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California-based artist Samuel Yates, whose work has been described as simple ideas taken to an extreme, formal limit, will be working with Texas A&M students this coming spring as the College of Architecture's Artist in Residence. He'll be making frequent trips to College Station to work with students in the three-hour credit class, "New Genre Sculpture: Building Social Objects," said Carol Lafayette, AIR chairwoman and associate professor of visualization. "When he's not on campus, he'll be keeping in touch through Skype." "UNTITLED," an installation by Spring 2010 artist in residence Samuel Yates (pictured above), utilizes 50 medium size brown cardboard boxes stacked on top of one another. The work towers prodigiously through the stairwell of the building, rising to a height of 56 feet. The top box is popped open--nothing inside. The face of each box is silk-screened in powder blue and in bold text, a single word reads, "BLAH," and again "BLAH, BLAH, BLAH."
'Architect to the Stars' competes on
David Applebaum will appear on Bravo's new series, "Launch My Line," as one of 10 professionals highly regarded in their respective fields, teamed with 10 established fashion designers; at the series' end, a clothing line from the winning team will be launched. "It's quite compelling television," said Applebaum, "if you like design, and the competition of other contestants trying to figure out how to make a design that's lovely, and works, and will win, and getting to know a whole bunch of different, crazy people."
College of Architecture's Outstanding Eleven former students from Texas A&M's College of Architecture were honored as 2009 Outstanding Alumni during a banquet at the Miramont Country Club. "It's the highest honor the college bestows on its former students," said Jorge Vanegas, dean of the college. "Through the generation of new knowledge and innovations, supported by extraordinary talent, abilities and skills, and fueled by a relentless pursuit of excellence, these honorees have advanced their disciplines and their organizations."
Research: Hamilton, Shepley pen new book
"By making the connection between research evidence and design practice, Hamilton and Shepley present a holistic approach that outlines the future for successful design for critical care settings," according to the publisher's cover notes. It's a thorough and insightful guide, the notes continue, focusing on design that has been successful and beneficial to both hospital staff and hospital patients.
Seven undergraduates selected for
The program gives students an opportunity to present their work to the research community as authors, provides experience for graduate or professional school and makes students more competitive for national fellowships.
Kang, graduate students create
“From computer hardware setup, to software installation, to using a BIM model for construction planning and project control, the manual enables CIAC members to start using BIM to improve the construction project delivery process,” said Kang.
Videos show how to maximize
Susan Rodiek created and served as program director for "Access to Nature, Planning Outdoor Space for Aging," a three-DVD set developed at the university's Center for Health Systems & Design that provides information to help care providers, policymakers, educators, designers and consumer advocates create healthy, inviting outdoor environments for seniors in residential settings at all levels of care.
Fisk details sustainability
CNN reporter Ed Lavandera spent a day with Pliny Fisk, an associate professor of architecture and landscape architecture & urban planning, at Fisk's Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems near Austin. “Fisk's mission," reported Lavandera, "is to develop environmentally sustainable building materials and to change the way we build our communities, like homes and office buildings." Read the full story, see video
Brody reports differences in Texas'
In the paper, "Evaluating Local Flood Mitigation Strategies in Texas and Florida," Sam Brody, holder of the George P. Mitchell '40 Chair in Sustainable Coasts at Texas A&M University-Galveston, reported his findings after analyzing 21 mitigation strategies based on the results of a survey of more than 470 administrators and planning officials located in floodplains in the two states. Mann, Okamoto make presentations
George Mann, professor of architecture, and Kazuhiko Okamoto, visiting professor of architecture, traveled to the 29th annual meeting of the International Union of Architects/Public Health Group Nov. 4-6 in Buenos Aires to present "Toward Sustainable Design in Health and Hospital Facilities."
College of Architecture’s 11th annual
The daylong research showcase featured a series of faculty presentations previously delivered at scholarly venues around the world. This year's symposium included invited or refereed presentations and papers from the 2008-09 academic year. "The individual sessions comprising the symposium displayed a wide range of scholarship with respect to people and place," said Lou Tassinary, executive associate dean for the College of Architecture. "Fundamentally, the sessions reflected themes that have emerged in the work of the faculty and research staff over the past year." Read the full story Sam Gosling (pictured above), a nationally renowned researcher and author who focuses on issues related to personality and social psychology, delivered the keynote address at the 11th annual College of Architecture Research Symposium.
