With coauthors Dr. Nina M. Flores and Laureen D. Hom, Regional + City Planning assistant professor C. Aujean Lee published one of the first pieces in the field of planning on Asian Americans, their racialization, and lessons for planning. The article appears in the Journal of Planning Education and Research.
The authors illustrate how Asian Americans are important for the field because they help to understand intragroup and intergroup differences, how racialization upholds white supremacy, and how to document community-led activism.
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.
