SWAG is hosting Pecha Kucha on March 27th at 6pm featuring the academic and professional work, personal interests and musings of professors from Waterloo Architecture. Join us for a series of concise and intriguing presentations. Appetizers provided, dinner and beverages available for purchase.
This past weekend, Building Waterloo Region celebrated three consecutive openings: Ex-Industria on Friday night, followed by On the Line and No Small Plans on Saturday afternoon. For those involved in the creation of No Small Plans, myself included, the days leading up to the opening were tumultuous–late nights, working until daybreak, followed by a quick nap on the couch and then right back to it. Some of us didn’t get a chance to change after the Friday night opening, manning tools and...
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...