‘Absolute Light Show’

A collage of colorful interchanging images is projected onto the wall of the Langford Architecture Center last April as part of “Absolute Light,” the semester-culminating lighting exhibit featuring work by students in Jill Mullholland’s conceptual lighting studio. Click on image to enjoy more photos by John Peters.




SUMMER 2004


   
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TOP STORIES
  • Yearlong 2nd Century Celebration to
    mark 100 years of Aggie architecture


  • Students pursue interdisciplinary
    accord while envisioning garden



    FEATURES
  • $5 million renovation under way
    to Langford Architecture Center


  • Brody earns NSF Career Award for flood
    mitigation, watershed management research


  • Rudder's Rangers' D-Day landing site to be
    surveyed by Texas A&M preservation team


  • Professor’s architectural installation
    takes off at College Station airport


  • Six experimental multimedia artists
    visit college as artists in residence


  • CHUD's Laredo office earns TDHS Community
    Award for Outstanding Volunteer Service



    SPECIAL EVENTS OVERVIEWS
  • 2004 Rowlett Lecture examines history,
    philosophy of RTKL architecture firm


  • HRIL symposium examines innovative
    conservation technologies, practices



    FORMER STUDENT NEWS
  • Class Acts: Former students touch base
    with Texas A&M College of Architecture


  • Landscape architecture, land development
    degrees were right choice for Mayor Garza


  • Former students honor Michael Murphy, Jim
    Smith with professorship endowment gifts


  • Former Texas A&M professor, alumnus heads
    Architecture Dept. at Tuskegee University


  • Former student assists in restoration
    of hot shot furnace at Fort Jefferson


  • Aggie's "memory glasses" have
    a wide range of applications


  • Aggies help Lake/Flato earn
    AIA Architecture Firm Award



    SCHOOLWORK
  • Fighting urban sprawl: Students' designs
    chosen for nationally recognized community


  • Graduate A&M architecture students assist
    Corinth church, city in site plan development


  • Construction student learns life
    lessons while interning in Iraq


  • AIAS chapter raises funds for
    Cambodian Land Mine Museum


  • College's visualization program
    showcases Aggie digital wizardry


  • AIAS students paint mural copying sketch
    of English hamlet by Professor Woodcock


  • Better Buses: Architecture students
    design better, safer school buses


  • Students develop site plan for 19.6-acre campus supporting Bryan Christian outreach ministry


    STUDENT HONORS
  • Outstanding graduate students
    honored by women in science


  • AICP recognizes urban design studio with
    honorable mention for Palacios project


  • Winner of AGC Gene Murphree Award
    inspired by her Laotian parents' spirit


  • Mission work sparked top student's
    interest in construction science


  • Architecture student earns prestigious
    Kappa Beta Phi Honorific Scholarship



    FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Thomas A. Bullock Endowed Chair in Leadership and Innovation awarded to CRS Center director, Johnson

  • Associate dean named Peña Endowed
    Professor for Information Management


  • Haque appointed first Windsor
    Professor of Construction Science


  • Regents award honors A&M architecture
    prof who created Peckerwood Garden


  • Associated General Contractors names
    Williamson 2004 outstanding educator


  • Return of a native son: Prof heads
    to Bangladesh as a Fulbright Scholar


  • Ward Wells named distinguished
    alum at Kansas State University


  • Distinguished lecture to focus on
    evolution of historic preservation


  • A&M professors named co-editors
    of architecture history journal



    DEATHS
  • Duszan Poniz dies; architecture prof
    remembered as exceptional educator