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_CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS_ BRIDGE x Inktober: It’s Not Over Yet . To wrap up Inktober, BRIDGE is hosting one FINAL drawing challenge to give participants one more chance to share their work and spread their message. We’re asking ANYONE to submit one (1) ink drawing by November 7th at 11:59 pm of ANY of the 31 BRIDGE x Inktober prompts for a chance to win a prize from our local Phidon pen store! .... Voting will occur on our Instagram Sunday, November 8th, so be sure to cast your vote for your favourite drawing! . Resubmissions are welcomed! . Submit your drawings here: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform See more

_Inktober_ DAY 31/ Crawl x Gravity . Here are the submissions from the final Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Logan Carragher and Dani Grabke. .... Thank you to everyone who participated in our month-long event! We collected over 100 drawings submissions!! Hope everyone enjoyed the daily posts and seeing some great art. Thank you to all the participating artists. Couldn't have done it without you! . Special shout-out to Dani for submitting all 31 drawings!!! . Until next year! See more

_Inktober_ DAY 30/ Ominous x Drive-In . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Dani Grabke and Logan Carragher. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 12/ Slippery x Trees . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Logan Carragher, Wendy Yuan, and Dani Grabke. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 29/ Shoe x Property . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Dani Grabke and Logan Carragher. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 11/ Disgusting x Zoom . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Logan Carragher, Michael Salib, and Dani Grabke. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

Inktober DAY 28/ Float x Spiritual . Here are the submissions for the Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Dani Grabke and Logan Carragher. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 10/ Hope x Mask . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Logan Carragher, Bill CM Tang, Dani Grabke, and Kailing Mai. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 9/ Throw x Fire . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Bill CM Tang, Dean Nguyen, Logan Carragher, Lydia Xia and Dani Grabke. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 8/ Teeth x Settlements . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Logan Carragher and Dani Grabke. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Article Up_ COMPETITION/ Village Coffee . Viennese coffee houses symbolized the citys public living room, acting as an informal gathering space for conversation and contemplation. This proposal for The Brewed, designed by 3B students Dani Grabke and Chris Qiu, modernizes the coffee house by retaining its role as a gathering space while nesting programs that promote local innovation. .... Village Coffee splits the typical caf into six different houses. Each offers various programmatic uses and creates the condition for different interactions, giving the user a sense of agency in their environment. Visitors enter the space through glass canopies that flank the edges of each house. A continuous skylight connects the human to nature while providing shelter from the elements. This organization of spaces ensures there is a place of comfort and familiarity for people of all walks of life. Thus, the houses become an extension of home, and customers can enjoy a cup of coffee in complete comfort. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//competition-village-coff/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 7/ Fancy x Culture . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Dani Grabke, Gwen Del Rosario, and Logan Carragher .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 6/ Rodent x Treaty . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Leanne Li, Wendy Yuan, and Dani Grabke .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Article Up_ COMPETITION/ RE: Forest 2020 . This proposal for EVOLOs 2020 skyscraper competition was designed by 3A students Chi Un Lee and Annie Wang. As the palm oil industry struggles to meet zero carbon emission and deforestation targets without halting economic activity, RE: Forest 2020 suggests a solution. The skyscraper acts as an artificial lung that harvests forests and captures carbon dioxide, while maintaining Indonesias palm oil industry. .... Since the mid-20th century, substantial logging from plantation industries have exponentially reduced the rain forests. Indonesias rain forests are now one of the fastest disappearing rain forests in the world. In 2012, Indonesias rate of deforestation surpassed that of the Amazon, the most well-known rain forest in the world. This investigation begins in Sumatra, one of the regions most affected by deforestation due to the palm oil industry. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//competitions-re-forest-2/ See more

_Article Up_ COMPETITION / Lagos: City of Water . With much of its territory lying only metres above sea level, Lagos is a city with a complex relationship with the waters that rise to meet it. Here, the ocean is a source of food and a dumping ground for waste, a mode for transportation and an eroding force washing away at the land. Finalists Christa Hu and Sparsh Gandhi designed A House to Fish in, a response that aims to build on the existing vernacular of Makoko communit...y to address issues of food security, climate resiliency, and urban legitimacy. . Today, our world is acutely aware of each passing year counting down to the arrival of an unimaginable world, permanently reshaped by the forces of climate change such as rising sea levels. Globally, large swathes of coastal cities home to millions of people are at risk of disappearing below the waves within our lifetimes. Lagos: City of Water is a competition looking to turn these challenges into opportunities. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//competition-lagos-city-o/ See more

