Gibbs College faculty Ken Marold and Bryan Bloom were recognized at the 2026 ACSA Architectural Education Awards during the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 114th Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, held March 26–28, 2026.
The award honors the Urban Learning Greenhouse, a design-build project previously announced as a 2026 ACSA Design-Build Award recipient. The ceremony brought together recipients from across North America to celebrate excellence in architectural education, research, and practice.
The Urban Learning Greenhouse is an interdisciplinary project co-led by Marold, lecturer of Architecture, and Bloom, assistant professor of Construction Science. Located at an elementary school site in downtown Oklahoma City, the project transformed an underutilized portion of a schoolyard into a modular greenhouse and outdoor classroom supporting STEAM education, urban agriculture, and ecological literacy.
Over two academic semesters, architecture and construction science students collaborated from concept through full-scale construction, gaining hands-on experience in client engagement, digital modeling, fabrication, budgeting, scheduling, and on-site assembly.
The greenhouse now serves as a daily learning environment for elementary students, connecting food cultivation, pollinator awareness, and environmental systems directly to classroom instruction.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is proud to announce the promotion of Ph.D. student Rafael Hernandez to lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Gibbs College of Architecture Assistant Professor Dr. Ladan Mozaffarian, in the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design, has co-authored a new book chapter with Josh Newton and Andrew Born, published in De Gruyter Handbook of the Geographies of Race.
Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) alumni Trey Ingram, AICP recently spoke with current PLAD student and graduate media assistant Molly Strobel to share his experiences with the Regional and City Planning program and current work with the Toyota Mobility Foundation.
