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Square_space
The creative work of EVDS students, faculty, staff and alumni is featured in square_space, the faculty’s third annual frame show and silent auction running until Nov. 20.
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Challenging Design.
Hernan Diaz Alonso, one of the world’s most influential designers and architecture educators, is coming the November speaker of the EVDS Design Matters lecture series.
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Solar home team finishes sixth.
Student-led Team Alberta finished sixth overall today in its first-ever Solar Decathlon, besting 14 top university teams from around the world.
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Greenwashing the globe.
Adrian Parr, EVDS Design Matters October lecturer, believes the sustainability movement has been hijacked.
>>FFWD story
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Alberta solar home now in top 10.
Student-led Team Alberta has cracked the top 10 in the Solar Decathlon, starting off this week in 8th spot out of 20 homes competing in the international solar home competition.
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Is Green the New Black?
Author and University of Cincinnati professor Adrian Parr will discuss the political hijacking of sustainability at the EVDS lecture series this Thu, Oct. 15.
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Home Sweet Sola-powered Home!
Alberta Solar Decathlon team on CBC National news.
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EVDS Professor recognized for his exemplary contributions to architecture.
John Brown's passion for the average house wins him a prestigious leadership award.
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EVDS welcomes the first Athena Chair in Life Cycle Assessment.
Dr. Getachew Assefa, a world expert in life cycle assessment, aims to reduce the environmental footprint of the construction sector.
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Solar Home ready to Power Up.
Team Alberta prepares to test its SolAbode home’s energy systems in the countdown to the Solar Decathlon.
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On the News: Urban Cougars
Professor Mike Quinn comments on cougar accident within Calgary city limits.
>Global TV story
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Full House at the inaugural Design Matters Lecture Series.
Over 250 friends of EVDS attended the first lecture with Thom Mayne.
>>See photos
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The Mayne Man.
A bona fide celebrity architect opens the EVDS Design Matters lecture series Sept. 25 at the MET.
>FFWD article
>About the lecture
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Without End: exploring the lines that keep us apart. Curated by EVDS Professor Catherine Hamel, exhibit will travel the province as part of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts Travelling Exhibition. |
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EVDS SA President to learn sustainability best practices.
Gabe Didiano will attend national sustainability leadership conference.
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Just do it!
EVDS BrownBag Discussion Series speaker says it’s easy to be a public advocate, you just have to do it.
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SolAbode in the Games
Solar home co-created by EVDS students to be showcased during 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
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Eggs Away - Annual EVDS Egg Drop Competition
“There’s no right answer to a design problem”
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Mopping up the grow-ops
Alberta Real Estate Association engages EVDS Professor Tang Lee to draft provincial guidelines for rehabilitating former drug labs.
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Calgary Herald - A couple of home builder organizations are throwing their support behind a real estate development program at the University of Calgary.
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Canada AM - Biggest case of identity theft in U.S. history
EVDS Professor Tom Keenan sheds light on the largest case of identity theft in U.S. history and the implications it has for Canadian consumers.
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EVDS Dean announced.
Nancy Pollock-Ellwand has been appointed Dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design and will begin a five-year term on January 1, 2010.
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 Strat-Escape Lounge: Winning Submission by Daren Blair and Devon Skinner |
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EVDS Lounge.
EVDS students, faculty and staff will soon enjoy a brand new space to exchange ideas, laugh, participate in a diversity of events and experience EVDS culture.
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EVDS Stampede Breakfast. Over 140 people attended the first EVDS Stampede Breakfast held on July 8, 2009 at the EVDS Patio. Friends of EVDS including alumni, faculty, students, staff, donors and U of C administration enjoyed gourmet pancakes and sausages and live music with The Stables.
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>>Facebook photo album
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EVDS student to learn from Australia’s best known architect. EVDS student Jordan Allen has been admitted to the 2009 Glenn Murcutt Master Class, a very limited and exclusive two-week international residential program hosted in Australia from July 12-26, 2009.
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EVDS Students recognized in international design competition.
Students’ exploration of sustainable planning strategies addresses one of the most significant challenges of contemporary cities.
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EVDS hits International Festival. EVDS is amongst a select group of design schools invited to participate in this year's edition of the BEYOND MEDIA International Festival for Architecture and Media.
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ENMAX joins SolAbode team. A Calgary student-led team building a solar-powered home for a high-profile international competition has received major backing from ENMAX Corporation.
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EVDS Cultivates Talent. Led by iterim dean Loraine Fowlow, EVDS has implemented many initiatives to expose the students and the work of the faculty to the broader Calgary audience. With initiatives like the Kasian Gallery Sponsorship and the up-coming lecture series recently named Design Matters, EVDS is full of exciting projects. >>Read Calgary Herald Article by David Parker.
