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Construction Dept. launches campaign for new building
posted February 13, 2012The 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. -
Arch, Viz students' work to be featured in design textbook
posted February 8, 2012An 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. -
Lang helped curate exhibit ranked as a top event of 2011
posted February 6, 2012An 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. -
Wright Gallery show salutes black history
posted February 2, 2012Texas 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. -
Forum features fortune cookie-fashioned form
posted January 31, 2012Architectural 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. -
Potter ’78 begins term as AIA head
posted January 31, 2012Jeff 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. -
Panelist to spotlight shifting preceptions of black culture
posted January 26, 2012At 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. -
Colonias Program marks 20th year
posted January 25, 2012After 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. -
Lectures to feature esteemed speakers
posted January 23, 2012A 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. -
Preservation experts focus on ‘Disaster’ at 13th CHC symposium
posted January 19, 2012Historic 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. -
Lecture series eyes design solutions for under & uninsured
posted January 12, 2012Relationships 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. -
Outstanding Alum nominations due
posted January 9, 2012Nominations 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. -
Students redesign Italian city’s piazza
posted January 4, 2012Environmental 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. -
TV art talk with Schiffhauer to air
posted December 21, 2011In 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. -
Outstanding alumnus Summers '49 passes
posted December 19, 2011Gene 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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