architecture News Archive
Faculty of Architecture
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.
Faculty of Architecture
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
Faculty of Architecture
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.
Faculty of Architecture
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.
Faculty of Architecture
Experiential learning thrives in the Faculty of Architecture
October 22, 2021 —
Faculty of Architecture Summer 2021 Co-op/I Report
Faculty of Architecture
Graphic Scores
October 7, 2021 —
In collaboration with the School of Music, Master of Interior Design students create a composition and performance of a piece of music by utilizing techniques and structures of contemporary music such as unconventional performance and vocal techniques, modified instruments and sound sources other than conventional musical instruments.
Faculty of Architecture
From School to Site and Workshop: Summer Co-op with Holz Construction
October 1, 2021 —
Transitioning from design school to design practice just got a whole lot easier for Cooperative Education students Brooke de Rocquigny and Carmen Huang.
Faculty of Architecture
Detailing a more Public City: Interview with Co-op Student Sean Vandekerkhove
September 28, 2021 —
While the pandemic forced many people to retreat to private domains over the last two summers, some design students and professionals have been working extra hard to keep the city and city life more inclusively and beautifully public.
Extended Education
Building Information Modeling is a process not a software
September 14, 2021 —
“BIM is not a software. It is a process. We need to upskill humans in the management of this process. They can’t simply rely on technology. It changes.” - David Thompson