events

The mood at the upcoming Brazos County Chorale’s pops dinner concert will be enhanced with a stage set fabricated at the College of Architecture’s Digital Fabrication Facility, located at Texas A&M’s Riverside campus. The concert, “E!ntertainment,” is scheduled at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at the College Station Hilton.

Texas A&M construction science students encountered a lively job and internship market with 68 companies assembled to vie for the best and brightest among them during the Department of Construction Science Career Fair, held Feb. 9 at the Brazos County Expo Complex in Bryan.

For cordially providing superlative service to students and faculty in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Trisha Gottschalk, assistant to the department head, will receive a President’s Meritorious Service Award in a special honors ceremony at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 21 in Rudder Theatre.

Ted Flato, founding principal of Lake|Flato, a widely acclaimed, award-winning architecture firm based in San Antonio, will discussed the firm’s culture, tactics and philosophy at the 2012 John Miles Rowlett Lecture Series April 13 at Rudder Theatre on the Texas A&M campus.

A busy year for the American Institute of Architecture Students Texas A&M Chapter kicked off during the winter break when chapter officers traveled to Phoenix, Ariz. for the annual AIAS FORUM, where they connected with other students as well as new AIA president Jeff Potter ’78.

The Department of Construction Science has launched a $5 million campaign to adapt and renovate historic Francis Hall as the state’s first facility dedicated to construction teaching, research and industry service.

An exhibition retracing a landmark 1972 New York Museum of Modern Art exhibit of Italian design co-curated by Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture, was lauded as one of the world’s 2011 cultural highlights.

Professional landscape architects shared their knowledge with students Feb. 10-11 at the Langford Architecture Center in a series of presentations, discussion panels and charrettes at the 2012 Aggie Workshop, which this year took a holistic approach to design.

Texas A&M’s celebration of Black History Month began Feb. 1 with an exhibit of the acclaimed “Torchbearers” series of portraits by Robert Schiffhauer, associate professor of architecture, at the Langford Architecture Center’s Wright Gallery.

At a Feb. 15 town hall-style meeting a distinguished panel will focus on how shifting perceptions of black culture, politics and ethnicity has affected the ways blacks are perceived and discussed in today’s culture.

A diverse group of architectural design and academic leaders shared their expertise at the Texas A&M Department of Architecture’s 2012 Spring Lecture Series. The lectures, open to the public, took place in Preston Geren Auditorium.

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.

Philip Berke ‘81, an outstanding alumnus of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture and one of the nation’s top land use planning scholars, presented “Sustainable Cities: Demographic Trends, Impacts and Future Plans” on Jan. 20 in the Wright Gallery.

Brenda Takahashi, an experienced leader in public housing administration, will discuss sustainable community and economic development 7 p.m. Jan. 19 in the Wright Gallery, kicking off Texas A&M’s Real Estate Development Association’s Spring 2012 Speaker Series.

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.