_Article Up_ COMPETITION/ The Design House . Helsinki is an international city built on an intimate scale. Through harsh winters and heavy monsoons, Helsinki has become a city of interiors. Its society blooms indoors. This proposal for HelsinkiCall: The Design House competition, designed by Lyric Barnik, embraces this quality. It provides opportunities for cultural and artistic exchange. It borrows elements from the vernacular of the countryside, the ubiquity of the sauna and... the evolution of Helsinki as a city. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//competition-the-design-h/ See more

Join us Thursday 10 September 2020 with our speakers Mkomose (Dr. Andrew Judge), Lisa Myers and Angela Marsh, as they reflect on plants, culture, and food. This discussion will explore questions of food and food sovereignty as they pertain to culture and community, as well as questions of urban space and plant growth. Each speaker will present for 30 minutes followed by a Q+A panel discussion.

_Inktober_ DAY 5/ Blade x Food . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Logan Carragher, Dani Grabke, and Annie Wang .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 4/ Radio Stories . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Leanne Li, Wendy Yuan, and Dani Grabke .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

We are excited to launch our first event of our community art project LAND MARKS which will continue throughout September 2020. Check out and sign up for a free collage kit and workshop with local artist Ioana Dragomir!

_Event_ LANDMARKS @land.marks.project . Land Marks is a community-centric art project, curated by BRIDGE, that challenges us to consider our relationship with the land we live on through the marks we make, and the responses we receive. From fences to footpaths, contaminated to cultivated soil, each mark left tells an intricate environmental, social, and cultural story, describing our relationship not only with the natural world, but the people we share it with. .... Stay tuned! . #Landmarksproject #BRIDGEarch #community #artproject #challenge #originalland #footpaths #environment #culturalstory #cambridge #galt See more

_Inktober_ DAY 3/ Bulky x Roots . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Dani Grabke, Bill CM Tang, Leanne Li, Wendy Yuan, and Owen Melisek. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 2/ Wisp x Strangers . Here are the submissions from yesterday's Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Bill CM Tang, Amy Shin, Patricia Poiana, Dani Grabke and Wendy Yuan. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_Article Up_ TL+GS/ Sidewalk Chalk: A Recipe for Reform . On Tuesday, July 14th, 2020, students chalked a call to action on the sidewalks surrounding the University of Waterloo School of Architecture (UWSA) in Galt. We, the Collective Resistancean intersection between The Sustainability Collective and Treaty Lands, Global Storiesare calling on the university to Break the Canon. .... In response to the Western worldview reinforced in our curriculum, we call on UWSA to confront the canon through which we are taught to think as architects. We insist on an inclusive curriculum that reflects diverse perspectives. We require a radical rethinking of the white, cis-hetero-patriarchical power structures that our School serves to reinforce. We demand an end to institutionalized inequity in our own community, schools across Canada, and the greater architectural profession. . In context of the uprising Black Lives Matter movement, the ongoing climate crisis, and the shift to online learning, we see these crises as a critical opportunity to reflect on the curriculum and implement foundational change. Although we remain physically distanced, we continue to believe in the power of visibility in public space. We hope those in favour will implement this recipe to call their own communities, neighbourhoods, and institutions into action. . We ask faculty at the University of Waterloo who are teaching in the fall to reflect on the following: How will you break the canon of your upcoming course? Do you believe this work is important, why or why not? How will you address the financial barriers of your course that disproportionately affect marginalized students? How will you ensure your style/method of teaching is as accessible as possible? . http://waterlooarchitecture.com//2020/07/30/sidewalk-chalk/ See more

