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Tracey Eve Winton
  • Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Playa del Carmen, Mexico; and                                       

    Rome, Lazio, Italy

Tracey Eve Winton

University of Waterloo, School of Architecture, Faculty Member
Papers & Essays
Strangers In Paradise: Retracing Colonialism Through Tourism in the Balinese Landscape, WINTONmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
A critical reflection on how colonialism directly underlies tourism on this island, and how it impacted the culture that tourists still come to see. A history of Bali, Indonesia in the 20th century, involving literature and the visual... more
A critical reflection on how colonialism directly underlies tourism on this island, and how it impacted the culture that tourists still come to see. A history of Bali, Indonesia in the 20th century, involving literature and the visual arts. Ultimately, a synthetic awareness in fictional or fictionalized literature may inform critical insights into cultures such as Bali's. Quoting from the story "Pura Goa Lawah" in Elizabeth Geoghegan's 2019 book Eightball, referencing the poetry of Adrienne Rich, and Elizabeth Gilbert's 2006 book Eat, Pray, Love.
A super abbreviated version of a 15-minute talk given at AISU in Bologna, September 2019. For reference only. The extended​ version coming when I have time.
Publication Date: 2019
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Drawing Out Hidden Depths: Tracing A Path Through the Castelvecchio Courtyard, Verona, by Tracey Eve Wintonmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
FRASCARI SYMPOSIUM IV The Secret Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models From Translating to Archiving, Collecting, and Displaying Session: Drawing Sites Drawing Out Hidden Depths: Tracing A Path Through the Castelvecchio Courtyard,... more
FRASCARI SYMPOSIUM IV
The Secret Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models
From Translating to Archiving, Collecting, and Displaying
Session: Drawing Sites

Drawing Out Hidden Depths: Tracing A Path Through the Castelvecchio Courtyard, Verona


“A Castelvecchio tutto era falso…” — Carlo Scarpa

At Verona’s Castelvecchio Museum, Carlo Scarpa drew the architecture he imagined outside of conventions, in a layered, fragmentary idiom, producing images more resembling contemporary art than contract documents. Although he drew over measured prints, his drawings (archived on site) reveal traces of his working process, and incorporate the passage of time and the experience of movement.
How Scarpa drew, in this case by materializing the drawing with coloured shading, both reflects his creative position with respect to knowledge-construction and discloses his reasoning. His drawings offer clues to specific narratives which he embedded into the architecture, and their communicative meanings.
This paper forms part of a work in progress. With Scarpa, my interest lies in the strategies he devises, linked to the ideas of his friend Bruno Zevi, to formulate a modern language of architecture, a kind of architecture that is capable of communicating to its visitors across the entire ontological spectrum, from the conceptual to the material. (Where the ‘material’ does not mean a Renaissance version of the phenomenology of materials, but (due to the implementation of arte povera as a material model) has to do more with texture, craft and finish, as well as process.)
In the postwar era in Italy and USA, artists like Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Robert Smithson, etc. innovated non-mimetic practices that provided the work a ‘space’ of play, in which  processes we could call nature, chaos, or entropy, might enter to impact and counter-balance the formal aspects which the artist imposed. This strategy downplayed a work’s or an individual element’s object-quality in favour of emphasizing the processes in which it was materially engaged. [The implication of this mode of thinking is that the work (building, model or drawing) forms a ‘weak’ or provisional center to an ecological context, and it is not discontinuous with it.] [These processes revealed destruction and creation to be indivisible.] The very idea of a connected sequence linked by organic elements with the notion that Frank Lloyd Wright called “continuity.”
Scarpa’s surfaces could be analogical to contemporary ‘action painting’ as described by Harold Rosenberg, “At a certain moment the canvas began to appear to one American painter after another as an arena in which to act — rather than as a space in which to reproduce, redesign, analyze or ‘express’ an object, actual or imagined. What was to go on the canvas was not a picture but an event. The painter no longer approached his easel with an image in his mind; he went up to it with material in his hand to do something to that other piece of material in front of him. The image would be the result of this encounter.” Rosenberg’s critique, grounded in the paradigm shift in modernity from iconic representation to the indexical trace, shifted the focus from the formal appearance of the work to the interaction. In this, the completed artifact manifested traces of how it was made, the act of creation in which the art consisted. This was not just an American model, for important American artists worked in Italy, where Lucio Fontana started slashing canvases in the 1950s.
Publication Date: 2019
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Plato’s Case: Still Life, Vanitas, and Nature Mortemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
In 1997 I wrote this essay reflecting on two important exhibitions in London: Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, at the Royal Academy of Arts ( sponsored by Christie’s), and Objects of Desire: The Modern Still... more
In 1997 I wrote this essay reflecting on two important exhibitions in London: Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection, at the Royal Academy of Arts ( sponsored by Christie’s), and Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, at the Hayward Gallery (sponsored by BMW).

Still life emerged as a modern painting genre in the early seventeenth century, and by the turn of this century included sculpture as a medium. It originates and defines its limits architecturally, that is, on the near side of perspective’s picture window, in the intimate presence of domestic space, the place of everyday life. Still life or nature morte is empirically constituted by its subject matter. Typically, the raw foods that sustain life and the implements related to them in the domestic scene are presented horizontally on a table-top, the quotidian stage of the private human drama.
Those things which appear in the still life are denoted already at a remove from nature, conscripted into the service of human life. These are not sublime objects of love or veneration from the tradition of art which serves and constitutes religion. Instead, their mundanity limits the potentiality of human relations toward them, and the still life articulates and explores this delimited mortal sphere as the repetitive theatre of subsistence.
Although its objects may be commonplace, their deliberate choice and organization identify them as objects of desire.
Publication Date: 1997
Publication Name: Unpublished
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Eleven Angels in the Ceiling of Flames: Architectural Speculations in the Library of Urbinomore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Around 1460, when the widowed Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino married his second wife, the cultivated Battista Sforza, he began collecting books. His collection grew prodigious, and his ambitious architectural program included dedicated... more
Around 1460, when the widowed Federigo da Montefeltro of Urbino married his second wife, the cultivated Battista Sforza, he began collecting books. His collection grew prodigious, and his ambitious architectural program included dedicated space for a library. Under the north loggia of his former architect Luciano Laurana’s “secular cloister,” the library door stands conspicuous on the route from the carriageway to the grand stair to the apartments on the piano nobile. Its prominent location, unusual iconography, and personal importance to Federigo signal that it has a story to tell. His architect, Francesco di Giorgio Martini, told that complex story through the medium of architecture.
In the Library in the ducal palace at Urbino, Italy, the books may have gone, but the story endures in built form.
This is an abbreviated version of the paper intended for publication, but the full-length paper will be uploaded when I have a chance to revise it.
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DOES URBAN DEVELOPMENT ALWAYS LEAD TO GENTRIFICATION? THE BATTLE FOR DWELLING SPACE IN COLONIA COLOSIO, PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Q. ROO, MEXICOmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Public presentation on urban gentrification in Playa del Carmen, Mexico
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The Alternate Reality Game in Architectural Education: An Adventure in Transmedia Storytelling, Placemaking, History, Collaboration, Public Space, & How Playing Fosters Learningmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
ON THE MORNING of November 22, 2016, a journalist in the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario, Canada broke a news story presenting new evidence in a cold case that had baffled police for nearly a full century. Her story was based on an... more
ON THE MORNING of November 22, 2016, a journalist in the Kitchener-Waterloo region of Ontario, Canada broke a news story presenting new evidence in a cold case that had baffled police for nearly a full century. Her story was based on an interview with a middle-aged local woman named Janneth C. Smith whom she had tracked down through Facebook and contacted by email. Lisa Drew tantalized her avid audience with historical artifacts and old news clippings belonging to Smith’s family that suggested a solution to the hundred year old mystery: the abrupt and absolute disappearance of Toronto theatre magnate Ambrose Small in 1919 after cashing a cheque for one million dollars, leaving behind his baffled wife, his secretary, and his empire of numerous theatres. Police investigations of the high profile case, and rewards offered, even the clairvoyants they interviewed, came to nothing. While Ambrose Small never really left the public imagination due to his role in Michael Ondaatje’s famous historical novel In the Skin of a Lion, Small was an intriguing character in his own right, immensely wealthy and powerful, whose buildings concealed more than theatre machinery: there were secret apartments and hidden rooms within their walls. As the sensational report ran on 570 News, Facebook searches for Janneth C. Smith surged into the hundreds of thousands.
There was only one problem with the viral news story. The news anchor had unknowingly reported on a transmedia fiction. She had inadvertently tumbled down a ‘rabbit hole’ intended for game-players of an Alternate Reality Game designed by my second year architecture students as the collective term project in their Cultural History course. The students, of course, were elated, as they had just discovered at first hand the role of the imagination in how history is made.
More Info: Architectural education, architectural pedagogy, education of architecture students, beginning design
Publication Date: 2017
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The Wall as Architecture, Symbol and Idea: Rome and Campanella’s Poetic City of the Sunmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
In 1644, Pope Urban VIII augmented Rome’s Aurelian Wall, the city’s third-century defensive boundary, fortifying Trastevere and the Vatican with his Janiculum Wall. In Baroque culture, the wall became a key armature for displaying and... more
In 1644, Pope Urban VIII augmented Rome’s Aurelian Wall, the city’s third-century defensive boundary, fortifying Trastevere and the Vatican with his Janiculum Wall. In Baroque culture, the wall became a key armature for displaying and embodying knowledge and order. How walls shift in meaning from defensive structure to heuristic and didactic is demonstrated in a book that Dominican monk Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) wrote during the 26 years he languished in lightless Inquisition prisons charged with sedition and heresy.
In 1602, Campanella wrote A Poetic City of the Sun. The Idea of a Philosophical Republic. His utopian vision, influenced by Plato’s Republic, demonstrated civic justice through permanent geometrical order registered in the architecture of the city, giving new dimensions to the ideal commonwealth genre.
Publication Date: 2015
Publication Name: Wallworks
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Visible Cities: A Theoretical Approach to Romemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
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Architecture’s Unfinished Business: Hotel Palenque Revisited Elsewhere in Yucatan, Mexicomore
by Tracey Eve Winton
"Architecture’s Unfinished Business: Hotel Palenque Revisited Elsewhere in Yucatan, Mexico.” Presentation of urbanistic research on self-built housing that combines the adaptive reuse of urban disjecta with indigenous Mayan building... more
"Architecture’s Unfinished Business: Hotel Palenque Revisited Elsewhere in Yucatan, Mexico.” Presentation of urbanistic research on self-built housing that combines the adaptive reuse of urban disjecta with indigenous Mayan building techniques and materials, in relation to urban growth, form, public space and streetscape in the Latin American city. Invited speaker in session ‘City as Culture: Mobility, Stories, Architecture’, at Symposium "Reimagining Resiliency in Urban Ecologies," for the Arts and Ideas in Motion (AIM) Project, held in Montreal, Canada, March 16-17 2015. The attached document is a crude pdf of my slides. 

