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Four teams of construction science students charged with developing a lean construction delivery schedule for a new jail presented their work to a jury of industry professionals in a competition at the Texas A&M System offices.

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.

For top-notch teaching during the fall 2010 semester, Stephen Caffey, assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M, earned a Student Recognition Award for Teaching Excellence from the Texas A&M University System. Caffey, who teaches Survey of Art II and History of Modern Art, received a check for $2,500.

An idea to rent folding bicycles from a kiosk earned first prize and $3000 for Patrick Daniels, a Master of Science in Land Development student, and Martin Griggs, a Master of Urban Planning student, in the 2011 Ideas Challenge, sponsored by the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship.

Funds raised from the sale of two playhouses designed by Dan Fletcher, who earned a Master of Architecture degree in 2007, will benefit a nonprofit advocacy group in Dallas for abused children in the court system.

Any visualization student will contend that movie magic is neither art nor science but a perfect blend of the two. Personifying that contention is former visualization student Kevin Reuter, who worked on the fourth installment of the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise.

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.”

Six doctoral students in the Urban and Regional Science program at Texas A&M University honed their teaching skills this year while earning fellows certificates from the university’s Graduate Teaching Academy. They attended seminars, choose a faculty mentor, observed classrooms and created a teaching portfolio.

Speaking to the Architectural Record shortly after the death of Osama bin Laden, Maj. Gregory Taylor ’90, a licensed architect and Texas A&M former student serving with the U.S. Army Reserve in Afghanistan, said his fellow soldiers were eager for details.

Undergraduate visualization students capped their spring 2011 semester with an exhibition featuring their class projects in the Langford B Exhibit Hall and a screening of time-based work in the Preston Geren Auditorium.

An architectural preservationist, a creative director, scholars, educators, an urban planner and noted architects — including the designer of the world’s tallest building — are among the eight former students of the Texas A&M College of Architecture to be honored this year as Outstanding Alumni.

Undergraduate and graduate construction science students gathered April 29 at the Langford Architecture Center to present their thesis research to faculty and peers at the Spring 2011 Department of Construction Science Research Symposium.

The college's Azimuth coffee shop has gained a bold, new look from a permanent installation designed by Elena Manferdini, principal of a Los Angeles firm specializing in computer-aided design of exotic forms. The structure was fabricated by students at the college's Digital Fabrication Facility.

A menagerie of phantasmal creatures realized in papier-mâché by first-year Texas A&M visualization students populated the Viz 106 design studios on the third floor of the Langford C building as the spring 2011 semester drew to an end.

The dean and two staff members of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture were honored as namesakes for summer 2011 Fish Camp and T-Camp, where incoming freshmen and transfer students learn about Aggie life and traditions. Namesakes interact with the 24 counselors and 150 freshmen in the camp named after them.