Telesis, the student journal of the University of Oklahoma’s Gibbs College of Architecture, supports students’ creative freedom while engaging urgent questions in architecture and design. Across two paired volumes, Pause (volume nine) and React (volume ten), the journal asks: What is breaking or being lost amid saturation and crisis, including environmental degradation, social and political polarization, and growing desensitization to spatial experience and place? And what must change in design values, definitions of progress, and methods so that architecture moves from spectacle to repair, reciprocity, stewardship, and public trust? Pause critiques “scrolling architecture,” in which buildings are flattened into fast content that dulls attention and erodes uniqueness. React rejects a simple reset and calls for action toward a new direction, redefining what design is for, how value is measured, and what responsibilities designers carry—moving from diagnosis to transformation. Together, these volumes invite students to pause, listen, and propose responsible, relational futures.

Felipe Flores is a lecturer and faculty advisor to Telesis, the student journal of the University of Oklahoma’s Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture. He previously served as editor in chief of Telesis. He conducts award-winning research and teaches at the intersections of endangered architectural knowledge, Indigenous studies, geography, and sustainability.

Yousef Haghighi is a PhD student at the University of Oklahoma, Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture, where his research focuses on sustainable adaptive architecture. He is editor in chief of Telesis and holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture. He has extensive experience as an architectural designer across multiple firms and has served as a principal editor at Yousof Publication. He is also active in academia as a teaching and research assistant, contributing to design research and course instruction.

Trey London is a Bachelor of Architecture student at the University of Oklahoma and coprincipal editor of Telesis. He is currently an architectural intern at Populous, architectural designer at American School Design-Build, and an architectural consultant at the Oklahoma Cowboys Foundation. He has also led numerous academic and extracurricular organizations and programs, securing significant funding and awards, driving membership growth, and leading preservation, fundraising, and volunteer initiatives.

Angela M. Person is professor of architecture at the University of Arizona and external advisor to Telesis. Her award-winning research is at the intersections of architecture, cultural heritage, and sustainability. She has cocurated several major exhibitions, including Capital Brutalism at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC (2024–25).

Chandler Thompson is an MArch candidate at the University of Oklahoma, Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture and student editor and graphic designer of Telesis. While earning a BS in architectural studies from the University of Oklahoma, she contributed to exhibitions showcasing the American School of Architecture legacy, Outre West: The American School of Architecture from Oklahoma to California (2025) and Vollendorf in Oklahoma: The Architecture of Dean Bryant Vollendorf (2026).

Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture at the University of Oklahoma, whose oldest program was established in 1916, supports a future in which all communities are designed for resiliency and empowered to maximize their social, economic, and environmental well-being. Shaped by the legacy of renowned architect Bruce Goff, who was appointed chairman of the OU School of Architecture in 1947, the University of Oklahoma Gibbs College of Architecture’s approach to education is grounded in a sense of individualism and industriousness rooted in local conditions, a focus which remains to this day. The student journal of Gibbs College, Telesis was conceived by University of Oklahoma students in 2018 as the reincarnation of OU Architecture’s student journal from the 1970s, a then playful and irreverent publication. Today, Telesis’s mission is to provide a forum for students to draw connections that transcend immediate events and engage systemic problems, such as mass incarceration, through a praxis-based approach.