Architecture professorship
enhances design education

 

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 design professorship honoring former student Mattia Flabiano '80, a principal with PageSoutherlandPage, an architectural and engineering design firm headquartered in Austin.

The Mattia Flabiano III ’80 PageSoutherlandPage Design Professorship, established with a $150,000 gift from the PSP Foundation, will support the teaching, research and service activities of an architectural design professor at Texas A&M.

“We’re highly appreciative of this endowment, and its potential in reinforcing the department’s focus on design,” said Glen Mills, head of the Department of Architecture. “Everything we teach in the department comes together in the design studio. PageSoutherlandPage is coming in at the right time; by boosting our design resources at the teaching level, we’ll be gearing up to tackle the future by educating tomorrow’s architects to take on new global issues.”

PSP, said Flabiano, agrees with Mills that an emphasis on design is at the core of an excellent and relevant architectural education.

“This gift is intended to reinforce that emphasis by supporting faculty with particular, recognized design talent. This is one way PageSoutherlandPage can invest in the future of our profession,” he said.

Flabiano earned a Bachelor of Environmental Design degree from Texas A&M in 1980 and is a healthcare design principal in PSP’s Dallas office. Since his elevation to principal in 1998, the firm has expanded nationally and internationally, its practice volume more than doubling while garnering numerous design awards along the way.
 
Since established in 1898 by Charles H. Page and his brother, Louis, PSP has grown to a diversified planner and designer of the built environment worldwide, with U.S. offices in Austin, Dallas, Denver, Houston and Washington D.C. Overseas offices are located in Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait and London.

 

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