Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This edition of Studio Soundtrack presents a sampling of the rich musical talent among Waterloo Architecture students past and present, selected with input from recent graduate Andrea Hunniford. Hey musicians: want to be featured in an upcoming Studio Soundtrack? Have an idea for a Studio Soundtrack? We welcome submissions at bridge@waterlooarchitecture.com. Winchester – “Fade Out” Winchester is Lauren Austin and fourth-year Waterloo Architecture...
Update: John’s Street Level exhibition at the Princess Twin Cinema Odeon Gallery has been extended until June 25, so go have a look if you haven’t already! Opening of Street Level: Poetics of Urban Infrastructure. Photo by John Hofstetter. Street Level is an exhibition of work by Waterloo-based artist John Hofstetter, also known as the friendly man behind the counter at the Musagetes Architecture Library. It is currently on display at the Princess Twin Cinema...
ABSTRACT by Meredith Vaga All cities set up a condition of disjunction as they are inherently manmade ‘built’ places separate from the natural wilderness they abut. The cities that emerge over time are then places held in tension between the kinetic and static forces of civilization, nature, people, ownership and infrastructure. These conflicting pieces manifest as division within the city. The division can be physically seen in specific gaps in the physical infrastructure: urban slips...
ABSTRACT by Michael Bootsma Positioning itself as an investigation into the affective capacity of transport, this thesis argues that the potential of a city is both composed and revealed through its systems of movement, contending that the sensorial and expressive qualities of a city’s transit govern how its citizens perceive and access the scope of experiences available to them. Essays on movement and identity, the delimitation of the city, immobility, adaptation, and eccentricities, move in...
This year’s Projects Review marks the tenth annual exhibition of student work at Design at Riverside. New Realities: Recent Student Work is up now until May 18, 2014. This year’s faculty curator Andrew Levitt worked with master’s student Reuben Grin and recent graduate Melissa Ng to put together the exhibition. Come out for the opening reception tonight, April 22, at 6:30 pm or see it during extended gallery hours throughout first-year admissions interview week. Bamboo Skyscraper by Richard Mui, Alexandru Vilcu, and...
Waterloo Architecture graduate student Chanel Dehond is a winner of the American Society of Architectural Illustrators Student Award of Merit for illustrations from her project The Lost: A Design for a Day Spa. The project was completed last spring for the 4B Comprehensive Building Design Studio with Professor Andrew Levitt. The Lost: Autumn Interior by Chanel Dehond. The project takes as its parti two definitions of “lost”: 1. Unable to find one’s way; not knowing...
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...
The renowned Hylozoic Series by Waterloo Architecture Professor Philip Beesley and the Near-Living Architecture group has been selected as a Finalist for the Architizer A+ Awards in the Plus Categories | Architecture +Art category. Since the series began with Hylozoic Soil at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 2007, hundreds of Waterloo undergraduate and graduate students, as well as collaborators from Electrical and Computer Engineering and Knowledge Integration, have contributed to this ever-evolving work. The newest installation in the series, Epiphyte Chamber, was recently exhibited at the new National Museum...
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 –...
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 the three speakers of the late-afternoon OUTSIDE panel. Read about the early-afternoon [INSIDE] panel here. A follow-up post will...
