The Langford Architecture Center is the home of the College of Architecture at Texas A&M University in College Station. Jack R. Yardley, a Texas A&M graduate of 1958, designed Langford A, which was built in 1977. SAH Archipedia calls it Brutalist, with bush-hammered concrete, and says its upper floors project outward and cast deep shadows.
Langford A, at 798 Ross Street, holds the dean's office and student services, the departments of architecture and of landscape architecture and urban planning, the Wright Gallery and the Azimuth Cafe. The center has three buildings, one with an auditorium. An earlier architecture building from 1962 joined the center in 1978.
The center is named for Ernest Langford, class of 1913, who headed the architecture department from 1929 to 1956. The main building replaced the campus museum, which showed fossils from the Brazos River and an Egyptian mummy until 1965.
This building has no Wikipedia article. Facts come from Texas A&M School of Architecture, Langford A, SAH Archipedia, The Eagle / Aggie Nation, building history.
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