The renovation of the Jack K. Williams Building on the campus of Texas A&M by Quimby McCoy Preservation Architecture earned a 2017 AIA Brazos Merit Award (Carolyn Brown/Carolyn Brown Photography). By Elena Watts, Texas A&M Marketing and Communications All of the buildings honored with 2017 Design Awards by the…
Kyle Gage and Brandon Walls listen as their teammate Hayden Hood, a sophomore environmental design major from Round Rock, explains the design, construction and symbolism behind the sculpture that their team created to represent Hurricane Harvey rainfall in three areas of Houston. By Elena Watts, Texas A&M University Marketing…
By Sarah Wilson, Texas A&M University College of Architecture Texas border region residents will soon have access to two specialty medical clinics converted from shipping containers by students at the Texas A&M College of Architecture. The two-year, multidisciplinary project will task students from architecture, construction science, and landscape…
People walk down a flooded street as they evacuate their homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) By Richard Nira and Sarah Wilson, Texas A&M University College of Architecture As tens of thousands of Texans…
In this NASA handout image, Hurricane Harvey is photographed aboard the International Space Station as it intensified on its way toward the Texas coast on August 25, 2017. (Photo by NASA via Getty Images) By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture As Harvey’s record-setting rainfall inundated wide…
Pictured above in 2016 after receiving an honor from Belgium’s Princess Astrid, William Merriweather Peña ’42 will be featured in a multimedia exhibit honoring five Aggies who served during World War II. By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture A multimedia exhibit honoring five World War II…
People stand in a flooded neighborhood as Texas moved toward recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Harvey on September 4, 2017 in Houston, Texas. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture City planning staff in Norfolk, Va., a coastal city of 243,000,…
“Climate Change Armor Toolkit,” Zixu Qiao designed a medium-density development for a 97-acre site earmarked by League City as a low-density residential site. By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Architecture A resilient residential and commercial development design for coastal League City, Texas that includes natural and…
By Richard Nira, Texas A&M University College of Agriculture Leading U.S. healthcare experts will discuss how technology can improve healthcare delivery and contain costs in a nation with shifting healthcare demographics and economics in the Fall 2017 Architecture-For-Health Lecture Series at the Texas A&M College of Architecture. This…
Francis Quek, a visualization professor, gives a lecture at Texas A&M. He recently earned a Convergence Award from the NSF to explore micro-manufacturing. By Sarah Wilson, Texas A&M College of Architecture To envision the future of micro-manufacturing — an innovative, potentially revolutionary system for localized, low-cost product production in…
