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Renegades: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture (OU Press, 2020) has won the 2021 Oklahoma Book Award for Design/Illustration. The Oklahoma Book Awards are put on by the Oklahoma Dept of Libraries’ Center for the Book. It is also a finalist for the College Art Association’s 2021 Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award.
Like America itself, the architecture of the United States is an amalgam, an imitation or an importation of foreign forms adapted to the natural or engineered landscape of the New World. So can there be an “American School” of architecture? Edited by Luca Guido, Stephanie Pilat, and Angela Person, Renegades answers these questions through essays by leading scholars, as well as a wide range of images, including rare, never-before-published sketches and models. Together these essays and illustrations map the contours of an American architecture that emerged under the guidance of Bruce Goff, Herb Green and others. Renegades was designed by Tony Roberts of OU Press.
"Documenting Oklahoma’s respected and renowned architect Bruce Goff, this oversized paperback uses elegant and straightforward design to complement the subject. Renegades is illustrated throughout with architectural renderings, sketches, drawings, paintings, and photographs. Fine design details are found on nearly every page, from the artistic font used for the title, to the simple blue rule along the top of captions. Among the remarkable style choices is the ample, almost exaggerated white space at the bottom of most pages, appearing to push body text upward, while also enabling illustration captions to sit uniformly in the bottom quarter of each page. The beautiful cover—an artwork by Ernest Burden, a student of Goff’s—attracts the reader, while the design choices within keeps us reading."
The Gibbs Design in Action Awards (GDAA) program, led by Dr. Wanda Liebermann, has announced its 2026–2027 funded student projects. The initiative supports design and research work that addresses social, cultural, and economic issues in the built environment through collaboration with faculty and community partners.
The OU Institute for Quality Communities (IQC) 2024 collaboration with the Historic Threatt Filling Station has been recognized in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's newly released Byways Report: The Scenic Route to Rural Prosperity – a story-driven publication exploring how road trip culture and place-based tourism can fuel economic growth in rural communities.
The Gibbs College of Architecture is pleased to announce that Camille Germany, Chief of Staff, has been named the 2026 recipient of the university-wide Jennifer L. Wise Good Stewardship Award.