Chronicle of Higher Education makes note The Chronicle of Higher Education took note of an immersive environment created by faculty at Texas A&M's Department of Visualization, and its possible applications for natural science museums. "With 3-D glasses, a semicircle of screens, surround sound, and a Wii video-game controller, users can experience the ultraviolet vision of a bird or the ultrasonic hearing of a whale, while navigating through a virtual world," said the Chronicle's Ben Terris in an Oct. 12 posting about the environment, "I'm Not There." Read the Chronicle story
Academics: 'In Theory' talk show webcasts tackle
These much discussed happenings — four, so far — surround the webcasts of Lang's innovative talk show, "In Theory," which have aired live, since the inaugural Oct. 6 show, from the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus. “The formula is simple, said Lang, "each episode focuses on a specific subject related to the most urgent and pressing issues affecting the world of design today. The hour-long discussions are meant to delve deeper into the topics and contemplate different perspectives." Read the full story, watch past episodes "In Theory" guest, Sarah Deyong (above) makes a point while a clip from Fritz Lang's 1927 film, "Metropolis," plays in the background during the live webcast of episode 4, "Tinker-Toy." Architecture professorship
The Mattia Flabiano III ’80 PageSoutherlandPage Design Professorship, established with a $150,000 gift, will support the teaching, research and service activities of an architectural design professor at Texas A&M.
Students learning about etiquette, customs
It's part of the knowledge students will need in their careers, said class professor Rodney Hill. "After students graduate, they're going to be working globally," he said. "In the next 40 years, there will be 3 billion people added to the earth, and only 120 million of them are going to be in the U.S. There will be global opportunities for all these kids. That's why this course was established." Video highlights Viz students' work on "They Call Themselves Viz" is the latest presentation in "Dimensions," a documentary-style, short-video project that provides visual features of people and achievements in Texas A&M System universities. In addition to talking with faculty and students, host Ruben Olague shows examples of student work from last summer's collaboration with visiting professionals from Walt Disney Animation Studios, focusing on their need to bridge the aesthetic and technical to bring their video creations to life.
Guest lecture by outstanding
Robert Riggs, who earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree in 1971, visited a design class led by Rodney Hill, professor of architecture on Oct. 29 After graduating, Riggs became one of the nation's top television reporters, winning a coveted George Foster Peabody award and three Alfred I. duPont Columbia University Journalism awards. In Hill's class, Riggs spoke about skills students will need when they enter the marketplace and his current business venture, Blue Sky Productions, which produces videos for online and cable TV distribution.
Texas A&M PGR-CIB chapter wins
The aim of the Aggie proposed October 2010 summit and a concurrent research competition was to expose students to the latest developments in research and innovation and to provide network opportunities with the leaders in the field. Lang eyes design theory in
Lang's Qatar lecture, "Utopia by Design," examined "contemporary research in new city development in the Third World and is a reflection on the invention of the ideal."
The Building Information Modeling Forum held Sept. 17 at the Sheraton Houston Brookhollow Hotel, hosted by Texas A&M's Department of Construction Science and the Houston chapter of the Associated General Contractors of America, was tailored to address the questions and needs of general contractors wanting to know how BIM can help in the construction phase of a project or how to just get started with BIM in the first place. "We wanted to talk about BIM from a general contractor's point of view," said Julian Kang, associate professor of construction science at Texas A&M and co-chairman of the event. He said many general contractors want to know how BIM can help them perform a constructability analysis of a project, or how it can help with the process of discovering changes that occur to an architect's model or drawing after a subcontractor's work begins. Ndubisi again named as
He's one of DesignIntelligence's Most Admired Educators of 2010, an annual list selected by the newsletter's staff as examples of excellence in design leadership. The staff compiles the list with input from hundreds of design professionals, academic department heads and students. Master of Architecture student lands prize
The annual prize is awarded to a graduate student in a U.S. architecture school by the Houston Architecture Foundation from a bequest by David G. Puckett, AIA, to fund research projects that will enhance the field of healthcare architecture. Also online: ASLA hosts public meeting detailing College administrators visit study REDA staying active with COSC chapter of Sigma Lambda Chi MSLD students meet mentors, Zhu's students research, design In the Studio:
Esquivel's work exhibited An installation created by assistant professor of architecture Gabriel Esquivel at Texas A&M is part of an exhibition exploring innovative design concepts at Ohio State University. Working at the College of Architecture's Digital Fabrication Facility, aka the Architecture Ranch, Esquivel created "Malbec" with student help. The digital storefront, he said, was inspired by the idea of rustication — defined as cutting or shaping so as to create a bold textured look.
Design contest seeks solutions to College of Architecture students at Texas A&M are eligible to compete for cash prizes in an interdisciplinary design contest to improve the review space in Langford A 300. Proposals will be accepted until noon Dec. 18, with winners to be selected in three categories: innovation, best problem solving and presentation/communication. Each winning entry will receive $250. Design ideas that are selected for implementation will be recognized as part of the new construction.
