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Students learned what and what not to do when doing business abroad in a lecture by Harold Adams ’61, retired as chairman of RTKL, which he transformed from a one-office design operation to a firm with projects in more than 60 countries.

Students in a graduate architecture studio at Texas A&M are developing solutions aimed at improving the quality of life for long-term inhabitants of refugee camps located in Chad, Kenya and Thailand.

Acclaimed author, filmmaker, editor, curator and art critic Chris Kraus, whose new novel, Summer of Hate, addresses what she sees as today’s glaring disparities between expectations and consciousness, did a book reading Oct. 17 in the College of Architecture's Preston Geren Auditorium.

Outstanding alumni of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture discussed how their education paved the way for successful careers and professional accomplishments at a public panel discussion Oct. 26 in the Wright Gallery.

If placing a penny on the Sul Ross statue at Texas A&M brings good luck on tests, three visualization students whose experimental typography project at the statue that included 13,496 pennies should do just fine on their remaining test days.

The Colonias Program at the Texas A&M College of Architecture is increasing the availability of potable water to residents of colonias, impoverished communities in the Texas border region, as a partner in the Texas Water Project.

Students studying abroad in Italy designed a film school on the outside wall of the medieval town of Castiglion Fiorentino and used their host town as a setting to create video games during their Texas A&M spring 2012 study abroad semester.

A diverse group of leading architecture practitioners and academics will share their knowledge during the Fall 2012 Architecture Lecture Series at Texas A&M. The lectures, open to the public, begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Preston Geren Auditorium, located in building B of the Langford Architecture Center.

An eco-park concept aimed at reducing food waste through public education, developed by an interdisciplinary Texas A&M student team, netted first place in a worldwide contest seeking solutions to the world’s most pressing food issues.

An 1889 New York row house with a striking façade has been restored to its former glory earning kudos for lead designer Lorie Riddle ’93 and the restoration team from her firm, Superstructures Engineers and Architects.

Students learned the basics of computer animation at two summer camps held at the College of Architecture. The college offered a visualization track for older students in its Camp Arch program and the visualization department's Viz Kids Camp introduced computer graphics to a younger group.

Freshman visualization students added color and texture to black and white photos of a mystery object and collaborated to assemble the small sections into a giant mural of an Aggie ring.

Chris Duerksen, a nationally known proponent of adopting community development codes that directly address sustainability issues, headlined “Imagining New Futures,” an annual urban planning workshop, Nov. 15 – 17 at Texas A&M.

Marquesa Figueroa, an environmental design student, said it was an honor to spearhead planning for the May 5 memorial service for the late Paolo Barucchieri, longtime director of the Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy.

A class popular with honors students at Texas A&M developed by Rodney Hill, professor of architecture, helped him net the 2012 Betty M. Unterberger Award for Outstanding Service to Honors Education.