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Our Favorite Mod Blogs of 2015

by Lynne Rostochil Well, another year has flown by and many of us are taking a moment to reflect on the adventures, triumphs, failures, and challenges 2015 had to offer.  In that vein, we thought we’d also look back on the year and pick our top 10 favorite Mod Blogs of 2015.  Enjoy!   1. […]

Why Did Henry Kamphoefner and Crew Leave OU?

by Lynne Rostochil This is the fourth and final installment about Kamphoefner’s career.  You can read all about his professional life beginning with the first post.   During my research on the career of Henry Kamphoefner, I learned that there’s always been a big question mark as to why Kamphoefner, James Fitzgibbon, Terry Waugh, George […]

Henry L. Kamphoefner: His Years at OU and Beyond, Part 3

by Lynne Rostochil This is the third of four installments about Kamphoefner’s career.  To read the last installment, go here.   In 1948, Henry L. Kamphoefner arrived at North Carolina State University ready to start work establishing  an architecture school that would replace the architectural engineering curriculum that had been in place for decades.  Before Kamphoefner accepted the job […]

Henry L. Kamphoefner: His Years at OU and Beyond, Part 2

by Lynne Rostochil This is the second of four installments about Kamphoefner’s career.  To read the first installment, go here. By the early 1940s, Henry L. Kamphoefner was one of the OU Architecture department’s most popular and prolific professors and his work was gaining a lot of national attention.  In addition to his home being […]

Henry L. Kamphoefner: His Years at OU and Beyond, Part 1

by Lynne Rostochil Before Bruce Goff reigned supreme at OU, there was Henry L. Kamphoefner, who began his teaching career at OU in 1937 and became the chairman of the School of Architecture there in 1944. Kamphoefner arrived in Norman with an impressive academic pedigree.  Born in 1907 in Des Moines, Iowa, he graduated from the […]