Introducing second panel for the Re:POST Symposium which includes Matthew Kennedy and Mark Erickson of Studio North in Calgary and Elizabeth Paden of KPMB Architects in Toronto. Everyone is welcome to engage in the conversation on Tuesday March 17th beginning at 1PM.
Introducing the first panel for the upcoming Re:POST Symposium, which includes Dan Adams of Landing Studio in Sommerville and Fionn Byrne of Office of Pedonic Operations in Toronto. Everyone is welcome to engage in the conversation on Tuesday, March 17th beginning at 1 pm.
The Re:POST Symposium explores the translation of thesis to practice and is scheduled for the afternoon of Tuesday, March 17, 2015 beginning at 1:00pm. The theme asks, how does architectural design and research disseminate into ongoing professional exploration?
Re:PoST is an annual event which explores opportunities for disseminating architecture design and research. The team is currently developing this year’s symposium focusing on the translation from thesis to practice and are looking from ideas and input from graduate students.
Shuyin Wu is a winner of the inaugural Moriyama RAIC student scholarship for her essay in response to the question “Why Do I Want to be an Architect?” Wu writes about her desire to transform the Chinese cave dwellings known as yaodong through movement and light. “I want to be an architect to reconceive Yaodong as a new shelter – a spiritual as well as a physical shelter.”
RePost (Regarding Exhibition Publication Opportunities) features ongoing work by Waterloo Architecture students, faculty, and alumni that has been exhibited, published, or presented in other venues. We welcome submissions at bridge@waterlooarchitecture.com. This essay is based on coursework I did at the Critical Media Lab as part of the Graduate Diploma in Cognitive Science. It was recently featured in the Technology issue of Blueprint Magazine, a student publication at Wilfrid Laurier University. Photograph by Matt Smith. Used with permission. Some time ago, I...
RePost (Regarding Exhibition Publication Opportunities) features ongoing work by Waterloo Architecture students, faculty, and alumni that has been exhibited, published, or presented in other venues. We welcome submissions at submit@waterlooarchitecture.com This article was written during some of my travels between undergrad and masters, and was published in On Site 25: Identity. Nine halmoni (the polite form of address for elderly women in Korean) sit cross-legged on the linoleum, a shallow dish of kimchi and some...
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...
RePost (Regarding Exhibition Publication Opportunities) features ongoing work by Waterloo Architecture students, faculty, and alumni that has been exhibited, published, or presented in other venues. This series starts up again with an article by former Director and current Associate Professor Rick Haldenby, as well as Lorenzo Pignatti, Associate Professor and Associate Director of the Rome Program. It originally appeared in English and Italian in the February issue of Domus. We welcome submissions at bridge@waterlooarchitecture.com. [The] University...
EXHIBITING ARCHITECTURE OPPORTUNITIES for INVENTION is a symposium discussing creative approaches to curating exhibitions and installations that will happen on Wednesday, March 12, 2014 in the Main Lecture Hall at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture from 1:30 to 8:00 pm. Two related panels, [INSIDE] OUTSIDE, will be followed by an evening keynote in the Main Lecture Hall. This post features evening keynote speaker Felicity D. Scott. Read about the early-afternoon [INSIDE] panel here and the late-afternoon OUTSIDE panel here. 6:30 –...