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.
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.
