The exhibition "Weaving the Storm" showcases first-year architecture students’ exploration of extreme weather systems through drawing and basket-weaving, translating atmospheric forces into spatial forms.
During the spring 2024 semester, first-year Architecture students began working on a two-part project concerned with extreme weather events and their impact on human lives and architectural spaces. Typically, when studying a site, architects focus on factors such as topography, the slope of the terrain, different views and access routes, considering nearby bodies of water, vegetation, and orientation to the sun. However, this project encouraged students to explore other important forces: changing atmospheric conditions that surround our living spaces and impact them.
In their first ten days of school, first-year Architecture students collaborated on designing, making and flying air vessels, or kites. The students were led by Architecture faculty Tamar Zinguer, Shooka Motamedi, Dayton Clark, Jordan Loofs, Hunter Read, Ted Reeds and Chris Morrey.
First-year architecture students and faculty members recently traveled to Fort Worth to explore various architectural sites and museums.
Each year, all students in the Gibbs College of Architecture are invited to participate in a cocktail napkin sketch contest. Presented by the Division of Architecture’s Professional Advisory Board, the cocktail napkin sketch contest gives students the opportunity to submit sketches on a 5”x5” white cocktail napkin to compete to win cash prizes. Three cash prizes — $750, $500, and $250 — were awarded to the top three entries, which were decided by a professional panel of jurors.
Congratulations to Viridiana Hernandez Sevilla, who, for the second year in a row, has received the Robert L. Wesley Award! The Robert L. Wesley Award was created in 2020 by the S.O.M Foundation to support BIPOC undergraduate students enrolled in architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, or structural engineering programs across the US. The award, named in honor of OU alumnus and former S.O.M. principal Robert L. Wesley, aims to support the academic development of the student recipients.
