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Under the direction of Construction Science instructor, twelve Gibbs College students recently completed a building for the Osage Forest of Peace campus in Sand Springs, Oklahoma.
The new “American School” structure will provide climate-controlled storage space for the forest operations. Students who participated in the construction project included Christian Andrews, Patrick Barton, Emily Carter, Carl Davis, Yana Dyachkova, Sean Harrell, Randall Kinnaman, Sam McKee, Caleb Nosak, Dominic Perez, Benjamin Sell, and Cooper Williams.
The project also included contributions from Gibbs College dean Hans E. Butzer, Director of Construction Science Ben Bigelow, Professor of Architecture Andres Cavieres, and Urban Design Studio Director Shawn Schaefer.
Above: The team frames the structure on the Osage Forest of Peace campus.
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.
