The “Collaborate, Create, Construct Academy,” funded by the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, recently offered rising 9th and 10th graders a one-week opportunity to explore the disciplines in the University of Oklahoma’s College of Architecture. By incorporating all five disciplines, Architecture, Interior Design, Construction Science, Landscape Architecture and Regional and City Planning, the academy introduces students to interdisciplinary study, while exposing them to life on a college campus.
The academy was coordinated by interior design professor Elizabeth Pober.
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.
