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February 11, 2003 UNM PLASTICS PIONEER TO PRESENT LECTURES Plastic in architecture, art to be discussed Plastics pioneer Armand G. Winfield presents two lectures at the University of New Mexico in Zimmerman Library's Willard Reading Room. The lectures are offered in conjunction with Winfield's exhibit, "Plastics: The Art and Science of Armand G. Winfield" at the library's Center for Southwest Research exhibit gallery. "Plastics in Architecture" will be presented Tuesday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m. As a plastics researcher and developer, Winfield is an internationally recognized expert in low cost housing. He has worked on housing projects for CARE in Bangladesh and UNIDO in India, and has designed modular housing and emergency shelters. In addition, he has developed applications for plastics as architectural design elements. "Plastics in Art" is scheduled for Wednesday, March 26 at 4 p.m. Winfield's interests extend to the use of plastics in art. He invented an early mass-producible process for embedding acrylics, first used to turn miniature works of art into jewelry. He has developed processes for using plastics in mosaics and sculpture. For the past ten years, Winfield has been director of UNM's Training and Research Institute for Plastics (TRIP). The exhibit chronicling Winfield's innovations in plastics is open until May 17. # # #

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