The “Collaborate, Create, Construct Academy,” funded by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, recently offered rising 9th and 10th graders a one-week opportunity to explore the disciplines in the University of Oklahoma’s College of Architecture. By incorporating all five disciplines, Architecture, Interior Design, Construction Science, Landscape Architecture and Regional and City Planning, the academy introduces students to interdisciplinary study, while exposing them to life on a college campus.
The academy was coordinated by interior design professor Elizabeth Pober.
A project designed by Gibbs College of Architecture faculty member Austin Lightle has been selected for BuildFest 2026, a national art and architecture festival held at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York, on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.
Two Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumni are helping shape recommendations that could influence affordable housing design and construction across Oklahoma.
The University of Oklahoma Libraries recently welcomed Carl Siegel as an Architecture Librarian and Archivist and Assistant Professor. In his role, Siegel supports students, faculty and staff across the Gibbs College of Architecture while also serving as archivist for the American School of Architecture Archives.
