WEATHERS on Thursday November 13th at 7pm in the Main Lecture Hall. The practice explores new opportunities to design and build the environments we live in through the harnessing on energy.
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.
On Empathy is entering its 7th week of events! For this weeks conversation we have decided to do things a little bit differently. We are going to keep an element of surprise, but the plan is to meet in the loft at 6pm Friday, October 24. We are going to organize a series of conversations that will occur first with the whole group, before splitting off into smaller groups for a period of the...
Jenny Sabin visited Waterloo Architecture last week to lead a workshop entitled Matrix Architecture: Modeling Biological Reciprocity – A Landscape Takes Shape. The workshop was conducted as a two-day seminar and hands-on lab which explored the potentials of integrating biological phenomena into architecture and design practices.
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.