Professors Butko and Hoffner led the 7th annual Architecture 4th year Undergraduate and 2nd year Graduate student trip to Kansas City, Missouri September 7-9. Students visited various firms, historic and newly constructed buildings (including the Kauffman Center for Performing Arts, the Nelson Atkins Museum, the Bolender Building, Union Station, and Country Club Plaza), the KC Design Center, the City Market, Barkley’s rooftop garden, and three residences designed by Bruce Goff.
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.
