Kelly Shannon of the Oslo School of Architecture will be kicking off the winter term of the 2013-2014 Arriscraft Lecture Series with a lecture entitled: “Interplays: Policy, Politics, and Design” this Thursday, January 16, 2014 at 6:45pm in the main lecture theatre. Current: Professor of Landscape Architecture at Oslo School of Architecture & Design, Institute of Urbanism and Landscape; Associate Professor of urbanism at the University of Leuven; Co-Author of the book The Landscape...
The Arriscraft lecture series is back for the winter term with new and exciting lecturers who, by complete coincidence, have incorporated some form of food into the title of their lecture. Either they happened to be hungry while writing it, or food and architecture will always go hand in hand. Maybe they are trying to hint at some obscure spatial metaphor… Architecture is food? Food is architecture? #ThoughtsThatKeepMeUpAtNight This last year [2012-13] the Twenty-Fifth...
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* December.2013 Meeting Minutes 2013.12.09.17:30-19:00.Ward Room In Attendance: Mark T., Connor O., Zak F., Vikkie C., Caitlin P., Stephen W., Kim A., Miriam H,. NEWS 1 Student Initiatives Fee Implementation Timeline MT 2 Student Societies Updates: BRIDGE, F_RMlab, WA Film Club, Garden Club, Photo Club BRIDGE- preparation for unsilent night installation working on a business plan, get rendering for unsilent night for David, funding for event Film club will play a christmas film at...
The All School Meeting, for the first time at UWSA was given by new director Dr. Ila Berman proposing goals for the future of the school and its current state of affairs. With her degree from Carleton and a masters/doctorate from Harvard University, Ila joins us from the California College of the Arts. One of Ila’s hopes is for the school to become a hub for global networking as well as further integrating technology into the education...
I recently had the opportunity to share a few questions with Dr. Rachel Armstrong, specialist on living architecture and protocell technology, Senior TED Fellow and Co-Director of AVATAR (Advance Virtual and Technological Architectural Research) in Architecture & Synthetic Biology at The School of Architecture & Construction, University of Greenwich, London. Here, I ask Rachel about her design philosophy involving protocells, sharing what its future place might be in the architectural profession. Read the full interview...
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ABSTRACT by Sonja Storey-Fleming This thesis is concerned with the moments, places and circumstances in which the great magnitude of the world is felt. I live within the vast space of the spherical earth and the infinite space of the universe, however, it is rare that I consider the immensity of the space in which I live and endeavor to build. This thesis is an examination of the ability of both architecture and landscape to frame immense space and phenomena of the earth,...
During the last day of ACADIA, an informal workshop using basic chemistries was held in F_RMlab with Rachel Armstrong. The workshop gives a broad look into the ideas behind protocell technology and self-assembling chemistries, helping to introduce an understanding of future methods for creating intelligent material from the bottom up. In this workshop, Rachel shows us how to take the notion of the collective protocell and turn it into a material using common bubble wrap as...
Would you like to see your studio project published on the BRIDGE website and exhibited in Monigram? The BRIDGE team is inviting you to submit your most recent studio project to the Fall 2013 Call for Submissions. Submission Requirements: project description project title manifesto, 200-300 words 3 jpeg images, 900px wide Send all submissions to: bridge@waterlooarchitecture.com By no later than: January 15, 2014 The number of projects selected will be based on the...
ABSTRACT by Justin Breg Time and structure; expectation and construction; landscape and architecture; history and myth. The foundation is a joint which carries extraordinary potential to speak of the cultures that built it. This text tells stories about three cultures whose identities are interwoven with their foundation-building. Tracing a path among the distinct ways in which they found, it values the foundation as a marker between anticipating and making in the architectural process; an ambiguous joint between land and building; an invisible structure of the surfaces...
