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.
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.