The submitted 500 word ABSTRACT

“…it’s not often that you see buildings being both ripped down and built up at the same time.” — Robert Smithson, Hotel Palenque

In 1972 Robert Smithson lectured to architecture students in Utah on his experience of an unfinished and partially demolished hotel close to the important archaeological site in Palenque, Mexico, 3 years before. The artist’s Neorealist slideshow explored an abandoned, episodic edifice, tourism’s muddy handprint, owing its existence to the monumental Mayan architecture that he mentioned only in passing.
Playa del Carmen is a fast-growing city on the Mayan Riviera. The former fishing village is expanding to accommodate tourists, both Mexican and foreign, and its downtown is lined with gated resorts and interspersed with luxury condo development. Outside the tourist zone live people who support the industry and more often simply sustain local economy and culture. In Playa’s remote northern end, part of the city, not a suburb, most of the residents, indigenous Maya, don’t encounter foreigners, even though their economy depends on the trickle-down effect of visitors. Like a new Manhattan, Playa is laid out on a numbered grid. The streets parallel to the coast form Playa’s main arteries. While Avenida 30 is a traditional commercial street without ground-floor dwellings, Avenida 10 (double lanes split by a median) has single and double storeys, with hybridized fabric. Streets are the dwelling places of the collective.

“Also you know that the Mayans didn’t have to quarry their rocks,  they just went around and picked them up off the ground., because all the ground is loaded with all this broken rock.” — Robert Smithson, Hotel Palenque

On 10 and its cross streets, few buildings look ‘finished,’ and most are a shambles, though my body reads this fabric as comfortable: I don’t feel afraid to walk it alone at night. Smithson famously characterized buildings sites under construction as ruins in reverse, and his notorious Palenque talk really concerned the force of entropy in the landscape of culture. What I see on 10, though, is a built instantiation of mythic thinking, and a high degree of both ground-up and top-down organization — top-down being cultural norms and familiar practices, transparent to the community.

“…the bricoleur [creates] structures by means of events…” — Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind

