After recently completing their Experiential Frameworks projects, second-year students in the Design IV studio course, taught by Profs. Ken Marold, Francesco Cianfarani and Anthony Cricchio, have placed these projects on display on the main floor of Gibbs College of Architecture.
The students re-imagined a vacant alleyway on campus. The assignment asked them to develop this alleyway as a “dynamic, interactive space with relationships between objects and structure through compositional analyses and tectonic modeling.”
The students were asked to consider the use of iconic imagery, wind, light, and circulation paths in their designs.
“The most difficult aspect of this project was developing a structural framework that could incorporate the programmatic needs of the project,” said Dean White, a student in the class.
“This lesson taught me that every aspect of a structure is interdependent. Misplacing one structural piece would cause the entire structure to become unstable, both structurally and visually.”
Check out the projects located in the Gould Hall living room’s glass cases.
Featured photo: Rendering by Colin Bost.
Student Works: Hannah Reed (top), Dean White (bottom)
A project designed by Gibbs College of Architecture faculty member Austin Lightle has been selected for BuildFest 2026, a national art and architecture festival held at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York, on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.
Two Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumni are helping shape recommendations that could influence affordable housing design and construction across Oklahoma.
The University of Oklahoma Libraries recently welcomed Carl Siegel as an Architecture Librarian and Archivist and Assistant Professor. In his role, Siegel supports students, faculty and staff across the Gibbs College of Architecture while also serving as archivist for the American School of Architecture Archives.
