Associate professor of architecture Dave Boeck recently presented a talk on “New Construction, Home Additions, and Remodels Designed to Support Accessibility, Visitability and Aging in Place” as part of a day-long “Accessibility in Housing Seminar” looking at visitability in residential design in Norman, Oklahoma.
The seminar was sponsored by Oklahoma Adapt, the Metropolitan Fair Housing Council, The Oklahoma Council for Affordable Housing, Project Independence, and DeBruler and Associates.
For more information about housing issues in Oklahoma, visit the Oklahoma Coalition for Affordable Housing.
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.
