For four months, Ella den Elzen worked as a docent in the Canadian Pavilion representing the Arctic Adaptation exhibition at the Venice Biennale and came to know the labyrinthine city. Her Co-op City Guide for Venice outlines everything from great museums to architectural highlights, short trips outside the city and ideal spots for an evening drink.
Waterloo Architecture graduate student, Chanel Dehond, has been selected to exhibit her current master’s thesis work in the Future Identities – Bodies . Places . Spaces exhibition, alongside the Biennale in Venice, Italy.
For the 14th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Lateral Office curated the Canadian pavilion, Arctic Adaptations: Nunavut at 15. It has been recognized as one of the top pavilions at the event with a Special Mention for “its in-depth study of how modernity adapts to a unique climatic condition and a local minority culture.” Toronto-based Lateral Office is led by Waterloo Architecture professors Lola Sheppard and Matthew Spremulli, along with Mason White. Embracing...
Canada’s most recent Venice Biennial submission, curated through a collaboration between University of Winnipeg’s Jae-Sung Chon + 5468796 Architecture [Migrating Landscapes Organizers], stands apart from its predecessors in one spectacular way. When it was selected by Canada Council to represent Canada, there was nothing to exhibit. Design at Riverside will tell the harrowing tale of crowd-sourcing a Biennale-level exhibition in 17 months. Expect schedules, graphics, to-do lists, sketches and mountains of snapshots. The grand opening is...