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  1. Aggie-founded architecture program thriving in Bangladesh
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    Aggie-founded arch program flourishing in Bangladesh

    posted April 30, 2012
    More than 50 year's ago two adventurous members of the architecture faculty at Texas A&M University traveled with their families and an associate to South Asia to establish the first architectural education program in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh.
  2. Vanegas keynotes IAHS World Congress on Housing in Istanbul
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    Vanegas suggests world network for housing solutions

    posted April 30, 2012
    Addressing tghe 38th IAHS World Congress on Housing last April in Istanbul, Jorge Vanegas, dean of the Texas A&M College of Architecture, discussed global solutions to meet the need for quality, affordable, sustainable, high-performance housing.
  3. Roldán discusses his firm’s projects at Feb. 27 lecture
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    Roldan lectures at 2012 series

    posted April 27, 2012
    Miguel Roldán, founding principal of R+B Architects in Barcelona and adjunct professor of architecture at Texas A&M’s study abroad program in Spain, discussed his firm’s projects Feb. 27 as part of the Spring 2012 Architecture Lecture Series.
  4. Alumus designs equestrian venue for 2012 Olympic Summer Games
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    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.
  5. 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.
  6. ‘Volatile Formation’ talk featured founding partner of Kokkugia
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    Aussie architect’s lecture focuses on ‘Volatile Formation’

    posted April 17, 2012
    Roland Snooks, founding partner of Kokkugia, a progressive architecture and urban design practice, presented “Volatile Formation,” the final lecture in the Department of Architecture’s Spring 2012 Lecture Series, April 23 at Preston Geren Auitorium.
  7. U.K. profs eye architecture, resources, new materialism
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    Speakers to discuss new materialism

    posted April 11, 2012
    Two design educators from the United Kingdom, Jon Goodbun and Karin Jaschke, will present “Architecture and its Resources: Towards a New Materialist Practice,” 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 16 in Preston Geren Auditorium as part of Texas A&M’s Department of Architecture Lecture Series.
  8. Cancer claims beloved Santa Chiara Study Center director
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    Beloved Italian prof succumbs to cancer

    posted April 10, 2012
    The world just got a little less interesting, concluded a Monday, April 9 email from Rome announcing the passing of Paolo Barucchieri, longtime director of Texas A&M’s study abroad program in Italy and beloved figure to the hundreds of Aggies who studied there over the last three decades.
  9. Mann elected director of global health care architecture group
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    Mann heads world health design group

    posted April 3, 2012
    As the new director of the International Union of Architects Public Health Group, George J. Mann, professor of architecture at Texas A&M, said he will advocate heightened patient care, improved health care access and availability, and quality, affordable health facilities worldwide.
  10. Vanegas moderates ‘green’ panel at global real estate convention
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    Vanegas moderates sustainability panel at Qatar urban forum

    posted March 24, 2012
    Four of the world’s leading “green” experts discussed sustainability, energy and “green” development in a March 6 forum moderated by Jorge Vanegas, dean of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, at a global real estate convention in Cannes, France.
  11. D-Day Ranger monument saved by Aggie-led restoration effort
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    CHC-led effort saves Ranger Memorial

    posted March 13, 2012
    Visitors to Pointe du Hoc in Normandy, France, can once again visit a cliffside monument honoring the World War II heroism of U.S. Army Rangers, led by a future Texas A&M president, following a $6 million site restoration based on information gathered by the university’s Center for Heritage Conservation.
  12. Costa Rican adventure tales recounted in student journal
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    Costa Rican stories told in grad student minimester journal

    posted February 15, 2012
    Graduate architecture student Luis Martinez shares sketches, photos and his journal chronicling the adventures of students in January at Texas A&M's Soltis Center, located deep in the Costa Rican rainforest.
  13. Landscape architecture advisers visit Soltis Center in Costa Rica
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    Landscape pros study at Costa Rica center

    posted February 14, 2012
    Nestled amid the Costa Rican rain forest, Texas A&M's Soltis Center for Research and Education provides a perfect venue for landscape architecture studies, according to members of the Landscape Architecture Professional Advisory Board who visited there last January for continuing education coursework.
  14. Exhibit, magazine showcase work of study abroad professor's firm
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    Prof's work shown in Barcelona exhibit, Spanish magazine

    posted February 14, 2012
    A series of living spaces co-designed by Miguel Roldán, adjunct professor of architecture for Texas A&M’s study abroad program in Spain, were exhibited at the Catalunya College of Architects headquarters in Barcelona.
  15. Urban planning student pursues European studies as Bosch Fellow
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    Planning student to study in Germany as Robert Bosch Fellow

    posted February 7, 2012
    This fall master of urban planning student Nick Oyler is traveling to Germany on a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellowship to study how Europe’s political, economic and cultural environment impact planning and sustainability.