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Planning Sustainable Communities, edited by Dr Sasha Tsenkova, features a
diversity of policy and design approaches from Australia, Canada, Germany,
Ireland, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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Internationally renowned Canadian
architect Arthur Erickson has died at the age of 84.
>>Watch Global news video with commentary by Prof. Graham Livesey
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Prof. Cormack Gates comments on Bison Boom. Bison baby boom hits a herd in a remote Saskatchewan national park, an area that hasn't felt bison hooves in more than 120 years.
>>Globe and Mail article
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A new book on housing management edited by Dr Tsenkova, Dr Gruis and Dr Niebor has been published in the Real Estate Issues series of Wiley-Blackwell in Oxford.
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The EVDS Urban Lab and Dillon Consulting Limited are recipients of a Regional Citation Award in the 2009 Canadian Society of Landscape Architects Professional Awards Program, for the RED DEER COUNTY OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN
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U of C graduate student Maha AbuHafeetha was selected from a pool of 134 applicants from around the world for a $50,000 research grant from the Schlumberger Foundation.
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Kim Davis of The Vancouver Sun reviews John
Brown's Slow Home Movement in her article "
Why we all need speed bumps
'Slow Cities' movement is designed to make cities and towns better places
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Lisa Rochon, architecture critic for the Globe and Mail, reviews John
Brown's Slow Home Movement in her article "Taking It One Room At A Time".
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Calgary architect John Brown has an appetizing alternative to the McMansions that have been filling the neighbourhoods of North America.
Calgary Herald Article>>
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A new book by Sasha Tsenkova provides unique insights into the process of housing reforms in post-socialist Europe.>>more
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The ACA Grants in Biodiversity program is pleased to announce that Environmental Design PhD student, Byron Weckworth is amongst this year's grant winners. >>more |
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Arctic landscape shortlisted for 3-D virtual competition
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Local firm Kasian Architecture Interior Design and Planning Ltd. has been recognized for its long-standing support for the Faculty of Environmental Design with the naming of the faculty’s public gallery space.
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Career opportunities in the environmental field continue to expand, despite the downturn in the economy, and they aren't limited to jobs in the research lab.
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A new book by Bev Sandalack and two Faculty of Social Work colleagues addresses the issue of how to integrate homeless shelters into the urban environment .
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The team of Nandor Gortva, Braden Abrams Reid, and Brier Ferguson won second place in Clear Vistas national urban design competition. >>more |
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Prestigious Visiting Architects: Two prominent, leading edge architects were visiting EVDS early January, teaching two separate Block Courses: Mark Fornes from the US, and Hrvoje Njiric from Croatia. >>more |
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EnCana & EVDS
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Just Announced: The creation of the EnCana Chair in Canadian Plains Mitigation and Reclamation. EnCana has committed $1 million to support the research chair over the next five years. >>more |
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EVDS student Rachelle Haddock wants to learn how people can help influence decisions about public lands.
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Fate of the World's Mammals Cormack Gates is one of the co-authors of a new study detailing the status 5,487 mammal species >>more
National Post Article
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EVDS builds on success in Fort Mac
EVDS 702 returns to Fort McMurray to build off successful first year. >>more |
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The Benefits of EVDS
2nd Year MEDes student Matt Beck discusses the upside of EVDS in the U of C's THIS is US series >>more
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Urban Design for Healthcare Bev Sandalack teams up with Kinesiology and Medicine colleagues to explore how urban design could lower healthcare costs. >>more |
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Sage Advice
Laura Hickman's research seeks to propose best management practices for silver sagebrush reclamation. >>more |
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A Lens on Mongolia
Brian Sinclair's photos of Mongolia and his work there profiled in On Campus. >>more |
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How did the snake cross the road?
Adam Martinson, winner of the Golder Research Scholarship, has his work profiled by The Calgary Herald and Reuters.
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Mimosa Book
Mimosa Arienzo passed away on Monday, June 23rd. Contributions are being sought for a book of memories for her daughters. >>more |
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Solar Decathlon Profiled
EVDS students shared their work with the Calgary Herald and unlimited magazine
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EVDS Grad takes 2008 National Urban Design Award
Congratulations Allison Wood! Wood won a student award for her thesis - iCITY: Public Space v2.0. >>more |
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EVDS Headlines Avenue
Loraine Fowlow (left), John Brown, and Marc Boutin headline Avenue Magazine's discussion of Calgary architecture. >>more
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CMYK Exhibit Profiled in FFWD
Writer Anthea Black sees inspiration for Calgary in the work of EVDS' architecture graduates. >>more |
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Brown in Italian Men's Vogue
L'Uomo Vogue Italia profiles the Slow Home movement with John Brown, Associate Dean
(Research & International). >>more
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