Dear Friends, We would like to invite you to the second On Empathy conversation this term. Join us on Friday, June 26th at 7 PM for a conversation on the relationship between identity, space, and making as a form of expression and research into the two. The talk will feature Waterloo Architecture alumni Haneen Dalla-Ali, Jessica Hanzelkova, and Danielle Rosen, who each tackled these questions, in their own unique ways, with their masters’ theses.…
THESIS WORK features the work emerging from the Thesis Research & Design studios and seminars. Over the course of the TRD1 & TRD2 studios, graduate students develop their individual research topics in preparation for their thesis. The intention is to establish a theoretical, historical, and intellectual framework through a diversity of representational modes such as mapping, diagramming, photo essays, writing. (more…)
THESIS WORK features the work emerging from the Thesis Research & Design studios and seminars. Over the course of the TRD1 & TRD2 studios, graduate students develop their individual research topics in preparation for their thesis. The intention is to establish a theoretical, historical, and intellectual framework through a diversity of representational modes such as mapping, diagramming, photo essays, writing. (more…)
THESIS WORK features the work emerging from the Thesis Research & Design studios and seminars. Over the course of the TRD1 & TRD2 studios, graduate students develop their individual research topics in preparation for their thesis. The intention is to establish a theoretical, historical, and intellectual framework through a diversity of representational modes such as mapping, diagramming, photo essays, writing. (more…)
PROCESS: Thesis in the Making exposes the unique process undertaken through the development of a thesis and provides insight into the Masters of Architecture program. It examines the intensive research, critical thinking and design process required to produce the final thesis document, exposing the exploration and learning which informs every thesis.
This week we share Kanika Kaushal’s ongoing thesis work entitled “Decoding Urbanity – Learning from and for Old Delhi.” Her thesis argues that the walled city of Old Delhi is a morphological output of a complex and dynamic process of urban morphogenesis that can be decoded through the lens of parametric urbanism which simulates the city’s generating principles at any given point of time.
