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Faculty and graduate students at Texas A&M’s Department of Visualization took a few minutes each to presented their current research and creative endeavors Oct. 18, 2011 during the department’s fast-paced second annual research symposium held on the fourth floor of the Langford C building.

The Department of Visualization at the Texas A&M College of Architecture is offering a new, technology-infused Master of Fine Arts degree program that in fall 2011 will begin preparing students for careers in digital art education, fine arts, entertainment and media industries, as well as art as a vocation.

A herd of bony dinosaurs and other creatures created by students in a Texas A&M sophomore design studio invaded the College of Architecture’s Langford Atrium this fall providing a fanciful setting for the amusement of passersby.

A varied collection of costumed characters was on hand in the Langford A atrium during the college's faculty and staff costume contest Oct. 31, 2011.

The 13th Annual Texas A&M College of Architecture Research Symposium: Built, Natural Virtual was held Monday, Oct. 24 at the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus.

Texas A&M students studying abroad at the Santa Chiara Study Center in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy, display their maroon shirts on College Colors Day, Sept. 2, 2011. Texas A&M is a leader in the annual event that encourages people to wear the colors of their favorite college or university to promote the college experience.

Photographs, newspaper clippings and many other items from the college archives were on display Aug. 26, 2011 at an open house in the Technical Reference Center's extension on the fifth floor of Langford A.

Construction continues on the new Arts and Humanities building on the “grassy knoll” south of the Langford Architecture Center’s Building A. The $46 million, 107,000-square-foot structure, scheduled to be completed in 2012, is the first building at Texas A&M specifically designed for instruction and scholarship in the arts and humanities.

Tall Furniture, a new kind of stage furniture designed and built by former student Bob Turek ’08, won first place in the do-it-yourself category of the Core77 Design Awards, which recognizes excellence in all areas of design enterprise.

An idea to rent folding bicycles from a kiosk earned first prize and $3000 for Patrick Daniels, a Master of Science in Land Development student, and Martin Griggs, a Master of Urban Planning student, in the 2011 Ideas Challenge, sponsored by the Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship.

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.

An architectural preservationist, a creative director, scholars, educators, an urban planner and noted architects — including the designer of the world’s tallest building — are among the eight former students of the Texas A&M College of Architecture to be honored this year as Outstanding Alumni.

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.

The dean and two staff members of Texas A&M’s College of Architecture were honored as namesakes for summer 2011 Fish Camp and T-Camp, where incoming freshmen and transfer students learn about Aggie life and traditions. Namesakes interact with the 24 counselors and 150 freshmen in the camp named after them.