Two faculty from Gibbs College’s Division of Architecture—Rene Peralta, Herb Greene Teaching Fellow, and Ken Marold, Assistant Professor–are collaborating with professor Jungmuk Moon, of Sangmyung University in Seoul, South Korea, to offer a parametric design workshop. They will be joined by Renee Michelle Peralta of the Autonomous University of Baja California.
We will think of the body as part of a machine that allows being retrofitted in order to endure in the ever-changing urban environment of the 21st century.
The workshop will take place January 6-8, 2020, and focus on parametric programming, image analysis and digital fabrication.
In this workshop, participants will explore how to produce a series of machines (body/urban) that are parametrically responsive to simple urban stimuli affecting the body,. These machines may include wearables, fabrics, objects of daily use, and more.
Through empirical method analysis, participants will learn patterns from social customs, identity security protocols, urban rituals, street economies, spatial arrangements, environmental effects, among other factors. They will also design parametric strategies (wearable or not) for diverse sectors of society, including children, the elderly, the disabled, pedestrians, cyclists and others who use public space to move through the city.
Workshop participants will be selected by invitation from Sangmyung University, Seoul, South Korea.
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.
