Master of Urban Design students from the Urban Design Studio hosted a community design workshop for Tulsa’s B.S. Roberts Park on December 8th. Community members were able to learn about the park, offer ideas for park improvements and meet the student team in charge of placemaking efforts. The students are working with the Greenwood Cultural Center to reactivate B.S. Roberts Park, which is located along Greenwood Ave, in the middle of the area destroyed by the 1921 Race Massacre.
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.
