GIBBS COLLEGE LECTURE SERIES
Featured Conferences
Placemaking Conference (2019, 2017, 2015, 2013)
FALL 2022
Kuhlman Lecture: Unlocking the DNA of Healthy Housing and Equitable Neighborhoods
11/11/2022
Dr. Andrew Greenlee shared his research on neighborhood mobility, inequities, and health outcomes.
SPRING 2022
Resilient Futures Symposium
04/13/22—04/14/22
Interdisciplinary symposium speakers discussed the latest research and approaches to answering critical questions about climate change, migration, and habitation.
Lecture: Designing with Tribes
01/26/22
Cheryl Lockstone and Barrett Williamson discussed the inclusion of the Native American Community in a culturally-based design process.
FALL 2021
Lecture: Accessibility and Opportunity for All
11/15/21
Dr. Joel Mendez discussed transit service areas, impacts on employment, and implications for economic and social justice.
Lecture: Rice Affordable Housing Lab
11/02/21
Jesús Vassallo lectured about the Affordable Housing Laboratory at Rice University.
Lecture: Sewers and Social Justice
10/25/21
Dr. Miriam Solis presented the talk “Sewers & Social Justice: Racial Equity & Climate Change Implications of Wastewater Planning in the United States.”
SPRING 2021
Lecture: Italianità: The Modern Movement on the Search of National Identity
4/30/21
Beatrice Bruscoli lectured on Italian architecture with its importance to the Italian national identity.
Lecture: Rome: Recycled & Reiterated
04/21/21
Scott Schlimgen lectured on how Rome has recycled its material past through its architecture.
Lecture: What is Decolonial Architectural History?
04/19/21
Dr. Osayimwese presented a discussion on postcolonialism, decolonialism, and decolonial architectural history.
Lecture: Design and the Green New Deal
Lecture Series: Latin American Architecture & Urban Development Systems
02/11/21—04/13/21
Eight speakers from diverse Latin American regions reviewed the urban and architectural culture of their native country.
Lecture: Architecture in the Age of Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI)
04/07/21
Steven Lewis discussed black architects’ journey towards Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Architecture.
Lecture: Environmental Justice Opportunities & Brownfield Redevelopment
03/31/21
Madison Swayne described the history, distribution and best practices for redevelopment of Brownfield sites in the United States.
Lecture: Jennifer Rittler, AIA, of Moody Nolan
02/24/21
Jennifer Rittler discussed the inclusion of minority and women designers and diversity within Moody Nolan.
FALL 2020
Lecture: A Building Is Not Architecture: On Stewardship and Agency in the Built Environment
10/29/20
Irene Hwang examines the impact of architectural thinking and making upon society.
Lecture: Engaging the Lyrical Geometry of Bruce Goff's Ford Residence
10/20/20
Luftwerk presented “Music, Light, and Architecture,” produced for Bruce Goff’s Ford Residence in Aurora, Illinois, among other projects.
Lecture: Safer During COVID-19
07/09/20
This discussion explored the topic of “Safer During COVID-19: Ventilation, Technology and the Need for Resilience in Future Buildings.”
SPRING 2020
Lecture: Shadow Suburbanism: Mexican Settlement, Immigration Enforcement, and Housing Form in the New South
03/05/20
Dr. John Arroyo shared his research on immigration surveillance and culturally centered residential built environments.
Schools of Thought Conference
03/05/20—03/07/20
The Schools of Thought symposium brought together scholars, architects, and designers to explore questions about how we teach design.
Lecture: Beatriz Colomina
01/24/20
Beatriz Colomina’s work focuses on today’s questions of how architecture, art, technology, sexuality and media fit together.
SPRING 2019
American School Symposium
04/15/19
American School architects, including Herb Greene and Christopher Mead, headlined at the Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture’s “The American School Symposium.”
2019 Placemaking Conference
04/01/19
The Placemaking Conference was hosted by the Institute for Quality Communities and featured leading experts on economic development, healthy communities, city planning and governance, and more.
Lecture Series: NE OKC Storytelling Project
03/02/19—03/30/19
BlackSpace Oklahoma introduced their organization and initiatives with the lecture series: NE OKC Storytelling Project.
FALL 2018
Neuroscience, Beauty and Design Symposium
10/01/18
Dr. Lydia Soo, Dr. Tiziana Proietti, and Mr. Don Ruggles discussed architectural history and theory and emerging understandings of geometry, proportion, neuroscience and well-being.
Samuel Mockbee
October 11, 1995
Bruce Goff and Bill Wilson
December 9, 1981
Frank Lloyd Wright
1952
2022-2023
2021-2022
Cheryl Lockstone and Barrett Williamson of Anishinabe Design*
2020-2021
Latin American Architecture & Urban Development Systems*
2019-2020
Schools of Thought Conference*
Rick Lowe * **
2018-2019
Paul Mankins (RTA Lecture)
2017-2018: Architects of the American School, Part 1
2016-2017: Organic Architecture and the American School Luca Guido* Patrick Teague* 2015-2016: Women in Architecture 2014-2015: Creating_Making Conference 2013-2014: Re-imaging Sub-urban America 2012-2013: Dialectics in Architecture Gisue Hariri of Hariri & Hariri* Roberto de Leon and Ross Primmer* 2010-2011:Creating Making 2009-2010: Building the Organic City Russell Claus* Jim Burnett and Jereck Boss of The Office of James Burnett* 2008-2009: Centrally Isolated 2007-2008: Blue Sky, Green City 2006-2007: The Sketch in the Digital Age David Lewis, FAIA* Paul Laseau* 2005-2006: The Value and Values of the Architect 2004-2005: Invention & Innovation 2003-2004: Re-defining the Edge: Goff’s 100 Shannon Nichol* 2002-2003: Crafting Places 2001-2002: Between Somewhere and Sustainability 2000-2001 John Kay, MAIBC* 1999 1998 1997 John Belle, FAIA* 1996 1995-1996 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 Gunnar Birkerts, FAIA*