Gallogly Hall tries to fit in the aspect of OU’s Cherokee Gothic architecture, coined by Frank Llyod Wright, yet it manages to separate itself from the pact via ingenuity and modernism. The Gothic aspect of the building was diminished with the abolition of grotesques from the façade. In their place, is a steel-reinforced concrete building with a brick façade focusing on angularity and tight lines. The brick façade helped to allow the building to fit into its surroundings on the outside, but a look on the inside will reveal the true inspiration and reason for why I chose this building.

 At first I was not impressed with Gallogly Hall as a structure aesthetically, its just more of the same design with a facelift. After attending OU for a couple years and learning about LEED, I finally began to understand what a brilliant and marvelous building we had here on OU’s campus. I grew up under the social stigma of climate change and how’s its all “fake”, so this eye-opening experience ended up changing both my way of thinking and my way of designing.

Gallogly Hall is the first Gold-Certified LEED Building on OU’s Campus. With that title, Gallogly Hall stands high over the other buildings on campus, not in architectural design, but in forethought and implementation. Sustainability and green building are the way to our future, and Gallogly Hall gives me hope. A hope that the energy and environmental conscious minds of Oklahoma can prevail in an area where climate change is more myth than reality.