Associate professor of Architecture Daniel Butko and fourth-year undergraduate architecture student Zachary Maggia presented “Results from the Summer Sound Lab: Exploring acoustical options for a multi-use space on campus” at the 174th Acoustical Society of America (ASA) conference in New Orleans on December 7. Butko and Maggia shared initial design concepts from Butko’s Spring 2017 “Sound of Shaped Space” elective course, acoustical measurements collected over the summer, and design progress currently being developed in EASE acoustical software with fifth-year undergraduate architecture student Collin Abdallah. Content from the presentation is currently being organized into an invited ASA Journal article.
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.
