architecture News Archive
Faculty of Architecture
HALF A CENTURY – Master of Landscape Architecture turns 50
August 30, 2022 —
The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) program at the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Architecture, celebrates its 50th anniversary in 2022
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Prof. Patrick Lau Sau Shing (B.Arch/69) awarded with the Hong Kong Institute of Architects Gold Medal
April 29, 2022 —
Patrick Lau Sau Shing (B.Arch/69)awarded with the HKIA Gold Medal
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Unstacking the Deck: A Game of Change
April 26, 2022 —
Unstacking the Deck, a euphemism for breaking down biases, consists of a double deck of playing cards featuring early women architects who studied and worked in Manitoba: from the first woman B.Arch graduate from the University of Manitoba in 1932, to women who began careers in Manitoba in the 1960-70s.
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Team Wreford’s design was chosen for LGBTQ2+ National Monument in Ottawa
March 29, 2022 —
Monument captures both the sombre past and hope for a better future.
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A Warmer Place: a warming table for those living with homelessness
February 1, 2022 —
A collaboration between the Faculty of Architecture, The Forks, Thunderbird House, Brook McIlroy Architects, Sputnik Architecture, and 0812 Building Solutions creates a Warming Hut design to help those living with homelessness.
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Faculty of Architecture students excel in Undergraduate Research Posters
January 31, 2022 —
Environmental Design students have earned first, second and third place awards for their submissions to the Undergraduate Research Poster Competition in the Creative Works category.
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Alumni donation sparks Indigenous Success Fund
January 28, 2022 —
A generous donation from the family of Laura Fyles (B.I.D./1993) and Brent Whitby (B.E.S./1990, M.Arch./1994) initiates Faculty of Architecture Indigenous Success Fund
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Meet Andria Langi, 2021 Manitoba Association of Architects Medal recipient and Saba Mirhosseini, 2021-2022 Manitoba Association of Architects Recruitment Award recipient
January 11, 2022 —
Each year, the Manitoba Association of Architects offers a scholarship to attract excellent students to pursue graduate studies in Architecture at the University of Manitoba and a convocation medal to the graduate student with the best Comprehensive Design project or thesis.
Faculty of Architecture
Archimagination – Architecture faculty, students and alumni contribute to the 2021 Venice Biennale
December 13, 2021 —
How will we live together? – This was the question posed by the 17th International Architecture Biennale, which ran from May 22 to November 21, 2021, in Venice and virtual venues. While the pandemic and related crises keep pushing people apart, this forum fostered ways of imagining a more livable world together.
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FAUM Announces Faculty Writing Tutor
November 1, 2021 —
The Faculty of Architecture is pleased to announce that it will provide its students with the opportunity to work with an in-house academic writing tutor.