architecture

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.

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.

Photographs, newspaper clippings and many other items from the college archives were on display Aug. 26, 2011 at an open house in the Technical Reference Center's extension on the fifth floor of Langford A.

A rare work in Texas A&M’s Forsyth Center Galleries by Winslow Homer (1836-1910), a preeminent figure in U.S. art history, is receiving its first-ever scholarly attention from Stephen Caffey, assistant professor of architecture at Texas A&M. Caffey said it's an important yet little-known painting.

Charles Culp and Jeff Haberl, professors of architecture at Texas A&M and associate directors of the Energy Systems Laboratory, welcomed visitors at the lab’s June 2001 open house in at is new facility in Valley Park Center II, 402 Harvey Mitchell Parkway.

Luminaries from the design world and academia will headline the Texas A&M Department of Architecture 2011 Fall Lecture Series. The lectures, all open to the public, will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Preston Geren Auditorium in building B of the Langford Architecture Center.

Internet users can explore the disconnect between the burst housing bubble in Florida and the foreclosed homes it left behind in “Open House,” an online installation partly developed by Patrick LeMieux ’07, a Bachelor of Environmental Design graduate from Texas A&M.

Chinese and U.S. healthcare design experts will deliver a series of lectures during the semester, most beginning at 11:30 a.m. Wednesdays at the Wright Gallery in building A of the Langford Architecture Center.

As a young Conoco executive in the late 1960s, Franz Ehrhardt, now a professional fellow at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture, came up with the idea of merging the gas station and the convenience store. Through Ehrhardt’s fellowship, students are learning about this and other innovations he has developed.

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.

Five graduate students pursuing certificates in facility management at the Texas A&M College of Architecture earned scholarships from the International Facility Management Association, as well as travel/attendance packages for an October conference.

Texas A&M College of Architecture Outstanding Alumnus Adrian Smith, of Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture in Chicago, announced today that his firm is designing yet another “World’s Tallest Building, the Kingdom Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, near the Red Sea.