Presented by Waterloo Architecture Integrated Group for Visualization, Design and Manufacturing (IGVDM), F_Rmlab, BRIDGE, and Centre for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI) ALL WELCOME, FREE To confirm workshop attendance: enter your name in the following online poll and check off events that you plan to attend: http://doodle.com/xy97qvxghi4xce7g The computational design and research UK group from the leading international design practice, Aedas, will be visiting Waterloo Engineering and the School of Architecture this coming week, teaching methods...
Pamela Blais will be the last of the lecturers from the Arriscraft series for this fall term. Pamela will be giving a lecture entitled “Building On Transit” this Thursday, November 21 at 6:45pm in the Main Lecture Hall. Pamela Blais is an urban planner and Principal of Metropole Consultants Ltd. Her professional focus is in creating better cities by integrating planning, economic and environmental thinking in the analysis of urban issues and the development...
UWSA’s own Professor Donald McKay will be giving a lecture entitled FINDING WAYS I & II on his past and recent work with WayFinding this Thursday, November 7 at 6:45pm in the main lecture theatre. Team I (2010-11) Lauren Barhydt Maun Demchenko Chloe Doesburg Sarah Neault Team II (2013) James Clarke-Hicks Lindsey Nette Nicole Ratajczak David Schellingerhoudt Donald McKay is an Associate Professor in Architecture at the University of Waterloo, and...
03:00 – 04:30 Guest Lecture 1// ESRI CityEngine [Mark Ho, ESRI Technical Solution Specialist] http://www.esri.com/software/cityengine Esri® CityEngine® software is a new tool for 3D city modeling in urban planning, rchitecture, simulation, game development, and film production. CityEngine delivers a full uite of industry-leading procedural tools to aggregate geospatial data, lay out and edit street networks, generate and modify buildings, create 3D road profiles and distribute street furniture, control the shape of the skyline, and analyze...
The ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE 2013 ACADIA conference will be held in the Waterloo School of Architecture in Cambridge on October 24-26, 2013. ACADIA is an international network of digital design researchers and professionals. These updates from students are to let you know about visiting groups, speakers, events and displays. Elena Manferdini is interested in how architects can operate outside the traditional scale of design. An interest in multi-disciplinary based design has lead her firm, Atelier Manferdini, to be involved...
Paul Noskiewicz of NORR Architects and Engineers will be kicking off the 2013-2014 Arriscraft Lecture Series with a lecture entitled: “Re-Working Union Station” this Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 6:45pm in the main lecture theatre. Paul Noskiewicz, Project Director with NORR Limited Architects Engineers Planners, joined the firm in 1990 and has led numerous large scale institutional projects including: John Sopinka Courthouse – Hamilton ON Georgian College Student Centre – Barrie ON Calgary Courts Centre – Calgary...
The Arriscraft Lecture Series is back! This last year [2012-13] the Twenty-Fifth Annual Arriscraft Lecture Series – ARCHITECTURE OUTSIDE THE LINES – at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture investigated the edge of architecture, where architects, clients, planners, and other participants in the building world talked about work outside of the conventional boundaries of the architectural profession. Eight remarkable individuals engaging in new forms of architecture and new forms of architectural enterprise – all in the Greater Toronto Area – shared their experiences in the new...
Carol Moukheiber Assist. Professor UofT, Co-Director RADlab Christos Marcopoulos Assist. Prof. UofT, Investigator RADlab 10/03/2013 I Main Lecture Hall I 2:00 – 3:00 PM RAD, Responsive Architecture at Daniels is a research unit housed at the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. The research is premised on the notion that every building or landscape component can be equipped with computational power. Projects at RAD develop models for such...
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Meeting July.2013 2013.07.04 4:00PM Ward Room Meeting Minutes In Attendance – May Wu, Connor O’Grady, Mark Tam, Miriam Ho, Vikkie Chen, Caitlin Perry (skype), Boian (drop-in to report on Nostalgia Tour) 1. Pecha Kucha Progress This term’s graduate Pecha Kucha will happen in early August, the exact date will be announced within the next two weeks. We are still working on becoming an official Pecha Kucha City so before that happens this event will be...
‘Unlocking the Aerial Perspective’ – an Uncovered Lecture by David Schellingerhoudt Thursday, July 4th @ 12:30pm in the MAIN LECTURE HALL I plan to give a two part presentation about my master’s thesis project ‘hack: reclaiming the commons’, focusing on the power of aerial perspective, its historic control and the implications for its universal accessibility – made possible by inexpensive remote control devices. Then I would like to offer a show and tell, as an introduction to...