Sustainable development is potentially optimized by adaptive reuse of urban materials, in other words, recognizing how architecture and the city metabolize. So let’s recuperate Mexican bricolage from the performance artists and bring it back to its home in the yard. Anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, in a book dedicated to his late friend Maurice Merleau-Ponty, characterized bricolage as working with heterogenous elements not preselected for the project. The Mexican bricoleur transforms his litany of oddments into a kind of Bachelardian poetics of space, which materially enfolds, yet at the same time transmits domestic and civic signs. It takes a great degree of social craft to integrate the city with the home by spatial sequencing and articulation, and this takes place around and through the events of dwelling.
Publication Date: 2015
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Latin American Studies, Architecture, Critical Regionalism (Architecture), Bricolage, Urban Planning, and 30 more
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Mythic Geology: Under the Surface at Palazzo del Temore
by Tracey Eve Winton
In 1525, Isabella d’Este’s son, Federico, commissioned architect Giulio Romano to build him a pleasure palace at the family’s stables at the south end of Mantua. Giulio took the mantle of Mannerism from the late Andrea Mantegna and... more
In 1525, Isabella d’Este’s son, Federico, commissioned architect Giulio Romano to build him a pleasure palace at the family’s stables at the south end of Mantua. Giulio took the mantle of Mannerism from the late Andrea Mantegna and created a masterwork of iconographically rich trompe l’oeil frescoes on the interior surfaces. Two of the corner rooms are particularly significant, the lyrical room of Amor and Psyche, and the Room of the Fall of the Giants, which depicts a massive architectural collapse. The palace’s outer walls manifested a bizarre articulation — including falling triglyphs and rising keystones — that scholars have debated the meaning of for years. This essay shows the complex interconnections within the complex, the city, and the Roman classical heritage, by which these façades form a manifesto, in which Giulio Romano confronts the meaning of architectural language as well as the role of the architect as intermediary between Form and Matter.
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Publication Date: 2014
Publication Name: The Material Imagination. Now published by Ashgate
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The Satyric Scene: Palladio's Villa Rotondamore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Andrea Palladio’s research and work concerning the Roman tradition of theatre most famously resulted in the Teatro Olimpico, completed by his protégé, Vincenzo Scamozzi. However, another work, the Villa Rotonda, distills and transposes... more
Andrea Palladio’s research and work concerning the Roman tradition of theatre most famously resulted in the Teatro Olimpico, completed by his protégé, Vincenzo Scamozzi. However, another work, the Villa Rotonda, distills and transposes Palladio’s ideas in response to its particular site and landscape, and explains the villa’s particular morphology. Palladio left one conspicuous clue to what he was up to, right in the dead centre of the plan: A mysterious mask, grinning up at the visitor from the marble floor.
Publication Date: 2013
Publication Name: Architecture as a Performing Art
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Footprints in Stone: A Psychogeography of Romemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
A crescent of seven sacred hills, the city of Rome is carved by the drunken Tiber. The lifetime of this poisoned river god overflows from a drowsy channel to Rome's glorious and infamous past. From two of Rome's distended mounds—Palatine... more
A crescent of seven sacred hills, the city of Rome is carved by the drunken Tiber. The lifetime of this poisoned river god overflows from a drowsy channel to Rome's glorious and infamous past. From two of Rome's distended mounds—Palatine and Aventine respectively—Romulus and Remus watched for signs from the other world of where the city was to lie. At that time, the Roman landscape dreamed in flights of vultures, and revealed its will through the divinities of nature.
Publication Date: 2005
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Imaginary Landscapes in Rome : the motional imagination in uninhabitable placesmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2007
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FLESH OF STONE: BUILDINGS, STATUES, ENTANGLED BODIESmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Draught version. A look at the statue in Renaissance literature, artistry, philosophy, and psychology through the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) as a symbol of the intertwining of the body and architecture, with special reference to the... more
Draught version. A look at the statue in Renaissance literature, artistry, philosophy, and psychology through the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499) as a symbol of the intertwining of the body and architecture, with special reference to the works of Alberto Pérez-Gómez and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
This essay is dedicated to Alberto Pérez-Gómez and the final version is published for his Festschrift in a new volume called Architecture's Appeal: How Theory Informs Architectural Praxis, edited by Marc Neveu and Negin Djavaherian (Routledge, 2015)
More Info: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138024229/
Publication Date: 2015
Publication Name: Architecture's Appeal: How Theory Informs Architectural Praxis
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The North's Orphic Ecology: R. Murray Schafer and the Canadian Landscapemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
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Hypnerotomachia Chapters 1 & 2more
by Tracey Eve Winton
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The Dream and the Wake : An Alchemy of Words and Scenes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Finnegans Wakemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: If you get Project Muse publications through your library, you will find this essay and the entire book at: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813042671?auth=0
Publication Date: 2013
Publication Name: Renascent Joyce
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Hortus Spiritualis - Chapter Nine of A Skeleton Key to Poliphilo's Dreammore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2002
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Architecture Sub Rosa: Another Tell-Tale Detail, With Confabulations and Digressionsmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Essay based on my paper presented at the second Frascari Symposium (in memoriam Marco Frascari) of The Annunciation to Zacharias (Zachariah) in the Life of John the Baptist fresco cycle by Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, in the... more
Essay based on my paper presented at the second Frascari Symposium (in memoriam Marco Frascari) of The Annunciation to Zacharias (Zachariah) in the Life of John the Baptist fresco cycle by Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, in the church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. See previous pdf for the slides illustrating the talk. Published 2016 in a book by Routledge, Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture.
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Architecture Sub Rosa - Illustrations from Original Talkmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Slides from my paper presented at the second Frascari Symposium (in memoriam Marco Frascari) of The Annunciation to Zacharias (Zachariah) in the Life of John the Baptist fresco cycle by Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, in the... more
Slides from my paper presented at the second Frascari Symposium (in memoriam Marco Frascari) of The Annunciation to Zacharias (Zachariah) in the Life of John the Baptist fresco cycle by Renaissance painter Domenico Ghirlandaio, in the church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. See the next essay for the text, now published in a book, Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture.
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The Architectonic Landscape in Early Renaissance Paintingsmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
The Architectonic Landscape in Early Renaissance Paintings summarizes a long term research project dating back to my dissertation on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. This is a sketch for a much longer exposition on the continuum between... more
The Architectonic Landscape in Early Renaissance Paintings summarizes a long term research project dating back to my dissertation on the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. This is a sketch for a much longer exposition on the continuum between landscape and architecture, discussing quattrocento paintings and literature.
Location: Canada
Publisher: Riverside Architectural Press
Journal Name: Annual Projects Review
Organization: School of Architecture, University of Waterloo
Publication Name: Projects Review
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Eisenman’s Lost Footsteps: a circumlocutory and picaresque account with brief references to Scarpa and the ground beneath my feetmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Paper presented at “ Models and Drawings: The Invisible Nature of Architecture” conference, Nottingham, 2005. Original title: Drawing and Pilgrimage, Circumlocutory and Picaresque. See this title for the submitted abstract, which is a... more
Paper presented at “ Models and Drawings:  The Invisible Nature of Architecture” conference, Nottingham, 2005. Original title: Drawing and Pilgrimage, Circumlocutory and Picaresque. See this title for the submitted abstract, which is a little different. This paper concerns a temporary intervention and architectural installation by Peter Eisenman in the Castelvecchio Museum in Verona by architect Carlo Scarpa.
More Info: University of Nottingham conference, Models and Drawings: The Invisible Nature of Architecture.
Publication Date: 2005
Publication Name: Drawing and Pilgrimage, Circumlocutory and Picaresque
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Locus Suspectus: Haunted Buildingsmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2011
Publication Name: Projects Review Exhibition Catalogue, Design at Riverside Gallery, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Riverside Architectural Press
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Introduction to Threaded: Toting New Concepts in Architecturemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
My introduction to a book by Spencer Rand and Alana Young presenting crafted designs of tote bags by Waterloo Architecture students, from a 2008 exhibition.
Publication Date: 2008
Publication Name: Threaded: Toting New Concepts in Architecture
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Situated Collections: Catalogue of 1A Design Studio Project Fall 2011more
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Panic Hardware for an Architect's Dreammore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: A short article about the self-opening doors in the Temple of Venus in the Hypnerotomachia
Publication Date: 2013
Publication Name: Waterloo Architecture Design Projects Review 2012
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"The Name on the Grave" Festschrift essay for Eric Haldenbymore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2013
Publication Name: Liber Amicorum
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Waking Up in the Garden of Knowledgemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
A description of the course content and pedagogical goals of the fourth of the core double-credit Cultural History courses in the Waterloo Architecture curriculum, Arch 247, which I teach every Spring term. This paper was given at the... more
A description of the course content and pedagogical goals of the fourth of the core double-credit Cultural History courses in the Waterloo Architecture curriculum, Arch 247, which I teach every Spring term. This paper was given at the MADE "Design Education and the Art of Making" National Conference on the Beginning Design Student, at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

It was part of the following session:

"Making History"
Moderator: Emily Gunzburger Makas
The history survey is ubiquitously present in departments of art, architecture and design is typically required early in a student’s education. Whether in the first or second year, whether western or global, whether offered as a two, three or even four semester sequence, these history survey classes are remarkably similar from school to school. Despite attempts to broaden their scope and incorporate new approaches in art and architectural history and theory, most surveys are still a series of lectures that chronologically present brief exposures to the “canon” of key sites, works, designers and artists.
This conference session seeks discussion of innovative approaches to the art, architectural or design history survey. We welcome both untested new ideas about the survey as well as reports on successful examples of courses that were differently organized, in which the material was presented in non-traditional ways, that included different types of assessment and student activities, and/or that linked the survey more directly to other components of design education.
More Info: An earlier variant of this conference paper was titled Building on the Labyrinth's Foundations.
Publication Date: Mar 2010
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When the Old Mirror is Not Yet Polished, What Would You Say of It? (Fragments Toward a Weak Myth Through the Passages of the Museummore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1996
Publication Name: Chora: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, Volume 2
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Architecture and Cosmological Schema: Musings About Space and the Creative Processmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2009
Publication Name: Projects Review
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A Recirculation of the Philosopher's Stone (Molloy's Problem)more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1995
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Drawing and Pilgrimage, Circumlocutory and Picaresque (abstract)more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: University of Nottingham
More Info: AHRA Conference, Models and Drawings: The Invisible Nature of Architecture
Publication Date: 2005
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Editorial article: On the Road Againmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: McGill University
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Name: The Fifth Column (Student Journal of Architecture) Vol.8, No.4
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Phantasia: Faculty Psychology and the Creative Imagination in the Hypnerotomachia more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: Apr 10, 2012
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A Skeleton Key to Poliphilo's Dream: The Architecture of the Imagination in the Hypnerotomachiamore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: Ph.D. Dissertation, Cambridge University
Publication Date: 2002
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The Cosmos and its Double: The Role of Play in Representationmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Name: McGill Architecture History and Theory Graduate Program
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Wood and Water: Music in the Canadian Landscape, ed. Marina Zito e Angela Buonomore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2010
Publication Name: Ambiente e società canadesi
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Why Architects Wear Black and Other Grotesque and Sublime Mysteries: Being a Demonstration of Eros & Melancholy In the Hermetical Art of Architecture With Reference …more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Masters Thesis, McGill University, History and Theory Program in Architecture, with Alberto Pérez-Gómez as Supervisor. George Hersey (Yale University) as External Reader. A preliminary look at the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice 1499).... more
Masters Thesis, McGill University, History and Theory Program in Architecture, with Alberto Pérez-Gómez as Supervisor. George Hersey (Yale University) as External Reader. A preliminary look at the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (Venice 1499). I consider this a junior work superseded by my Ph.D. dissertation, A Skeleton Key to Poliphilo’s Dream.

A study of the symbolism of love and melancholy in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, an architectural treatise of the ltalian Renaissance written as a dream, in which an alchemical narrative structures the shaping of an adept through the education of his cognitive faculties. This author has speculated on the representational strategies of this satyrical and literary architecture and translated ioto English several key passages from the hero’s rhythmythical journey througb a musaic architectural wonderland.
More Info: Masters thesis at McGill University. Supervised by Alberto Pérez-Gómez, read by George Hersey.
Publisher: digitool.library.mcgill.ca
Publication Date: Jan 1, 1997
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The Cosmos and its Double: The Role of Play in Representationmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publisher: History and Theory Graduate Studio: 1993-1995, McGill University School of Architecture
Publication Date: 1994
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Theatre as Architectural Pedagogy
Tracey Eve Winton, The Cultural History Play in Architectural Education at Waterloomore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: Description of the history of the play project in my Cultural History course, 2006-2013. School of Architecture, University of Waterloo. Second year undergraduate students in the Bachelor of Architectural Studies Program.
Publication Date: 2013
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The Play - project outline, Cultural History, Arch 247more
by Tracey Eve Winton
The 2013 design brief, thematic discussion, and project outline, for the original work of experimental theatre that was finally performed as Erebus & Terror, created by the entire class working together towards one goal. The play... more
The 2013 design brief, thematic discussion, and project outline, for the original work of experimental theatre that was finally performed as Erebus & Terror, created by the entire class working together towards one goal.

