Living Architecture Systems Group will be presenting a Symposium at BRIDGE on Friday, November 4, 2016 which will be accompanied by an exhibition of Student Work. If you have any work that operates within realm of responsive architecture, explorations of digital processes, or multi-disciplinary interactions, please submit them to submit@waterlooarchitecture.com
Through his thesis “Sentient Matter,” Mark Wang developed a prototype that translates human movements that are expressive of emotion into continuous surface transformations, translating emotive states into architectural form. Find out more at his thesis defence on Thursday September 17, 2015 at 7:30 pm in ARC 3003.
The current 3A Design Studio course ARCH 392: Large Urban Building is hosting the Creative City Toronto: A Symposium Exploring Next-Generation City Making on Monday March 2nd at 10:00am. The event is open to to all students, faculty and the general public, free of charge.
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...
The renowned Hylozoic Series by Waterloo Architecture Professor Philip Beesley and the Near-Living Architecture group has been selected as a Finalist for the Architizer A+ Awards in the Plus Categories | Architecture +Art category. Since the series began with Hylozoic Soil at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2007, hundreds of Waterloo undergraduate and graduate students, as well as collaborators from Electrical and Computer Engineering and Knowledge Integration, have contributed to this ever-evolving work. The newest installation in the series, Epiphyte Chamber, was recently exhibited at the new National Museum...
Epiphyte Chamber is the newest installation by UWSA professor Philip Beesley, installed at the new National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) branch in Seoul, Korea with the help of a team of UW graduates and students affiliated with F_RMlab. The installation was recently featured in a Vogue Korea shoot that showcased the spaces and artwork of the new museum (as well as a flowing Gucci gold wrap dress and other ensembles). The interactive work “is envisioned...
Thursday March 7th 11:00am to 5:00pm
Our own Philip Beesley has just completed another collaboration with the incredible fashion designer Iris van Herpen. Iris uses various fabrication methods to develop materials and textures unique even for haute couture. Current students Adam Schwartzentruber and Anne Sewell drew key details, led by Waterloo Architecture grads Andrea Ling, Eric Bury, and Jonathan Tyrrell. A great video profile of Iris and footage of the show are below. (more…)