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Exhibit Columbus announces Miller Prize winners and University Design Research Fellows for fifth cycle

2024-10-07T10:24:00-04:00

Recipients of the J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize and University Design Research Fellows (UDRF) have been announced for the fifth cycle of Exhibit Columbus ahead of next year’s event in Columbus, Indiana.

Each will produce installations responding to the previously announced theme 'Yes, And', which calls for participants to "work from existing materials to shape positive change.”

The four Miller Prize recipients will work with a paired institution at sites around the city to create installations that serve as the focal point of the 2025 exhibition. They include:

Adaptive Operations (Chicago, Illinois) Site: The Crump Theatre
AD—WO (Brooklyn, New York) Site: The former Irwin Block Building
Studio Barnes (Miami, Florida) Site: The Jackson Street Parking Garage
Studio Cooke John (New York, NY) Site: The First Christian Church Sunken Courtyard

Five curatorial partners were able to choose from 50 submissions to a national open-call. The six teams they selected will each expand on current...

Exhibit Columbus presents curatorial theme for 2024–25 cycle, 'Yes And'

2024-08-08T17:50:00-04:00

The fifth cycle of Exhibit Columbus will center on the theme ‘Yes And,’ a technique for “affirming and building upon an idea to create a shared narrative” loaned from improvisational theater methods and aimed at spurring “existing material to shape positive change.”

“Through a cycle of events, Exhibit Columbus will encourage the public to collaborate in the creation of the ongoing performance of the city. Whether we’re recovering architectural remnants, reflecting on cultural legacy, staging a dramatic spectacle, or reimagining public play, Yes And invites everybody to the public spaces of Columbus to expand what forms of togetherness and collaboration are possible,” a press announcement elaborates.

The first chance to engage with this year’s curatorial team will come in October, when the program will stage a special two-day symposium (October 24th and 25th) in downtown Columbus. The full list of participating sites and exhibitors will be presented there. The 2025 Exhibit Columbus E...

Exhibit Columbus announces five curatorial partners for 2024-25

2024-06-20T11:58:00-04:00

The list of five curatorial partners for the 2024-25 edition of Exhibit Columbus has been announced ahead of the popular fair’s fifth edition.

Partners Could Be Design (of Chicago/Urbana-Champaign, IL); Mila Lipinksi (of Jackson, MS); Rasul Mowatt (of Raliegh, NC); and Preservation Futures (also Chicago) will join with local Indianapolis-based artist and poet Too Black to determine the Exhibt’s overall theme and direction before the first of its events begin will an October 24-25th symposium.

As always, the programming will be organized through the Landmark Columbus Foundation. A community kickoff event will be held in downtown Columbus on June 26th, featuring each of the selected curators. Design presentations will be made from February 21-22nd of next year following this fall’s symposium, and the final showcase will open to the public on August 15th, with each installation remaining on view through the end of November.

Exhibit Columbus Announces 2023 Opening Weekend Events

2023-08-03T14:00:00-04:00

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The fourth Exhibit Columbus exhibition, Public by Design, opens on Saturday, August 26, with 13 new works of art and architecture designed to invigorate, entertain, and challenge while expanding the legacy of one of America’s most celebrated cities.

Image courtesy of Exhibit Columbus.

Landmark Columbus Foundation announces the Opening Weekend of the 2023 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition, Public by Design, with the Opening Celebration on Friday, August 25, and a day of free, public events on Saturday, August 26. The Exhibit Columbus community (including the Curatorial Team, Landmark Columbus Foundation Staff and Board, Participants, volunteers, and supporters) has been working together for over a year to create what will be a ground-breaking exhibition that showcases how art and architecture can help build a sense of belonging while revitalizing and reimagining historic downtowns as equitable, beautiful, and joyful places.

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Exhibit Columbus Announces University Design Research Fellowship Competition

2022-07-07T19:51:00-04:00

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Landmark Columbus Foundation announces the next step in the 2022–23 cycle of Exhibit Columbus, the University Design Research Fellowship Competition. More than $70,000 will be awarded to full-time university and college professors in the United States from any area of design, architecture, art, and landscape architecture to participate in Exhibit Columbus.

