Gibbs College faculty Ken Marold and Bryan Bloom were recognized at the 2026 ACSA Architectural Education Awards during the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 114th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, held March 26–28, 2026.
The award honors the Urban Learning Greenhouse, a design-build project previously announced as a 2026 ACSA Design-Build Award recipient. The ceremony brought together recipients from across North America to celebrate excellence in architectural education, research, and practice.
The Urban Learning Greenhouse is an interdisciplinary project co-led by Marold, lecturer of Architecture, and Bloom, assistant professor of Construction Science. Located at an elementary school site in downtown Oklahoma City, the project transformed an underutilized portion of a schoolyard into a modular greenhouse and outdoor classroom supporting STEAM education, urban agriculture, and ecological literacy.
Over two academic semesters, architecture and construction science students collaborated from concept through full-scale construction, gaining hands-on experience in client engagement, digital modeling, fabrication, budgeting, scheduling, and on-site assembly.
The greenhouse now serves as a daily learning environment for elementary students, connecting food cultivation, pollinator awareness, and environmental systems directly to classroom instruction.
The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture announces John Harris as Associate Dean for Research ad interim, effective Aug. 25, 2026, until the permanent position is filled.
Gibbs College is pleased to announce the 2026 Gibbs College Faculty & Staff Awards recipients. These individuals were recognized by Dean Butzer during the Gibbs College Back to School Meeting and will be honored during the Celebration Banquet in October. They were nominated by their colleagues via an open nomination process.
Telesis, the Gibbs College of Architecture’s student journal, has been awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to support its next two issues, “Pause” (Volume IX) and “React” (Volume X).
