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Architecture that Speaks / Architecture Parlante

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Staff

Three Ryerson University M.Arch. students will be presenting papers at Architecture that Speaks / Architecture Parlante, the 39th annual conference of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada, to be held in Ottawa from May 23-26, 2012. Mitchell May, Sylwia Sajdyk and Jessica Stanford will be presenting papers on a range of topics including the National Arts Centre and Canadian Identity (Mitchell May), Impressions from the Past (Sylwia Sajdyk in collaboration with Dania Ansari, Master of Environmental Studies student at York University), and The Living Past (Jessica Stanford).

The conference will be held at Carleton University and features a keynote address by renowned Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal.

The Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada (SSAC) is a learned society devoted to the examination of the role of the built environment in Canadian society. Its membership includes structural and landscape architects, architectural historians and planners, sociologists, ethnologists, and specialists in such fields as heritage conservation and landscape history. The Society is currently the sole national society whose focus of interest is Canada’s built environment in all its manifestations.

For additional information about the SSAC click here; for details regarding the the conference, visit the website

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Cities in Progress: Please do not Disturb

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Staff

On May 23, Cities in Progress: Please do ~~not~~ disturb, an exhibition of Future City Lab work including contributions by Ryerson faculty (Mark Gorgolewski, Taymoore Balbaa, Colin Ripley) and M.Arch. students will open at Architecture Forum Aedes in Berlin, Germany.

Future City Lab comprises leading professionals worldwide who collaborate via the open-source initiative started by Thomas Auer (Transsolar) and Daniel Dendra (anOtherArchitect) in 2010. It is a distributed, non-hierarchical mechanism for the envisioning of sustainable futures.

The exhibition presents the work-in-progress of the lab. The first chapter shows the discussion and visualization work that FutureCityLab has undertaken over the last year, is compiled and presented through the medium of “DIALOGUES”. The second part of the exhibition, DIALOGUE 2.0, is using the event of the exhibition as an opportunity to move the discussion forward and to increase the scale and scope of the FutureCityLab network. The exhibition space will be used as an active stage using the Aedes gallery as a context for the construction of future scenarios. Workshops and discussions will be initiated. The goal of DIALOGUE 2.0 is not only to engage FutureCityLab participants but also the larger in lively debates. For a full listing of events, please see the website.

Speaking at the opening will be:
Dr. H.C. Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin
Prof. Colin Ripley, Ryerson University Toronto
Dr. Ewald Boehlke, Zukunftsforscher Berlin

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Subtle Technologies Festival

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Staff

The 15th Annual Subtle Technologies Festival, happening for the first time in partnership with Ryerson University, in particular the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Science will take place from Friday May 25 to Sunday May 27.

Some highlights of this year’s Festival:

SYMPOSIUM ON ART, BIOLOGY and TECHNOLOGY
See talks on….
- Using Biology to Inspire Engineering Design
- Art from Synthetic Biology
- Exploratory Soundscapes of Arterial Flow
- Proposal for Resuscitating Prehistoric Lives
- Primate Cinema: Apes as family

Friday May 25 to Sunday May 27
Ryerson University
$120 / $50 for a three-day pass
Get tickets and more information here

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Student gets special mention in the Anonymous.d 03 3D competition

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Staff

ART. FLASH, a proposal by DAS student Rachel Hooshley got a special mention in the Anonymous.a 03 – 3Dimensional Front Competition.

Anonymous.d is an organization founded by New York Architect Harel Edery, which hosts a variety of international competitions annually for young designers to have the opportunity to propose innovative design solutions. The annual competition encourages individuals to design a unique experience pioneered by a current need. The competition requires participants to consider the potential of “in-between” space along the storefront of the Milavec Hakimi Gallery on the ground level of the Cooper Union Building in Manhattan.

Rachel’s approach treated the in-between space as a link between the public and the gallery, by emphasizing and bringing creative work to the streetscape. More specifically, the three-dimensional volume can be inhabited by the public wherein they can look at contemporary art and artists.

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Ryerson University’s Department of Architectural Science Winter 2012 Lecture Series

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Staff

Ryerson’s Department of Architectural Science is pleased to announce its Winter 2012 Lecture Series titled “Interventions” featuring the following speakers: educator, architect and nanotechnologist, Peter Yeadon of New York and RISD; architect and urban ecologist Craig Applegath of DIALOG; award winning local architect Stephen Teeple of Teeple Architects Inc., Toronto; and Rene Daoust – of Montreal’s daoust Lestage, urban designer and architect, who will be our annual Margery Winkler Lecture Series speaker. The Dutch Consulate in Toronto is also sponsoring architect, educator and urban designer, Theo Deutinger of TD Architects, Rotterdam.

The Department of Architectural Science thanks Thames Valley Brick, the OAA, and DX and the RAIC for their contributions to this series.

Winter 2012 Lecture Series Poster

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The DAS Collaborative Exercise Event

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Staff

The Ryerson Department of Architectural Science would like to announce an upcoming event to celebrate its annual Collaborative Exercise. This year’s brief involved a re-visioning of the decade-old Downsview Park International Design Competition.

