Gibbs College of Architecture dean Hans E. Butzer recently served as a featured speaker during the 2019 Texas Society of Architects Design Conference, “UNEXPECTED.” The event was held this past weekend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and included a day trip to Bartlesville. The conference included tours of buildings by Bruce Goff and Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as discussions with contemporary architects working in unexpected environments.
Butzer’s lecture, entitled “Bruce Goff and the American School: Impacts on the Teaching and Practice of Architecture,” shared how Goff and other American School educators and practicing architects helped shape contemporary architectural pedagogy, including the academic design-build movement. He also addressed how they became leading advocates for sincere client and community engagement and gave significant momentum to the sustainability movement. He concluded by discussing how these educators and practitioners contributed to an emerging experimentalism with architectural space and form.
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.
