Graduating M. Arch candidate Canyon Prusso participated as a visiting student in the University of Utah’s DesignBuildBLUFF Fall 2017 design course, and his conceptual and schematic proposals were selected by a jury to become the Spring 2018 build project for the program. Prusso’s community kitchen/pavilion space, called “Fire Mesa,” was designed to symbolize and cultivate a spirit of unity in the rural desert town of Bluff, UT. Construction of the pavilion (seen above) was completed on April 26, 2018.
A project designed by Gibbs College of Architecture faculty member Austin Lightle has been selected for BuildFest 2026, a national art and architecture festival held at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York, on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.
Two Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumni are helping shape recommendations that could influence affordable housing design and construction across Oklahoma.
The University of Oklahoma Libraries recently welcomed Carl Siegel as an Architecture Librarian and Archivist and Assistant Professor. In his role, Siegel supports students, faculty and staff across the Gibbs College of Architecture while also serving as archivist for the American School of Architecture Archives.
