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.
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.
