The Urban Design Studio is proud to announce its first Urban Design Fellows. Made possible by the Christopher C. Gibbs Endowment for faculty support and development, each fellow will receive a $3,000 stipend to pursue their research.
Shideh Shadravan will be developing a proposal for an urban transformation of the historic Sand Springs Power Plant.
Dave Boeck will be conducting research related to Aging-in-Place and Accessible Housing with the Community Health and Environmental Design initiative at OU-Tulsa, working in conjunction with faculty from Social Work and Occupational Therapy.
The fellows also serve as mentors to students pursuing the Master of Urban Design degree at OU-Tulsa. The Urban Design Studio would also like to take this opportunity thank all the faculty that submitted proposals.
The proposals were of exceptional quality, which made it a difficult choice for the two outsider reviewers from the OU-Tulsa Library. The reviewers rated the proposals based on intellectual merit, meaningful collaboration with the Urban Design Studio, diverse viewpoints, and overall qualifications of the applicants.
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design and director of the Institute for Quality Communities, has received national recognition for her book Model Schools in the Model City. The book has been named a finalist for the 2026 the PROSE Awards.
Gibbs College of Architecture Regional + City Planning Professor of Practice Vanessa Morrison and Associate Professor of Architecture Deborah Richards’ Open Design Collective received top honors at the inaugural BlackSpace Urbanist Collective Studio KIN Pitch Night Competition, held last month in Brooklyn, New York City.
The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Dr. Tamar Zinguer, Associate Professor of Architecture, has been selected to participate in the prestigious 2026 Summer Residency at the National Humanities Center (NHC).
