2024-05-03T19:23:58-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150062948/modernist-columbia-in-building-finds-new-life-as-architecture-school-outpost Alexander Walter 2018-05-04T13:42:00-04:00 >2018-05-04T13:42:54-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ln/ln1kaa2nk4f66gia.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Next fall, Indiana University announced Monday, the building will house the university&rsquo;s new master of architecture program, serving as an outpost of the flagship Bloomington campus 36 miles to the west. But this will be no ordinary outpost. Columbus, a small-town architectural mecca, boasts buildings by such renowned architects as Eliel and Eero Saarinen, I.M. Pei and Chicago&rsquo;s Harry Weese.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Blair Kamin tells the story of the former <em>The Republic</em> newspaper building&mdash;a modernist gem designed by <a href="https://archinect.com/som" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">SOM</a> partner Myron Goldsmith and opened in 1971&mdash;which will soon find a second life as <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/4192095/indiana-university" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Indiana University</a>'s&nbsp;new architecture graduate program studio in <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/820150/columbus-indiana" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Columbus, Indiana</a>.</p>