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Department of Architecture holds best of the best competition to celebrate culture of excellence

Department event to celebrate excellence

posted April 24, 2012
“The Celebration of Excellence,” a new Department of Architecture event recognizing outstanding student and faculty achievements, will include a juried evaluation of the year’s top five graduate final study projects, culminating with the presentation of a “Best of the Best Award” for the winning work.
Students design healing center concept in marathon charrette

Grad architecture students’ design wows conference

posted April 3, 2012
Texas A&M graduate architecture students impressed a design jury at a 2011 Nashville healthcare design conference with their concept to convert an antiquated public health facility to a holistic healing center for “everyday athletes.”
Students’ functional wall design selected for show by online voters

Aggies' wall design tabbed for exhibit in online voting contest

posted February 14, 2012
An innovative wall system created by Texas A&M environmental design students was one of thirteen pieces selected through an online vote for inclusion in an exhibit at a Kentucky Gallery this September.
Fortune cookies inform flexible formwork in students’ design

Forum features fortune cookie-fashioned form

posted January 31, 2012
Architectural concepts for a gallery and product showroom for Alessi, the world-renowned Italian kitchenware company, developed by two Texas A&M University environmental design students, are featured on suckerPUNCH, a popular and important Internet design forum.
Research centers offer disaster- themed preservation symposium

Preservation experts focus on ‘Disaster’ at 13th CHC symposium

posted January 19, 2012
Historic preservation efforts undertaken after natural and manmade disasters were the focus of “Disaster,” the 13th Annual Historic Preservation Symposium at the Langford Architecture Center.
Lectures eye health care design solutions for under, uninsured

Lecture series eyes design solutions for under & uninsured

posted January 12, 2012
Relationships between architectural design and health care for the under and uninsured are the focus of the Center for Health Systems & Design’s Spring 2012 Architecture-for-Health Lecture Series.
Texas A&M study abroad students reimagine Tuscan town's piazza

Students redesign Italian city’s piazza

posted January 4, 2012
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.
Esquivel’s students create new installation for Bryan restaurant

Student-designed fabrication adorns Bryan restaurant

posted December 1, 2011
“Black Narcissus,” an intricate architectural installation designed and fabricated by eight Texas A&M architecture students now graces the VIP room at the tony La Riviera restaurant in Bryan, Texas.
Registration for spring Artist in Residence sessions now open

Renowned artists to work with students

posted November 29, 2011
Students will have a unique opportunity to work with internationally renowned, contemporary artists in specialized workshops during the Spring 2012 Artist in Residence program at A&M’s College of Architecture. The workshops are open to anyone in the college, and no previous art experience is required.
Faculty embrace the studio as the centerpiece of design education

Studio education: What sets us apart

posted November 28, 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 the most critical component of modern design pedagogy.
Alum designs sustainable home for Navajo mom in Colorado

Alum designs home for Navajo mom

posted November 8, 2011
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.
Grad students collaborating to improve incubator design

Students refining incubator design

posted September 29, 2011
Master of Architecture students at Texas A&M are teaming with graduate students in industrial engineering to improve the psychosocial and engineering aspects of the incubator, the central piece of equipment used in neonatal intensive care units.