_Inktober_ DAY 1/ Fish x Community . Here are the submissions from the first Inktober x BRIDGE prompt! Featuring Wendy Yuan, Dani Grabke, Kailing Mai, and Connor Rothe. .... Want to join the challenge and be featured? It's never too late to join. Send your drawings to our Google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSempfNbswWH7nN-F/viewform . Inktober is a challenge created by Jake Parker in 2009 as a way to improve inking skills and build positive drawing habits. For the month of October, we challenge you to draw 1 drawing per day for 31 days using the given prompts. We've taken the official prompts and added a Waterloo Architecture twist, including words related to the Arriscraft Lecture Series, WASA events, and online learning. . http://waterlooarchitecture.com///09/30/inktober-x-bridge/ See more

_On Empathy_ CONVERSATION III/ Covid & the Loss of Studio . Join us on Friday, July 24th at 6 pm. Andrew Levitt will guide an On Empathy conversation entitled: COVID-19 & the Loss of Studio, focusing on mental health and well-being around issues and challenges of this time. We are grateful for Andrews meaningful contributions and resources related to mental health and well-being over the years. We look forward to your virtual presence.... . Time: Jul 24, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86984902706 Meeting ID: 869 8490 2706 Passcode: empathy See more

_Article Up_ CITY GUIDE/ Copenhagen . Copenhagen consistently ranks high in international surveys for its standard of living. Aside from its stunning mix of architectural styles and a never ending list of fun activities, the city is a leader in city planning, environmental sustainability, and design. While this makes for a great co-op experience, living there is not cheap. From housing to dining out, your expenses can add up pretty quickly. But this doesnt mean you cant hav...e a fulfilling and genuinely Danish experience. Here are some of Melody and Nicoles greatest secrets on how to navigate Copenhagen on a dime (0.48 Danish kroner)! . Read about it! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//07/21/city-guide-copenha/ See more

_Symposium_ COLUMNS AND CAPITAL Join us online tomorrow, July 14th at 10am - 12pm and 1pm to 3pm Architecture is capital intensive. Yet conventional architectural education provides little exposure to the economic realities of design practice and real estate development. Students graduate without the entrepreneurial agility needed to advocate for architectural design in the market-driven field of building places for people to live. Join us in the Columns and Capital Symposium... for two panel discussions about navigating the world of economics that lies between architectural design and real estate development. Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84518921479 The morning discussion with Michael Leckie (Leckie Studio), John van Nostrand (Parcel Development), and John McMinn (UWSA) is about architects taking on the role of developers. The afternoon panel with Peter Clewes (architectsAlliance), John Filipetti (Oxford Properties) and Larry Smith (UW, School of Economics) is about the impact of macro-economic forces on architecture and real-estate development.

_Article Up_ CITY GUIDE/ Stuttgart, Germany . Third year Aurora worked in Stuttgart for her first co-op. Her article features key places to see, fun things to do, and tips for navigating the city as a co-op student! .... Home to the petrol-powered car, built over high rolling hills, and widely known for engineering and research prowess: Stuttgart is a city of modernism in the truest sense of the word. The city has maintained its traditional culture as the heart of Swabia and the capital of Baden-Wrttemberg with beautiful historical architecture and vineyards sprawled across its hills. Meanwhile it continues to develop industriously in engineering, science, and inventive architecture since first established. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//city-guide-stuttgart-ger/ See more

New Article Up! On Empathy would like to invite you to the second conversation this term: http://waterlooarchitecture.com//on-empathy-identity-spac/

_Call for Submissions_ . BRIDGE is collecting photographs, sketches, and written entries on how YOU, the students of Waterloo Architecture, have adapted your home workspaces to fit Studio life! . Submit your workspaces here! ... https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSexC-2xCIb7fMBO7/viewform . Submit by July 3, 2020 to be featured on the BRIDGE website this summer! See more

_Article Up_ CITY GUIDE/ New York City . Third year students Christa, Dani, and Sparsh recount their 2B coop term in NYC and compile a top hits & tips city guide for future travelers. .... While the Big Apple is a world of possibilities, rich with sights and sounds, stories and cultures, this article is a small log detailing the experiences of a few architecture students, and hopefully the starting point for many more. We share the things across the five boroughs that made their mark on us and offer some observations about our time living the nitty gritty details of life in the city. Our list spans from lesser-known museums, to hipster spots, and local stops. Though no two experiences of New York are the same, yours will hopefully be equally as great. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//2020/06/17/city-guide-nyc/ See more

