architecture

Anat Geva, associate professor of architecture, has been appointed president of the Southeast Society of Architectural Historians, which promotes scholarship on architecture and related subjects.

Preston Bolton ’41, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture and a member of the American Institute of Architects’ College of Fellows, passed away Nov. 2 in Houston. Funeral services are scheduled at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 7 at First Presbyterian Church, 5300 Main Street, in Houston.

A varied collection of costumed characters was on hand in the Langford A atrium during the college's faculty and staff costume contest Oct. 31, 2011.

The first comprehensive study of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sacred architecture is in a new book by Anat Geva, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M. Geva is also the first to introduce a theoretical framework illustrating the relationship between faith, form and building technology in sacred architecture.

Students in sophomore design studios at Texas A&M traveled to the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex Sept. 29 and 30 to view some of Texas’ finest examples of Modern architecture and tour one of the state’s top design firms.

Former Texas A&M environmental design student Brian Goeken ‘87 is overseeing the nation’s largest, most successful and most cost-effective community revitalization program as the new chief of the National Park Service’s Technical Preservation Services Office.

The collaboration between design programs at Texas A&M University, top schools in China and at the University of Oklahoma continued during the week of Oct. 10, 2011 during a trip to China by George J. Mann, Texas A&M professor of architecture, and colleagues from OU.

Artist, theorist, educator and curator Simon Penny talked about aesthetic, theoretical and technical issues relating to electronic and interactive art during a Texas A&M Artist in Residence lecture held Oct. 31 at the Wright Gallery.

The 13th Annual Texas A&M College of Architecture Research Symposium: Built, Natural Virtual was held Monday, Oct. 24 at the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus.

Recent Master of Architecture grad Erin Peavey will discuss how nursing units can be designed to aid staff communication, a vital component of effective hospital care, at a healthcare design conference in Nashville.

An innovative design for a downtown Austin, Texas senior urban housing facility created by Akshay Sangolli, a Master of Architecture student at Texas A&M, earned a merit award the American Institute of Architect’s New Urban Models For Aging competition.

Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, professor of architecture at Texas A&M and director of the Center for Health Systems and Design, has been elevated to membership in the American College of Healthcare Architects’ Council of Fellows for advancing the standards of architectural education, training and practice.

Ann Moss Joyner, an author who uses geographic information systems to illuminate racial discrimination issues that inform her books, will be the keynote speaker for Texas A&M University’s GIS Day — a campuswide celebration showcasing real-world applications for GIS technology.

Female faculty, students and staff from the architecture and construction science programs at Texas A&M recently joined volunteers building a home for a Bryan mother and her family as part of the Bryan/College Station Habitat for Humanity’s 2011 “Circle of Women Build.”

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.