Architecture/Fine Arts Library

05/27/2025

02/06/2025

February 6th and 7th is hosting thier Atmosphere conference. This year's gathering is named Kinship, after this beautiful book series Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, edited by Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and John Hausdoerffer.

The sessions of this event is named for each volume: PLANET, PLACE, PARTNERS, PERSONS, and PRACTICE.

You'll find these books on display in the Architecture/Fine Art Library throughout the gathering.

10/17/2024

🍩 Join us in the arch/fa library today at 10:30 for Donuts with the Dean, snack on a donut and chat with Faculty of Architecture Dean, Mimi Locher while enjoying our display of Winnipeg's Haunted Architecture! 🍩👻

This display features 13 sites built between 1830-1970 that are rumoured to be haunted. The display gathers library materials through the lens of historical research, researched with the support of the Winnipeg Building Index, and includes vertical files, building plans, heritage reports, architecture guide pamphlets, and reference books on local architecture, art, and heritage.

08/23/2024

Currently on display in the Architecture/Fine Art Library: design posters and models from EVIE 3010 - Environmental Design Interiors - Studio 3.2, winter 2024.

This course project, Reimagining the Modern Library as a Multimodal Civic Hub, asked students to reinterpret the interior space of a local public library while considering the library as a civic icon, a civic centre, and as a third place.

Student work by: Taza Pratt, Monal Lad, Sevina Tayeb, Kyra Penner, Erika Munnik

Course taught by Umid Abdullaev and Amanda Reis

06/21/2024

Happy Indigenous People's Day! Our Reading Room has an Indigenous Collection that highlights just some of the wonderful books we have on the art, architecture, media, and design of Indigenous Peoples across Turtle Island.

03/28/2024

We're wrapping up Women's History Month with a highlight of books on women designers in the built environment! 📚📖✨We have HUNDREDS of books featuring the work of women designers, as well as thematic resources on women, gender, feminism, representation, and sexism in design.

05/31/2019

Happy weekend Winnipeg! Are you curious about q***r art? We have some books for that 😁 ***r

05/22/2019

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05/08/2019

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04/22/2019

The National Digital Stewardship Residency for Art Information (NDSR Art) capstone event, The Art of Digital Stewardship, is accepting proposals for lightning talks! Lightning talk sessions will present a contribution, project, or theme related to the use of technology in art, digital preservation, digital archives, digital curation, or any topic related to the intersection of art and art information, particularly as it relates to digital media. Learn more here:

We are accepting proposals for lightning talks from the community. Lightning talk sessions will present a contribution, project, or theme related to the use of technology in art, digital preservation, digital archives, digital curation, or any topic related to the intersection of art and art informa...