Dalhousie Architecture Students Association

SOMETHING IS BREWING….

SUP, DASA and GPS are excited to announce the end of year gala!

📆 April 2
⏱️ 7pm-10pm
📍Alexander Keith’s Brewery, 1496 Lower Water St

Link to ticket form: https://forms.office.com/r/mf4LDy0y05

Join us next week for our Master of Architecture Thesis Examinations!

Starting on Monday at 9am, we are proud to showcase an extremely diverse culmination of research and design work from our MArch graduating class of 2026!

Upcoming Workshop for Architecture and Planning Students!

Please join the EDIA committee in a training session facilitated by Amina Abawajy, Education Advisor in the Office for Equity and Inclusion. The session, titled From Awareness to Action will provide practical tools and insights to help us foster a more inclusive and respectful environment. We hope to see you there!

📆 WEDNESDAY APRIL 1, 2026
🕛 2:00-3:30 PM
📍EXHIBITION ROOM, MEDJUCK BUILDING

DASA Lecture Series invites you to an exciting lecture on place-based sustainability! We are lucky to have the opportunity to work with Rosmarie Lohnes, CEO & President of Helping Nature Heal. 

📅 Thursday, March 12th , 2026
⏰ 7:00PM
📍 Zoom and B015 Auditorium, Dalhousie School of Architecture (5410 Spring Garden Road)

Online Lecture Meeting Details
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85178543238?pwd=Ae571csUNFUKxybx6Gerx0YMUxVFcY.1
Meeting ID: 851 7854 3238
Passcode: DASA

With a background in architecture and extensive experience working with ecosystems, Rosmarie Lohnes is perfectly suited to guide us through designing for the unique environmental demands of the Atlantic coast. Her expertise highlights how projects can move beyond general green goals to honor the specific ecology and materials of a place.

The event is free and open to everyone! We’d love to see you there for this exciting talk!

Merch 2025 is back!! We are now accepting pre-orders for last year’s merch until Wednesday, March 18. This is the final chance to grab merch 2025, so don’t miss out!

You can place your order by reaching out at [email protected]. We accept e-transfer or cash payments.

(Keep an eye out for merch 2026 coming soon👀)

🗣️Join WIL Co-op for their Employer Panel this Friday!

📆 March 6
🕛 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
📍Sexton Campus B Building, Room 308

Gain practical advice from industry leaders as they share their unique experiences and perspectives. Panel discussion to be followed by a mixer with light refreshments.

Please register here: https://mycareer.dal.ca/entityRedirect.htm?eventId=17008

‼️The merch design competition is back! 👕🧑‍🎨✍️

DASA is excited to inform that we are now accepting design submissions for the new 2026 merch!

Please send your design to [email protected] by Thursday, March 12 to enter the design competition.
Please include ‘Dalhousie’, ‘Dalhousie Architecture’ or similar in your design (try to avoid including the year ‘2026’). We also welcome any ideas for colour, placement, size, product ideas, in your submissions.

The winner of the design competition will win free merch, so don’t miss out!

We are looking forward to seeing all your submissions! Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any questions.

Attention! DASA is pleased to invite you to the first lecture series of the year: The Three Theatres of the Italian Renaissance presented by Peter Henry

The event is open to the public and is located here:

📍Medjuck Building Main Auditorium, 5410 Spring Garden Rd
⏰ January 28th, 2025 at 7pm

Rossetti Scholars 2025 | Travel Scholarship Exhibition

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Katie Berwick - The Urban Archive: Places of Collection, Categorization and Curation (Scotland)

Maya Kerfoot - Notes on Craft: Spanish Ceramics as Living Practice (Spain)

Cole Fraser - Post-Industrial Landscapes: Understanding the Northeastern Mill Town Typology (New England)

Watson Scholars 2025 | Travel Scholarship Exhibition

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Charilaos (Harris) Georgakopoulos-Tolis - Mountainous Ghost Villages: Stories in Stone, Water, and The Trees (Greece)

Katherine MacLeod - Searching for Tír na nÓg: Mapping Myth and Memory in the Irish Landscape (Ireland)

Keegan Warren - New York by Night: Nightclubs and Atmospheres of Escape
(New York City)