Associate Professor of Architecture Dr. Lee Fithian was selected to serve as a national Technical Jury Reviewer for the American Institute of Architects COTE Top Ten Awards, the industry’s best-known awards program for sustainable design excellence. This year marked the 27th annual announcement of these awards by the AIA.
In honor of Earth Day, the AIA Committee on the Environment selects ten innovative projects to be recognized for setting the standard in design and sustainability. The winning designs can also receive the COTE Top Ten Plus designation, which highlights a project’s successful actual performance and post-occupancy lessons.
The list of award winners includes a wide variety of projects, from a net zero carbon science and environmental center in California to a living laboratory in Texas. View the full list of award winners and their projects.
Planning, Landscape Architecture, and Design (PLAD) alumni Trey Ingram, AICP recently spoke with current PLAD student and graduate media assistant Molly Strobel to share his experiences with the Regional and City Planning program and current work with the Toyota Mobility Foundation.
Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture assistant professor Amy Leveno and Mark Leveno, co-founders of OFFICIAL Design, have received a 2026 AIA Central States Region Design Award for the firm’s Granger Annex Community Center project in Garland, Texas.
Construction Industry Speaker Series welcomed Stephen Evans from the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum to give a lecture on better conversations and relationship building.