The play merges Captain John Franklin's historical search for the Northwest Passage with Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein, which is set on board a ship in the Canadian Arctic trapped in pack ice. Franklin's two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, vanished searching for the route to the east, abandoned in Victoria Strait, yet never found.

Historical note: In the years following our production, the two historic ships were finally located (wrecked and underwater) in what is now Nunavut.

Scroll down the list of theatre works for links to videos of the full performance on Youtube.
More Info: This is the handout of the term project for a play created entirely by the whole second year undergraduate class in the pre-professional architecture program at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture.
Publication Date: May 2013
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The Mirror State - Behind the Scenesmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
It’s 1931. We’re in Surrealist era Paris — a world boiling over with odd juxtapositions and startling contrasts — for the opening of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale, a grand exhibition of foreign arts, reproducing at full scale... more
It’s 1931. We’re in Surrealist era Paris — a world boiling over with odd juxtapositions and startling contrasts — for the opening of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale, a grand exhibition of foreign arts, reproducing at full scale and architectural detail many of the world’s most sensational buildings, including the Great Temple of Angkor Wat. Most Surrealist artists boycotted the controversial expo, but one famous dramatist, actor, writer and artist, was drawn to its rich and curious cultures. In August that year, at the Dutch pavilion, he watched a wordless drama of gesture performed by a troupe of Balinese dancers. Shaken with inspiration, he conceived a modern dramatic form that returned to the body, materiality, sensuality and spatiality, to restore the rawness and blood ritual that western decadence had stripped from theatre and replaced by spoken language.

Our story features Antonin Artaud, whose experience of psychosis later brought him into the hands of one of the twentieth century's most famous psychoanalysts, Dr. Jacques Lacan, for 11 months in a Paris asylum. Lacan and Artaud were brilliant but difficult men, both former Surrealists, both working on problems of language and communication, and soon became antagonists for one another. 

The story unfolds as Artaud, working with friends, all major figures of the era, rehearses a new work of theatre based on the early detective story by Edgar Allan Poe that fascinated both him and Lacan, “The Purloined Letter.”  This is experimental theatre, modern theatre, as first proposed by Artaud himself: not an after-dinner entertainment, but rather a ‘theatre of cruelty’ intended to ‘awaken’ the audience into an existential experience in a physical language properly theatre’s own expressive form, and an enquiry into the relationship between fiction and reality.
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The Mirror State ISSUU documentmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
The Ico Play, the term project in Cultural History, is a multifaceted production whose complexity parallels an architectural project. It is spatial and narrative. It is conceptual and material. It is interactive and multilayered. The... more
The Ico Play, the term project in Cultural History, is a multifaceted production whose complexity parallels an architectural project. It is spatial and narrative. It is conceptual and material. It is interactive and multilayered. The organizational process is three-fold: grassroots, top-down, and ultimately lateral, as all involved in this design-build process continue to integrate and optimize elements all the way up to opening night. (Continued in document)
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ASCA Creative Achievement Award — abstractmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: The first recipient of this award was Robert Venturi, 1987-88
Publisher: Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
Publication Date: 2014
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The MIRROR STATE — August 6, 7, 8 — 2015.more
by Tracey Eve Winton
My 2B Cultural History class (75 undergraduate Architecture students) presents THE MIRROR STATE, August 6, 7, 8, at 7 pm. This year, our team tackled the story of Antonin Artaud, the famous dramatist, actor, writer and artist of the... more
My 2B Cultural History class (75 undergraduate Architecture students) presents THE MIRROR STATE, August 6, 7, 8, at 7 pm.
This year, our team tackled the story of Antonin Artaud, the famous dramatist, actor, writer and artist of the Surrealist era, whose experience of psychosis brought him into the hands of one of the twentieth century's most famous psychoanalysts, Dr. Jacques Lacan, for 11 months in a Paris asylum. Lacan and Artaud were brilliant but difficult men, both former Surrealists, both working on problems of language and communication, and soon became antagonists for one another. The story unfolds as Artaud, working with friends, all major figures of the era, rehearses a new work of theatre based on the early detective story by Edgar Allan Poe that fascinated both him and Lacan, “The Purloined Letter.” Experimental modern theatre as first proposed by Artaud himself: not an after-dinner entertainment, but rather a ‘theatre of cruelty’ intended to ‘awaken’ the audience into an existential experience, in a physical language properly theatre’s own expressive form, and an enquiry into the relationship between fiction and reality.
More Info: Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo0x_D0VGoA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inSAtONGMlw&feature=youtu.be
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MUSE - July 17, 18, 19 — 2014more
by Tracey Eve Winton
In 1890, architect Stanford White, of McKim, Mead, and White, built the second Madison Square Garden in New York. Sixteen years later he was murdered on its rooftop terrace. MUSE is a story about architecture, models, statuary … and the... more
In 1890, architect Stanford White, of McKim, Mead, and White, built the second Madison Square Garden in New York. Sixteen years later he was murdered on its rooftop terrace. MUSE is a story about architecture, models, statuary … and the female body.
To view the entire drama on Youtube, mouse over the links below to find two video versions, the first filmed and edited by my friend and colleague Terri Boake and the second filmed and edited by architecture student Rui Hu and his crew.
The play was staged in its entirety and in every aspect by the second year class, in the pre-professional architecture program, as the term project for Cultural History IV.
Location: Cambridge, Ontario
More Info: The annual Cultural History play at the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, created in its entirety by the second year undergraduate class in the pre-professional Architecture program.
Event Date: Jul 17, 2014
Publication Date: Jul 17, 2014
Publication Name: MUSE Playbill
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EREBUS & TERROR — 2013more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Erebus & Terror is the story of Captain John Franklin's doomed expedition to the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. The crew is suffering from their isolation in this hostile environment; their ships are trapped in the... more
Erebus & Terror is the story of Captain John Franklin's doomed expedition to the Canadian Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. The crew is suffering from their isolation in this hostile environment; their ships are trapped in the pack ice, food is scarce, and the cold is unrelenting. In the darkness of the long Arctic winter, a dying stranger arrives with his terrible story.
Organization: The first linked video is a Behind the Scenes look that shows the second year architecture students in the process of making the play, in all its complexity. The play is the term project for my Cultural History course, Arch 247. The second is a video of the play at an actual performance.
Publication Date: Aug 1, 2013
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by Tracey Eve Winton
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Publication Date: 2013
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ATHRU — 2012more
by Tracey Eve Winton
An original script based on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, site-specific theatre in the Canadian landscape. Every summer, the second year class at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture write, direct, produce, and perform a... more
An original script based on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, site-specific theatre in the Canadian landscape. Every summer, the second year class at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture write, direct, produce, and perform a play based on material covered in their Cultural History course. Taking R. Murray Schafer's writings on the 'Theatre of Confluence' as a point of departure for non-contemporary theatre, our production team created an out of the ordinary theatre experience. This year's performance takes place at Taylor Lake, where the audience is engaged both with nature and with the performers. For this reason we ask that audience members take care while walking through the site, wear comfortable walking shoes and clothing, use bug spray, and use umbrellas when necessary.
Publication Date: 2012
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ILION — 2011more
by Tracey Eve Winton
The city of Troy is an ancient place, and a modern one. Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist, Homer, the mythical blind poet, and Achilles, the Greek hero, are each passionately trying to find their way into it. Imagining Troy,... more
The city of Troy is an ancient place, and a modern one. Heinrich Schliemann, the German archaeologist, Homer, the mythical blind poet, and Achilles, the Greek hero, are each passionately trying to find their way into it. Imagining Troy, they begin recreating the city and its people. As Schliemann investigates ruins, and Homer sings his poetry, the legends and stories grow and come to life between them. Gradually, the ghosts of Greek armies and the shadows of Trojan walls become alive and solid. As Homer and Schliemann struggle to enter the re-imagined Troy, their lives and their quests are woven together. But what, and where, really, is the city?

