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Newsletter of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University
During a session at the west coast’s biggest annual design event at the Los Angeles Convention Center June 24-26, participants heard Peter Lang, associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M, discuss his students’ efforts to improve a Texas border community through a partnership with its residents as well as their development of survival objects for people who find themselves in a situation with very limited resources.
Lang spoke at the Dwell on Design conference, curated by the editors of Dwell Magazine, which featured more than 70 presentations and 300 exhibitors from around the world; it included Lang’s session, at which six presenters were chosen from a bevy of applicants to showcase projects that, organizers said, were “provocative takes on what design can do to better the world.”
Lang's students developed durable shoes out of duct tape, a method to start a fire using a soda can, a 9-volt battery and a Brillo pad, a sanitizer made from a pizza box, foil and a black tray, a wheelchair made of pieces of a shopping cart, chair, a bicycle or other devices, and more.
He spoke at a conference session sponsored by Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit design services firm looking to build a more sustainable future through professional design.
Learn more about Lang’s studio in an article and video on the archone. website.
- Posted: July 5, 2011 -
Contact: Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.
