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  1. Rodiek’s students sweep national nursing home design competition
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    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. Newly endowed MLA scholarship honors prof Jon Rodiek's parents
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    Scholarship awards honor prof's parents

    posted April 30, 2012
    A scholarship endowment gradually funded over the last 18 years by 27 community outreach projects undertaken by students in professor Jon Rodiek's Master of Architecture studios at Texas A&M University reached fruition last fall, for the first time providing scholarships totaling $14,000 for eight new MLA students.
  3. New York Times story features Fairey’s Peckerwood Garden
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    Fairey’s garden featured in April 18 New York Times

    posted April 30, 2012
    The New York Times featured Texas A&M architecture professor John Fairey's beloved Peckerwood Garden, a 39-acre living repository of rare and unusual plants from the southern United States and Mexico, in its April 18 issue.
  4. Project Row Houses creator discusses work with students
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    Houston public art creator lectures

    posted April 27, 2012
    At an early age, Houston-based artist Rick Lowe became interested in learning what he could do to improve residents’ quality of life in low-income communities. He began, he said, by creating paintings and sculptures dealing with political and social issues.
  5. Noted designer guides student's in shape, materials exploration
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    Art and technology merge in students' design exploration

    posted April 27, 2012
    Working under the tutelage of an algorithmic design expert and an aerospace engineer, students in an experimental design studio at Texas A&M recently created prototypes for two unconventional home exteriors fabricated from innovative composite building materials.
  6. Studio showcases concepts for healthcare design, research center
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    Students imagine healthcare design, research center

    posted April 24, 2012
    Student-designed concepts imagining the future of health facility design education and research at Texas A&M University and the facilities to house those initiatives were showcased at the Langford Architecture Center in an April 25 public review.
  7. MLA students' downtown core concept wins Texas ASLA award
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    MLA project wins Texas ASLA award

    posted April 20, 2012
    A College Station area consisting of strip malls and parking lots would become a pedestrian-friendly, mixed-use, downtown core in an award-winning master plan proposed by Master of Landscape Architecture students at Texas A&M.
  8. CoSci students get up-close look at contractor procedures on tour
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    CoSci students tour construction sites

    posted April 20, 2012
    Two leading contractors and a company that’s been manufacturing bricks for more than a century gave 160 upper-level construction science students at Texas A&M a close look at their operations during daylong construction site tours in Houston and Austin March 30.
  9. Planning profs' book addresses key transportation questions
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    LAUP professors’ book addresses mobility issues

    posted April 19, 2012
    Transportation planners will find answers to key questions on road project prioritization in a new book co-authored by two members of the Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning faculty.
  10. Research finds evidence-based & 'green' design mostly compatible
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    Study: 'green' and evidence-based design compatible

    posted April 19, 2012
    Evidence-based design and eco-effective, or sustainable, design are fundamentally compatible despite some conflicts, concluded Mardelle Shepley, professor of architecture of Texas A&M, in a research paper she’s presenting this May at a conference in Beijing, China.
  11. CHSD 'boot camp' schools pros on evidence-based design principles
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    CHSD hosts ‘boot camp’ for architects

    posted April 18, 2012
    Professional architects learned how to incorporate evidence-based design into healthcare projects at an April 12-14 “boot camp” sponsored by Texas A&M’s Center for Health Systems and Design.
  12. CoSci students see alternative scenarios for Houston’s future
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    CoSci students view Houston's future

    posted April 18, 2012
    Construction science students at Texas A&M recently got a peek at two alternative futures for the city of Houston in the year 2040 during a video presentation showcasing future scenarios imagined in a two-year research project undertaken by the Center for Houston’s Future.
  13. Former student wins forestry association award for design
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    Morris wins forestry group design award

    posted April 13, 2012
    For his creative use of several types of wood in the renovation of Houston Holy Ghost Catholic Church, architect David Morris ‘57 recently earned an Excellence in Wood Design Award from the Texas Forestry Association.
  14. Master of Architecture student named WHR Tradewell fellow
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    M.Arch student earns Tradewell Fellowship

    posted April 10, 2012
    As the 2012-13 WHR Architects Tradewell Fellow, Akshay Sangolli, a graduate Texas A&M architecture student, will work on some of the firm’s upcoming projects alongside some of the nation’s leading healthcare facility design professionals.
  15. Rice architecture prof discusses ‘One Million Acres & No Zoning’
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    Lecture probes 21st Century urbanism

    posted April 10, 2012
    Former Rice School of Architecture dean Lars Lerup, whose work focuses on the intersection of nature and culture in the contemporary U.S. metropolis, and on Houston in particular, kicked off the Department of Architecture’s 2012 Spring Lecture Series with a Feb. 13 presentation about new urbanism.