We are pleased to announce YEE-O 2020 – Year End Exhibition – Online edition for this 2019-2020 academic year. This annual event celebrates the hard work and creative achievements of over 500 undergraduate and graduate students from every unit and level in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Manitoba. Unfortunately, COVID-19 led to the cancellation of this in-person event, but sharing and celebrating student achievements must go on!
Next School
Instructor: Eduard Epp
NEXT SCHOOL is the general title for 2 studio projects undertaken in the 2019-2020 academic year:
• The Centre for Academic Freedom & Civil Liberties [F 2019] investigated the ‘architecture of free speech’ … to design a new landmark / pavilion building that celebrates academic freedoms and civil liberties. The studio explored and posited answers to the questions of:
- what is a pavilion or landmark building?
- how can our freedoms and rights be expressed – indeed celebrated – architecturally?
- how can this ‘centre’ contribute to the mission and identity of our university?
•AU / WPG Architecture Union: a networked architectureschool [F/W 2020]investigated the ‘architecture of architecture schools’ … to design a new and independent school of architecture – for the 21st century.
Over one and a half terms the studio explored and posited answers to the questions of:
- what is a school of architecture?
- what is a professional design education?
- how can a building respond to the needs of educating an architect today?
- how can a building express the aesthetic ideals of the 21st century, i.e. Gesamptkunstwerk;
- how do you design for designers?
Winnipeg Architecture Union
Jaden Janzen
Winnipeg Architecture Union envisions a purpose-built architecture education hub located within downtown Winnipeg. The pedagogy aims to create a stronger link between design education and practice through integrated work terms with partnered firms and offices. The architecture of the school is designed with the community in mind through a vertical extension of Memorial Park, as well as community programming of a library, community design centre, and makers market. The building is assembled through exposed CLT constructing, exploring the future of urban construction. Winnipeg Architecture Union acts as a link connecting the community through the banner of design education.
AU:WPG
Rachel Laird
The Architecture Union hub in Winnipeg represents the nucleus of a global partnership of academia and practice in the pursuit of design education which rises to the challenge of developing creative solutions to critical social, environmental, and organizational issues of the 21st century. The AU:WPG seeks to lead by example in transforming a heritage building into a nexus of work, study, community and opportunity which prioritizes integration of both space and people, and an acute awareness of global potential achieved through local resources and relationships.
Next School
Tong Yue
The AU is a call to action – to transform architectural education in the 21st century that differs radically in form, content and delivery to the prevailing model of the 20th century. The AU is premised on the understanding that Architecture is expanding its mission to society and to the environment. This proposal supports the idea of a networked community of shared interests composed of the academy, the profession, industry and their allied partners and associations, locally, regionally, nationally, and globally.
Also part of Next School: Leah Dingman, Konstantin Gutsch, Paul Hanbury, Michele Palmieri, Emma Ross, Stephanie Schau, Paul Susi, Emily Will