Studio Projects

  1. Students' design to help firm envision new children's hospital

    Grad student designs children’s hospital

    posted April 30, 2012
    A family-centered environment, healing gardens and lots of visual exposure to natural environments are features of a preliminary design for a new children’s hospital in Richmond, Va. created as a final study project for a Dallas-based architecture firm by Suyong Jin, a Master of Architecture student at Texas A&M University.
  2. Rodiek’s students sweep national nursing home design competition

    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.
  3. Viz undergrads showcase work in May 2 art, animation exhibition

    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. Noted designer guides student's in shape, materials exploration

    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. Studio showcases concepts for healthcare design, research center

    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.
  6. Department of Architecture holds best of the best competition to celebrate culture of excellence

    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.
  7. MLA students' downtown core concept wins Texas ASLA award

    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.
  8. Students design healing center concept in marathon charrette

    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.”
  9. Solar light pipe project enters second phase of development

    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.
  10. Students design health, wellness center serving under-, uninsured

    Feb. 25 unveiling set for students' health facility designs

    posted February 22, 2012
    Architectural concepts developed by Texas A&M BED students for a health clinic catering to the under and underinsured will be unveiled to the public 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 25 at Baptist University of the Americas in San Antonio.
  11. Vizzers animate virtual characters with San Jose State counterparts

    Ag Vizzers, SJSU students work on animation designs

    posted February 15, 2012
    Master of Science in Visualization students at Texas A&M and their counterparts at San Jose State University in California are collaborating in a virtual classroom this spring to create three dimensional, animated characters.
  12. Students’ functional wall design selected for show by online voters

    Aggies' wall design tabbed for exhibit in online voting contest

    posted February 14, 2012
    An innovative wall system created by Texas A&M environmental design students was one of thirteen pieces selected through an online vote for inclusion in an exhibit at a Kentucky Gallery this September.
  13. Fortune cookies inform flexible formwork in students’ design

    Forum features fortune cookie-fashioned form

    posted January 31, 2012
    Architectural 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.
  14. Texas A&M study abroad students reimagine Tuscan town's piazza

    Students redesign Italian city’s piazza

    posted January 4, 2012
    Environmental design students studying abroad last fall in the small Tuscan town of Castiglion Fiorentino reimagined the town’s piazza, creating proposals that included an international university, a culinary school and restaurant, theater, gallery, hotel, apartments and shops.
  15. Manferdini’s Azimuth installation helps her win U.S. art fellowship

    Azimuth art earns national acclaim

    posted December 6, 2011
    “Arlecchino,” the colorful, floral-patterned architectural installation adorning the wall and floor of the College of Architecture’s Azimuth Cafe, has helped earn its designer, Los Angeles artist Elena Manferdini, a $50,000 United States Artists Fellowship.