YOUR PROFESSORS

BAILEY BROWN MITCHELL BLAKE MITCHELL Assistant Professors of Architecture

Blake Mitchell and Bailey Brown Mitchell are outstanding 2016 graduates of the OSU School of Architecture. Taking a year away from school, they worked for the internationally acclaimed firm of Pelli Clarke Pelli in New Haven, Connecticut in their preceptorship program. Upon graduation from OSU, the pair worked in award winning firms in Oklahoma, but in 2020 they began their advanced education at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bailey completed two degrees there (wow!), the Master of Architecture and the Master of Design Studies with a focus in the History and Philosophy of Design and Media. Blake completed the Master of Design Studies at Harvard with a focus on architecture history and landscape urbanism, and spent a year teaching at Wentworth Unversity in Boston. Blake and Bailey are highly creative and energetic young professionals who will provide daily instruction for the Discover Architecture workshop. Both will be joining the faculty as Assistant Professors in the Fall and are native Oklahomans.

SUZANNE BILBEISI, AIA Professor of Architecture and Licensed Architect

Professor Bilbeisi has been a member of the faculty at the OSU School of Architecture since 1993. Before becoming Head of the School in 2016, her primary role at OSU has been to teach in the Architectural Design Studios, and in her twenty-nine tenure, she has taught students at every level of the curriculum. In 1995 she created a new course directed towards all incoming freshmen into the School of Architecture titled “Introduction to Architecture”, and she has remained the primary instructor for this required course ever since. As a result of her interest in working with college freshmen, Professor Bilbeisi expanded her involvement with young people by developing and directing pre-college programs.

Professor Bilbeisi was recognized in 2020 with the AIA Oklahoma Outstanding Educational Contributions Award, in 2016 with the CEAT Mentoring Excellence Award, in 2013 with the Centennial Professorship of Architecture, in 2011 as the CEAT Outstanding Academic Advisor, in 2006 with a Regent’s Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 1998 with a Young Teacher Award by the National Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture. This will be Suzanne Bilbeisi’s last summer leading the program as she is “retiring”.

MOH’D BILBEISI, RA

Regents Professor of Architecture and Licensed Architect

Professor ‘Moh’ Bilbeisi is a gifted teacher. He works with students in the Architectural Design Studio at the first year through fifth year levels. OSU students have won numerous national and international architectural design competitions under his direction in the design studio. Moh utilizes his skills to teach both beginning and advanced level graphics courses at the School, which consist of traditional rendering methodology as well as digital applications for the graphic communication of architecture. He has published Graphic Journaling, a textbook used by first year architecture students and participants in the architecture study abroad programs at OSU, and at several other schools of architecture worldwide.

Professor Bilbeisi has been on the OSU faculty since 1998; in 2020 he was elevated to Regents Professor, in 2016 he was honored as the OSU Eminent Faculty, in 2016, 2018, and 2019 he was recognized nationally as one of the top 30 architectural educators in the US by ‘Design Intelligence’ magazine, in 2012 he received a Regent’s Distinguished Teacher Award, and in 2008 he was recognized nationally with an AIAS Educator Honor Award. This will be Moh’d Bilbeisi’s last summer teaching in the program as he is, also, “retiring”.

CHRISTINA McCOY, RA, SE Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering and

Licensed Architect and licensed Structural Engineer Assistant Professor McCoy graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2007 with dual Bachelor degrees in Architectural Engineering and Architecture. She received a Master of Science in Architecture from University of Cincinnati, focusing in the history and theory of “tectonics” in architecture. Professor McCoy received a Masters of Civil Engineering with a Structural emphasis from University of Kansas. She is both a licensed structural engineer and a licensed architect - wow! Her professional experience includes nearly a decade working as a structural engineer in Kansas City, where she focused on design of long-span structures and stadiums. She received the Structural Engineers of Kansas and Missouri Young Member Award for Community Leadership in 2016.

Professor McCoy teaches Concrete I, Structural Analysis, Steel II, Structural Loads, and the History of Architectural Structures for the School of Architecture. Her interests lie in the intersection of structures and architecture; of particular interest are instances where building technology leads the cutting edge of design. In addition, she looks for opportunities to demonstrate the value of collaboration between engineering disciplines and architectural design. In both lecture classes and studios, she encourages students to use technical skills in a creative way.

MORE PEOPLE TO MEET!

Ready to meet current students in the School of Architecture and several alumni working in the profession? We hope so! Have questions?... Some possible questions you may be curious about: “What’s it like to be a student in the Architecture program?”, “How can I prepare myself for the study of Architecture?”, etc. Just ask! Summer Tate and Seth Gunkel: These are two talented students who will be providing assistance during the program, and living on the dorm floor with you - get to know these students!