Holland Young’s thesis entitled “Building Fiction: The Architecture of Narrative in Harry Potter” explores how storytellers use overlapping real and fictional architectural environments in order to propel narrative and precipitate an immersive experience for an audience. Her defence will take place on Friday March 27, 2015 10:00 AM in the Main Lecture Theatre.
Paula Lee defends her thesis entitled Living beyond Subsistence on Tuesday, March 24th at 5PM in the ARC Loft. Her work re-imagines the singular idea of home as functional space in the low-income tower context of 200 Wellesley Street East, Toronto through the design of a mediating social space.
“We fold memories of the dead into the space of the living. We embrace death, even while we turn away from it.” Deborah Wang’s thesis entitled Phantom Limb presents a series of encounters with death, and a reflection on loss, in photographs and sculptures. Her defence is on Monday March 23, 2015 at 3:00PM in room ARC 110.
Introducing the third panel for the Re:POST Symposium, which includes Jonathan Enns of SolidOperations, Alexander Josephson of PARTISANS and Andrea Ling of GUILD. Everyone is welcome to engage in the conversation on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015, beginning at 1 pm.
Introducing second panel for the Re:POST Symposium which includes Matthew Kennedy and Mark Erickson of Studio North in Calgary and Elizabeth Paden of KPMB Architects in Toronto. Everyone is welcome to engage in the conversation on Tuesday March 17th beginning at 1PM.
Kurt Kraler’s thesis entitled “The Generic Spectacle” explores the phenomena of the generic spectacle in relationship to the Las Vegas Strip and the resulting architectural and social implications of an increasingly hybridized urban form founded on the basis of an exploitive service economy in order to maintain the illusion of leisure.
Introducing the first panel for the upcoming Re:POST Symposium, which includes Dan Adams of Landing Studio in Sommerville and Fionn Byrne of Office of Pedonic Operations in Toronto. Everyone is welcome to engage in the conversation on Tuesday, March 17th beginning at 1 pm.
Stela Popovic’s thesis work “Beyond Genius Loci” unpacks the spatial and social conditions of place in order to question the agency of architecture in making meaningful places. It argues that within every act of architecture, an understanding and response to the genius loci is vital to ensure a relevant thoughtfulness is present in its design.
Nashin Mahtani’s ongoing thesis work challenges the current method of tourism development in Bali, Indonesia and proposes an alternate model that pulses rather than sprawls. Her design strategy enables the development of new frontiers, followed by periods of dormancy and finally, periods of regeneration.
Natalie Hui’s ongoing thesis work entitled Signage as Commonplace dissects urban clutter to identify specific artifacts of the city that bring a certain vibrancy and sense of place to the urban fabric. She specifically analyzes high density signage as the physical manifestation of consumerism in the everyday urban fabric.