Each summer, second year students from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture, located in Cambridge, Ontario, stage a play as the major term project for their Cultural History course. This year, we are presenting Ilion, our version of the legend of the siege of Troy. The play was created by the Cultural History class of Professor Tracey Eve Winton.
Publication Date: 2011
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ILION — original soundtrackmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: Waterloo Architecture 2B Play http://ilion-soundtrack.bandcamp.com/releases
Publication Date: 2011
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CYCLOPS — 2010more
by Tracey Eve Winton
The 2010 Cultural History Play, CYCLOPS, under the direction of Professor Tracey Eve Winton. This play is an annual event created in conjunction with the Cultural History course ARCH 247. The students are responsible for direction,... more
The 2010 Cultural History Play, CYCLOPS, under the direction of Professor Tracey Eve Winton. This play is an annual event created in conjunction with the Cultural History course ARCH 247. The students are responsible for direction, costumes, set, props, dialogue, lighting, music and script. The video is close to an hour long and is uploaded in 6 parts.
More Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclops_(play) ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr_play
Publication Date: 2010
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EKSTASIS — 2009more
by Tracey Eve Winton
A performance of Euripides' play The Bacchae, staged in the rooms and circulation spaces of the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo which served as metaphorical settings for the ancient city of Thebes and its surrounding... more
A performance of Euripides' play The Bacchae, staged in the rooms and circulation spaces of the School of Architecture, University of Waterloo which served as metaphorical settings for the ancient city of Thebes and its surrounding countryside.
Publication Date: 2009
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CHORA — 2008more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2008
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CHORA (program from play, 2008)more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2008
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Doctor Faustus — 2007more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2007
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A Dream Play — 2006more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2006
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Teaching Documents
Architectural Details and Intentio: an assignment for architecture studentsmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
In Book I of Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s 1436 treatise On Painting, he discusses the importance of strategic positioning when constructing a painting in perspective, to tell a story, in order that the chosen viewpoint... more
In Book I of Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s 1436 treatise On Painting, he discusses the importance of strategic positioning when constructing a painting in perspective, to tell a story, in order that the chosen viewpoint offer him optimal understanding of his object, so that “he places himself at a distance as if searching the point and angle of the pyramid from which point he understands the thing painted is best seen.” Alberti is suggesting that the basis of knowledge lies in positioning and orientation. If this is valid in painting, the same can be claimed for the temporal experience of architecture.
Publication Date: 2011
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Baroque World - Italian Urban History - Lecture handout - Wintonmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
This is the class handout for my two lectures in the Italian Urban History course covering the Baroque period in Rome, contextualized with European transformations and world view.
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Arch 446 — Italian Urban History — Case Study Project: Metamorphosis & Adaptive Re-usemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: Old version - 2013
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Arch 192 Collage Charette 2011more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Event Date: 2011
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SITUATED COLLECTIONS ARCH 192 | 1A DESIGN STUDIO | FALL 2011 PROJECT 4more
by Tracey Eve Winton
A first year Architecture Design Studio project to house a collection of objets trouvés or found objects as an installation. This project was given in Fall 2011.
Event Date: 2011
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Representation: First Year Design Studio Project Outlinemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Introductory project for first year architecture students, involving measuring their own body and measuring a house.
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Architecture Design Studio - First Year Course Outlinemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Architecture Design Studio - First Year Introductory Course Outline.
Event Date: 2011
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M.Arch. Graduate Scholarship Application Advice more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: Ontario, Canada
More Info: This brief was written for my students applying to the now defunct Ontario Graduate Scholarship in order to fund the Master of Architecture degree. In 2011 I was on the jury and these are my notes of advice for professors and other referees as well as the student applicants themselves.
Event Date: 2011
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Drawing your Design Project - 2nd year undergrad Studio, Waterloo Architecturemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Event Date: 2011
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Arch 492 Design Studio - Romemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Arch 446 Italian Urban Historymore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Course outline for Arch 446 Italian Urban History
Location: Rome, Italy
Event Date: 2013
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Arch 247 Cultural History IVmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
A double credit value course (6 hours per week) oriented to the shifts in world view of early modernity, roughly spanning the 1400s-1600s, and dealing in ways of seeing (perspective), architectural meaning, utopian paradigms and... more
A double credit value course (6 hours per week) oriented to the shifts in world view of early modernity, roughly spanning the 1400s-1600s, and dealing in ways of seeing (perspective), architectural meaning, utopian paradigms and hermeneutics, the printed book and the relation of text and image, interior space in materiality and the human body, fragmentation and the infinite, and the essay as a conceptual structure in the landscape of thinking.
The course is evaluated in two ways: by a series of weekly quizzes on primary text readings, and through a public theatrical production created in its entirety by the second year class. This project has a separate handout and is based on different themes and ideas every year. The course is thematically accompanied by weekly movies dating from the 1970s to the present.
Location: Cambridge, ON, CA
More Info: Outline for core course in Cultural History at Waterloo Architecture
Event Date: May 2014
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Mnemosyne Atlas - Aby Warburg - Slidesmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
PDF images of a slide lecture concerning Aby Warburg’s project Mnemosyne Atlas, to introduce the Design Studio class in the Rome Program to creating their own image atlas.
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PROJECT 3: CASE STUDIES of Modern Housesmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Outline for a case study project on HOUSES for a first year Architecture Design Studio, focusing on 20 built works.
Event Date: 2011
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Student Work
Beyond the Campo Marzio BOOK — Matthew Davis & Miles Gertler, 4A Rome Design Studiomore
by Tracey Eve Winton
1a The title of this project refers to the geographical area in Rome, the Campo Marzio (Latin: “Campus Martius”). This was the designated military grounds outside of the city limits predating the Imperial and Late Republican era of Roman... more
1a
The title of this project refers to the geographical area in Rome, the Campo Marzio (Latin: “Campus Martius”). This was the designated military grounds outside of the city limits predating the Imperial and Late Republican era of Roman antiquity.
As the old city expanded beyond the limits of the Pomerium, the area became its centre and, to this day, is loaded with iconic works and archaeological traces from the antique world, including the Pantheon, Piazza Navona (a planometric tracing of the Stadium of Domitian), and various Egyptian obelisks.
Since antiquity the district has been in a state of perpetual rebuilding and layering, adding an abundance of public space (in the form of piazzas and public buildings) to the city (a circular sample area with a 1km diameter, taken by the authors of this project, reveals an 8.3% surface area of dedicated, exposed public space in the Campo Marzio). It is the quintessential urban district; one filled with public rooms of all scales which lead, from one to another, as a continuous connective fabric.
1b
The title of this project refers to the frontispiece image from Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 1762 work, “Il Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma.” In it, Piranesi layers urban fantasy with typological invention in a pseudo-historical collage of the Campo Marzio area of Rome. Referencing the planometric arsenal of ancient Roman architecture, Piranesi constructs an otherworldly image of the Campo Marzio, indicating a few real architectural elements rooted in the period from which he draws. These elements, amidst a field of invention, give geographical bearing and a ghostly sense of reality to this utopian vision of the ancient city.
1c
From the allusions conjured by the title of this project, one could gather that this design for a new park in the Ostiense district might have something to do with urban rooms, an otherworldly vision of public space and the city, typological appropriation, and the thrust by which a formerly peripheral district becomes central to the city it was once only attached to.
Location: Waterloo Rome Program in Architecture
Publication Date: Dec 2012
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"On Making" M.Arch. Thesis, Melissa Ngmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Grasping the wooden handle of a dozukime saw with both hands, I make a rip-cut into a block of eastern white pine, leaving behind a 1/64-inch wide kerf. I am cutting a dovetail: a wood joint developed over five-thousand years ago by the... more
Grasping the wooden handle of a dozukime saw with both hands, I make a rip-cut into a block of eastern white pine, leaving behind a 1/64-inch wide kerf. I am cutting a dovetail: a wood joint developed over five-thousand years ago by the hands of our ancestors. Even now, a well-fitted dovetail joint remains one of the strongest, most elegant ways to join wood. I knew nothing about traditional woodworking when I first picked up a hand-plane, but I was soon inspired by the richness of the craft: the quality of a hand-planed finish, the spirit of craftsmanship, and the nature of material. I was amazed by the wealth of knowledge embodied in craftwork. The tools and materials I encountered spoke to me; I learned to care for them and for my work. How would the things I make endure through time? How would the things I make affect others? In an era where materialism has come to represent a spiritless relationship to the things around us, traditions of craft can teach us how to imbue the human spirit in our work. After making a harvest table, four chairs, ninety-four earthenware pots, and a lamp, I reflect on the act of making as a means of discovery. Making affects our thinking and our approach to material and environment. Making can help us develop a craftsman’s capacity to listen, a great respect for material, and a desire to make better objects for posterity. Making is learning.

