Connor O’Grady will defend his thesis entitled “Liminal Matter: Diffuse, Adaptive Environments for a Future Dundas Square” on Friday January 16th, 2015 at BRIDGE Pop-Up located at 60 Main St. The design explores the capacity for an embedded, public, and adaptive architectural system to expose the liminal, “invisible” relations that affect the collective environment.
Fernie Lai will defend her thesis entitled The Lady in Red. which explores the hutongs, a series of alleyways surrounding the Forbidden City, on Thursday December 18th at 10am in the loft gallery.
Amrit Phull will defend her thesis entitled HUNTING FOR: Lessons on Architecture in Cree Territory on Monday December 8th at 2pm in the Main Lecture Theatre. The thesis navigates tensions between North and South through narratives of Cree culture in an effort to move toward a more responsible practice of architecture in this subarctic context.
On Empathy is entering its 7th week of events! For this weeks conversation we have decided to do things a little bit differently. We are going to keep an element of surprise, but the plan is to meet in the loft at 6pm Friday, October 24. We are going to organize a series of conversations that will occur first with the whole group, before splitting off into smaller groups for a period of the...
The UWSA peer support group provides welcoming, confidential and empathetic-based peer support. We’re a bunch of architecture school veterans who totally get where you’re coming from.
This Thursday September 11th at 7pm, please join us at Monigram for the kickoff conversation of UWSA’s newest ‘think tank’ entitled On Empathy. We are a network of students and faculty interested in both sharing personal research and promoting work that inspires our practice of architecture. You can contact us at on.empathy@gmail.com Stay tuned for an announcement of our first ‘Orientation’ coming this Monday: a screened lecture and guided discussion/debate with a faculty member.
A strip of metal, bent into a loop, offering resistance only until it is soldered. In this moment of most extreme resistance, it attains its most relaxed, most natural form, and in the greatest tension, its greatest serenity. And only then. Ilse Aichinger Fabrice Le Nazet’s sculpture, entitled ‘Measure’. We the human, like the building, have rooms. We are carved by time, built brick by brick, and would be brittle, at best, without a system...
Darling, old flames die hard. Sometimes relationships implode or fall apart on their own, but other times we need to make a conscious decision. In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need it. Face it, things are stale, aged, musty and flat. It’s time to break up with your local coffee fix. Because there’s a new charmer in town who’s gonna treat...