Master of Urban Design students recently toured the Gathering Place in Tulsa to kick-off their Great Streets project for Tulsa’s Maple Ridge Neighborhood. The students will be analyzing neighborhood streets and working with residents to calm traffic, improve walkability, and look for placemaking opportunities at parklets and traffic islands.
The students shown above are, left to right: Samiul Haque, Virginia Paiva, Lahari Peluri, Sherry Smith, Alex O’Connell, and Dylan Rumsey.
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.
