Marjorie P. Callahan, an Architecture professor, has been selected to receive the University of Oklahoma Ed Cline Faculty Development Award which will allow her to attend a two-week intensive workshop at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine.
The Haystack Mountain School of Crafts is a famous campus on the coast of Deer Isle, Maine. Founded in 1950 by Edgar and Marjorie Sewell, Elizabeth Crawford, and William and Estelle Shevis, the school was created to provide research and studio programs in the arts. Haystack was designed by Gold Medal Architect Edward Larrabee Barnes. The school offers workshops throughout the year, allowing artists and scholars to focus on their work and learn from each other and visiting faculty.
Professor Callahan will attend the Haystack school’s two-week Intensive Sustainability and Bio-Materials Contemporary Session in July, where she will learn to use 3-D computer applications and techniques to create press fit joints for high performance lattice structures. These lattice structures are part of Callahan’s research surrounding new architectural techniques used to improve conditions in Oklahoman jails and prisons. The lattice aims to allow natural light into incarceration facilities.
Callahan writes, “Instead of the horrific box and uninspired surroundings, maybe we could see architecture that repositions the narrative. Architecture that considers light, air quality, textures and materials, and forms contextually situated safely, sustainably and built-out communities. Architecture that contributes to hope.”
Professor Callahan’s work at Haystack’s workshop this summer will continue her important research into improving conditions for incarcerated Oklahomans.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture professor and Institute for Quality Communities Director Dr. Amber N. Wiley’s book, Model Schools in the Model City: Race, Planning, and Education in the Nation’s Capital, has received two major honors from the Urban History Association.
Research initiated by Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumna Naila Hasan during her master’s studies at the University of Oklahoma has continued through faculty collaboration and resulted in a peer-reviewed publication in HERD: Health Environments Research & Design Journal.
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce Esther Thorp, Tyler Boydstun and Chukwuma Nwokoye as the winners of the 2026 Construction Innovation Translation Hub (CIThub) Student Ideas Competition.
