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During the Spring 2025 semester, students in Prof. John Harris‘s “Community Development” course worked with Tulakes Neighborhood Ministries to offer recommendations for their site needs and possible paths for future development.
The students completed a site visit on April 7th to learn more about the history and priorities of Tulakes Neighborhood Ministries and to meet with their leadership, food pantry staff, and medical clinic staff. The students’ final presentation included information on zoning, financing strategies, local demographic data, possible site designs, and information about look-alike organizations for expanded services. The students made their final presentation to the executive director of Tulakes Neighborhood Ministries, Celia Palmer, on May 7, 2025.
The project was undertaken in collaboration with the OU Institute for Quality Communities and the Regional Foodbank of Oklahoma.
A project designed by Gibbs College of Architecture faculty member Austin Lightle has been selected for BuildFest 2026, a national art and architecture festival held at the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts in New York, on the historic grounds of the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival.
Two Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture alumni are helping shape recommendations that could influence affordable housing design and construction across Oklahoma.
The University of Oklahoma Libraries recently welcomed Carl Siegel as an Architecture Librarian and Archivist and Assistant Professor. In his role, Siegel supports students, faculty and staff across the Gibbs College of Architecture while also serving as archivist for the American School of Architecture Archives.