_Article Up_ A Message from Treaty Lands + Global Stories: From its inception, Treaty Lands + Global Stories has been about decolonizing our curriculum and centering BIPOC voices. We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement and share the pain of the black community as they grieve the loss of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others. We also stand with the Indigenous community as they grieve the missing and murdered members of their communities, whos...e deaths also result from colonial violence. We have always worked to become anti-racist, more intersectional, and better allies for marginalized groups. We will continue to do that work. We support calls for changing the roles of institutions such as law enforcement that, among others, perpetuate systemic racism. We would also like to acknowledge that it is Pride Month. Colonialism has contributed to the marginalization of LGBTQ2 communities. Furthermore, the work of Black, Queer activists such as Martha P. Johnson has played a huge role in in the gay liberation movement, and we should celebrate their work during this time. Now is the time to educate ourselves on the issues that affect BIPOC communities. Now is the time to look at how we as designers and as a School can support the work of BIPOC designers. Now is the time to look at the link between climate change and colonialism. We must seize this moment.Although Treaty Lands + Global Stories has not been active the past term, we will be revitalizing, becoming more intersectional and expanding our reach within the School this term. We hope that you will all join us in this important work. Treaty Lands + Global Stories

Dear all, Please see the invitation to an informal conversation on Wednesday the 10th at 8 pm. We are making this safe and supportive virtual space available to everyone at the school for conversation and reflection on current events. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82324537197... Meeting ID: 823 2453 7197 Password: empathy

_Article Up_ RESOURCES/ Diversity in Architecture In the past few weeks, weve witnessed the horrific discrimination, violence and racism against the black community. These issues have been prevalent for a large component of our history. The tremendous uproar in regards to George Floyds death strikes a chord with many people as we confront the reality that even in 2020, we continue to marginalize people of color. In the architecture community, our involvement and activism i...s important in setting the stage for inclusive design. In the postcolonial world, architecture and urbanism continues to enforce political control and marginalize people of colour. One example is Pruitt-Igoe, a public housing complex located in St. Louis, Missouri in the 1950s. At the time, public housing was used as a segregation tool. Projects were labelled white or black. We can begin to disentangle these narratives by taking control of the conversation. And to engage in the conversation, we must understand the history and the context of the topic that we wish to speak about. BRIDGE has gathered an open source list of resources with the help of Waterloo Architecture students and professors. Special thanks to Simone Delaney, Nicole Chen, Danielle Grabke and Tara Bissett for their contributions. If youve encountered a thought-provoking, conversation-inducing resource, please submit an entry to the google form (link in article) with a short description of the content. Together, let us interject the conversation and become game-changers in our field of design. Read more! Link to Article: http://waterlooarchitecture.com//diversity-in-architectur/ Link to resource list: https://docs.google.com//1D3CTx0xWAWcBlIl5IEeU81hxIo/edit Link to google form: https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSexGqn69Hgdo9NHO/viewform

_Article Up_ STUDENT WORK/ 3A Studio Part 2 . Waterloos 3A studio is an opportunity to explore the relationship between architecture and the city. The 2020 studioOur House is on Fire focuses on the intersection between two contemporary crises: the climate emergency and Torontos housing emergency. The challenge of the studio was to design a series of deeply affordable apartment buildings that integrate public programs at grade acting as a network of support for the low-i...ncome residents. Part 2 of this series focuses on Social Relations. "Our House is on Fire" proposes housing as a right. Students designed their buildings with three qualities in mind: generosity, flexibility and sovereignty. The following projects are examples of these qualities at three different scales: the broader neighbourhood, the public and common spaces on the site, and the private units within it. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//3a-studio-towards-an-arc/ See more

