Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
An article in the Bryan-College Station Eagle details how a Texas A&M former landscape architecture student has brought art to Brazos Valley highways at a minimal cost to Texas taxpayers.
“Lately, as I've sat at traffic lights beneath our new highway bridges, I've been enjoying the aesthetics incorporated into the structures,” wrote Donnis Baggett in the Eagle’s Jan. 17 issue. “The murals at the railroad underpass on Villa Maria, for example. The faux giant nuts and bolts beneath the flyover at Texas Avenue and Texas 6. The colorful cowboys riding right at the traffic at Wellborn Road and F.M. 2818.”
The pieces are the work of Maury Jacob, who earned a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture degree at Texas A&M in 1987. He’s the landscape architect for the Bryan District of the Texas Department of Transportation.
Baggett was especially impressed by Jacob’s idea to install a collection of mosaics in the railroad underpass on Villa Maria in Bryan. Tiles were manufactured for each mosaic from a computer program’s rendering of photographs of local landmarks.
"The contractor just installs it like sheets of tile," Maury says. "It's very inexpensive, but doesn't look it."
For Baggett’s story in the Eagle, visit http://www.theeagle.com
- Posted: Feb. 17, 2010-
Maury Jacob
