Teaching Architecture is a series of interviews with faculty at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Graduate student Sneha Sumanth asks professors why they teach, what drives them, what brought them here, and their opinions on academia in architecture today. The conversations are motivating, inspirational, and reveal great stories about people who shape the way we learn today. This article is a conversation with Mona El Khafif, an Associate Professor at UWSA.
Students Tin Huang, Chris Hardy and Sneha Sumanth interview Dr. Ila Berman about ‘Material Matters’, an exhibition that took place in Design at Riverside in the fall of 2015, and showcased five design firms that innovate in the combination of material experimentation and digital fabrication.
Stela Popovic’s thesis work “Beyond Genius Loci” unpacks the spatial and social conditions of place in order to question the agency of architecture in making meaningful places. It argues that within every act of architecture, an understanding and response to the genius loci is vital to ensure a relevant thoughtfulness is present in its design.
Natalie Hui’s ongoing thesis work entitled Signage as Commonplace dissects urban clutter to identify specific artifacts of the city that bring a certain vibrancy and sense of place to the urban fabric. She specifically analyzes high density signage as the physical manifestation of consumerism in the everyday urban fabric.
Join the graduate students on Thursday December 6th for Mx Reviews from 1-5pm and the TR+D Open Studio from 5-7pm at the BRIDGE Pop-Up to celebrated the work produced this fall through the Masters of Architecture Program.
Last week’s Powered by PechaKucha Event, Reveal: The Work Behind Our Professors, uncovered the oeuvre of Waterloo Architecture professors in bite-sized presentations of “20 images x 20 seconds.” Professors presented recent, current, and upcoming work that ranged from urbanism to structures to exhibitions and beyond (think fiction, building science, art, and military huts). Below, in the spirit of conciseness embodied in the PechaKucha, you will find a one-sentence summary, along with one image, of each...
For nearly thirty incoming graduate students, the fall term meant the beginning of their masters degree, when they initiated their pursuit of an independent architectural thesis. The Waterloo Architecture graduate program is increasingly drawing students from across the country, with applicants from Dalhousie, Ryerson, and Carleton Universities, as well as internationally, from Asia and the Middle East, to pursue academic research and design here in Cambridge. This past term, Associate Professor Val Rynnimeri and new Associate...