Article Up A Letter From ON EMPATHY . As we are amidst a moment unlike any we have experienced in our lifetime, it is so important to remember the incredible community to which we belong.... Seeing the deep collective anxiety that we face, largely due to the feeling of uncertainty, it is important to recognize our humanity, and to acknowledge all that we are grateful for. As a way to start, here are a few moments that brought us together as a community over the last six years. We are not able to come together in person, but we can certainly continue to foster this spirit of community and learning that we have felt and come to know. Although we are all isolated, we have an incredible resource: our network of students, alumni, staff, and faculty. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//26/a-letter-from-on-empa/

Article Up STUDENT WORK/ 3A Studio Part 1 . Waterloos 3A studio is an opportunity to explore the relationship between architecture and the city. The 2020 studioOur House is on Fire focuses on the intersection between two contemporary crises: the climate emergency and Torontos housing emergency. The challenge of the studio was to design a series of deeply affordable apartment buildings that integrate public programs at grade acting as a network of support for the low-inc...ome residents. . Part 1 of this series focuses on Material Relations. Students developed an understanding of the embodied energy and beneficial and detrimental outcomes of various building materials such as concrete and masonry, steel, and wood. . Read more! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//student-work-designing-t/ See more

Our 2019 project Common Waters, a collaboration with Cambridge Art Galleries, has been published in Exhibition Journal Spring 2020: Can Exhibitions Save the Planet? The article, co-written by 2018-2019 BRIDGE Coordinators Tony Kogan, Nicholas Frayne, Omar Ferwati and Julia Nakanishi, shares the motivations, explorations and curation of CW. Thank you again to everyone in our community for your contributions and participation in our project last summer.

As many of us grapple with thoughts around todays uncertainties, perhaps some of those reflections can be directed towards a call to think differently. The CAFE Initiative is calling for manifestos that will contribute to a national policy of architecture in Canada. Learn more about this project and how you can submit your ideas here: http://waterlooarchitecture.com//call-for-manifestos-thou/

In hopes of preventing the spread of Covid19, all BRIDGE events will be postponed until further notice. New articles and updates will be posted online. We wish everyone good health and hope to be in touch soon!

SPRING into a new project with us! Guided by BRIDGE Centre for Architecture + Design and Cambridge Art Galleries | Idea Exchange, Land Marks is a community collaborative project that challenges us to consider our relationship with the land we live on through the marks we inscribe upon it. These inscriptions narrate a history of contradictions: relationships of stewardship and exploitation, place making and alienation, inhabitation and dispossession. Across Cambridge, through the 5 local library locations (Preston, Hespeler, Queens Square, the Old Post Office, and Clemens Mill), this project will prompt us to consider the destructive and regenerative processes implicit in our land marks.

Important and exciting work happening just down the road from us at Conestoga College and The rare Charitable Research Reserve. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urhd3v_hBXI

Next Saturday November 16th, more than 50 books on Azorean architecture, landscape, and art will be donated to the Musagetes Architecture Library. Come by Bridge at 2:30pm for the reception!

Come to the BRIDGE Storefront tonight at 6:00pm for the 2A Studio Exhibition Opening! The models are pretty spooky.

Tomorrow at 6pm, as part of the "Raw and Regional: Artist Speaker Series", 2018-2019 BRIDGE Coordinators Omar Ferwati, Tony Kogan, Nicholas Frayne and Julia Nakanishi will be discussing the development of this project, their collaboration with Cambridge Art Galleries, the community impacts, and lessons learned from Common Waters. The conversation will be moderated by social practice artist Lisa Hirmer. The event will take place at the Old Post Office, 12 Water Street South, https://ideaexchange.org//raw-and-regional-after-common-wa

Need to blow off some steam after a long studio day? We will be hosting our first Dance Cleanse tonight at 8pm (after the lecture)! Come shake off that negative energy in a positive space Snacks/lounge space will be provided.

With Canadian federal elections a little less than 3 weeks away, check out this student voting guide by recent grad Sean Maciel! http://waterlooarchitecture.com//how-to-vote-a-guide-for-/

Last weekend for Common Waters at BRIDGE today, make sure to check it out! Open until 2pm today. Look out for our closing party tomorrow

A reminder that the Harvesting Celebration will be happening this Saturday, September 14 at The rare Charitable Research Reserve. Registration is required - link is in the event description!