Call for Submission: We are looking for inspired photographers interested in the potential of experimental photography. Our theme is analogue; a play of developing, experimenting and progressing. Join the LOMO 10×10 exhibition and share the beauty of creative mistakes. To participate in the event please contact us at uwsa.lomo10x10@gmail.com.
Would you like to see your work exhibited on the BRIDGE website? Studio Mondays are back for the Winter 2016 term! The BRIDGE team is inviting you to submit your past or ongoing studio and projects to be included in a weekly series featuring student work. Graduate students are encouraged to submit segments of their thesis or elective work as well. Submission Requirements: In a text editable format, please include the project description, project title, studio description and...
Daniel D’Oca is an Urban Planner, Principal and Co-founder of the New York City-based architecture, planning, and research firm Interboro Partners, and Design Critic in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He will deliver a lecture ‘Guilt by Appropriation’ as part of the Arriscraft Lecture Series on February 25th at 6 p.m in the UWSA Main Lecture Hall.
BRIDGE is pleased to bring back our Art Battle and Art Exhibit! The extended deadline to submit/enter is noon on February 23rd! Email uwsa.artbattle@gmail.com with an image of your art piece. If you are interested in participating in a live battle make your subject line ‘Art Battle’, and if you would like to just exhibit a piece make it ‘Art Exhibit’. We can’t wait to battle!
Studio Soundtrack features five songs selected by a student at Waterloo Architecture. This week, Samuel Ganton takes us deep into the strange world of Scandinavian traditional folk music, serving up a smorgasbord ranging from electronic to orchestral.
The Stop’s Night Market are once again looking for designers to create unique food carts for the fifth annual night market being held this June in Toronto. The selected carts will be used as vending stations for some of the city’s best restaurants and local wineries. This popular event brings together creatives from Toronto’s culinary, design, performance, and graphic arts sectors, celebrating diversity, community, and the power of food.
Stela’s thesis explores the contributive role of the genius locus, or “spirit of place”, in the identity of cities and the production of meaningful places. The research addresses the analysis of genius loci as historical phenomena as well as their modern role within suburban landscapes. Focusing on the suburban city of Mississauga, urban and architectural failures bring the agency of architecture into question in order to contest architecturally indifferent development. The design intervention embodies Mississauga’s genius locus – an urban simulacrum born from commerce, speculation, and the resistant debris of city growth – into a matrix of architectural and landscape inserts. Stela’s defence will take place on Monday February 8, 2016 at 12:00 pm in the Loft.
Martin Bressani, Professor and Director of McGill University’s School of Architecture, will be lecturing as part of the Winter Arriscraft lecture series. His talk is called ‘Prosthetic Fantasies in the First Machine Age’, and will be on Thursday, February 4th at 6 p.m. in the main lecture hall (MLH) in UWSA.
UWSA Faculty Shortlists is an online platform for sharing influential readings related to art, architecture, design, and the cultural realm. The outline is simple: 5 books from each faculty member based on a theme of their personal interest, current research, or books they feel are of high importance to an architectural education. This shortlist is courtesy of Anne Bordeleau.
UWSA alumnus Miles Gertler’s upcoming show titled “Superlith” will be opening January 28th 2015 at the Corkin Gallery in Toronto. Through a set of architectural studies in typology and program, Gertler articulates a spatially and temporally indeterminate revisionist history. Combining five related series of works into this exhibition, these images form a fragmentary archive that approximates the subject territory’s political context, customs, and crises. The total work is speculative fiction.
