The Institute for Quality Communities has continued an outreach partnership with the Oklahoma Municipal League for a second year. During the 2018-19 academic year, graduate assistants and students in Environmental Design courses are creating conceptual recommendations on built environment topics in a number of Oklahoma communities, including Comanche, Enid, Wynnewood, Wewoka, Waurika, Altus, and Chickasha.
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Featured image: The IQC team meets in Comanche, Oklahoma
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.
In May, students from the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture's Architecture, Environmental Design, and Interior Design programs participated in an intensive five-day Studio in Residence at Taliesin West, the iconic winter home and desert laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright.
