study abroad

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Texas A&M construction science students who spent the spring 2011 semester studying abroad in London praised their academic and social experiences in a story and video posted on TAMU Times, the university’s news website.

Texas A&M students studying abroad at the Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, display their maroon shirts on College Colors Day, Sept. 2, 2011. Texas A&M is a leader in the annual event that encourages people to wear the colors of their favorite college or university to promote the college experience.

Forster Ndubisi, head of Texas A&M’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, and his counterparts at two leading Chinese universities have agreed to explore the possibility of academic exchanges by signing letters of cooperation during meetings in China.

Hans Schneider, a doctoral student studying urban and regional science at Texas A&M, has received a Fulbright grant funding a 10-month project aimed at developing a comprehensive regional plan for preserving eight historically significant wooden churches and other historic sites in western Ukraine.

Environmental design major Jordan Mason and his research mentor, professor Stephen Caffey, are featured in a new video highlighting the benefits of undergraduate research at Texas A&M, discussing Mason’s 10-day field trip to research European Baroque-style churches.

The Placa Europa, a new social housing tower in Barcelona co-designed by Miguel Roldán, an adjunct professor of architecture for Texas A&M’s study abroad program in Spain, prompted one architecture critic to write that it's “hard to believe this is social housing.”

A photo of senior visualization major Jill Bragdon sporting a “Texas Aggies Go Far” T-shirt in Rome earned first place in a photo contest sponsored by The Texas A&M Foundation, which asked students studying abroad to submit photos of themselves wearing the contest T-shirt at international locales.

Texas A&M students studying abroad in Bonn, Germany during the fall 2010 semester impressed the city’s mayor and staff with their presentations of a master plan for a 10-kilometer redevelopment along the Rhine River. A published portfolio of the students' work can be viewed online in PDF format.

Students studying abroad in South Africa are designing a starter campus for the university and developing a business plan for a nonprofit utility company while working on a groundbreaking real estate development located on the coast of the the country’s Eastern Cape.