Regional + City Planning Assistant Professor Bryce Lowery recently authored the article “Outdoor Advertising: Landmark of the Experience Economy,” published in The Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding. It traces the history of outdoor advertising as part of the American Landscape, a landmark of entertainment centers epitomized by the bright lights of Times Square. Today signage is adapting to the spatial reorganization of cities in ways that continue the tradition of signifying the experiences of urban life by reinforcing the location of entertainment districts and engaging consumers through new technologies.
Read the open access publication online at the Interdisciplinary Journal of Signage and Wayfinding website.
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.
In May, students from the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture's Architecture, Environmental Design, and Interior Design programs participated in an intensive five-day Studio in Residence at Taliesin West, the iconic winter home and desert laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