Students unveiled designs for new
"Students have created designs for a 90-100-bed facility with an emergency center, surgery unit, intensive care units for adults and children, a post anesthesia care unit, radiology department, and a lab for blood and tissue analysis," said Joseph J. McGraw, architecture professor emeritus and former faculty member at the college. Plans for the facility, he added, are a beacon of hope for the revitalization and growth of the community. Read the full story and see pictures
Gage discusses work in architecture Mark Foster Gage, principal at Gage-Clemenceau Architects, reviewed student work and appeared as part of the Texas A&M Department of Architecture lecture series Nov. 16. Gage's firm engages the continuing role of computation in generating new formal and aesthetic genres for architecture. He's also an assistant professor at Yale University School of Architecture.
Visualization department staffer creating
Glen Vigus (pictured), senior visualization production specialist, has created panoramic photos of fans in the student side, west side and The Zone in his Kyle Field Panoramic Project. "It takes 5 minutes to shoot, but over an hour to process and put all of the photos together," Vigus told The Battalion's Carrie Johnson. "There are over 144 photos just for the alumni side alone."
An undergraduate in Texas A&M's visualization program received a screen credit for his work in "Disney's A Christmas Carol," the latest movie adaptation of the Dickens' classic holiday tale. Michael Catalano (at left) worked as an assistant technical director in the movie's production technology department. During the summer, he did an internship with ImageMovers Digital, a studio operated by "Carol" director Robert Zemeckis in conjunction with Walt Disney Pictures. I had a chance to talk with Michael's supervisor at ImageMovers and he only had great things to say," said Tim McLaughlin, head of the Department of Visualization.
Class Acts: Class Acts: Former students
In addition to the former student news briefs listed by class year, each semester’s Class Acts section also offers more detailed features on former student activities. The college encourages former students to use Class Acts to report news of interest or professional achievements and to update their contact information so they keep abreast of college activities of interest to them. Former students can report news and update their contact information online at archone.tamu.edu. While there, please remember to enter your current e-mail address. To save funds, as well a few trees, the college is relying more and more on electronic communications.
College of Architecture students lead Two of the top 10 businesses in the 2009 Aggie 100 list of the fastest-growing Aggie-owned or Aggie-led ventures, are among the nine companies led by former students from Texas A&M's College of Architecture. The college former students who made the list, their businesses and their 2009 Aggie 100 rank: James P. (Bo) Miles, president, owner, founder of J.P. Miles Construction Corporation (6); Michael Schuerich, president and founder of Arch-Con Corporation (10); Brian Cole and Jesse Sandifer, co-founders, owners of Green Grass Studios (23); William P. Huddleston, director and owner of CIMA ENERGY, LTD. (25); Jay B. Carlton, president and owner of Sterling Structures (27); Kyle Biagioli, president, owner and founder of Southern Land Design Group (61); Brad Birdwell, president and owner of GR Birdwell Construction (70); Jennifer Carney, partner, owner, founder of Carney Ranker Architects, Ltd. (77) and Bob Albers, managing director of Project Solutions International Co., Ltd., (100).
Book by college's founder among
Charles S. Carleton, who earned a bachelor of architecture degree in 1947, then had a lengthy and successful career, died in 2006 at age 94. His son, Robert, donated the collection Nov. 4 to the college's Technical Reference Center. "Dad would be very happy if he knew something of his was back on campus," said Robert.
Home designed by alum featured A Texas Architectural Digest's "Designers' Own Homes" series in September featured a home designed by Nunzio De Santis, an alumnus of Texas A&M's College of Architecture. “My wife, Sheila, and I wanted to create something for our family and friends that was more powerful than just a house,” said DeSantis, who earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree in 1981 and a Master of Architecture degree in 1983. He told writer Nancy Collins they aimed to have “a place to cast a real shadow, build a life and memories.”
Also online: Former student falls short in bid Study abroad alumni celebrate Santa Alumnus heads UTSA's Former student's design, construction Events: Digital fabrication workshop
Scheduled to lead conference sessions are Andrew Payne, founder of Lift Architects, Marc Fornes, founder of theverymany, a design studio and collaborative research forum, and Rajaa Issa, a software developer with Robert McNeel & Associates. World-renowned architect Michael Graves' lecture
The acclaimed designer looked back to his student days at the American Academy in Rome and tracked the formative influence that experience had on his designs of cities, buildings and everyday objects. Reid's sketch goes from
“I created the sketch without any knowledge of the book or the intent to do anything more than eventually create a painting from it (the drawing),” said Russell W. Reid. After the sketch was posted, said Reid, it was “discovered — someone forwarded it to someone who forwarded it to someone else." Randle's skillfulness, dedication yield
Randle, who has been a college staffer for 15 years, was one of 25 university staff members to receive the award. She and her fellow honorees each won a $700 cash award, a commemorative plaque, and a gold lapel pin.
