Building upon the OU Faculty Investment Program-funded phases of the sOUnd lab and his recent visit to Kirkegaard Associates’ design lab (seen in lower left), Associate Professor Daniel Butko is developing thin shell precast concrete acoustical panels with Coreslab Structures, Inc. Acoustical testing at Riverbank Labs is slated for October, followed by an ASA International Conference paper presentation in November. Butko is collaborating with Civil Engineering PhD student Trevor Looney to incorporate additives which will provide cavities for sound absorption. Thank you to Coreslab for a $20,000 in-kind allocation of resources and materials, coupled with additional support from Reckli US Formliners, Inc. As always, Prof. Butko wishes you an acOUstically sOUnd day!
Telesis, the Gibbs College of Architecture’s student journal, has been awarded a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to support its next two issues, “Pause” (Volume IX) and “React” (Volume X).
Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Amber N. Wiley, Ph.D., associate professor in the Division of Planning, Landscape Architecture and Design and director of the Institute for Quality Communities, has been named to the shortlist for the Museum of African American History (MAAH) Stone Book Award for her book, Model Schools in the Model City. The book was one of 14 titles selected from 158 eligible submissions for the 2026 award.
The Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture is proud to announce the release of Telesis “Design_less,” the eighth volume of its student-led journal.
