{"id":15163,"date":"2023-03-02T13:10:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/?p=15163"},"modified":"2023-03-02T13:18:17","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T19:18:17","slug":"design-charrette-brings-students-together-for-collaboration-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pvfa.tamu.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/02\/design-charrette-brings-students-together-for-collaboration-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Design Charrette Brings Students Together For Collaboration, Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Grace Callanan was making coffee late on the first night of the weekend-long Harold L. Adams Interdisciplinary Design Charrette when inspiration struck. The concept \u2014 which focused on an ampersand \u2014 helped Callanan and her teammates earn a first-place prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The competition, now in its sixth year, was created by Adams, Texas A&M Class of 1961 and an architecture professor who endowed interdisciplinary professorships. He died in 2022. Adams\u2019 vision was to bring all disciplines within the College of Architecture \u2014 which then included visualization, now in the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts \u2014 together for a design contest. This year\u2019s event, held in the atrium of the Langford Architecture Center Building A, was a joint venture between the two schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Feb. 3-5 competition was student-run, beginning Friday evening and concluding Sunday morning. Courtney Starrett, associate professor who holds the Harold Adams \u201961 Interdisciplinary Endowed Professorship in Visualization, said the event had previously been for freshmen and sophomores, but this year added an upper level for juniors and seniors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The prompt for students: Create a design for a multifunctional, multiuse area for people to gather, and to consider the different disciplines among the two schools, all while keeping Adams\u2019 legacy in mind. The target area was the quadrangle surrounded by four campus buildings: Langford A, Liberal Arts & Humanities, Jack K. Williams Administration Building and Eller Oceanography and Meteorology Building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Students were grouped into 12 teams, along with an observing team from the University of Maryland. Adams taught at Maryland, and Dawn Jourdan, former Texas A&M executive associate dean for architecture, is now the dean of architecture at Maryland. Starrett said future collaborations with the university are being discussed, as is turning the event into an intercollegiate experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n