Please join Gibbs College in congratulating alumnus Stuart Coppedge, FAIA, and principal of RTA Architects on the successful completion of the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center. The project will open in Summer 2021 and is the highest construction project in the U.S., on one of the world’s most visited mountains.
The project is a collaboration between Baltimore-based GWWO and Colorado Springs-based RTA Architects and was recently featured in the Architects’ Newspaper. Read the full article.
Coppedge serves on the Gibbs College Board of visitors. RTA was the first firm to sponsor a lecture series in the history of Gibbs College.
Congratulations, Stuart and RTA Architects!
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.
