Join us in congratulating Firas Chamas, an OU architecture student, for winning a competition held by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Participants were asked to transform an open space in Tyre, Lebanon, into a child-friendly recreational area that would improve the living conditions for refugees of the area.
“I entered the competition because I believe that to help a city evolve, we must give priority to mending the demographical barriers,” said Chamas. ” [My] aim was to resemble the existing conditions of Tyre, where Palestinian and Lebanese people live together in harmony with no visible divisions.” Chamas’ design has since been implemented by the UNDP!
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.