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More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2014
Publication Name: On Making
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"The House of Matter" M.Arch. Thesis, Benjamin Leif Nielsenmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Everything falls apart, but some materials do it with a specific panache, and once design leaves paper to be built, no project is complete until it falls. As creatures subject to time, we identify with things in which we see ourselves, we... more
Everything falls apart, but some materials do it with a specific panache, and once design leaves paper to be built, no project is complete until it falls. As creatures subject to time, we identify with things in which we see ourselves, we identify with our mortal buildings. Alchemy used material transformation as an active metaphor for human betterment. This thesis will search for ways that the inevitable indexing of time on the built environment can be used to catalyze a broader understanding of time and our place in it. Sympathetic engagement with our environments can form rich internal narratives while also fostering collective memory. Four materials form the basis of these investigations: Cedar, Copper, Iron and Marble. For each material, chemical properties, history and mythology are invoked to describe their particular temporal nature, an understanding of how they come together and fall apart. The four material chapters of this thesis mean to return a sense of cognitive depth to our relationship with materials without resorting to symbolism.
More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2011
Publication Name: The House of Matter
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Spanish Steps, Event as Spectacle — Darcy McNinch, Rob Micacchi, Ben Schumachermore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Click through to watch Youtube video.
More Info: Arch 446 - Italian Urban History - case study project
Publication Date: 2007
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"Sympathetic Landscapes: an aesthetics for the Leslie Street Spit" M.Arch. Thesis, Alexander Chanmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
The Leslie Street Spit is a five kilometre rubble breakwater on the eastern waterfront of Toronto. Built during the mid-twentieth-century as an infrastructural add-on to the existing Port Lands Industrial District, the artificial... more
The Leslie Street Spit is a five kilometre rubble breakwater on the eastern waterfront of Toronto. Built during the mid-twentieth-century as an infrastructural add-on to the existing Port Lands Industrial District, the artificial peninsula was a lakefilling project made to realize the city’s ambitious desire for economic prosperity and world-class prestige by expanding its existing harbour facilities. With the decline of Toronto’s shipping industry, the Leslie Spit remained an active dump site for urban clean fill until it was unexpectedly colonized by flora and fauna during the 1970s. The site is now recognized as an important local and international environmental resource. Visitors to the Leslie Spit experience a diverse landscape of ecosystems and industrial rubble helded by the city as a symbol of environmental revival within a former industrial region undergoing another phase of urbanization. While the local aesthetic experience of the headland is pleasurable and aligns with the reinvention of Toronto as am environmentally conscious and sustainable city, human visitors remain psychologically and physically removed from the inhabiting non-human life. Occasionally, the desire to conserve and preserve the natural world requires a separation between humans and non-humans. This relationship is carried out in varying degrees on the Leslie Spit. This thesis documents events at the headland where the human/non-human divide is rigidly enforced or left ambiguous. The purpose of the thesis is not to treat the headland as an eccentric spectacle, but to investigate the unexpected coexistence between humans and non-humans.
More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2014
Publication Name: Sympathetic Landscapes: an aesthetics for the Leslie Street Spit
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"Dancing Architecture: The parallel evolution of Bharatanatyam and South Indian Architecture" M.Arch. Thesis, Kavitha Jayakrishnanmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
In her book, "Indian Classical dance", Kapila Vatsyayan describes dance as the highest order of spiritual discipline, the enactment of which is symbolic of a ritual sacrifice of one's being to a transcendental order. The Natya-Shashtra, a... more
In her book, "Indian Classical dance", Kapila Vatsyayan describes dance as the highest order of spiritual discipline, the enactment of which is symbolic of a ritual sacrifice of one's being to a transcendental order. The Natya-Shashtra, a treatise on drama and dance, reveals the status of the performing arts as equal to prayer and sacrificial rites in the pursuit of moksha, the release form cycles of rebirth. Both dance and dancer function as a vehicle for divine invocation and are mirrored in the architectural surroundings. To investigate this connection between dance and place, it is imperative to understand the mythical origins of architecture and temple dance. the Hindu philosophy of the cosmic man and its religious relationship with the Dravidian architecture of Tamil Nadu is the starting point of the discussion of a south Indian aesthetic. The Vastu-purusha mandala is a philosophical diagram that provides a foundation for Hindu aesthetics, linking physical distance, religious position and universal scale in both time and space. Used as an architectural diagram, it becomes a mediator between the human body and the cosmos. The temple, as a setting for dance performances, and constructed based on the mandala, shares this quality of immersing its participants into a multi-sensory spatial experience. However, while the link between architecture and dance culture was explicit up to the 18th century, it is less compelling in the context of modern south Indian architecture. With an increasingly unstable political landscape during the 20th century, architectural growth in south India during this period is almost stagnant. Unfortunately, this creates a break in the continuity and comparative evolution of dance and architecture, leading to the fragmentation and abstraction of dance in its modern form. South Indian dance has since transformed into a prominent cultural symbol and various incarnations of the dancer have become the isolated yet important link, between tradition and modernity. As an evolving living embodiment of contemporary culture and identity, her transformation from Devadasi, to an icon of nationalism, to a choreographer of 'high art' provides the foundation for the reintegration of architecture in the cultural fabric. The culmination of this research aims to reinstate the importance of architecture as a cultural nexus in order to restring a fragmented dance, community and cultural identity.
More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2011
Publication Name: Dancing Architecture: The parallel evolution of Bharatanatyam and South Indian Architecture
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Bibliotheca Ostiense, Andrew Brown & Dustin Parkes, 4A Rome Design Studiomore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: Dec 2012
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"Divided Cities & the In-Between" M.Arch. Thesis, Meredith Vagamore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Abstract: All cities set up a condition of disjunction as they are inherently manmade ‘built’ places separate from the natural wilderness they abut. The cities that emerge over time are then places held in tension between the kinetic and... more
Abstract:  All cities set up a condition of disjunction as they are inherently manmade ‘built’ places separate from the natural wilderness they abut. The cities that emerge over time are then places held in tension between the kinetic and static forces of civilization, nature, people, ownership and infrastructure. These conflicting pieces manifest as division within the city. The division can be physically seen in specific gaps in the physical infrastructure: urban 'slips' that act as thresholds for a city by gathering and revealing the in/visible dueling qualities, and can ultimately prove to be important spaces and cultural magnets for the city. The analysis is centered on three specific 'slips' within three northern European cities: the South Bridge in Edinburgh, the Charles Bridge in Prague and the Berlin Wall. Looking from the perspective of both the physical, visible infrastructure and the unconscious, invisible cultural realm, these architectural objects are then charted through historical, literary, cartographic and urban analyses to come to an understanding of both the specific ‘characters’ or ‘spirits of place’ and the broad predisposition for division within cities.
More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2014
Publication Name: Divided Cities & the In-Between
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"Journey to the Centre of the Shield" M.Arch Thesis, Katherine Kuzanmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
The land of deep water lies in Ontario’s north, atop the boundless rock of the Shield. It holds the secret of an island once blossoming with copper ore. Here primordial elements dance in the ancient landscape and invite us to join them in... more
The land of deep water lies in Ontario’s north, atop the boundless rock of the Shield. It holds the secret of an island once blossoming with copper ore. Here primordial elements dance in the ancient landscape and invite us to join them in their awakening. Liquid portals, layered ancient rock and plunging mine shafts unearth a cosmic order born of chaos. Myth, geology and alchemy all fuse together in defining this place. This thesis is a journey to centre of the Shield, through the deep water, rock and voids that encircle it. It is an expedition into the multiplicities of time through the poetic imagination. Here on the bridge to preconsciousness, we are invited in. At the heart lies Copperfields, a mine isolated on an island in Temagami. Once bearing some of the purest copper on Earth, it now sits abandoned amidst fragments of its former glory. The design proposed reclaims these elements and animates them as gateways to the dynamic Shield. In the folds of time, quivering between thought and the preconscious, a fiction rich in meaning and experience is offered up. Let us now embark on our journey to the centre of the Shield.
More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2012
Publication Name: Journey to the Centre of the Shield
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"A Revetment” M.Arch. Thesis, Fariba Khorashahimore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Historically, in Iran, ornament was an integral part of architecture and considered a valuable part of built form. However, in time the use of ornament suffered from the decline of figural articulation in architecture, and its status was... more
