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Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture (OU Press, 2020) has won the 2021 Oklahoma Book Award for Design/Illustration. The Oklahoma Book Awards are put on by the Oklahoma Dept of Libraries’ Center for the Book. It is also a finalist for the College Art Association’s 2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award.
Like America itself, the architecture of the United States is an amalgam, an imitation or an importation of foreign forms adapted to the natural or engineered landscape of the New World. So can there be an “American School” of architecture? Edited by Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat, and Angela Person, Renegades answers these questions through essays by leading scholars, as well as a wide range of images, including rare, never-before-published sketches and models. Together these essays and illustrations map the contours of an American architecture that emerged under the guidance of Bruce Goff, Herb Green and others. Renegades was designed by Tony Roberts of OU Press.
"Documenting Oklahoma’s respected and renowned architect Bruce Goff, this oversized paperback uses elegant and straightforward design to complement the subject. Renegades is illustrated throughout with architectural renderings, sketches, drawings, paintings, and photographs. Fine design details are found on nearly every page, from the artistic font used for the title, to the simple blue rule along the top of captions. Among the remarkable style choices is the ample, almost exaggerated white space at the bottom of most pages, appearing to push body text upward, while also enabling illustration captions to sit uniformly in the bottom quarter of each page. The beautiful cover—an artwork by Ernest Burden, a student of Goff’s—attracts the reader, while the design choices within keeps us reading."
The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Tim Stephens has accepted the position of Senior Director of Development for Gibbs College, beginning April 15, 2026.
Dr. Khosrow Bozorgi, professor of Architecture at the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, is advancing a major research project that examines how societies across time and place have organized the built environment in strikingly similar ways.
A project by University of Oklahoma Architecture lecturer René Peralta, developed through Generica Architecture with co-director Monica Fragoso and collaborators Andrew Stone and Ty Brown-Field, is now on view in Gould Hall as a focused installation drawn from the recent exhibition Is Housing Still Housing? Houston’s Single-Family House.
