Ryan Bermudez, CoA Interior Design senior, recently won the OU Boundless Design #CreateChallenge with his submission titled “Daedalus.” The competition theme was “Creatures,” and submissions were created using Google Tilt Brush, a Virtual Reality (VR) application that allows you to paint using both traditional paint simulations and special effects in litless 3d space and the HTC Vive VR system. Open to members of the OU community and public, the competition was sponsored by the OU Innovation Hub, OU Libraries and HTC Vive.
Telesis, a journal produced by students in the University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, has earned first place in the 2026 Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals for its seventh volume, “Unfold.” This marks the fourth time the publication has earned recognition for excellence in student architectural journalism. It shares the honor with student journals from Columbia University, University of Michigan, and Cal Poly.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture congratulates Thinh "Henry" Duong, a master's student in the Division of Interior Design, for earning first place in the 2026 Robert Bruce Thompson Annual Student Light Fixture Design Competition.
Gibbs College of Architecture Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) Director and Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) faculty member Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., recently published a new book, Collective Yearning: Black Women Artists from the Zimmerli Art Museum.