Professors whose work explores community-based urban design projects and the current challenges of activating downtowns are invited to apply for a budget of up to $10,000 to support the realization of a project during the three-month exhibition in Columbus. Additionally, travel stipends will be provided to winners to attend the 2022 Exhibit Columbus Symposium (21–22 October 2022), 2023 Exhibit Columbus Design Presentations (24–25 February 2023), and ultimately, to design and build a public “installation” that showcases their research for the 2023 Exhibition (Opening Weekend 25–27 Aug...

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Ecosistema Urbano

2021-07-30T12:33:00-04:00

Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus continues with sharing conversations with the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Today's episode is a conversation with Belinda Tato and Jose Luis Vallejo of Ecosistema Urbano.

Ecosistema Urbano is a design and consulting company operating within the fields of urbanism, architecture, engineering, and sociology, with offices in Madrid and Miami. Their work often addresses climate head-on, while incorporating strategies of working with micro-climates to educate communities through public spaces. This focus was applied to Cloudroom, their contribution to this year's Exhibit Columbus. Cloudroom consists of an inflatable "cloud," floating over a wooden structure, acting as a space for education, play, and interaction for middle school students.

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Take a look at Exhibit Columbus' 2020-21 Miller Prize Installations

2021-03-31T18:56:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus recently presented the featured designers of the 2020-2021 exhibition cycle in an accessible four-session virtual format. Curated by Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger, this year's theme New Middles: From Main Street To Megalopolis, What Is The Future of The Middle City? highlights the work of the most recent J. Irwin and Xenia Miller Prize winners, University Design Research Fellows, and a Columbus High School Design Team.

To learn more about the thirteen design teams, check out Archinect's coverage of the March 19th and March 26th Design Presentations.

2020-21 Exhibit Columbus J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Installations

In Part 1 of Archinect's installation preview, we took a look at the upcoming creations by the seven University Design Research Fellows and the High School Design Team.

Listed below are the proposed site-specific installations by the five 2021 Miller Prize-winning designers, Dream the Combine of Minneapolis, ecosistema urbano of Miami and Madrid, Fut...

Exhibit Columbus' 2021 site installations showcase the work of University Design Research Fellows and nine high school students

2021-03-31T09:00:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus' virtual presentations allowed the public to join in online and listen to thirteen presentations from the event's University Design Research Fellows, High School Design Team, and J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize winners.

Exhibit Columbus has shared project renders for eight site-specific installations developed by the University Design Research Fellows and High School Design Team for an exclusive preview.

2020-2021 University Design Research Fellowship Installations

For this year's iteration, seven fellowships were awarded to leading professors of architecture, landscape architecture, and design from seven universities. Each installation highlights the research of each individual. Fellows were selected for their "ability to tackle specific sets of issues germane to the future of the city and the Mississippi Watershed region, such as sustainability and material reuse, non-human habitat, watershed ecologies, emergent technologies, and migration."

Derek Hoeferlin — W...

Archinect's Virtual Event Guide for the week of March 24-31, 2021

2021-03-24T07:29:00-04:00

This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, include the second session of Exhibit Columbus' Design Presentations this Friday. Other events to tune into this week feature Raúl Cárdenas Osuna, Ana María León, Torsten Lange, Bryan Lee, Jr., Lesley Lokko, and Sumayya Vally.

Are you hosting a virtual lecture? Presentation? Tour? Interview? Happy Hour? Submit it for consideration by clicking here.

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Lecture: Raúl Cárdenas Osuna
Wednesday, March 24, 2021 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM PDT
Raúl Cárdenas Osuna is the founder and director of Torolab, a collective workshop and laboratory of contextual studies that identifies situations or phenomena of interest for research, basing the studies in the realm of lifestyles to better grasp the idea of quality of life. He holds a degree in architecture from the Universidad Iberoa...

