Satyendra Pakhalé is a globally recognized designer whose pioneering work bridges industrial innovation, craftsmanship, and cultural narratives. With a career spanning decades, his multidisciplinary practice has redefined design across industries, from industrial design to architecture. His work is known for pushing the limits of materials and technology while maintaining a deep connection to human experience and sensorial design.
OU Architecture and Interior Design Professor Tiziana Proietti recently announced the release of her new book, “Hans van der Laan’s Instruments of Thought: Proportion, Architecture, Analogy,” co-authored with Kees den Biesen. Proietti and Den Biesen explore the work of Dutch Benedictine monk and architect Hans van der Laan (1904-1991), offering important insights into how artifacts address the complexity of human physical, cognitive, and social needs.
Seven faculty members from the divisions of Regional and City Planning, Architecture and Interior Design were recently awarded funding through Gibbs College’s Program for Research Enhancement. These grants of up to $6,500 are available to full-time faculty members of Gibbs College to support their research and creative activities.
Tiziana Proietti, assistant professor of Interior Design and Architecture and director of the interdisciplinary laboratory Sense|Base, recently presented her research at the 2023 Interior Design Educators Council Southwest Regional Conference. She was recognized with the Best Presentation award for her project, Vision Training for Designers.
Professors of Architecture Tamar Zinguer and Tiziana Proietti were recently awarded with the 2023 Gibbs Research Fellowship. This fellowship provides three years of support for research and creative activity in Architecture. Applications are reviewed and ranked by three external peer reviews based on the candidate’s track record and the promise of their 5-year research plan.
The International Conference of Heritage and Affect, co-organized by Angela Person (associate professor of Architecture, University of Oklahoma) and Jacque Micieli-Voutsinas (assistant professor of Museum Studies, University of Florida), will take place online in late November and early December 2023. The conference brings together dozens of leading scholars from around the world to explore the affective, visceral, and more-than-representational atmospheres of heritage landscapes.
Dr. Tiziana Proietti, assistant professor of Architecture and Interior Design and director of the Sense|Base Laboratory at OU, is the recipient of a 2023 Junior Faculty Fellowship. Awarded by the Research Council of the Vice President for Research and Partnerships office at the University of Oklahoma, the program is designed to support tenure-track faculty establish their research and creative activities.
Architect Tiziana Proietti and her research partner Sergei Gepshtein joined as faculty members for the 2022 Academy of Neuroscience For Architecture (ANFA) Bootcamp. Proietti is an assistant professor at the Gibbs College of Architecture and director of the Sense|Base Laboratory at OU. Sergei Gepshtein is a scientist and affiliate of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies and director of the Center for Spatial Perception & Concrete Experience at the University of Southern California.
Join Gibbs College on October 3, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. in the Gould Hall Buskuhl Gallery (rm. 130), for a lecture by Dr. Matthew Cohen, AIA, titled, “Visual Training for Designers: The Cultural Dimension.”
Dr. Tiziana Proietti, an assistant professor of Interior Design and Architecture, recently spoke at a Kansas State University event titled “Generators of Architectural Atmosphere.” Dr. Proietti presented the keynote talk, The Experience of Architectural Proportion Through a Scientific Perspective, in which she explored human perceptions of architectural proportion.
Gibbs College of Architecture will host a two-part neuroscience and design lecture on October 7 featuring Dr. Sergei Gepshtein of the Salk Institute and Dr. Tiziana Proietti of the University of Oklahoma. The event explores how humans perceive space and architectural proportion through an interdisciplinary lens combining architecture, perceptual psychology, and neuroscience.
Profs. Tiziana Proietti and Sam Callahan will be hosting guest lecturers from Italy via Zoom during the month of April. Read on for more information on Beatrice Bruscoli’s and Scott Schlimgen’s lectures.
Assistant professor of Interior Design and Architecture, Dr. Tiziana Proietti, recently published her research, “Revisiting the plastic number theory from the perspective of perceptual psychology,” in the Architectural Science Review.
University of Oklahoma assistant professor of Architecture Tiziana Proietti recently co-presented “Culture of Creation: The atmosphere of objects” with Satyendra Pakhalé during the 4th International Congress on Ambiances, hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara.
University of Oklahoma assistant professor Dr. Tiziana Proietti presented interdisciplinary research at the 2020 Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture conference linking neuroscience and architectural proportion. Her work explores how humans perceive proportion in three-dimensional space through psychophysical experiments and design theory.
Two Gibbs College faculty, Tiziana Proietti and Rick Skaggs, were recently honored with the Fall 2020 James L. Kudrna All-Around Faculty Award, which recognizes all-around excellence in teaching, research, and service, as well as professionalism (promoting a safe, welcoming, and inclusive culture) as defined by the GCA’s Annual Faculty Evaluation Criteria (approved Dec. 2019).
The Gibbs College of Architecture has been honored with a national award for its student journal, Telesis. The publication won the Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals from the Center for Architecture.
