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Texas A&M environmental design graduate Shawn Evans ’93 is overseeing the preservation of Ohkay Owingeha, a 600 year-old Native American settlement in New Mexico as the director of preservation and cultural projects at Atkin Olshin Schade Architects, a Philadelphia design firm.

A single Navajo mother and her 10-year old son are living in The Windcatcher House, a sustainable home in southwest Colorado co-designed by Mark Olsen ’07, a former Texas A&M environmental design student completing his graduate work in the University of Colorado at Denver.

Walter Gillis Peacock, professor of urban planning at Texas A&M, is on a National Academy of Sciences committee hosting a two-day January public workshop in Houston to examine issues relating to sustainability and human-environment interactions in the Houston metropolitan area.

Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M, joined curators, designers, artists and architects from across the globe to discuss experimental curating for design and architecture exhibitions at “Curating and Counter Curating,” a September 2011 conference in Stockholm, Sweden.

Anat Geva, associate professor of architecture, has been appointed president of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians, which promotes scholarship on architecture and related subjects.

Preston Bolton ’41, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture and a member of the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows, passed away Nov. 2 in Houston. Funeral services are scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 at First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main Street, in Houston.

The American Bureau of Shipping’s latest quarterly publication includes an article about a centuries-old Portuguese shipwreck brought back to life in an immersive, 3-D model created by former Texas A&M Master of Visualization Sciences student Audrey Wells ’08.

A varied collection of costumed characters was on hand in the Langford A atrium during the college's faculty and staff costume contest Oct. 31, 2011.

The first comprehensive study of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sacred architecture is in a new book by Anat Geva, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M. Geva is also the first to introduce a theoretical framework illustrating the relationship between faith, form and building technology in sacred architecture.

Students in sophomore design studios at Texas A&M traveled to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex Sept. 29 and 30 to view some of Texas’ finest examples of Modern architecture and tour one of the state’s top design firms.

Students in sophomore design studios at Texas A&M traveled to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex Sept. 29 and 30 to view some of Texas’ finest examples of Modern architecture and tour one of the state’s top design firms.

Michael Lindell, professor of urban planning at Texas A&M, was quoted a New York Times’ Oct. 3, 2011 article examining scientists’ role in warning the public of possible hazards.

Former Texas A&M environmental design student Brian Goeken ‘87 is overseeing the nation’s largest, most successful and most cost-effective community revitalization program as the new chief of the National Park Service’s Technical Preservation Services Office.

The collaboration between design programs at Texas A&M University, top schools in China and at the University of Oklahoma continued during the week of Oct. 10, 2011 during a trip to China by George J. Mann, Texas A&M professor of architecture, and colleagues from OU.

Francisco Farias and Paula Lorente, Ph.D. students at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, are completing the final phases of their scholarly research-oriented work as inaugural Office of Graduate Studies dissertation fellows.