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A former environmental design student from Texas A&M who has designed homes for some of Hollywood's biggest stars will be a contestant on a reality show debuting in December.
A book by two architecture professors at Texas A&M, detailing best practices in intensive care facility design, has been published by Architectural Press.
Seven students in the College of Architecture have joined a select group of Aggies with their acceptance into the Undergraduate Research Scholars.
In the publication, “Contractor’s Manual for Building Information Modeling,” associate professor Julian Kang and fellow authors Swapna Biju, a construction science graduate student, and Jin-Hoon Lee, an architecture graduate student, created a step-by-step BIM guide for firms in the Department of Construction Science’s Construction Industry Advisory Council.
A new set of award-winning educational videos addresses a problem an associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M discovered when she visited 68 randomly selected U.S. residential facilities for senior citizens.
Television viewers tuned to CNN Oct. 13 saw a lengthy video detailing the latest ideas in sustainability from a professor at Texas A&M's College of Architecture.
The forthcoming issue of Built Environment journal features a paper by an associate professor of urban planning at Texas A&M showing distinct variations in flood mitigation efforts by state and local governments in Texas and Florida.
Faculty members from Texas A&M's Department of Architecture presented the latest findings in sustainable health facility design at two international conferences in South America.
Research findings in a broad array of topics were delivered at the 11th annual Texas A&M College of Architecture Research Symposium: Natural, Built, Virtual, held Oct. 19 in the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus.
Students and faculty have gathered at noontime in the Wright Gallery this fall to watch as panels of experts from numerous disciplines wax illustrious on a far-flung variety of topics in discussions moderated by Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M.
The emphasis on design education in the Department of Architecture at Texas A&M University will get a boost from the creation of a new professorship honoring former student Mattia Flabiano '80, a principal with PageSoutherlandPage, an architectural and engineering design firm headquartered in Austin.
Students in a class at Texas A&M's College of Architecture are learning about global etiquette practices to help them compete in environments where a business deal might hinge on a knowledge of manners in the U.S. or abroad.
An award-winning journalist and outstanding alumnus of the Texas A&M College of Architecture detailed his thoughts about students' futures and the changes the Internet has wrought on his professional career during a guest lecture that's available for viewing online.
A proposal for a student summit at Texas A&M focusing on integrated design solutions and the built and human environment earned an international award for the Texas A&M PGR-CIB, which is short for the Postgraduate Built Environment Research Chapter of the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building Construction.
Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture, participated in a Nov. 24 lecture series on new urban development in the Third World at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar, and is also lecturing on critical and radical design Dec. 12 in Stockholm.
BIM forum concentrates on
Forster Ndubisi, head of the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning at Texas A&M, has been named for the second consecutive year to a select list of 25 of the nation's top educators.
Dyutima Jha, a second-year Master of Architecture student, has won the Puckett Prize for Healthcare Architecture on the strength of her research on designing facilities for a type of cancer treatment that may be available soon in the U.S.
Students in Texas A&M's Architecture-For-Health studio unveiled their designs Dec. 2 for a proposed New Orleans hospital that will serve an area hard hit by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters.
Thanks to a Texas A&M Department of Visualization staffer, web surfers can get a unique, high-resolution look at the crowds at two of the Aggie home football games this season.
Viz student earns movie credit
Catch up with your old classmates in the archone. newsletter’s Class Acts section, a regularly updated list of recent activities reported by former students of the Texas A&M College of Architecture. Class Acts highlights professional achievements, as well as marriages, births, retirements and just about anything College of Architecture graduates care to tell their old friends.
A book by Frederick Giesecke (pictured), founder of Texas A&M's architecture program, is part of a former student's reference book collection recently donated to the College of Architecture's reference library.
TEX-FAB, a new resource for designers, academics, fabricators and students seeking innovative applications of digital technology to the physical environment, is hosting its inaugural digital design workshop for students and professionals Feb. 4-6 at the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture.
Michael Graves, hailed by a New York Times critic as "truly the most original voice American architecture has produced in some time," gave a special guest lecture on Dec. 3 at the Texas A&M College of Architecture. 
A sketch posted on Facebook by a visiting assistant professor at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture has become the cover illustration for a novel to be released in 2010.
Melinda Randle, assistant to the head of the Department of Architecture, was presented with the President's Meritorious Service Award during a Dec. 1 ceremony at the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center.
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