Centennial
Celebration

One hundred balloons adorn the south entrance of the Langford Architecture Center on the Texas A&M campus during the College of Architecture's 100th birthday celebration on September 1, 2005.

• College of Architecture Celebrates 100th Birthday
• Dean Regan reflects on college's centennial year
• Brief history of architectural education at Texas A&M
• College honors CRS as the Firm of the Century
• 1000 neckties celebrate a century of
  tradition at College of Architecture
• Giesecke named Texas A&M Distinguished Alum
• Ernest Langford influenced generations of men,
  lead the development of City of College Station
• Edward Romieniec guided college, students
  into new era of architectural education

• Texas A&M team readies for
  DOE's 2007 Solar Decathlon
• HRIL becomes Center for Heritage Conservation
• Beck Group "tears down silos" at '06 Rowlett Lecture
• David Woodcock reviews 2006 Rowlett Lecture
• Landscape architecture and urban planning dept.
  launches "Partnership for Community Outreach"
• Construction Science earns ACCE reaccreditation
• Most women ever graduated in 2006
  from construction science program
• Students thrive in Beijing internships
• Center for Heritage Conservation holds
  7th Historic Preservation Symposium
• Center for Housing and Urban
  Development joins Uniapravi
• CHUD helps Mexican consulate
  open 'Windows of Health' program
• CHUD joins U.S. Partnership for the Decade
  of Education for Sustainable Development
• College, university join national
  technology consortium FIATECH
• CHUD team to study Brazos
  Valley housing market
• For 10th year CNCS commits
  volunteers to Colonias

• College of Architecture mobilizes
  academic response to Katrina
• Aggies win Katrina-inspired hospital design contest
• Gulf Coast needs extreme makeover, says prof Fisk
• Prof proposes 'Quilting Bee' new homes in
  areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina
• ”Surge Parks” can provide needed respite
  for disaster victims, says LAUP professor
• New Orleans should be rebuilt,
  says architecture prof, Clayton
• Fee would help renew Gulf's port cities,
  Clayton writes in Times-Picayune op/ed
• A&M team leads Key West summit on post-hurricane
  preparedness and community transformation
• Katrina reportage thrusts experts from college's
  Hazard Reduction Recovery Center into limelight
• HRRC team helps officials make
  hurricane evacuation decisions
• HRRC scientists eye U.S. storm
  surge hazards on NSF project
• LAUP grad students redesign Beaumont public
  housing site that was damaged by Hurricane Rita
• Infrastructure changes needed to meet future
  disaster relief needs, says professor Bame
• Research eyes use of 211 phone
  number for non-emergency help
• Lindell's Capitol Hill testimony addresses attack
  vulnerability of nation's chemical infrastructure

• Brody developing tools to balance
  growth, ecosystem preservation
• HRRC team maps social vulnerabillity
  in India after Dec. 26, 2005 tsunami
• NSF funds visualization professors'
  engineering tool design project
• Research eyes impacts of rapid growth, intense
  urbanization on quality of life issues in China.
• Historic Point Du Hoc facing serious
  erosion problems, experts say
• Pointe du Hoc: $500,000 federal
  grant targets monument erosion
• Pointe du Hoc research featured on
  History Channel’s ‘Battlefield Detectives’
• Architecture doctoral students design online
  mapping system for tracking sex offenders
• More energy experts, technology needed to
  deal with looming energy shortages, says Culp
• College built, virtual environment research
  showcased at 7th annual Global Symposium
• 'Architecture Ranch' taking shape
  at Texas A&M's Riverside campus
• College joins national technology consortium
• Jorge Vanegas takes helm as director of college's
  Center for Housing and Urban Development
• Construction science students experiment with
  rammed-earth technology, build 'Earth Shack'
• Portable emissions-testing device
  should advance air-quality science
• Serenbe project featured in June issue of Metropolis
• A&M professor co-authors paper eyeing
  sexual identity, motion & morphology
• Texas A&M historian sheds new light on
  architectural patronage of Pope Pius IV
• LAUP profs land $113,000 research
  deal with National Park Service
• Magazine eyes "Home on the Range
  for Aggie Architecture School"

• Students collaborate with British government,
  HKS on major health facility project in UK
• Susan Rodiek focuses on helping
  the elderly connect with nature
• Faculty craft software to help design
  better environments for the elderly
• Sound Effects: Health Facilities Design article
  eyes A&M professor's hospital noise research
• A&M architecture students envision
  future of Bryan child advocacy center
• CHSD faculty fellows were well-represented at
  international architecture-for-health conference
• Hospital buildings influence
  patient outcomes, Ulrich says
• Roger Ulrich's UK mission: Prof's research
  influencing 21st Century hospital design
• Architecture students unveil home makeover
  plans for disabled Aggie finance student
• Naderi eyes walker-friendly landscapes
• Professor-architect Kirk is proponent
  of evidence-based healthcare design
• Chicago Tribune reports: Prof's research shows how
  natural elements benefit elderly patients' well-being
• Mann, students present surge hospital findings
  at national healthcare architecture conference
• Center for Health Systems & Design
  joins Center for Aging Services
• Mann makes international
  architecture-for-health blitz
• CHSD to celebrate 40-year-old
  architecture-for-health initiative
• Student-designed spa to aid
  Tobagonian relief mission
• Student work garners elite
  healthcare engineer audience
• Architecture students team up with HKS, Inc.
  to design medical center for Mansfield

