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  1. $5 million campaign launched for new construction science building

    Construction Dept. launches campaign for new building

    posted February 13, 2012
    The Department of Construction Science has launched a $5 million campaign to adapt and renovate Francis Hall, one of the most historic buildings on campus, as the state’s first facility dedicated to construction teaching, research and industry service.
  2. Architectural drawing textbook features Arch, Viz student work

    Arch, Viz students' work to be featured in design textbook

    posted February 8, 2012
    An upcoming edition of a classic textbook featuring a comprehensive collection of architectural drawing conventions and techniques will include examples of Texas A&M architecture and visualization student work.
  3. Exhibit co-curated by Lang named one of 2011’s top cultural events

    Lang helped curate exhibit ranked as a top event of 2011

    posted February 6, 2012
    An exhibition retracing a landmark 1972 New York Museum of Modern Art exhibit of radical Italian design co-curated by Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture, was lauded by a London critic as one of the world’s cultural highlights in 2011.
  4. Wright Gallery ‘Torchbearers’ exhibit salutes black history

    Wright Gallery show salutes black history

    posted February 2, 2012
    Texas A&M’s celebration of Black History Month began Feb. 1 with an exhibit of the acclaimed “Torchbearers” series of portraits by Robert Schiffhauer, associate professor of architecture, at the Langford Architecture Center’s Wright Gallery.
  5. Fortune cookies inform flexible formwork in students’ design

    Forum features fortune cookie-fashioned form

    posted January 31, 2012
    Architectural concepts for a gallery and product showroom for Alessi, the world-renowned Italian kitchenware company, developed by two Texas A&M University environmental design students, are featured on suckerPUNCH, a popular and important Internet design forum.
  6. Outstanding alumnus Potter ’78 takes helm as new AIA president

    Potter ’78 begins term as AIA head

    posted January 31, 2012
    Jeff Potter ‘78, is focusing on making the AIA more meaningful to emerging members of the profession and advancing the value of design during his one-year tenure as president of the 76,000-member American Institute of Architects.
  7. Panel to eye shifting perceptions of black culture, politics, ethnicity

    Panelist to spotlight shifting preceptions of black culture

    posted January 26, 2012
    At a Feb. 15 town hall-style meeting a distinguished panel will focus on how shifting perceptions of black culture, politics and ethnicity has affected the ways blacks are perceived and discussed in today’s culture.
  8. Colonias Program marking 20 years of service to Texas border

    Colonias Program marks 20th year

    posted January 25, 2012
    After two decades focused on improving the quality of life for residents of the impoverished, relatively undeveloped villages, or “colonias,” clumped near population centers on the U.S. side of the Texas-Mexico border, the Texas A&M University Colonias Program is celebrating its achievements.
  9. Top designers, academics featured in architecture lecture series

    Lectures to feature esteemed speakers

    posted January 23, 2012
    A diverse group of architectural design and academic leaders will share their expertise at the Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s 2012 Spring Lecture Series. The lectures, open to the public, are scheduled at 5:30 p.m. in the Preston Geren Auditorium, located in Langford B on the Texas A&M campus.
  10. Research centers offer disaster- themed preservation symposium

    Preservation experts focus on ‘Disaster’ at 13th CHC symposium

    posted January 19, 2012
    Historic preservation efforts undertaken in the wake of natural and manmade disasters are the focus of “Disaster,” the 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium, slated Feb. 24-25 at the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M University campus.
  11. Lectures eye health care design solutions for under, uninsured

    Lecture series eyes design solutions for under & uninsured

    posted January 12, 2012
    Relationships between architectural design and health care for the under and uninsured are the focus of the Center for Health Systems & Design’s Spring 2012 Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series.
  12. Outstanding Alumni Awards nominations due February 10

    Outstanding Alum nominations due

    posted January 9, 2012
    Nominations for the 2012 College of Architecture Outstanding Alumni Awards, which annually recognize former students of exceptional accomplishment, are being accepted through Feb. 10. Since its inception in 1997, less than one percent of the college’s former students have received the award, the college’s highest honor.
  13. Texas A&M study abroad students reimagine Tuscan town's piazza

    Students redesign Italian city’s piazza

    posted January 4, 2012
    Environmental design students studying abroad last fall in the small Tuscan town of Castiglion Fiorentino teamed up to reimagine the town’s piazza, creating a variety of proposals adding amenities to the space including an international university, a culinary school and restaurant, theater, gallery, hotel, apartments and shops.
  14. Schiffhauer’s work to be featured on TV's 'Brazos Valley Magazine'

    TV art talk with Schiffhauer to air

    posted December 21, 2011
    In the next edition of KAMU-TV’s “Brazos Valley Magazine,” artist Robert Schiffhauer, a professor of architecture at Texas A&M University, will discuss his acclaimed “Torchbearers” portrait series featuring prominent figures in African-American history.
  15. Summers ’49, Mies van der Rohe protégé, outstanding alum passes

    Outstanding alumnus Summers '49 passes

    posted December 19, 2011
    Gene Summers FAIA, who left his design imprint on some of the world’s most recognizable Modern landmarks, a protégé of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, died Dec. 12 in a California hospital from liver cancer.

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