Assistant professor John Harris recently published his article entitled “What Are the Land Delivery and Land Holding Mechanisms for African Informal Light Manufacturing Clusters?” in the journal Urban Forum. The paper looks at how “impacts of land delivery and land holding mechanisms on the evolution and performance of informal light manufacturing clusters have been underexamined and need renewed evaluation for their impact on cluster performance and evolution of agglomeration effects” (Harris 2018). Congratulations, Dr. Harris!
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Telesis, the Gibbs College of Architecture’s student journal, has been awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to support its next two issues, “Pause” (Volume IX) and “React” (Volume X).
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design and director of the Institute for Quality Communities, has been named to the shortlist for the Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award for her book, Model Schools in the Model City. The book was one of 14 titles selected from 158 eligible submissions for the 2026 award.
The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is proud to announce the release of Telesis “Design_less,” the eighth volume of its student-led journal.
