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UBC SALA students bring resilience and relief through bespoke water fountains and misters
| Announcement
Fuki no Mizu is an initiative that provides this year's Powell Street Festival attendees drinking water and mist for cooling through pavilion structures. This was designed by a team of UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture…
How will ‘managed retreat’ fit into Canada’s climate-change adaptation plans? Communities face hard choices in any scenario
The Globe and Mail | | Media coverage
UBC student team aims to build a net-zero student space on campus
| Announcement
UBC’s award-winning Third Quadrant Design– a team of more than 60 students in engineering, architecture, business, and arts – is about to start construction of a new student space on campus that redefines sustainable design.
Rethinking our relationship with water
| Announcement
Humans love to settle near coastlines and river valleys, lured by the flat, fertile land and opportunities for trade but water floods fields, swallows ships, and stirs up hurricanes that wipe out entire settlements in an instant.
Experts caution against becoming ‘air-conditioned society’ as heat waves get hotter
The Star | | Media coverage
From micro to biome: designing across scales and silos
| Spotlight
With an exceptional interest in the natural world, stemming from her upbringing on a remote coastal island in B.C., Isla holds an undergraduate degree in Environmental Sciences as well as an Honours undergraduate degree in Environmental Design (now…
Hands in the soil, head in the stars
| Spotlight
The UBC Master of Landscape Architecture offers hands-on experience through design builds, which attracted Ivana-Lexa French to the program. Students experience tangible obstacles and opportunities that can influence perspectives on design.
Architects Against Housing Alienation will put a spotlight on housing crisis at exhibition
The Spice | | Media coverage
Architects Against Housing Alienation to represent Canada at international architectural exhibition
CityNews | | Media coverage
Architects Against Housing Alienation, co-led by school of architecture and landscape architecture professors Matthew Soules, Dr. Sara Stevens, Dr. Tijana Vujosevic, will represent Canada at next year's Venice Biennale of Architecture, an …
Fire & Flood, Facing Two Extremes: Why B.C. can’t always build its way out of risks
Vancouver Sun | | Media coverage
Landscape architecture professor Kees Lokman was quoted in a Vancouver Sun series on disaster planning and adaptation in BC.