Winners of the 2024 Marco Frascari Prize in Architecture for Drawing April 24, 2024   Six Master of Architecture thesis students at the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism have received awards in the 2024 Marco Frascari Prize in Architecture for Drawing.   Alejandra Leon de Gante won the $4,000 First Prize for a series of drawings on the ecological damage caused by the Mezcal industry in Oaxaca, Mexico.   Lauren Liebe was awarded the $2,500 Second Prize for drawings that explore the journey of salmon within the context of industrial salmon canning.   The foll ..read more

Building 22 Edition 23 showcases creativity of Carleton architecture students April 24, 2024 Carleton University’s Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism proudly announces the release of the latest edition of Building 22, featuring a curated selection of 109 exemplary student projects. Established in 2009, Building 22 is an annual student-initiated publication. It showcases work from all four years and streams of the Bachelor of Architectural Studies program (Conservation & Sustainability, Design, and Urbanism) and the professional two-and-three-year Master of ..read more

Profs. Menna Agha and Ozayr Saloojee co-edit Journal of Architectural Education on theme of Infidelities April 11, 2024 Assistant Professor Menna Agha and Associate Professor Ozayr Saloojee are among the theme editors of the spring 2024 issue of the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE).   The theme is “Infidelities” which emerged in response to a series of questions: “What does it mean to be loyal? To a discipline, its institutions, to a practice, to yourself?” The Western-Muslim divide was the main inspiration. Dr. Saloojee is also the Associate Editor, Design o ..read more

Prof. Stephen Fai on short-listed team for Venice Biennale of Architecture March 21, 2024 Professor Stephen Fai is part of a team in the running to represent Canada at the 2025 Venice Biennale of Architecture with a project that aims “to provoke architecture to rethink natural abundance as obligation rather than privilege.” Image Credit: Courtesy of AK A FIELD+ is a national research and design collective which comprises:   Andrew King, founder, AK¬ A/FLDWRK, professor of practice, McGill University School of Architecture Lev Bratishenko, curator and writer Stephen ..read more

2024 Recipient of the John Adjeleian Graduate Scholarship in Structural Design March 19, 2024 Gerald Rafael-White is the 2024 recipient of the John Adjeleian Graduate Scholarship in Structural Design for his master’s thesis, Structured Roots, Fibres, and Flows: A Structural System Rooted in Cultural Anthropology, and Material Phenomena    “Gerry’s thesis demonstrates a high level of craft and structural invention, and is tested rigorously across scales, from the column prototype to the structural bay,” says a statement by the internal selection jury at the Azrieli School ..read more

Work by students helps First Nation transform ex-residential school By Maria Cook March 19, 2024 Image Credit: CIMS Image Credit: CIMS The Muskowekwan First Nation of Saskatchewan is generously acknowledging the role of Carleton University architecture students and professors in advancing its vision to convert a former residential school to a place of healing. Image Credit: CIMS Notably, a digital model prepared by students will help guide the transformation of the vacant Muskowekwan Indian Residential School. Students have also explored possibilities for the adaptive re-use ..read more

Marco Frascari Prize in Architecture 2024: Call for submissions March 18, 2024 A drawing competition for graduate students at the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism Submission Deadline: April 1, 2024, at 1:00 p.m. ET  This drawing competition is open to graduate or post-graduate students who have completed at least one year of their program. The programs include Master of Architecture (two-year and three-year programs) Master of Architectural Studies, PhD in Architecture, and Graduate Diploma in Architectural Conservation.    The prize money amounts ..read more

New book, Architectures of Hiding, edited by Prof. Federica Goffi et al Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence Edited by Rana Abughannam,  Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Pallavi Swaranjali and Federica Goff March 18, 2024 The 320-page book published in January 2024 by Routledge Architecture is now available through the Carleton University’s MacOdrum Library in digital format, and also for purchase as a hardback, paperback, or e-book at Routledge.   Architectures of Hiding considers apparatuses, modes, temporalities, motives, an ..read more

Ottawa Anti-Racism Strategy Workshop March 1, 2024 Photo Credit: Luis Panchi Galvan The school’s Action Lab, led by Associate Professor Menna Agha, together with CP Planning co-hosted a workshop on February 20 at the Architecture Building to address housing challenges faced by racialized communities.    The purpose of the event was to bring together the racialized community in Ottawa to discuss, analyze, and collaboratively review housing-specific recommendations within the Ottawa Anti-Racism Strategy.    It also sought to build on initial ..read more

Prof. Paul Kariouk’s m.o.r.e cabin wins award from AIA New York March 1, 2024 Photo Credit: Scott Norsworthy Jutting horizontally from a cliff, with floor-to-ceiling windows that bathe its interior in light, the m.o.r.e Cabin seems to defy gravity. The off-grid cabin floats in the treetops on the shore of a lake at an isolated location in La Pêche, Quebec.   For its architect, Associate Professor Paul Kariouk, of the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, the cabin is not only a retreat from city life, its modern aesthetic is  ..read more