We hope to see you and take you through the collaborative process and final outcome of the exercise. Please click here to view the invitation.

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Ryerson Mobile Architecture

Posted on February 15, 2012 by Staff

Recently launched Ryerson Mobile Architecture App is creating a buzz in the media. The app was developed by Professor Vincent Hui and is an outcome of a partnership between Ryerson’s Department of Architectural Science and the Ryerson University Library and Archives.

Professor Hui has been interviewed by various journalists. To read these interviews and learn more about the app, click on the links below.

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OAA Awards

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Staff

DAS congratulates Maya Janikowski, a recent graduate from our Masters of Architecture Program for winning an Ontario Association of Architects (OAA) Award. Maya’s work, entitled “This is (NOT) a Laneway” won in the Proposals and Concepts Category this year. Janikowski’s former supervisor is Dr. Miljana Horvat.

In addition, the OAA also awarded the Ryerson Recreation and Athletics Centre, headed by Lett Smith Architects, the top prize in the Landmark Category.

The OAA awards represent the best in architectural design and innovation in emerging new talent and some of the provinces’ most established architecture firms. To see these and other awards, please visit the OAA website.

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Bid Competition Award for PMT820 Studio

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Staff

The DAS congratulates PMT820 Studio Students for taking away 4 awards at the 2012 Simulated Student Bid Competition.

The Bid competition is a yearly event that is held in order to help students understand the real life challenges that are present within the construction bidding and estimating process. The challenge of the simulated bid competition is for students across Canada to submit complete bids based on a set of contract documents.

The four teams and their prizes are listed below:
(1) Most Complete and Accurate: Top Prize Money $2,500 (Leverage Ltd Group: Koon, Wing Gi; Loong, Matthew King Yuen; Panganiban Dominic; Tenhage, Kristopher)
(2) Most Complete and Accurate: 3rd Prize Money $500 (Toronto Construction Group: Atabaki, Mehdi; Jawabri, Ammar; Mango Daniel; Vu, Huong)
(2) Most Professional: $1,000 (ACE Group: Crofts, Ashleigh; Serjeantson, Ainee; Jung, Hannah; Abdullahi, Sanam)
(4) Closest to the Target Price: $500, (PMH Consultant Group: Paulos, Robyn; Husein, Fatema; Mazzuca, Victoria

Ryerson PMT Students win Bid Competition Awards

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Carrot City Exhibit – Now in Birmingham, UK

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Staff

The Carrot City exhibition is now being shown in Birmingham UK, (Date: April 23 – May 6, 2012; Location: Edible Eastside, 122 Fazeley Street, Birmingham, B5 5RS, UK) and is opening in Stuttgart Germany next week, (Date: April 23 – May 9, 2012; Location: University of Hohenheim, Schloss, 70599 Stuttgart, Germany).

It also goes to Paris France, Amersfoort the Netherlands and Erfurt Germany over the next 3 months.

Details are at http://www.ryerson.ca/carrotcity/news.html

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International Leaders Workshop

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Staff

Faculty and students from the graduate program in Building Science participated in the International Leaders Workshop event organised by the Construction Resource Initiatives Council (http://www.cricouncil.com/) from April 17th to April 19th in Wakfield near Ottawa.

At this unique event, leaders, innovators and experts from all fields came together to create the Mission 2030 Accord, which aims to set a plan to achieve Zero Building Waste.

The event set out the direction and pace for this most important and far reaching initiative. Ryerson graduate researchers were involved in these discussions and will continue to work with the CRI Council towards these aims.

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Vincent Hui’s Presentation for Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Staff

Vincent Hui was invited to deliver a lecture at the Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference at the University of Toronto. His presentation was entitled “Overcoming the Idea Gap: Collaborative Resourcefulness in the Digital Age”. For more information, click here.

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Subtle Technologies

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Staff

Some highlights of this year’s Festival:

Friday May 25 to Sunday May 27
Ryerson University
$120 / $50 for a three-day pass
Get tickets and more information here

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PERFORMANCE: EXPERIMENTS
Created in collaboration with behavioural ecologists, this multimedia dance performance by Vancouver-based LINK Dance probes the connections between science and art.
Co-presented with DanceWorks

Friday May 25 and Saturday May 26 @ 8pm
Winchester Street Theatre (80 Winchester Street)
$25 / $15
More information here

NB: A 3-day Subtle Technologies Festival pass includes one ticket to the Friday evening showing.

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WORKSHOP: THE PHYSARUM EXPERIMENTS
“[In] trying to understand systems that use relatively simple components to build higher-level intelligence, the slime mould may someday be seen as the equivalent of the finches and tortoises that Darwin observed on the Galápagos Islands” (Steven Johnson, Emergence)

Join artist UK-based Heather Barnett to discover the fascinating role this single celled organism has to play in the culture of both science and art, and participate in a practical experiment to create the ideal creative environment for it to grow.

Sunday May 27 @ 4pm
Ryerson University
$20 / $15
More information here

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