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Several giant cube-shaped art installations created by Texas A&M visualization and environmental design students have temporarily transformed a formerly empty city block in downtown Bryan into a public art exhibit for ArtFill, a community art project .

A new comprehensive evidence-based guide for designing healing gardens and therapeutic landscapes for healthcare facilities was co-authored by Naomi Sachs, a Ph.D. architecture student at Texas A&M.

A student-made animated short film about a boy who crashes into reality after a fanciful, albeit harrowing sled ride down a towering mountain earned a screening a the New York City Film Festival and a SIGGRAPH 2013 award.

Collages echoing a style of art born in an early 20th century Mexican cultural renaissance were created by visualization students at Texas A&M in a collaboration with their counterparts in the university’s performance studies program.

By the time the weather turns cool this fall, a Bryan, Texas family will be settling into a new home designed by Texas A&M environmental design student Catherine Florece as part of the College of Architecture's 'Real Projects' interdisciplinary community outreach initiative.

“Asterisk*,” a multimedia exhibit May 2013 in the College of Architecture's Wright Gallery, showcased artistic explorations by students in VIZA 631 Contemporary Art Studio/Seminar, offered through the Master of Fine Arts in Visualization program.

Recently appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, Kunhee Choi, assistant professor of construction science at Texas A&M University, will review scholarly papers about construction project scheduling and cost estimating.

Strategies for incorporating art and design in science and technical education and vice versa were discussed at a May 16 Washington D.C. conference organized by the network for Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design (SEAD).

A building energy use "tune-up" procedure developed by researchers at the Texas A&M Energy Systems Lab has so far yielded more than $100 million in energy savings from little more than 300 client buildings, said Charles Culp, professor of architecture and ESL associate director.

Six design proposals for a 153,000 square-foot children’s outpatient health center in historic downtown Richmond, Va., will be unveiled by Texas A&M senior environmental design students at a 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 24.

Urban issues affecting the Texas-Mexico border will be the focus of Dialogo on the Border, sponsored by the diversity council at the College of Architecture and the Dwight Look College of Engineering April 19-20 in Brownsville, Texas.

An emphasis on interdisciplinary education has netted José Fernández-Solís, Texas A&M associate professor of construction science, the 2012 J. Thomas Regan Interdisciplinary Faculty Prize.

Innovative ideas from four Texas A&M student teams that could revolutionize conditions in the Third World and expand educational opportunities for nontraditional students have reached the semifinal round in a national innovation contest.

Sustainable landscape design, “green” roof construction, and using research to inform design are just some of the areas Bruce Dvorak, assistant professor of landscape architecture, covers in studios; his efforts will be recognized with an award from a national education organization.

Steve McDowell, director of design and principal at BNIM, a design and planning firm recognized by the American Institute of Architects as its 2011 firm of the year, spoke at Texas A&M’s Rowlett Lecture Series April 19 at Rudder Theatre on the Texas A&M campus.