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Prospective students can learn more about Texas A&M’s Urban and Regional Science doctoral program during a Oct. 23-25 open house, to be held in conjunction with the 13th annual College of Architecture Research Symposium: Natural, Built, Virtual.

Private property rights are prevailing over efforts to avoid building in hazardous areas, said Sam Brody, professor of urban planning at Texas A&M, in the Sept. 2011 issue of Architect, the magazine of the American Institute of Architects.

Former students and friends of the Texas A&M Department of Architecture are encouraged to RSVP for the annual Aggie TSA Reception, to be held during the Oct. 27-29 Texas Society of Architects Convention and Design Products & Ideas Expo in Dallas.

Harold Adams ’61 ARCH, chairman emeritus of RTKL Associates Inc., visited the firm’s Beijing office with his wife Janice. Nan Li ’02 MARCH, left, and Jin Rao ‘04 MARCH, both RTKL associates, met Adams during his visit.

Texas A&M former students have established three new endowments for professorships honoring the stellar careers of three much admired Department of Architecture professors — John Only Greer, Rodney Hill and David Woodcock — who have all taught generations of aspiring Aggie architects.

Anthony Schirripa ’73, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, recalled the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in a first-person account published in the New York Times Sept. 12, 2011.

As higher education leaders across the nation wrangle with budget constraints and consider reforms aimed at doing more with less, Texas A&M College of Architecture educators continue to embrace the studio, the time-tested cornerstone of design education, as sacrosanct — the most critical component of modern design pedagogy.

Competitors on sports fields in an El Paso public park will be inspired by “Rivals,” two new sculptures by Lars Stanley, an outstanding alumnus of the college. The hand-made forged steel sculptures depict arachnids found in El Paso’s desert environment.

Students who use Rhino, a software program for 3-D modeling, are invited to register for a Sept. 29–Oct. 1 workshop at Texas A&M’s Langford Architecture Center led by Gabriel Esquivel, assistant professor of architecture, and hosted by SEED International.

Tom De Blasis, global design director for Nike soccer and a champion of design as a vehicle for solving some of the world’s intractable problems, presents “Nike: The Game Changer,” Sept. 19 in Preston Geren Auditorium. The lecture kicks off the Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s Fall 2011 Lecture Series.

Tom De Blasis, global design director for Nike’s soccer division and a champion of design as a vehicle for solving some of the world’s intractable problems, presented “Nike: The Game Changer,” Monday, Sept. 19 in the Langford Architecture Center. The lecture kicked off the Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s Fall 2011 Lecture Series.

Students who use Rhino, a software program for 3-D modeling, are invited to register for a Sept. 29–Oct. 1 workshop at Texas A&M’s Langford Architecture Center led by Gabriel Esquivel, assistant professor of architecture, and hosted by SEED International.

Registration is under way for the Imagining New Futures forum, an event-packed Nov. 17–19 gathering of student’s and urban planning practitioners sponsored by the Texas A&M Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning.

Competitors on the sports fields in an El Paso public park will be inspired by “Rivals,” two new sculptures by Lars Stanley, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture.

Two Texas A&M urban planning professors have garnered a two-year, $313,000 National Science Foundation grant to research the effectiveness of using 100-year floodplains in predicting property damages from floods, and to develop improved criteria for assessing the risk of inundation in low-lying coastal areas.