Historically, in Iran, ornament was an integral part of architecture and considered a valuable part of built form. However, in time the use of ornament suffered from the decline of figural articulation in architecture, and its status was diminished to mere decoration. In this process, ornament shifted from a pattern that was integrated with the structure to the role of revetment, from symbolic to commemorative, and from meaningfully designed to arbitrary. Investigating the changing modes of ornament to understand its significance and survival, this thesis looks at the decline of ornament from its role as a necessary structural component and/or an expressive element communicating the common values of a society into an arbitrary fragment celebrating the significant past. Traditional ornament was dependent not only on architecture but also on science, cosmology, culture, art, literature, as well as on society and its beliefs; therefore there was an intimate relationship between ornament and its context, and more importantly including the inhabitant or spectator who held those beliefs. However, today those close ties no longer exist and ornament is characterized variously as luxurious, decorative, and retrospective. This change is studied from various perspectives including historical forces, prehistory, traditional Persian cultural expression, the incursion of Islamic motifs and geometries, modernity and folk legend. To retrieve and reinstate the link between ornament and building as well as with the spectator, the thesis project engages the narrative content of ornament to re-establish these relationships. It tells its own story not in a literal way, but rather through the complex tale of the lovers in the famous historical poem (c.1190) by Nezami. The thesis narrates the epic romance of Farhad and Shirin within a love triangle with its superb pictorial cues for depiction. The story unfolds through a series of architectures and architectural representations and images. The theme and motifs of the poem imply transition (both spiritual and physical) that corresponds to the transformative mode of ornament par excellence. The ornamental manifestation of the depicted poem is applied in a subway station which is in itself the locus of transition in our contemporary lives. The architectural details of the design project are fragments of the selected episodes from the story.
More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2013
Publication Name: A Revetment
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"The Mongrel Approach" M.Arch. Thesis, Lauren Poonmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Cities are concentrations of diverse populations that undergo continual transformation over time. This thesis deals with the question, how does the individual make place in a constantly changing environment? The entry point for this study... more
Cities are concentrations of diverse populations that undergo continual transformation over time. This thesis deals with the question, how does the individual make place in a constantly changing environment? The entry point for this study was looking at neglected places in urban environments. I looked specifically at the Don River Valley in Toronto, Ontario and how it has developed as an open-ended and complex system. The site research is presented through a series of stories describing specific events or places in the Don Valley that have taken place over the past 200 years. This thesis offers a mongrel approach to design for a site within the Don Valley. “The Mongrel Approach” is an opportunistic way of building that is committed to survival and open as to how this can be achieved. The design proposes a series of intimate yet public infrastructural devices; a toilet, water fountain, shelter and bridge that are presented in a set of hand drawings as well as through an “Explanatory Tale.” A magpie narrates this short story, which is part true, part fiction and part wishful thinking. As the earth’s population becomes more urban than rural and increasingly mobile, contemporary cities are becoming home to a diverse range of individuals with complex and layered identities. The Mongrel Approach offers a way of building that can handle difference and contradiction and accommodate incongruous or inharmonious parts. It positions the designer as a conjurer or first mover. This thesis proposes Mongrel buildings that respond to change by transforming slowly and incrementally over time with the involvement of multiple authors; but at each moment, a register of time and human ritual.
More Info: Note: Drawings start p.125; Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2011
Publication Name: The Mongrel Approach
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Ex-Mattatoio, Andrew Brown, Qinyu Lu, Dustin Parkes, 4A Rome — Italian Urban History Case Studymore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: Sep 2012
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Museum for the Roman Forum — Kemal Alladin & Dave Holborn, 4A Rome Design Studiomore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: Dec 2013
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Centrale Montemartini — Alex Bodkin, Dave Holborn, Aidan Mitchelmore, 4A Rome — Italian Urban History Case Studymore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: Arch 446 — Italian Urban History — case study project
Publication Date: 2013
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“Necessary Fiction” M.Arch. Thesis, Allan Wes Wilsonmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
"While documenting the Old Spitalfields Market in London, UK prior to its renovation in 2006, I happened across a simple yet provocative statement: 'this will all be fields again', inscribed into the existing pavement in an area just... more
"While documenting the Old Spitalfields Market in London, UK prior to its renovation in 2006, I happened across a simple yet provocative statement: 'this will all be fields again', inscribed into the existing pavement in an area just inside one of the eastern entrances. What it was able to report in just six simple words is the inescapable process of transformation to which the entire neighbourhood had been and will be subjected to. Rediscovered in a photograph years later, the presence of that message is explored here.
As an instrumental narrative, this thesis invests in four parameters of architecture that are as much a reflection of my own struggle to articulate the experience of both literally and figuratively moving within the neighbourhood, as they are indicative of the neighbourhood’s propensity for fragmentation and fluctuation through time.
Throughout this work, I have tried to place myself both on and in the moment of crisis between the opposed binaries of the material and immaterial city, and to write the necessary fiction that might allow me to hold them simultaneously in the present."
More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2010
Publication Name: Necessary Fiction
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Beyond the Campo Marzio PANELS — Matthew Davis & Miles Gertler, 4A Rome Design Studiomore
by Tracey Eve Winton
1a The title of this project refers to the geographical area in Rome, the Campo Marzio (Latin: “Campus Martius”). This was the designated military grounds outside of the city limits predating the Imperial and Late Republican era of Roman... more
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The title of this project refers to the geographical area in Rome, the Campo Marzio (Latin: “Campus Martius”). This was the designated military grounds outside of the city limits predating the Imperial and Late Republican era of Roman antiquity.
As the old city expanded beyond the limits of the Pomerium, the area became its centre and, to this day, is loaded with iconic works and archaeological traces from the antique world, including the Pantheon, Piazza Navona (a planometric tracing of the Stadium of Domitian), and various Egyptian obelisks.
Since antiquity the district has been in a state of perpetual rebuilding and layering, adding an abundance of public space (in the form of piazzas and public buildings) to the city (a circular sample area with a 1km diameter, taken by the authors of this project, reveals an 8.3% surface area of dedicated, exposed public space in the Campo Marzio). It is the quintessential urban district; one filled with public rooms of all scales which lead, from one to another, as a continuous connective fabric.
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The title of this project refers to the frontispiece image from Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s 1762 work, “Il Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma.” In it, Piranesi layers urban fantasy with typological invention in a pseudo-historical collage of the Campo Marzio area of Rome. Referencing the planometric arsenal of ancient Roman architecture, Piranesi constructs an otherworldly image of the Campo Marzio, indicating a few real architectural elements rooted in the period from which he draws. These elements, amidst a field of invention, give geographical bearing and a ghostly sense of reality to this utopian vision of the ancient city.
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From the allusions conjured by the title of this project, one could gather that this design for a new park in the Ostiense district might have something to do with urban rooms, an otherworldly vision of public space and the city, typological appropriation, and the thrust by which a formerly peripheral district becomes central to the city it was once only attached to.
Location: Waterloo Rome Program in Architecture
More Info: Davis / Gertler Beyond Campo Marzio Book.pdf Davis / Gertler Beyond Campo Marzio panels.pdf
Publication Date: Dec 2012
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“I love my house. I am my house” M.Arch. Thesis, Darcy Shaun McNinchmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I... more
My first experience of architecture, a nearly universal case, was that of the house I grew up in. A century old, black & white clapboard farmhouse outside of Kingston, Ontario was where I called home. Having grown up and left it behind, I find I have developed a certain amount of nostalgia or homesickness regarding my mostly positive memories and recurring dreams that take place there. The house is not lost, in fact my parents still live there, and I return several times each year to retrace my childhood rituals, sleep in my old room, dream in my old bed, eat, play and reminisce in my old home. I can return to my home, but not my childhood, and yet the two seem inseparable. This space houses my dreams and memories of childhood; floorboards, doorknobs, and wallpaper are all triggers for recollection, the ornamentation of the home is a connective entity into my past. As my parents grow older, they are finding they don’t want to be so isolated, alone in a house too big for just the two of them. The possibility of them selling the house looms heavily on my mind. I don’t want to lose this special place. This is a study of the way in which an individual becomes bound to architecture, psychologically and physically, using the home to which I feel so connected as a guide. I’ve grown apart from my house in the years since I moved out, and much of the connection has been broken. In place of this connection, at my return, there is a certain sense of the unfamiliar in this familiar space. How can I make this intangible connection both apparent and relevant to someone else?
More Info: Supervisor: Tracey Eve Winton, University of Waterloo School of Architecture
Publication Date: 2011
Publication Name: I love my house. I am my house
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Artwork
CRYSTALLIZATIONS OF THE SUBLIME: A PLACE WHERE TREES STAND IN WATER evoking Toronto's landscapemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Competition Entry for the Revitalization of Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto City Hall), Toronto, Canada, 2006. Team: Lorenzo Pignatti, Tracey Eve Winton, Robert Jan van Pelt, Yvonne Popovska, Leland Dadson, J. Martin. A deep feeling... more
Competition Entry for the Revitalization of Nathan Phillips Square (Toronto City Hall), Toronto, Canada, 2006.

