Studio Soundtrack features songs selected by a Waterloo Architecture student. This week, Niki Farfel brings us ‘gravity.’ You know: gravity. The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass. This week is all about illusions and dreams. So put on your headphones and immerse yourself in some dreamy tracks.
The RAIC Emerging Practitioners are looking for a new logo design to showcase during their formal launch at the Festival of Architecture 2016 in Nanaimo, BC. Email entries to competitions@raicep.ca no later than 11:59pm Central Time on May 27/2016. Check out the post for more details!
The RAIC Emerging Practitioners / IRAC Relève professionelle, established this year, is a national organization founded, directed and governed by emerging practitioners in the field of architecture. The team is made up of students, intern architects and recently licensed architects from across Canada, and is looking to grow in order to strengthen the voice of and connect emerging practitioners across Canada. Their mission is to ‘serve, inspire and advocate for the continued professional growth of emerging practitioners on their path to licensure.’
In her thesis, Sonia Yuan proposes an ideal ‘post-post-Fordist’ society, a city envisioned as a dense, heterogeneous construct, whose post-post-Fordist urban intervention is presented as a bicycle factory in the city of Toronto. The proposal endeavours to lift us out of the industrial exploitation of the last century, while providing a relief from contemporary society’s over-saturation of digital technology, to return the machine to its rightful place as an intuitive extension of our bodies. Sonia will defend her thesis on Thursday May 12, 2016 at 4:30 pm in the Loft Gallery.
On June 1, the Balsillie School of International Affairs will host “Indigenous Visions of the Global Extinction Crisis”, an art exhibition and public event that grapples with indigenous and non-indigenous understandings of the global extinction crisis. They invite Indigenous artists and performers from the Waterloo region to submit their work for inclusion in this public event. They are considering all artistic formats, including (but not limited to): painting, sculpture, readings (stories, poems, etc), short films, song, dance and ceremony.
This thesis investigates ‘yao-dongs’, a vernacular architecture in northern China that is associated with poverty. The thesis posits that the contemporary crisis is related to the growing inability to ground experiences and memories. Through field research, Sophia Wu investigated yao-dongs’ geography, culture and construction to better understand what living inside a yao-dong may feel like. She concludes by suggesting a design that can provide a simple and poetic life for young peasants. Her defence will take place on Thursday April 28, 2016 at 2:00 pm in ARC 2026.
Piper Bernbaum’s thesis, The Atlas of Legal Fictions, reveals a little known reality, the Eruv, uncovering the nature of these religious boundaries and exposing the factual existence of what is considered fiction in the modern world. She will defend her thesis on Wednesday April 27th at 12.30pm in the BRIDGE Storefront.
Monday and Thursday are studio days. On these days in particular, the third floor undergraduate studio is filled with a frenetic energy of design, research, and exploration. Students can usually be found talking excitedly with design professors and classmates in a habitat saturated with trace sketches, study models, and empty coffee cups. Every week we’ll share a completed project, churned out from this energetic studio environment. Interested in having your work featured on our STUDENT WORK series?...
BRIDGE was super excited to screen 9 excellent short films in partnership with Grand River Film Festival. The films were selected by Poorna Patange, a student from Waterloo Architecture. Poorna worked with Tamara Louks from GRFF to organize today’s event, so here’s a shout out to them both!
Celebrating its tenth anniversary, the Grand River Film Festival has partnered with BRIDGE for an exhibition of film related works. Position, an exploration of what it means to be an architect through various media will combine the components of film and design. We will be screening 9 short films from around the world that have been made by an array of architects, students and film makers. The event aims to present architecture through film, attempting to find the role of the architect.
