Connor O’Grady will defend his thesis entitled “Liminal Matter: Diffuse, Adaptive Environments for a Future Dundas Square” on Friday January 16th, 2015 at BRIDGE Pop-Up located at 60 Main St. The design explores the capacity for an embedded, public, and adaptive architectural system to expose the liminal, “invisible” relations that affect the collective environment.
Amr El-Bahrawy will defend his thesis, “A House of No Importance: The rise and fall of Nasr City’s middle class extended family houses” on Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 11:00 am in ARC 2026. The thesis critically explores the relocation of middle-class, intergenerational households in urban apartment building typologies in the Cairene residential district of Nasr City to emerging suburban developments on Cairo’s periphery.
William Elsworthy will defend his thesis entitled Energy and Matter: The design of a nature centre, tunnel and neutrino observatory on Wednesday, January 7th at 2PM in the Architecture Loft.
Magdalena Miłosz will defend her thesis, “‘Don’t Let Fear Take Over’: The Space and Memory of Indian Residential Schools” on Wednesday, January 7, 2015 at 10 am in the Architecture Loft. The thesis explores the design politics and collective memory of the Indian Residential School system in Canada, which existed for 150 years until about 1970.
Join the graduate students on Thursday December 6th for Mx Reviews from 1-5pm and the TR+D Open Studio from 5-7pm at the BRIDGE Pop-Up to celebrated the work produced this fall through the Masters of Architecture Program.
Vikkie Chen will defend her thesis entitled Curating Architecture on Thursday December 18th at 9AM in the BRIDGE Pop-Up located at 60 Main St in Cambridge. The thesis endeavours to give a contemporary and expanded view on the theory and practice of curation and architectural research.
Zhuoyi (Joy) Zhang defended her thesis, Migrants, Urban Village and an Open Community –
A case of Yangji, Guangzhou, China on Friday December 12, 2014 10:00 AM ARC 2026
Talayeh Hamidya will be defending her thesis, MAKING THE CITY, at 82 Divadale Drive in Toronto on Friday, December 12, 2014, at 2 pm. Four projects were undertaken as experiments for examining the effectiveness, techniques and possibilities within Tactical Urbanism.
Amrit Phull will defend her thesis entitled HUNTING FOR: Lessons on Architecture in Cree Territory on Monday December 8th at 2pm in the Main Lecture Theatre. The thesis navigates tensions between North and South through narratives of Cree culture in an effort to move toward a more responsible practice of architecture in this subarctic context.
Alireza Takook will defend his thesis, the narrative of a destructive natural phenomenon depicting an architect’s evolving understanding of the natural world, on December 10 at 10 am in the Architecture Loft.