undergraduate work

First-year environmental design students at Texas A&M designed a high-density, mixed-use housing cluster with “green” elements for a theoretical site in College Station during a spring 2011 studio led by Phillip Tabb, professor of architecture.

Four teams of construction science students charged with developing a lean construction delivery schedule for a new jail presented their work to a jury of industry professionals in a competition at the Texas A&M System offices.

Environmental design major Jordan Mason and his research mentor, professor Stephen Caffey, are featured in a new video highlighting the benefits of undergraduate research at Texas A&M, discussing Mason’s 10-day field trip to research European Baroque-style churches.

Undergraduate visualization students capped their spring 2011 semester with an exhibition featuring their class projects in the Langford B Exhibit Hall and a screening of time-based work in the Preston Geren Auditorium.

Undergraduate and graduate construction science students gathered April 29 at the Langford Architecture Center to present their thesis research to faculty and peers at the Spring 2011 Department of Construction Science Research Symposium.

The college's Azimuth coffee shop has gained a bold, new look from a permanent installation designed by Elena Manferdini, principal of a Los Angeles firm specializing in computer-aided design of exotic forms. The structure was fabricated by students at the college's Digital Fabrication Facility.

A menagerie of phantasmal creatures realized in papier-mâché by first-year Texas A&M visualization students populated the Viz 106 design studios on the third floor of the Langford C building as the spring 2011 semester drew to an end.

Members of the Texas A&M student chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association conducted an energy audit of Neeley Hall, a campus dormitory, as part of their competition entry in the NECA's annual 2011 Green Energy Challenge. Finalists will present their work at the Oct. 22–25 NECA Convention in San Diego.

A photo of senior visualization major Jill Bragdon sporting a “Texas Aggies Go Far” T-shirt in Rome earned first place in a photo contest sponsored by The Texas A&M Foundation, which asked students studying abroad to submit photos of themselves wearing the contest T-shirt at international locales.

For a class exercise, third year Texas A&M construction science students grappled with industry ethics issues then faced a panel of industry professionals and a nationally renowned business ethics expert who peppered them with questions about their responses to ethical quandaries.

Students developed housing prototypes with designers from two acclaimed firms — Wonnie Ickx and Carlos Bedoya, founding members of Mexico City-based PRODUCTORA, and Tom Wiscombe, principal of the L. A. firm EMERGENT — in the inaugural Mitchell Lab Visiting Designer Program.

Now that her senior thesis examining why great logos are memorable was named one of the year’s best undergraduate scholarly works at Texas A&M University, senior environmental design major Lori Lampe said her next major undertaking will be landing a job as a graphic designer or working for an architecture firm.

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.

The glow of light sculptures designed by visualization students at Texas A&M partially lit a darkened exhibit hall in the Langford Architecture Center during a review April 11. Students led by Richard Davison, professor of visualization, designed the sculptures for the Langford C courtyard.

Nine photographers selected as finalists from more than 3,500 entries in a national contest were students in a fall 2010 digital photography class at Texas A&M taught by Glen Vigus, lecturer and senior visualization production specialist for the Department of Visualization.