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. […]
SC Johnson Wax Campus – Racine, Wisconsin
During the Chicago Architecture Biennial in 2015, SC Johnson Wax sponsored free tours of the SC Johnson Wax Campus and Wingspread home in Racine, Wisconsin. Even though I’m not a fan of Frank Lloyd Wright (I’m a Sullivan guy through […]
Kahn, Ando, Johnson in Fort Worth
After coming back from my European Study Abroad trip in 2010, I got the chance to visit the Dallas/Fort Worth area. I had to sneak away from the girl I was dating at the time, her kids, and her mother […]
Farnsworth House – Mies van der Rohe
Seemingly like the other architects I know in Chicago, a few years back I made my way to the Farnsworth House in Plano. I mean it was so heavily hyped in architectural history classes and as a modern masterpiece that […]
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 […]
WMS Boathouse at Clark Park – Studio Gang
The boathouse so nice, they built it twice – and for good reason. The boathouse in Clark Park, coupled with the one in Bridgeport and the continued expansion of river walks around the city, are part of Mayor Emanuel’s attempt […]
Poetry Foundation – John Ronan
Bringing it back to Chicago now, one of my favorite buildings in the city is a small, unassuming 2-story building in the heart of River North – John Ronan’s Poetry Foundation. The building shields itself from the city, causing an […]
#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 […]