• Viz students, faculty illustrate "Adventures in
  Sound" concert with symphony orchestra
• Architecture professor Nishimoto
  designs War on Terror Memorial
• Dreamworks CEO calls Viz program "fantastic";
  vizzers light up screen at major Hollywood studios
• College of Architecture hosts TEX-GRAPH 2006
• Pioneering bio artist Eduardo Kac
  lectures at College of Architecture
• Viz faculty present "FLOAT" installation
  at Sam Houston State University gallery
• College acquires a baby grand piano
• Spring 2006 Artists in Residence summary
• Comic strip author discusses his work after private
  screening of animated feature "Over the Hedge"
• Museum features Schiffhauer's
  Charles Gordone portrait series
• Artist Ann Hamilton to lecture Nov. 29
• Students help visiting artist Gu design
  sculptures to grace Texas A&M campus
• Visualization students exhibit 'Hess in Dallas' installation with visitng artist DeDeaux

• LAUP students design Mustang Way
  Park for Bryan Rotary Club project
• Rodney Hill's ENDS 101 students dominate
  Mays Business School's Idea Challenge
• Campaign, land swap enable construction to start on
  student-designed Cambodian Land Mine Museum
• Architecture students unveil designs
  for community fishing park in Houston
• Multidisciplinary studio wows crowd with
  designs for A&M Costa Rican station
• A&M profs to develop auditorium
  for Padre Island National Seashore
• He's studio experiments with
  Felice Varini's Visual Language
• Planning class assesses housing, community
  development, human services needs in B/CS
• ARCH 433 students transform Langford Architecture
  Center with dazzling display of light and color

• CLASS ACTS: former students touch
  base with College of Architecture
• Six former students honored with College
  of Architecture's Outstanding Alumni Award
• David Bomba finds niche as set
  designer for major Hollywood films
• Robert Hunter named president
  of American Planning Association
• Gary Maler '74 named director
  of Texas A&M Real Estate Center
• Former student, Lt. Vandenberg, details
  architectural efforts to stabilize Iraq
• Jack Pyburn '69 elevated to AIA Fellow
• David Applebaum's '84 work on Cuba Gooding Jr.'s
  home was recently featured in InStyle Magazine
• Marc Granberry '85, '87' carves niche as woodworker
• Eugene Schrickel dies; was longtime supporter of
  A&M's landscape architecture and urban planning program
• Outstanding alumnus Key Kolb
  passed away last June in Dallas
• Giesecke named Distinguished Alumni
  by A&M Former Student Association
• Thompson '72, '74 elected
  to RTKL Board of Directors

• 2006 top constructor also
  wins wordsmith competition
• BED student nominated for Marshall Scholarship
• A&M students' transit center design
  places first in state ASLA competition
• Aggies' active living designs
  earn EDRA honors in Vancouver
• Student's paper examining climate change
  planning garners international recognition
• Andrea Smith Eads named Raiford
  Stripling Scholar for 2005-2006
• Wesley Highfield earns U.S. EPA Science
  to Achieve Results (STAR) Fellowship
• U&RS students earn first place in
  Student Research Week contest
• Ming-Young Seo, Shane Boren
  awarded AIA/AHA fellowships
• Two BED undergraduates earn
  Glasscock Center research grants
• Planning student earns Susan M. Arsevan '75
  Make-A-Difference Memorial Award for 2006
• M.Arch graduate student receives
  Faculty Senate Aggie Spirit Award
• Sudha Arlikattie 06 takes faculty post
  at University of North Texas - Denton

• Auditorium, lecture series honor the
  'first family' of Texas A&M Architecture
• Adams creates three interdisciplinary professorships
• Mitchell family's $2.3 million gift launches residential
  construction and design initiative at Texas A&M
• Gift to transform gallery, support
  College of Architecture exhibits
• Former student to donate Costa Rican
  rainforest to Texas A&M University

• College of Architecture elevates
  faculty at recognition banquet
• HKS Inc. officials establish architecture-for-health endowed chair, professorships at College
• Julie Rogers, Michael Murphy earn Association of
  Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award
• Abbot, Rodiek project named top product
  design at Active Place Design Competition
• Professor Culp invited to help review
  Finland's Building Services Program
• COSC profs, grad student earn Arie Huizer Award
  for paper on compressed earth technology
• Robert Segner elected VP of American
  Council for Construction Accreditation
• John Alexander named Montague-Center
  for Teaching Excellence Scholar
• Fisk participates in Yale 'biophily' think tank
• Rodney Hill earns Eppright Professorship
  in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
• Geva named Glasscock Faculty
  Fellow in Religious Studies
• Rodney Hill recognized as champion of creativity
• Ulrich, Rodiek honored for distinguished
  achievement in research and teaching
• Three faculty awarded by Program to
  Enhance Scholarly, Creative Activities
• Chris Ellis elected president of CELA
• CRS Center board selects Lavy as associate director
• Retired professor Jac de Jong
  donates personal library to TRC
• COSC professor Smith elected to
  National Academy of Construction
• Construction prof Karasulu appointed to American
  Subcontractors Association Board of Directors
• Rodiek paper earns NIC's annual research award
• Haberl named ASHRAE fellow
• Wei Yan earns "best paper" honor
  at design, computing conference
• Roger Ulrich deluged with interview
  requests resulting from AP story
• Woodcock, committee offer solution
  for beleaguered state park system
• Lindell, Prater author two new
  emergency management books
• European planning journal awards
  best paper honor to Mike Neuman

• College of Architecture workshop
  took aim at rising energy costs
• Raiford Leake Stripling Archive
  comes to Texas A&M University