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  1. Rodiek’s students sweep national nursing home design competition

    Students dominate national healthcare design competition

    posted April 30, 2012
    Environmental design student teams from Texas A&M swept a national design contest, winning first-, second-, and third-place awards, as well as honorable mention with plans for renovating a skilled nursing facility in Jacksonville, Florida.
  2. Alumus designs equestrian venue for 2012 Olympic Summer Games

    Former student designs Olympic equestrian venue

    posted April 27, 2012
    The grace and power of equestrian events at this summer’s Olympic games in London will be showcased in a venue designed by Charlie Kolarik ’04, a Texas A&M Master of Architecture graduate.
  3. Former student helps design kinetic installation for MSC

    Former student’s MSC installation debuts in late 2012

    posted April 25, 2012
    A high-tech, permanent installation for the newly renovated Memorial Student Center portraying Texas A&M students past and present, designed in part by a former environmental design student, will debut in December.
  4. Department of Architecture holds best of the best competition to celebrate culture of excellence

    Department event to celebrate excellence

    posted April 24, 2012
    “The Celebration of Excellence,” a new Department of Architecture event recognizing outstanding student and faculty achievements, will include a juried evaluation of the year’s top five graduate final study projects, culminating with the presentation of a “Best of the Best Award” for the winning work.
  5. Students design healing center concept in marathon charrette

    Grad architecture students’ design wows conference

    posted April 3, 2012
    Texas A&M graduate architecture students impressed a design jury at a 2011 Nashville healthcare design conference with their concept to convert an antiquated public health facility to a holistic healing center for “everyday athletes.”
  6. Acclaimed architect Ted Flato keynotes 2012 Rowlett Lecture

    Noted architect Flato heads Rowlett lecture

    posted February 14, 2012
    Ted Flato, founding principal of Lake|Flato, a widely acclaimed, award-winning architecture firm based in San Antonio, will discussed the firm’s culture, tactics and philosophy at the 2012 John Miles Rowlett Lecture Series April 13 at Rudder Theatre on the Texas A&M campus.
  7. Students’ functional wall design selected for show by online voters

    Aggies' wall design tabbed for exhibit in online voting contest

    posted February 14, 2012
    An innovative wall system created by Texas A&M environmental design students was one of thirteen pieces selected through an online vote for inclusion in an exhibit at a Kentucky Gallery this September.
  8. 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.
  9. Research centers offer disaster- themed preservation symposium

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

    posted January 19, 2012
    Historic preservation efforts undertaken after natural and manmade disasters were the focus of “Disaster,” the 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium at the Langford Architecture Center.
  10. 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.
  11. 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 reimagined the town’s piazza, creating proposals that included an international university, a culinary school and restaurant, theater, gallery, hotel, apartments and shops.
  12. Esquivel’s students create new installation for Bryan restaurant

    Student-designed fabrication adorns Bryan restaurant

    posted December 1, 2011
    “Black Narcissus,” an intricate architectural installation designed and fabricated by eight Texas A&M architecture students now graces the VIP room at the tony La Riviera restaurant in Bryan, Texas.
  13. Registration for spring Artist in Residence sessions now open

    Renowned artists to work with students

    posted November 29, 2011
    Students will have a unique opportunity to work with internationally renowned, contemporary artists in specialized workshops during the Spring 2012 Artist in Residence program at A&M’s College of Architecture. The workshops are open to anyone in the college, and no previous art experience is required.
  14. Faculty embrace the studio as the centerpiece of design education

    Studio education: What sets us apart

    posted November 28, 2011
    As higher education leaders across the nation wrangle with budget constraints and consider reforms aimed at doing more with less, Texas A&M College of Architecture educators continue to embrace the studio, the time-tested cornerstone of design education, as the most critical component of modern design pedagogy.
  15. Alum designs sustainable home for Navajo mom in Colorado

    Alum designs home for Navajo mom

    posted November 8, 2011
    A single Navajo mother and her 10-year old son are living in The Windcatcher House, a sustainable home in southwest Colorado co-designed by Mark Olsen ’07, a former Texas A&M environmental design student completing his graduate work in the University of Colorado at Denver.