Students in the IQC's first academic course this spring recently took a trip to Pauls Valley via the Heartland Flyer to scope out the site of their first project. Owners Larry and Jenny Wallace, of Pauls Valley, gave a tour of the property to the students, along with...

A while back, we told you about Meagan Vandecar, a student at OU Tulsa's Urban Design Studio, and her project focusing on her town of Depew, Oklahoma. In mid-November, several IQC staff members met with Meagan and groups from the Tulsa Urban Design Studio and the...

Meagan Vandecar is a second year graduate student at the OU Urban Design Studio in Tulsa. Meagan has taken a special interest in how rural and small town development can proceed in a world where the economy is always changing and increasingly competitive. She has a...

NORMAN – Architect Ron Frantz has joined the Institute for Quality Communities at the University of Oklahoma College of Architecture as the Director of Small Town Studios. Frantz will also teach in the College’s Division of Architecture and received a Wick Carey...

  NOTE: Another post with more details on this topic, focusing on territorial live-work buildings is now available HERE. We live in a world of buzz words and trending topics. When it comes to community design and planning, there is no shortage of emerging labels...

Image used with permission of author / "Campus Sunset" (c) 2011 Jeremy Green The College of Architecture is excited to be back on campus, having just moved into the beautiful new Gould Hall.  As part of the new building, the Institute for Quality Communities has a...