Associate Professor Daniel Butko recently visited and established relationships with several acoustically-based labs, firms, and manufacturers including Riverbank Acoustical Labs (celebrating 100 years since Wallace Sabine’s commissioning), Kirkegaard Associates, ARUP, IAC Acoustics product plant, and NOKIA Bell Labs (home of the oldest existing anechoic chamber). Research included meetings with acousticians, extensive historical discoveries, and “ears-on” material evaluations. He hopes you visit at least one of these locations someday.
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.
In May, students from the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture's Architecture, Environmental Design, and Interior Design programs participated in an intensive five-day Studio in Residence at Taliesin West, the iconic winter home and desert laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
