Architecture Professor René Peralta was invited to be a judge for the new Archinect competition, Generative Futures: An AI + Architecture Storytelling Challenge. This competition aims to address the potential opportunities, challenges, and implications of AI on creativity, cities, and humanity.
Generative Futures is part of Archinect In-Depth, a new initiative that explores the most pressing and transformative subjects in the architecture community. In addition to the competition, this series will include a variety of feature articles and news coverage investigating the impact of AI on design studios, construction sites, urbanism, and other core architectural realms.
The competition is open to all and will be judged by a stellar jury of figures from the design world. Entrants are invited to submit an essay accompanied by story images that imagine the future of the built environment through the lens of artificial intelligence.
Submissions will close on Monday, June 12, at 6:00 p.m. The winners of the competition will receive a cash prize, a year-long subscription to the Morpholio Trace and SketchArch Pro apps, and a publication on Archinect and Bustler’s editorials and social media pages.
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.
The University of Oklahoma Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture Hall of Fame recognizes a select number of high-character individuals who have made a significant and lasting positive impact on Gibbs College, its students, staff, faculty, alumni and/or to communities across the globe. The impact may have been, or continues to be, in the form of service and mentorship, sustained professional excellence, and/or advancement and financial support. Joseph Edgar Smay is part of the 2025 Hall of Fame class.
