sustainability

  1. 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.
  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. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Interdisciplinary green roof effort to engage wide variety of students
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    Campus green roof initiative to involve multiple disciplines

    posted April 4, 2012
    Next fall, students from a variety of academic programs will collaborate to install and monitor a green roof atop a campus building; an initiative preparing students as leaders in energy conservation, said Bruce Dvorak, an assistant professor of landscape architecture.
  13. Students design healing center concept in marathon charrette
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    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.”
  14. Solar light pipe project enters second phase of development
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    Solar light pipe testing to begin

    posted April 3, 2012
    An award-winning solar light device developed at the Texas A&M Department of Architecture that can significantly reduce electric bills by delivering a bounty of natural sunlight deep into the interior of a building, will soon enter a new phase of development at the College of Architecture’s Digital Fabrication Facility.
  15. ‘Amazing Race’-styled contest tests urban planning knowledge
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    Planning students to stage ‘amazing race’

    posted April 2, 2012
    On Saturday, April 28, Texas A&M urban planning students are staging the “Urban Plan-It Challenge,” a fun-filled, campuswide fund-raising competition based on the popular “The Amazing Race” television series. Contestants will vie for prizes in a series mental and physical tasks related to challenges confronting the planet.