Dr. Wanda Liebermann, an assistant professor of Architecture, was recently awarded funding as a part of the Gibb’s College of Architecture’s Program for Research Enhancement. Each year, this merit-based program grants funds to Gibb’s faculty members in order to increase their research and creative activities.
Dr. Liebermann received the grant to fund the completion of her book manuscript, Architecture’s Disability Problem, in contract with Routledge. The book analyzes architectural documents and built form, and utilizes public media, interviews, and direct professional experience to address the persistence of exclusionary architectural designs.
Dr. Liebermann analyzes design education, code and policy, and projects that challenge code-compliance to understand how architects produce and share knowledge about atypical human bodies. Her book fights for more creative engagement with concepts like accommodation and interdependence with a goal of reconceptualizing relationships between the built environment and the human body.
Gibbs College is pleased to present the exhibition 200 Digital Drawings by Professor Tiziana Proietti, currently on display in the Gould Hall Living Room.
Gibbs College of Architecture Professors Amber Brown and Amy Leveno led 29 students to Dallas, Texas, in September for a learning experience as part of their Design 7 Studio course.
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.
