OU Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Kiara Gilmore, Associate Architect and Director of Emerging Professionals at Modus Studio, has been appointed as the Goff Chair of Creative Architecture for 2025. As Goff Chair, Gilmore is invited to give a public lecture this semester, open to all Gibbs students, faculty, and staff.
OU Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Jack DeBartolo III, FAIA, principal and design leader of DeBartolo Architects, has been appointed as the Goff Chair of Creative Architecture for 2025. As Goff Chair, DeBartolo is invited to give a public lecture in the upcoming semester, open to all Gibbs students, faculty, and staff.
OU Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Nathalie Miebach, an acclaimed sculptor known for her interdisciplinary approach to art and science, has been appointed as the Goff Chair of Creative Architecture for 2025. As Goff Chair, Miebach is invited to give a public lecture in the upcoming semester, open to all Gibbs students, faculty, and staff.
The Goff Lecture Committee invites you to a lecture by Simon Allford of Allford Hall Monagham Morris. Simon Allford is a founding director of Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM). He leads a studio of two hundred architects working around the world on the design and construction of projects. These projects reflect his belief that outstanding architecture accommodates different uses to those that called it into being by offering an extraordinary and delightful backdrop to the theatre of everyday life.
In the mid-20th century, a group of renegade architects broke all the rules, shaping a uniquely American vision of design. Now, their work comes to life in Do Not Try to Remember: The American School of Architecture in the Bay Area, an archival exhibition opening February 20, 2025, at San Francisco’s Center for Architecture + Design.
The Gibbs College of Architecture is excited to announce this spring’s Goff Lecture Series. This lecture series was made possible with support from the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture.
Gibbs College is excited to announce that Carey Lyon, founding Director of Lyons, and Ian McDougall, founding Director of ARM Architecture, will be featured in the Goff Lecture Series for 2024. Both distinguished architects will give a public lecture open to all Gibbs students, faculty, and staff.
OU Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Lawrence Scarpa, principal of Brook + Scarpa, has been appointed as the Goff Chair of Creative Architecture for 2024. As Goff Chair, Scarpa is invited to give a public lecture in the upcoming semester, open to all Gibbs students, faculty and staff.
OU Gibbs College is pleased to announce that Thomas Kang is invited to give a public lecture in the upcoming fall semester. Thomas Kang is a professor in the Department of Architecture & Architectural Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU) in Korea. Before that, he was a professor in the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science at OU and has held various affiliated positions at universities around the world.
OU Gibbs College is pleased to announce that David Logan is invited to give a public lecture in the upcoming school year. Logan is currently the Director of Tax & Trade Policy Analysis for the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB).
OU Gibbs College is pleased to announce that Chadwick Allen is invited to give a public lecture in the upcoming fall semester, co-sponsored by OU Departments of English, Film & Media Studies, Geography and Native American Studies. Chadwick Allen serves as the Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement at the University of Washington Seattle (UW), where he is also a Professor of English and Adjunct Professor of American Indian Studies. He has published numerous books and has conducted interdisciplinary work on Indigenous earthworks – a study of cultural and political revitalization through the built environment.
The Gibbs College of Architecture is excited to announce our Goff Lecture Series for the upcoming school year. This lecture series was made possible with support from the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture.
OU Gibbs College is pleased to announce that Jonathan Tate is invited to give a public lecture in the upcoming fall semester. Jonathan Tate is the founder and principal of OJT, an award-winning architecture firm based in New Orleans. OJT was established in 2011 as a creative, expansive, and exploratory practice with a desire to contribute to contemporary discourse.
OU Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that David J. Lewis, a principal of LTL Architects and dean of Parsons School of Constructed Environments, has been appointed as the Goff Chair of Creative Architecture for fall 2023. For his lecture, Lewis will discuss his work related to the Manual of Biogenic House Sections, which articulates how plant-based and low-carbon materials can produce a profound rethinking of section in houses.
Join Gibbs College on October 3, 2022, at 4:00 p.m. in the Gould Hall Buskuhl Gallery (rm. 130), for a lecture by Dr. Matthew Cohen, AIA, titled, “Visual Training for Designers: The Cultural Dimension.”
Jesús Vassallo of Rice University is presenting a lecture titled “Housing Work” as part of the Gibbs Spring 2022 Goff Lecture Series. Jesús is among the 2021-2022 Bruce Goff Chairs of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma.
The Gibbs College of Architecture is excited to announce our Spring 2022 Lecture Series! This lecture series was made possible with support from the Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture. Check back soon for updated information.
Profs. Tiziana Proietti and Sam Callahan will be hosting guest lecturers from Italy via Zoom during the month of April. Read on for more information on Beatrice Bruscoli’s and Scott Schlimgen’s lectures.
The University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to host a guest lecture by Dr. Itohan Osayimwese, Associate Professor of the History of Art & Architecture and affiliate faculty in Africana Studies, Urban Studies, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University.
The University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to host Madison Swayne, former brownfields remediation consultant and Assistant Professor at San Diego State University, will describe the history and distribution of Brownfield sites in the United States. Swayne will also discuss best practices for the evaluation and cleanup of Brownfield sites along with opportunities for funding such actions.
The University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to host R. Steven Lewis, FAIA, NOMAC, LEED AP, during the Spring 2021 semester to lecture and participate in a design studio. During his visit, he will offer an online lecture entitled “Architecture in the Age of the Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI).”
The University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to host Billy Fleming, Wilks Family Director of the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weitzman School of Design. His lecture, entitled “Design and the Green New Deal,” will take place on Tuesday, April 13, 2021, via Zoom from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.
The Spring 2021 Latin American Architecture and Urban Development Systems seminar, under the direction of Herb Green Teaching Fellow René Peralta, invites the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture community to attend its series of distinguished guest lectures.
Building on the 2019 Urban Land Institute NE OKC Food Security Symposium, the “Food Security in NE OKC: Continuing the Conversation” event will reunite local and national experts in food systems and community development to discuss the changing nature of food security in Northeast Oklahoma City.
The “Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture” exhibition, a collaboration of the Gibbs College of Architecture and Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, recently received a favorable review in the Journal of Architectural Education by architectural historian Dr. Elizabeth Keslacy.
The University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture appointed Irene Hwang as a Fall 2020 Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture, alongside the Chicago-based collective Luftwerk. Hwang delivered a public lecture on architectural stewardship and continues her leadership at the University of Michigan while advancing scholarship and professional practice.
Luftwerk and Irene Hwang were appointed as Fall 2020 Bruce Goff Chairs of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture. As part of the appointment, Luftwerk presented a public lecture highlighting their immersive light installation for Bruce Goff’s Ford Residence.
