Month / October 2020

Global Design Graduate Show awards film prize to 2020 grad Michael Yoshimura (MArch 2020) is the winner of the film judges’ vote in the first Global Design Graduate Show, created by ARTSTHREAD,…

Canada’s architecture schools present a joint lecture series on diversity Global Perspectives is a live-streamed lecture series on diversity in architecture, presented by the 12 schools of architecture in Canada. All lectures…

Prof. Zach Colbert: Redesigning retail space for pandemics Professor Zachary Colbert, of the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, is investigating architectural strategies that can help retail environments adapt to physical distancing…

Director’s Project 2020: Poetry Winners The Director’s Project included a poetry competition. About 50 students submitted poems in the fixed forms of Pantoum and Villanelle, inspired by both the Director’s Project brief…

Director’s Project 2020 Drawing Winners The Director’s Project is a seven-day drawing competition that takes place in the first week of the fall term and celebrates the start of a new school…

Critical Intersections 2020-2021 This year, the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism (ASAU) will be organizing, hosting, and supporting a number of initiatives and events, given the unfolding global reckonings with systemic…

Students contribute design ideas to The Ottawa Hospital Fourth-year architecture students have contributed speculative design ideas to The Ottawa Hospital for a planned new facility on the edge of the Central Experimental…

Director’s Project 2020: ‘The fierce urgency of Now’ The Director’s Project is a one-week drawing competition with awards. Here is Azrieli School Director Jill Stoner’s introduction to the project, delivered to more…

Welcome to the 2020 – 2021 Academic Year Letter from the Director 8 September 2020   Dear students, faculty, and staff,   As our spirits and minds return to school even as…

Four new faculty members join the Azrieli School The Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism is delighted to welcome the following four new faculty members. Piper Bernbaum (@piperb) received her MArch degree…