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Chris Mulder ’80, one of South Africa’s top environmental designers, lectured about his firm’s newest trend-setting concept and led a design charrette while he was in College Station to receive an Outstanding International Alumnus Award from The Association of Former Students at Texas A&M.
In his April 24 lecture, Mulder, an outstanding alumnus of the College of Architecture, discussed his firm’s Crossways Farm Village, a housing development in South Africa located on a dairy farm.
“Crossways Farm Village is a groundbreaking real estate concept that is rapidly gaining momentum,” states the development’s website. “At its heart lies the belief that scientifically managed, productive farms will replace golf courses in developments, that farming and farmers will again take center stage in the country's prosperity.”
Mulder’s firm, Chris Mulder Associates Inc., conceptualized and designed the project.
He said there is growing support for the concept of rural living in an agricultural environment.
“The slogan 'agriculture is the new golf' has been taken up enthusiastically by people in all walks of life concerned about the environment,” he said. “There is in particular an increasing awareness of the importance for the future of safe access to food and water, and of the need to live with the land in a sustainable manner."
Mulder also lead “Planning and Design Process: A Workshop Charrette” with his son and business partner, architect Steff Mulder,on April 27.
He received The Association of Former Students’ 2011 Outstanding International Alumnus Award at an event held April 26 at the Clayton Williams Jr. Alumni Center. Mulder earned a Ph.D. in Architecture at Texas A&M in 1980.
See related story, “Outstanding college alumnus to be feted by The Association of Former Students,”
- Posted: Apr. 15, 2011 -
Contact: Phillip Rollfing, prollfing@archone.tamu.edu or 979.458.0442.
