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The Environmental Design Capstone class from the 2016 Spring Semester received a “Citation of Merit” from the Oklahoma State Historic Preservation Office of the Oklahoma Historical Society during Oklahoma’s 29th Annual Statewide Preservation Conference in Oklahoma City in June 2017.
The recipients included Mr. Ken Ruhnke and Ms. Cheri Killam-Bomhard of the National Park Service and the Chickasaw National Recreation Area, instructors Hope Mander and Ron Frantz, and 5 undergraduate students in Architecture and Environmental Design.
The student work focused on the Chickasaw National Recreation Area in Sulphur, Oklahoma, and occurred during the 100th Anniversary Year of the National Park Service.
Learn more about the project on the Institute for Quality Communities website.
Telesis, a journal produced by students in the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, has earned first place in the 2026 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals for its seventh volume, “Unfold.” This marks the fourth time the publication has earned recognition for excellence in student architectural journalism. It shares the honor with student journals from Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Cal Poly.
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.
