2018 OU B.Arch graduate Collin Abdallah was recently awarded the Robert Bradford Newman Medal Award for excellence in acoustics based on his 2017-2018 contributions to Associate Professor Butko’s Gallery Acoustics Research Project (also known as the “sOUnd lab”). The medal, funded through the Acoustical Society of America Newman Fund, was accompanied by $300 and a variety of architectural acoustics books. Collin is the fourth OU student to receive this prestigious award since 2011.
For more information about acoustical research at OU, please contact Dan Butko (butko@ou.edu).
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.
