Professor Jay Chandler, J.D., an adjunct member of the Graduate Faculty of the University of Oklahoma‐Tulsa since 1990, is now celebrating retirement after teaching his last class on December 9, 2019, with students from the OU Urban Design Studio.
Professor Chandler has practiced law for more than 40 years and has taught Legal Framework for Design as adjunct faculty at OU-Tulsa for the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture for more than 30 years. Jay plans to travel in retirement beginning later this month in Vienna. We wish him well!
Featured photo from left to right: Clay Harris, Jamie Pierson, Professor Jay Chandler, Urban Design Studio Director Shawn Schaefer, Alex O’Connell, Chris Paulsen, Tristan Fox, Samiul Haque and Virginia Paiva.
Telesis, a journal produced by students in the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, has earned first place in the 2026 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals for its seventh volume, “Unfold.” This marks the fourth time the publication has earned recognition for excellence in student architectural journalism. It shares the honor with student journals from Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Cal Poly.
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.
