Research

  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. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  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. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. Doctoral student eying daylight’s effects on healthcare providers
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    Study eying how daylight impacts healthcare workers

    posted April 6, 2012
    The effects of daylight on healthcare workers and the care they provide, and how that impacts operating costs at health facilities, are the focus of an award-winning investigation by Rana Zadeh, a Ph.D. architecture student at Texas A&M.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Culp assumes at-large post on ASHRAE Board of Directors
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    Culp assumes two ASHRAE posts

    posted March 23, 2012
    Charles Culp, professor of architecture at Texas A&M, will help chart the course the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers as a new member of its board of directors and chairman of the group's Technical Activities Committee.
  14. 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.
  15. CoSci students use plastic bottles to increase concrete's pliability
    ACADEMICS RESEARCH

    CoSci students use plastic bottles to add pliability to concrete

    posted February 15, 2012
    Students led by Nancy Holland, associate professor of construction science, are getting a first-hand look at how plastic bottles could help save concrete buildings from catastrophic failure in an earthquake.