Jaliya’s thesis explores the meaning of home, and the role it plays in his relationship to architecture. It rests in the transitional space between Canada and his native Sri Lanka, where he spent three months rediscovering his connection to his birthplace. His thesis is entitled Monsoon Notebook, and it records, presents and re-presents his travels as a means of architectural grounding and self-discovery.
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?...
Teaching Architecture is a series of interviews with faculty at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. Graduate student Sneha Sumanth asks professors why they teach, what drives them, what brought them here, and their opinions on academia in architecture today. The conversations are motivating, inspirational, and reveal great stories about people who shape the way we learn today. This article is a conversation with Mona El Khafif, an Associate Professor at UWSA.
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?...
Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This week, Caelin Schneider takes us west to Seattle. Things may have settled down after the heyday of the 90’s, but the Seattle sound is as alive and well as ever. When it is overcast 200 days a year, you spend a lot of time sitting inside making music.
Representing Ambience Today is the first iteration of Translations, an annual symposium that explores opportunities to translate academic research in to practice. The symposium will take place on April 2nd 2016 from 9:30am-7:30pm in the Waterloo Architecture’s Main Lecture Hall. In conjunction with the symposium, a student-organized exhibition, Representing Ambience Tomorrow: Speculations of Virtual Objects, responds to the thematic issues of the symposium. All events are free and open to the public.
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?...
The talented Bluegrass band Switchback Road will be filling our ears with their beautiful music on Wednesday March 23rd, 8pm at the BRIDGE Storefront. The event is free admission and donations are encouraged!
Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This week, Dave Holborn brings you some music from Canada’s East Coast. From greasy dive bars and house parties to independent music festivals, the east coast boasts a vast selection of relatively unknown artists who play punk, indy, electronic, and everything in between.
Guan Lee is a practicing architect, lecturer, and director of Grymsdyke Farm. He will deliver a lecture titled ‘Shelf Life: Architecture of place at Grymsdyke Farm’ on Thursday March 10th at 6 p.m in the UWSA Main Lecture Hall.
