The School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo invites alumni and friends to the Representing Ambience Today: Tracing the Materiality of Virtual Objects Symposium.
This symposium explores the concept of ambience in architecture in three themed areas: the Ambience of Matter, representing ephemeral qualities such as energy and light in architecture, Urban Ambience, the representation of quantitative data with use of parametrics and GIS, and Spatial Practice the representation of social relations and the significance of these forms of representation in our future built environment. Included in this unique symposium is a rare look at the late Alvin Boyarsky?s private collection that encompasses design proposals, site plans, unbuilt works and theoretical investigations and reflects the collapse of a singular related canon of modern architecture, while heralding the blossoming of new and varied approaches to architecture by some of today?s leading architects including Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Bernard Tschumi, and Daniel Libsekind. The symposium is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association held at Design at Riverside Gallery from February 29 to April 10, 2016. The University of Waterloo School of Architecture presents a rare look at this influential private collection.

Preliminary symposium agenda:

9:30-10:30 am

Welcome/introductory remarks John McMinn/Adrian Blackwell
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