Sarah Gould, owner and principal of KKT Architects and an OU Urban Design Studio alumnus, was recently interviewed in the Tulsa World. The article includes details about and renderings of her firm’s design for the new Tulsa Children’s Museum Discovery Lab. Ray Vandiver, executive director of the museum, describes the concept for the 50,000-square-foot facility as “a dynamic learning space, dynamic in the sense that children, through full-body, immersive experiences, are encouraged to problem solving and critical thinking and creativity.”
Read the full Tulsa World article here.
[Above: a rendering of the Tulsa Children’s Museum Discovery Lab; image property of KKT Architects]
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.
