lectures

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.

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.

Bob Segner, a professor of construction science at Texas A&M who has earned numerous honors for outstanding teaching, will be a featured speaker in the university’s 2011-12 Faculty Teaching Academy.

Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture, discussed his border studio initiatives in the Los Lomas colonia at the June 24-26 Dwell on Design conference in L. A. His students developed survival strategies and partnered with colonia residents to improve the border community.

Chanam Lee, professor of urban planning at Texas A&M, will tell the American Public Health Association how the built environment can impede the physical activity of children and overweight adults at the group’s annual meeting this fall in Washington, D.C.

Mohammad Yaghan, a visiting scholar from Jordan, lectured on muqarnas, a type of corbel that is one of the most distinctive elements of Islamic architecture, March 29 at the Langford Architecture Center as part of the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for the Humanities Notable Lecture Series.

Some of the architecture world’s leading lights shared their knowledge and experiences in the Spring 2011 Department of Architecture Lecture Series. The six public lectures took place in Preston Geren Auditorium.

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.