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   ACADEMICS EVENTS FEATURE

   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.
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   ACADEMICS FEATURE HONORS

   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.
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   EVENTS FEATURE HONORS RESEARCH

   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.
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   EVENTS FEATURE

   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.
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   FEATURE STUDIO PROJECTS

   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.
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   CLASS ACTS FEATURE HONORS VIDEO

   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.
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   EVENTS FEATURE

   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.
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   FEATURE HONORS

   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.
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   EVENTS FEATURE

   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.
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    EVENTS FEATURE RESEARCH

    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.
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    EVENTS FEATURE

    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.
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    CLASS ACTS FEATURE HONORS

    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.
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    FEATURE STUDIO PROJECTS VIDEO

    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.
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    EVENTS FEATURE

    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.
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    CLASS ACTS FEATURE

    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.