Exhibit Columbus – a month later I can still recall the energy of opening weekend. Residents that normally don’t care about architecture are Instagramming the heck out of the installations, kids are looking wide-eyed at the installations like I did […]
Tag: Eero Saarinen
Cummins Corporate Office Building – Kevin Roche/John Dinkeloo
Oh Cummins Engine Company….I’m probably one of the only kids from Columbus who didn’t have a parent that worked for them growing up. However, without Cummins and J. Irwin Miller, it’s highly likely I would not have become an architect. […]
Irwin Union Bank – Eero Saarinen
When was the last time you saw a bank look this damn good? When Sullivan was designing them, or Deborah Burke’s bank in Columbus, right? Well Eero Saarinen took Sullivan’s (and others) Midwestern Fortress Bank typology and threw it right […]
#ARCHweek17 – Saarinen’s Impact on Columbus (and me)
For this #ARCHweek17 post, I wanted to go back to my hometown – Columbus, Indiana – and write about two churches that architecturally had an impact on a non-religious kid (I still love church architecture today, it’s weird for someone […]
University of Chicago
Today’s adventure took me to the South Side of Chicago to explore the campus of the University to Chicago. One of the principals of the firm and her husband extolled on how beautiful the campus was, and they were right, […]
My hometown, My thesis: Place and Identity in Columbus, Indiana
Columbus, Indiana; a small city that has come up many times during my architectural education, and my hometown has had more of an impact on my life than I have ever realized. From a field trip back home during a […]