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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. 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.
  3. Viz undergrads showcase work in May 2 art, animation exhibition
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    Undergrad Vizzer exhibition slated for 5 p.m. Wednesday

    posted April 30, 2012
    Art and animations created by undergraduate visualization students will be showcased May 2 in a semester-culminating exhibition at the Langford Architecture Center.
  4. Interdisciplinary projects to include Viz, LAND students
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    New interdisciplinary classes to begin at Texas A&M this fall

    posted April 27, 2012
    Visualization and landscape architecture students will be working with counterparts from numerous other disciplines working on groundbreaking projects made possible by a new interdisciplinary initiative at Texas A&M.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. Former student helps design kinetic installation for MSC
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    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.
  8. 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.
  9. Department of Architecture holds best of the best competition to celebrate culture of excellence
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    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.
  10. Viz students unleash creativity at Viz-a-GoGo in downtown Bryan
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    Viz-a-GoGo 19 slated May 3-5 in Bryan

    posted April 20, 2012
    Was it Professor Plum in the conservatory with a wrench? You'll get a “Clue” as a board game-styled murder mystery unfolds during the interstitial segments of Viz-a-GoGo 19, the annual showcase of digital wizardry created by students in the Master of Science in Visualization program at Texas A&M.
  11. 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.
  12. Davison’s art ponders the ethereal at Dallas museum through June 22
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    Davison’s art on display in Dallas

    posted April 19, 2012
    Ethereal places blending fantasy- and science fiction-like imagery with the divine embody the art of Dick Davison, a professor of visualization at Texas A&M whose work is being shown at Dallas museum through June 22, 2012.
  13. Solar-powered umbrella design places 3rd in national contest
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    Students' solar-powered umbrella wins 3rd in contest

    posted April 12, 2012
    A solar-powered beach umbrella capable of powering portable electronic devices, built by a team of Texas A&M Design Process students, earned third place in the nationwide Innovative Design Competition sponsored by Ascent Solar Technologies, Inc.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.