Archinect's Virtual Event Guide for the week of March 17-24, 2021

2021-03-17T16:39:00-04:00

This week's featured virtual event happenings, from Archinect's Virtual Event Guide, are highlighted by Exhibit Columbus' Design Presentations kicking off this Friday. Other events to tune into address topics such as decolonization, surveillance, automation, public and domestic placemaking, healthy communities, and design experience.

Are you hosting a virtual lecture? Presentation? Tour? Interview? Happy Hour? Submit it for consideration by clicking here.

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Sharon E. Sutton: Decolonizing the City-Making Professions: Learning from the Dreams and Defeats of the 1960s
Wednesday, March 17, 2021 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT
Dr. Sharon Egretta Sutton, FAIA is a distinguished visiting professor of architecture at Parsons School of Design and has also served on the faculties of Columbia University, Pratt Institute, the University of Cincinnati, the Univer...

The 2021 Exhibit Columbus Design Presentations take center stage in an exciting virtual format

2021-03-01T21:35:00-05:00

The highly anticipated Exhibit Columbus 2021 Design Presentations invite the public to experience a virtual and public exhibition. Curated by Architect Iker Gil and critic Mimi Zeiger the third iteration of Exhibit Columbus expands on a theme fit for the current social climate, New Middles.

Archinect, and our sister site Bustler, are the official media sponsors for Exhibit Columbus' Design Presentations this year. Stay tuned for upcoming coverage of the event and participating designers.

"Over the course of four sessions on March 19 and 26, Exhibit Columbus will host the 2021 Design Presentations" explains the Exhibit Columbus team. "The second public event in the 2020-21 cycle of Exhibit Columbus New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City? invites the public to preview design concepts of thirteen site-specific, future-oriented public installations and experience the design process first-hand."

Anne Surak, director of Exhibit Columbus, share...

Exhibit Columbus names Dream the Combine, ecosistema urbano, Future Firm, Olalekan Jeyifous, and Sam Jacob Studio as Miller Prize recipients

2020-08-12T13:38:00-04:00

Exhibit Columbus has announced that the organization's forthcoming 2020-2021 exhibition cycle, curated by Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger, will focus on the theme of New Middles:From Main Street To Megalopolis, What Is The Future of The Middle City?

In addition to announcing the new theme, the organization has also named the winners of this year's J. Irwin and Xenia Miller Prize winners. The winners are: Dream the Combine of Minneapolis, ecosistema urbano of Miami and Madrid, Future Firm of Chicago, Olalekan Jeyifous of Brooklyn, and Sam Jacob Studio of London.

Previously on Archinect: Archinect Sessions Site Visit: Exhibit Columbus.

Describing the theme of the symposium and exhibition, the former of which will be presented virtually in 2020 with in-person installations taking shape in 2021, the organizers write that "Midwest, mid-sized, or middle American, the notion of “middle" goes beyond geography and does not mean average or neutral. Middle is its own condition, especially in relation ...

Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil selected for inaugural Exhibit Columbus Curatorial Fellowship

2020-06-18T16:39:00-04:00

Architect Iker Gil and critic Mimi Zeiger have been selected for the inaugural 2020-2021 Curatorial Fellowship created by Exhibit Columbus. The pair is slated to co-curate the 2020 Exhibit Columbus Symposium as well as the 2021 Exhibit Columbus Exhibition.

Zeiger is a Los Angeles-based curator, critic, and editor, while Chicago-based Gil leads MAS Studio, the nonprofit MAS Context, and is also the executive director of the SOM Foundation. According to a press release announcing the selection, "Gil and Zeiger bring an extensive background in researching and creating exhibitions and publications around architecture and design through themes related to alternative histories of modernism, cities and the urgencies of civic space, resiliency, and connectivity."

Describing the goals of the Curatorial Fellowship, Exhibit Columbus Director Anne Surak explains, “Exhibit Columbus is excited to build upon its first two cycles by introducing new curatorial voices to the third iteration of the pr...

