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Friends, colleagues and former students of three retiring architecture professors, John Only Greer, Roger S. Ulrich and David G. Woodcock, gathered May 10 at the University Club to celebrate the trio's combined 110 years of teaching, research and service at Texas A&M University.

An exhibition in the Swedish Museum of Architecture co-curated by Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M, looks back at a landmark 1972 exhibit of radical Italian design and architecture at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

Michael Murphy and Donald Sweeney, two retiring educators from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning who helped mold generations of landscape architects and urban planners during more than 80 years of combined service, were honored at a May 15, 2011 reception.

Chris Mulder ’80 lectured about his firm’s newest trend-setting concept and led a design charrette while in College Station to receive an Outstanding International Alumnus Award from The Association of Former Students.

Ed Tarlton, an urban and regional science Ph.D student at Texas A&M, discussed the connections between housing and health at the Spring 2011 Visionary Scholar Seminar Series sponsored by the university’s Center for the Study of Health Disparities.

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.

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.

Viz-a-GoGo 18, the annual showcase of digital wizardry conjured by students in the Master of Science in Visualization program at Texas A&M University, returned to downtown Bryan last May with screenings of student work, interactive exhibits, demonstrations, and more.