In a recent article published in The Oklahoman, Dean Hans Butzer and his wife Torrey Butzer reflect on their design of the Oklahoma City National Memorial that honors the lives that were lost in the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City. In the article, the designers describe the clear intention to honor each life individually. In the article, Dean Butzer said, “We wanted to create an individual moment for each of them, rather than band them together on a wall.”
Read "Oklahoma City National Memorial designers made OKC their home” and "Husband and wife recall their design of Oklahoma City National Memorial" by the Oklahoman.
Photo credit: Bryan Terry, The Oklahoman.
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.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture assistant professor Amy Leveno and Mark Leveno, co-founders of OFFICIAL Design, have received a 2026 AIA Central States Region Design Award for the firm’s Granger Annex Community Center project in Garland, Texas.
Construction Industry Speaker Series welcomed Stephen Evans from the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum to give a lecture on better conversations and relationship building.
