OU Architecture lecturer René Peralta is featured in the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture exhibition "Is Housing Still Housing?" through his firm Generica Architecture, along with firm co-director Monica Fragoso, OU Architecture instructor Andrew Stone, and 3rd-year architecture student Ty Brown-Field.
University of Oklahoma senior Mohamed Elgouhari has been named a finalist in the SEC Start Up competition for student-athletes in the Southeastern Conference for his personal fitness app Gametime Rehab.
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A group of students from Peru recently spent the week at the Gibbs College of Architecture as part of a collaborative project between the University of Oklahoma and the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano. The project, “Inti Wasi Sustainable and Affordable Cold Climate Housing,” received funding from the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund during the spring 2023 semester.
René Peralta, a lecturer in the Division of Architecture, was invited to present at the 2023 AIA Oklahoma Conference. The conference will take place in Enid, Oklahoma, from Oct. 5-6 and will feature a variety of guest speakers, activities and presentations.
OU Architecture faculty member René Peralta was a panelist for this year’s California Lawyers for the Arts symposium, INTERSECTIONS: Art and Law at the Border. With a focus on the geopolitical context of the Tijuana-San Diego region, the intention of this gathering was to highlight artists, activists, lawyers, scholars and researchers whose work navigates the intersection of art, praxis and legal issues.
Architecture Professor René Peralta was invited to be a judge for the new Archinect competition, Generative Futures: An AI + Architecture Storytelling Challenge. This competition aims to address the potential opportunities, challenges, and implications of AI on creativity, cities, and humanity.
René Peralta, a lecturer in Architecture at OU and alumnus of the Master’s of Science in Planning, Design and Construction program (Dec. 2022 graduate), was recently awarded the 2022-2023 Architectural Research Centers Consortium’s King Medal.
Students at the University of Oklahoma are leading the way with the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the design process. A group of Architecture students were the first at Gibbs to use an AI image-generating program to aid in the design process for their final studio project.
A collaborative project between the University of Oklahoma and the Universidad Nacional del Altiplano in Peru (UNAP) was recently awarded a grant to investigate affordable and sustainable housing in the Andes. The project, “Inti Wasi Sustainable and Affordable Cold Climate Housing,” received funding from the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Innovation Fund.
Rene Peralta, a faculty member in the Division of Architecture, recently presented at the 2022 Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians (SESAH) Conference. This was SESAH’s 40th annual conference in Memphis, Tennessee, and it took place from November 2-5.
René Peralta, a lecturer with the Division of Architecture, recently presented a roundtable on the San Diego-Tijuana area for the Architects Association of Peru’s Lima Region. The event, titled “The Fragile Movement: Understanding the Modern Monument and the Ephemeral Persistence of Walter Weberhofer,” featured several architects with expertise in different cities across the Americas.
René Peralta, a lecturer with the Division of Architecture, recently spoke at the American Planning Association 2022 National Planning Conference. Presenting during a session titled “San Diego/Tijuana’s Regional Vision, ‘Temporary Paradise?’”, Peralta discussed Donald Appleyard and Kevin Lynch’s report Temporary Paradise, which discusses Tijuana within a larger urban and sustainable vision.
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René Peralta, a lecturer with the Division of Architecture, recently participated in a session titled “Informality and the City” at the American Association of Geographers (AAG) 2022 Annual Meeting. René was among four presenters in the session, which focused on how informal urbanization became the dominant mode of city making in the 20th century and what effects this informal urbanization has had on cities and the people living within them.
OU Institute for Quality Communities interns Kayarash Karami and James Nemeth developed conceptual layouts for a combined police and fire public safety center to support the City of Langston’s plans for a new facility. The project explored shared, community-focused design options to better serve the town and encourage collaboration between departments.
The Spring 2021 Latin American Architecture and Urban Development Systems seminar, under the direction of Herb Green Teaching Fellow René Peralta, invites the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture community to attend its series of distinguished guest lectures.
University of Oklahoma Herb Greene Teaching Fellow Rene Peralta was recently named a finalist in the University of California San Diego’s (UCSD) Border Innovation Challenge. The competition’s final presentations took place on December 1st, 2020. Peralta’s proposal entitled “Tijuana Solar River” received the “Audience Choice” award.
Architect Rene Peralta has spent more than two decades studying the architecture and culture of transnational border regions of the United States and Mexico. Recently, he was able to share his expertise with colleagues and peers at the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture’s (ASCA) 108th Annual Meeting, where he participated in two panel discussions exploring issues along the U.S.-Mexico border. Peralta also participated in the Digital Futures panel “Agency, Borders and Immigration,” moderated by Gabriel Esquivel of Texas A&M.
René Peralta, Herb Greene Teaching Fellow at Gibbs College, has been appointed to the ACSA Leadership Committee by ACSA President Dr. Lynne M. Dearborn. He will join national faculty leaders in advancing equity, pedagogy, and inclusive programming in architectural education.
Herb Greene Teaching Fellow Rene Peralta is leading a comparative study of the San Diego–Tijuana and Shenzhen–Hong Kong border regions, examining how globalization shapes their urban and socio-economic development. In collaboration with Dr. Ivan Peshkov, the project uses interviews and multimedia documentation to identify shared patterns and differences in cross-border urban form.
