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.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture congratulates Thinh "Henry" Duong, a master's student in the Division of Interior Design, for earning first place in the 2026 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Director and Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) faculty member Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., recently published a new book, Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum.
In May, students from the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture's Architecture, Environmental Design, and Interior Design programs participated in an intensive five-day Studio in Residence at Taliesin West, the iconic winter home and desert laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
