Urban Design professional and Community Advisory Board Member Paul Dentiste recently celebrated his 90th birthday while visiting New York.
Paul is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Master of City Planning program and has served in many capacities in his long career, including: Urban Planner for the Fourth Naval District in Philadelphia, Executive Director of the Birmingham, Alabama Regional Planning Commission, and Head of Comprehensive Planning in Wilmington, Delaware, where he became acquainted with a young County Councilor named Joe Biden.
Paul is a long-serving member of the Community and Professional Advisory Board. He has been instrumental in the development of the Real Estate coursework at the Urban Design Studio.
A project designed by Gibbs College of Architecture faculty member Austin Lightle has been selected for BuildFest 2026, a national art and architecture festival held at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York, on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.
Two Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumni are helping shape recommendations that could influence affordable housing design and construction across Oklahoma.
The University of Oklahoma Libraries recently welcomed Carl Siegel as an Architecture Librarian and Archivist and Assistant Professor. In his role, Siegel supports students, faculty and staff across the Gibbs College of Architecture while also serving as archivist for the American School of Architecture Archives.
