MENDING THE PERIPHERY: 2017 University of Waterloo Rome Show
Join this year’s 4B class as they present a retrospective of their term in Rome. WHERE: BRIDGE Center for Architecture + Design WHEN: Wednesday August 2, 2017, 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm.
History Here is The Story of Somewhere Else
North America has a Substituted History: we live on a continent where one set of histories and heritage was forcibly substituted for another. The main narrative that drives our culture-making is an import from somewhere else.
Lessons of Rome
“What is the lesson of Rome?” Lorenzo Pignatti asked the Class of 2015. Danielle Rosen begins to unpack the Rome Term by capturing on film and curating her experiences in The Eternal City.
STUDENT WORK / Museum of the City / 4A Rome Studio
Student Work features The Museum of the City by Sheelah Tolton and Monica Lalas which creates a relationship with the Tiber River and reintroduces the wall as a datum for connecting public spaces.
Co-op City Guide: Rome
Marisa Musing talks about her time at Scape, a small-scale office with a young group of architects and engineers and shares a few of the innumerable places to see and things to eat in the ancient, yet vibrant city of Rome.
STUDENT WORK / Nexus Museum / Rome Studio
STUDENT WORK features the final Rome Studio project by Montgomery Moon and James Cameron Parkin entitled Nexus Museum, a place of convergence of transportation and public space, overlaid by exhibition programming which juxtaposes conditions of ideal solidity and contemporary temporality.
STUDENT WORK – ROME / Grafting / 4A Studio
The Rome Program is fundamental to the education of students at Waterloo Architecture. Often, however, work that is produced by the students in Rome is unable to be seen by the rest of the UWSA community until the final Rome Show. We want to showcase the interesting projects of the current Rome Studio class.
STUDENT WORK / Beyond the Campo Marzio
Monday and Thursday are studio days, even in Rome. Overlooking the vibrant Piazza Santa Maria in Trastevere is the fourth year studio, a chaotic but cozy space immersed in the frenzy of the ancient city. Trips to Melville are replaced by frequent trips to Cafe San Calisto and empty wine bottles litter the studio. When the class isn’t off sketching their way through the north and south of Italy, they can occasionally be found hunched...
ROMA: Waterloo Architecture Rome Show 2013
For one night the Grand House was revived, once again filled with raucous architecture students as we revisited a remarkable four months spent in Rome. All the furniture was pushed aside to to make room for the work of the graduating class of 2013. The walls of the living room were covered in a diverse range of projects focusing on the developing post-industrial neighbourhood of Ostiense in Rome. Studio desk lamps illuminated the suspended proposals...
ALL SCHOOL MEETING
The All School Meeting, a “State of the Union” address given by director Rick Haldenby at the beginning of each term, is a chance to get caught up on what has been happening lately at Waterloo Architecture. Below is a summary of the announcements and issues raised at this term’s meeting, which took place on Thursday May 8th at 12:30. FACULTY: Undergraduate Officer _ Anne Bordeleau Graduate Officers _ John McMinn, Robert Jan van...