Students travel to Costa Rica to create Soltis Center plans
posted April 15, 2014
Fourteen undergraduate landscape architecture students spent their Spring Break designing features to enhance the educational experience at Texas A&M’s Soltis Center for Research and Education in Costa Rica.
Environmentalist to speak at Texas A&M at two April lectures
posted March 26, 2014
Bill McKibben, who the Boston Globe called one of the United States’ most important environmentalists, will discuss the threat of global warming and the international movement to end humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels in two lectures set for April 10 and 11.
Aggie Workshop featured speakers, charettes Feb. 7
posted January 17, 2014
A keynote address by Hitesh Mehta, a leading designer of lodges and landscapes at ecotourism sites throughout the world, highlighted lectures, charrettes and social events Feb. 7, 2014 at the 39th annual Aggie Workshop.
Alums help students design lost school models from memory
posted December 4, 2013
Tasked with creating museum-quality models of two Brazos Valley African-American high schools that burned down in the 1960s, a group of Texas A&M graduate architecture students quickly discovered they'd have to resurrect the schools from former student's memories.
Grad LAND students design green West Campus master plan
posted November 8, 2013
Texas A&M graduate landscape architecture students developed a master plan for a major addition to the university’s College Station campus — the Texas A&M Gardens and Greenway project — a planned transformation of a 46-acre area of West Campus.
Students' award-winning study aids campus bike program
posted October 31, 2013
More than 2000 bicycle trips are taken each day in Texas A&M’s new bike share program, which debuted in the fall 2013 semester after an award-winning report by Master of Urban Planning Students showed a significant interest in bike sharing from students, faculty and staff.
Latest News
Students travel to Costa Rica to create Soltis Center plans
posted April 15, 2014
Fourteen undergraduate landscape architecture students spent their Spring Break designing features to enhance the educational experience at Texas A&M’s Soltis Center for Research and Education in Costa Rica.
Two college profs recognized for research, teaching
posted April 4, 2014
Two faculty members at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture have been recognized for outstanding research and teaching with 2014 Distinguished Achievement Awards from The Association of Former Students.
Environmentalist to speak at Texas A&M at two April lectures
posted March 26, 2014
Bill McKibben, who the Boston Globe called one of the United States’ most important environmentalists, will discuss the threat of global warming and the international movement to end humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels in two lectures set for April 10 and 11.
Lee’s students help create concepts for wayfinding guide
posted March 6, 2014
A publication detailing how to create better wayfinding, or the process which people find their way from place to play in a city or small town, reflects contributions made by graduate students at Texas A&M’s College of Architecture.
Grad students’ plan wins national award from planning group
posted March 6, 2014
A report by graduate urban planning students at Texas A&M that helped establish a university bike sharing program was honored with an award in a nationwide contest sponsored by the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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