Architecture graduate students enrolled in ARCH 5543, “Research and Critical Writing,” Emily Homan and Jamie Leake have collaborated to edit the latest issue of _543: The OU Architectural Theory and Criticism Journal.
For this issue, Homan and Leake have selected four essays:
Essays are authored by students enrolled in Prof. Deborah Richards‘ and Dr. Angela Person‘s Spring 2019 sections of ARCH 4543/5543, “Research and Critical Writing.” This is the third volume of _543, which has appeared each spring semester since 2017.
“Research and Critical Writing” allows upper-division and graduate students in architecture, environmental design and interior design to explore design theory and criticism in a seminar-based environment.
To read past essays published in _543, click here.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture professor and Institute for Quality Communities Director Dr. Amber N. Wiley’s book, Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital, has received two major honors from the Urban History Association.
Research initiated by Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumna Naila Hasan during her master’s studies at the University of Oklahoma has continued through faculty collaboration and resulted in a peer-reviewed publication in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal.
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce Esther Thorp, Tyler Boydstun and Chukwuma Nwokoye as the winners of the 2026 Construction Innovation Translation Hub (CIThub) Student Ideas Competition.
