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Elena Manferdini, principal of Atelier Manferdini, which specializes in computer-aided design of exotic forms, visited the college March 20 – 25 as an artist in residence. In a video interview, she discusses the installation she and students designed and erected in the Azimuth coffee shop.

Winning entries in Tau Sigma Delta’s Texas A&M Student Art Competition earned their creators $50 scholarships and were displayed in a Houston gallery April 4-8. The winning pieces and the rest of the submitted work were also exhibited at the college’s Wright Gallery March 26-29.

In a room elaborately adorned with architectural installations created by Meg Jackson's design students, students from Weiling He’s studio donned their own designs, putting on a fashion show for their peers.

Kenneth Fowler, principal, founding partner and executive vice president of Rialto Studio in San Antonio, discussed his three decades in landscape architecture in an April 6 lecture. He has practiced in the Alamo City since 1982 and is currently involved in project design and management of large-scale projects.

Robert Riggs, who earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree in 1971, was a panelist at a social influence workshop during a 2010 emerging media conference. Riggs told participants there’s “a growing demand for users to be connected to the Internet anytime, anywhere on any screen.”

A video created by Stephanie Keske, a graduate visualization student, was part of a History Channel program documenting scientists’ and explorers’ installation and use of underground observatories to study the ocean’s crust.

Christiaan Mulder ’80, one of South Africa’s top environmental designers and planners and an outstanding alumnus of the Texas A&M College of Architecture, received The Association of Former Students Outstanding International Alumnus Award at a ceremony held April 26, 2011 at the Clayton Williams Jr. Alumni Center.

A Galveston Daily News columnist said an interactive, online atlas, created by a research team at the Hazard Reduction and Recovery Center, has greatly increased the odds of reducing the risks of living in the island city.

Jose Oubrerie, the last living protégé of Le Corbusier, one of Modern architecture’s major figures, lectured March 28 as part of the College of Architecture’s Dr. F.E. Giesecke Lecture Series, honoring the founder of the Texas A&M architecture program.

Texas A&M's Center for Heritage Conservation focused on the adaptation of old structures for new purposes during "Adaptive Reuse: Architecture as Found Object," the 13th annual Historic Preservation Symposium Feb. 25 and 26 at the Langford Architecture Center's Preston Geren Auditorium.

A high-energy video created by Lisa Adolph, a senior visualization student at Texas A&M, detailing the threat global warming poses to sea life won a multimedia contest sponsored by the National Council for Science and the Environment.

The premier international organization for academics in landscape architecture has recognized Forster Ndubisi, head of Texas A&M’s Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, with its 2011 Outstanding Administrator Award.

For many Aggies, holiday giving includes gifts to Texas A&M as well as presents to friends and family. If there’s room on your year-end giving list for the College of Architecture, there’s plenty of opportunity to make a difference in a way that is meaningful to you.

An article about “Plywood Mesh #002,” the student designed and constructed architectural installation located on the first floor of the Langford A building, was recently featured in Modern Woodworking magazine. The story was submitted by Techno Inc., manufacturer of the CNC router used by the students to create the innovative structure.

The Eiffel Tower, a superhero cape and many other distinctive looks rendered by Texas A&M Architecture students from discarded plastic bottles were the product of a department-wide charrette that kicked off the spring 2011 semester.