Team: Lorenzo Pignatti, Tracey Eve Winton, Robert Jan van Pelt, Yvonne Popovska, Leland Dadson, J. Martin.

A deep feeling for urban forms is reflected in the powerful Canadian landscape visions of Group of Seven artist Lawren Harris. The austere beauty of his sculptural abstractions shares a language with Viljo Revell's vision for the City Hall and Henry Moore's sculpture known as The Archer. Our proposal to reinvigorate Nathan Phillips Square draws on Harris' poetics to evoke in Toronto's urban landscape his sense of the living land and its mysterious luminosity, and give visible presence to natural ecologies underlying the city.

A GLOWING TRANSLUCENT PLANE
Imagine the whole of Nathan Phillips Square illuminated by a new stone surface, glowing like a plane of translucent ice, flowing almost imperceptibly towards the reflecting pool to recall Toronto's relationship with Lake Ontario. This shimmering glacial plane extends over the whole square, unifying it and furnishing a layered and textured material that invites inhabitation. Lending metaphorical extension to the square's most popular element, the ice skating rink, emphasizes the civic function of popular representation. The topography invites the people of Toronto to gather on this surface, establishing a second centre, and complementing Revell's 'eye of government' by giving the community a sense of place built on collective memory.
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The Voyagemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1998
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The Return of Ulyssesmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1998
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A Case of Mistaken Identitymore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1998
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Looking for the Edgemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1998
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Exhibition Invitations
Exhibition of Design Studio Work — Waterloo Rome Program in Architecture — 2013more
by Tracey Eve Winton
The Exhibition shows fourth year undergraduate design projects for a Museum for the Roman Fora. The project takes into account the recent pedestrianization of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and proposes new public spaces along an urban... more
The Exhibition shows fourth year undergraduate design projects for a Museum for the Roman Fora. The project takes into account the recent pedestrianization of the Via dei Fori Imperiali and proposes new public spaces along an urban armature that includes a new Museum, a new Forum entrance, a new Metro station, and the Colosseum.
Publication Date: Dec 2013
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Reviews / Press
Houses in the City by Paul Symemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: Article includes a discussion of the Kensington Tower, Toronto
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Name: Canadian Architect
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Reclaiming Kensington Market: rising five storeys high above the bloodied carcasses and overripe fruit is a narrow wooden house, is it a beacon of change, or a towering folly? more
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: Article about the Kensington Tower, by Veronica Cusack
Publication Date: 1993
Publication Name: Toronto Life Magazine
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Kensington Tower, Toronto. 1994 article by Adele Freedman.more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1994
Publication Name: The Globe and Mail, Sightlines
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John McCourt’s 2015 review of my essay comparing Finnegans Wake and the Hypnerotomachia - “The Dream and the Wake” in Renascent Joyce, ed. D. Ferrer, S.Slote, A.Topia.more
by Tracey Eve Winton
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Joyce’s Renascence - review of Renascent Joyce, ed. Ferrer, Slote, Topiamore
by Tracey Eve Winton
"IN THEIR INTRODUCTION to Renascent Joyce, Daniel Ferrer, Sam Slote, and André Topia argue that the collection’s examination of the relationship between James Joyce and the Renaissance enables us to identify “a renascent Joyce through a... more
"IN THEIR INTRODUCTION to Renascent Joyce, Daniel Ferrer, Sam Slote, and André Topia argue that the collection’s examination of the relationship between James Joyce and the Renaissance enables us to identify “a renascent Joyce through a Renaissance Joyce,” a distinction that is crucial to the study’s overall goals. One might expect a study entitled Renascent Joyce to be a periodized examination of the Renaissance’s influence on Joyce, and to be sure, the first half of the text does place Joyce in conversation with thinkers such as François Rabelais, Giordano Bruno, and William Shakespeare. However, the study’s aims are more ambitious than merely “to document a source or to compare for comparison’s sake.” Instead, the contributors to Renascent Joyce are primarily concerned with establishing Joyce as a renascent figure himself, a person whose embrace of “the refusal of dogmatic thinking, the drive toward universality, the belief that language is not a transparent medium and that form should reflect content, and a writing informed by sheer exuberance” enable him to keep the Renaissance spirit alive three hundred years after the period’s conclusion. In so doing, Renascent Joyce provides a compelling new way to examine and understand Joyce’s literary innovation, a revolutionary spirit that not only reignites the past in the early twentieth century, but whose subsequent rebirths productively engage our present and thus highlight Joyce’s continued significance."
More Info: Review includes "The Dream and the Wake: An Alchemy of Words and Scenes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili and Finnegans Wake” by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2014
Publication Name: English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920, Volume 57, Number 3, 2014, pp. 425-429
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Erebus & Terrormore
by Tracey Eve Winton
More Info: Cultural History play produced by my Architecture students.
Publication Date: Aug 1, 2013
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Poetry
Fiat Luxmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2012
Publication Name: Projects Review Exhibition Catalogue, Design at Riverside Gallery, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, Riverside Architectural Press
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The First Stormmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: Magdalene College, Cambridge
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In Bluemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: Magdalene College, Cambridge
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The Daisymore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Writingmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Jesus Greenmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Drifters and Heroesmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Location: Magdalene College, Cambridge
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Books
Wall Worksmore
by Stephane Gaulin-Brown and Tracey Eve Winton
This book presents and analyzes the design work done by architecture students at the University of Waterloo's Rome Studio from the 2014 year. In particular, the analysis reveals how the task of designing a museum along the Aurelian wall... more
This book presents and analyzes the design work done by architecture students at the University of Waterloo's Rome Studio from the 2014 year.

In particular, the analysis reveals how the task of designing a museum along the Aurelian wall resulted in a fixed set of typologies of relationship with between the buildings and the wall.
Publication Date: 2014
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Papers
A case of mistaken identitymore
by Tracey Eve Winton
What went wrong between the UK media and a report on 'multi-ethnic' Britain?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publication Date: 2001
Publication Name: Index on Censorship
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The Satyric Scene: Palladio’s Villa Rotondamore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: Apr 15, 2016
Architecture sub rosamore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: Dec 19, 2016
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Mythic Geology: Under the Surface at Palazzo del Temore
by Tracey Eve Winton
In 1525, Isabella d’Este’s son, Federico, commissioned architect Giulio Romano to build him a pleasure palace at the family’s stables at the south end of Mantua. Giulio took the mantle of Mannerism from the late Andrea Mantegna and... more
In 1525, Isabella d’Este’s son, Federico, commissioned architect Giulio Romano to build him a pleasure palace at the family’s stables at the south end of Mantua. Giulio took the mantle of Mannerism from the late Andrea Mantegna and created a masterwork of iconographically rich trompe l’oeil frescoes on the interior surfaces. Two of the corner rooms are particularly significant, the lyrical room of Amor and Psyche, and the Room of the Fall of the Giants, which depicts a massive architectural collapse. The palace’s outer walls manifested a bizarre articulation — including falling triglyphs and rising keystones — that scholars have debated the meaning of for years. This essay shows the complex interconnections within the complex, the city, and the Roman classical heritage, by which these façades form a manifesto, in which Giulio Romano confronts the meaning of architectural language as well as the role of the architect as intermediary between Form and Matter.
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2016
Publication Name: The Material Imagination
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The Dream and the Wakemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2013
Publication Name: Renascent Joyce
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Footprints in Stone: A Psychogeography of Romemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
A crescent of seven sacred hills, the city of Rome is carved by the drunken Tiber. The lifetime of this poisoned river god overflows from a drowsy channel to Rome's glorious and infamous past. From two of Rome's distended... more
A crescent of seven sacred hills, the city of Rome is carved by the drunken Tiber. The lifetime of this poisoned river god overflows from a drowsy channel to Rome's glorious and infamous past. From two of Rome's distended mounds—Palatine and Aventine respectively—Romulus and Remus watched for signs from the other world of where the city was to lie. At that time, the Roman landscape dreamed in flights of vultures, and revealed its will through the divinities of nature.
Why architects wear black, and other grotesque and sublime mysteries: being a demonstration of eros & melancholy in the hermetical art of architecture with reference to the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of Colonna wherein he showeth, that all things human are but a dream: in the representation whereo...more
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 1999
A Skeleton Key to Poliphilo's Dream: the Architecture of the Imagination in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphilimore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publication Date: 2002
Imaginary Landscapes in Rome : the motional imagination in uninhabitable placesmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publisher: Technion, Haifa
Publication Date: 2007
The underbelly of the architectmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: Nov 1, 2019
Flesh Of Stonemore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: Feb 11, 2015
Eleven angels in the ceiling of flamesmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publisher: Ceilings and Dreams
Publication Date: 2019
Giorgio de Chiricos metaphysische Stadt: Mystische Fragen zu Raum und Zeitmore
by Tracey Eve Winton
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication Name: 100+
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