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 […]
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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 […]
The Atheneum – Richard Meier
At the edge of a historic small town in Southwestern Indiana sits a pure white building in stark contrast, yet welcoming visitors to New Harmony. The Atheneum by Richard Meier is a building of movement, program, framed views, and pure […]
Cleo Rogers Memorial Library – I.M. Pei
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been on the competition team in the office for a really exciting project – which explains the lack of new blog posts. During the long hours my mind kept coming back to a certain image […]