by Natalie Young | Apr 30, 2024 | Blog, Events, Featured Posts
During the Spring 2024 semester, the Institute for Quality Communities, Environmental Design Practicum, and Interior Design Studio IV students worked in collaboration with the community of Taft; one of Oklahoma’s 13 surviving Black townships and what was once a...
by Natalie Young | Nov 16, 2023 | Blog, Featured Posts
Last school year, Interior Design students within the Gibbs College of Architecture helped the L’Ouverture Historical Committee (LHC) in the City of McAlester with their plans to preserve the historic L’Ouverture High School. L’Ouverture School first...
by Natalie Young | Sep 21, 2023 | Blog, Featured Posts, Past Projects
During the Spring 2023 semester, IQC worked with the town of Westville, OK, on an array of projects to revitalize the town and improve accessibility and connectivity. One of the main objectives of the project was to design a concept for converting a large, empty...
by Natalie Young | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog, Featured Posts
The Oklahoma and Central States AIA Awards Banquet was held this past Friday, September 15, 2023. There, IQC’s own Ron Frantz was awarded the Lifetime Achievement award and received a standing ovation. This award commemorates Ron’s lifetime of...
by Jake Lange | Nov 1, 2022 | Blog, Featured Posts
Garden Oaks Elementary School In 2021, the Alpha Community Foundation of Oklahoma purchased a vacant Oklahoma City Public School building with the goal of converting the facility into a community center. The former Garden Oaks Elementary School is now set to be...
by Rebecca Blaine | Jul 18, 2022 | Blog, Featured Posts
This summer the IQC (Institute for Quality Communities) partnered with Kay County TSET (Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust) and to host the first ever Oklahoma Towns: Walkability and Placemaking Summit. Due to COVID-19, the highly anticipated biennial Placemaking...
