EXHIBITING ARCHITECTURE OPPORTUNITIES for INVENTION is a symposium discussing creative approaches to curating exhibitions and installations. Two related panels, [INSIDE] OUTSIDE, will be followed by an evening keynote in the Main Lecture Hall at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. 1:30 – 3:30 pm [INSIDE] examines the disciplinary issues of designing exhibitions and generating vibrant discourse on current issues. How do we instigate critical conversations among different disciplines? Speakers: Ila Berman, Director, Waterloo Architecture...
The FUTURE CITY TORONTO: Next-Generation Urban Environments symposium will be held on Thursday, March 6, 2014 in the Main Lecture Theatre from 10 am to 5:30 pm. The symposium is presented by Professor Philip Beesley’s ARCH 392 third-year design studio and the Near-Living Architecture Research Cluster. Speakers will include Michael Leckman of Diamond Schmitt Architects, Kim Storey of Brown + Storey Architects Inc., Thomas Pucher of Atelier Thomas Pucher, Kevin Stelzer of B+H Architects, Stephen...
The Field Trip Project Lecture will be presented tonight by curator Daisuke Takeya and two artists whose work can be found at the Field Trip Project exhibit, including UWSA professor John McMinn. The exhibit, currently at Design at Riverside on the ground floor of Waterloo Architecture, features thirty-five artists from Japan and thirty-five from Canada. Together, they have transformed seventy backpacks donated to schools in the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in North Eastern Tohuku, Japan...
GUEST LECTURE 02/26/2014 / Room 2026 / 01:00 – 4:00 PM PERVERSE CITIES / Pamela Blais / Lecture and Discussion Urban planning as stated by Pamela Blais has focused on curbing sprawl by treating its symptoms — aiming to regulate more compact, livable urban forms into being. While most urbanists view sprawl as an expensive and unsustainable pattern of development causing land consumption and costs for infrastructure only a few defend it as the natural expression of...
David Gerofsky of Great Gulf Group will be giving the last lecture of the season with Jon van Nostrand and Leslie Woo. The lecture is entitled “The Chicken and Egg Dilemma: Infrastructure or Development?” and will be given on Thursday, February 13 at 6:45pm in the main lecture theatre. Current: Great Gulf Group of Companies, President and Chief Operating Officer Experience: Lawyer; Senior Vice President, TD Investment Real Estate. David Gerofsky began his career...
Listen up UWSA! As part of the Arriscraft Lecture Series, Susan Zielinski will be giving a lecture tomorrow, Thursday February 6th at 6:45pm, in the main lecture theatre. The lecture is titled “The Whole Enchilada: A Systems Approach to Transforming Transportation.” Susan Zielinski Managing Director, SMART, Michigan Transportation Research Institute: http://www.umsmart.org/ Susan Zielinski is Managing Director of SMART, which moved its administrative operations to UMTRI in July 2009. Just before joining SMART/CARSS, Zielinski spent a year...
Come down to the main lecture hall TODAY, Thursday January 30, at 6:45 pm, where writer Jane Farrow and Professor Paul Hess will be giving a lecture entitled “It’s Not All Café Latté: Walking Toronto’s Inner Suburbs”. Jane Farrow Journalist; Founding Director of Jane’s Walk, an NGO based in Toronto engaged in walkability initiatives that celebrate the ideas of urbanist Jane Jacobs. Experience: CBC Radio One host and producer of programs including Workology, Home,...
As a part of the Arriscraft Lecture series, Leslie Woo of Metrolinx will be giving a lecture entitled “Mobility Choice: Who Will Save Us From Ourselves?” this Thursday, January 23 at 6:45pm in the main lecture theatre. Leslie Woo leads innovative and award-winning urban planning initiatives transforming urban development in one of the world’s most liveable city regions, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, Canada. As Metrolinx’s Vice President of Policy, Planning and Innovation, Leslie...
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...