Tulsa’s Kendall-Whittier neighborhood has been named a semifinalist for the Great American Main Street Award. The award recognizes Main Street programs that use historic preservation to drive commercial revitalization. The Kendall-Whittier Main Street program is led by 2007 Urban Design Studio graduate, Ed Sharrer, pictured above. “We are talking about the very best from every state in the union going for this,” Sharrer said in an interview with the Tulsa World. “So making it as a semifinalist is really pretty remarkable.”
Read more about the project in the Tulsa World article.
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.