Archinect Sessions Site Visit: Exhibit Columbus

2017-10-28T09:00:00-04:00

This week we're releasing a special, in-between, episode of Archinect Sessions. In this show we’re sharing some conversations recorded by Ken and Donna from Exhibit Columbus, while visiting a selection of installations and local architectural masterpieces. Exhibit Columbus describes itself as an “annual exploration of architecture, art, design, and community created to celebrate Columbus’ extraordinary design heritage.” This inaugural exhibition opened on August 26th, and will continue until November 26th. We’ve covered Exhibit Columbus many times on on Archinect, including episodes 83, 94 and 103 of Archinect Sessions.

If you plan on visiting Exhibit Columbus, make sure to grab a map and program from the Columbus Visitor’s Center, and check out the mobile app Hear/Here that uses geo-location to play commentary for each installation throughout the city.

Ken and Donna start their tour at the University Installations, an axis of five architecture school projects along a pubic pedest...

Machines Don't Care; A Conversation about Exhibit Columbus's Student-Built Structures

2017-06-15T19:24:00-04:00

Today’s show follows up on Archinect Sessions episode 83, when we discussed this first year of Exhibit Columbus. The inaugural exhibition of Exhibit Columbus opens this summer, on August 26, and will include six built structures, designed by teams from six different Midwestern universities, investigating the built environment of Columbus. On today’s show, we will be discussing these projects along with Joshua Coggeshall and Janice Shimizu from the Ball State University team, and Martin Summers from the University of Kentucky.

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It's Better to Turn on Than to Fade Away; Archinect Sessions #94

2017-01-12T16:46:00-05:00

This week Donna, Ken, and Paul discuss Exhibit Columbus's Miller Prize announcement, gender equality in lecture school lineups, and the recent illumination of Detroit.

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Winners of the Exhibit Columbus Miller Prize announced

2017-01-11T12:33:00-05:00

Exhibit Columbus, an “annual exploration of architecture, art, design, and community created to celebrate Columbus’ extraordinary design heritage”, has announced the winners of its inaugural Miller Prize. Named after J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller, the prize comes with the opportunity to building a temporary installation on one of five sites in the city. The five winners were selected from a large pool that was eventually narrowed down to 10 finalists, each of whom presented their concepts in a public forum at the Columbus City Hall.

The winners are:

studio:indigenous (Chris Cornelius) — First Christian Church by Saarinen and Saarinen (1942)

“Inspired by the dwellings of the Miyaamia people indigenous to Indiana, Cornelius adorns a walkway leading to First Christian Church with a contemporary “wigwam” - wiikiaami in the Miyaamia language - constructed of rebar and copper scales. The swooping conical form is aligned both to the church’s iconic campanile and to mark the autumnal equin...

One-to-One #41 with Deborah Berke

2016-10-10T14:58:00-04:00

The small town of Columbus, Indiana is packed with the works of famous modernist architects, but unlike cities like New York or Chicago, Columbus’s pedigree isn’t so often brought into the national architectural discourse. Exhibit Columbus, a new symposium and exhibition happening annually in the city, is hoping to change that.

Deborah Berke, architect and dean at Yale, has worked extensively in Indiana and was a keynote speaker at this year's inaugural Exhibit Columbus symposium. She joined me on the podcast to reflect on the local and regional influences of Columbus, Indiana, and the impact they've had on her career.

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No Sage on Stage: 'Exhibit Columbus' shines loving light on Indiana's architectural hotspot, on Archinect Sessions #83

2016-09-29T17:15:00-04:00

Beginning today through October 1, Columbus, Indiana will celebrate its architectural history and identity with its very first Exhibit Columbus—an annual event alternating between a symposium and a design exhibition. Known for its rich architectural holdings of work by Eero and Eliel Saarinen, Kevin Roche, I.M. Pei, Deborah Berke, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi and others, Columbus has earned its "Athens of the prairie" tagline, and Exhibit Columbus hopes to honor that proud tradition into the future.

We're joined by key members of Exhibit Columbus, Richard McCoy (director of the symposium's parent company, Landmark Columbus) and Joshua Coggeshall (partner at Shimizu + Coggeshall and co-director of next year's Ball State University installations) to discuss the city's architectural heritage, and what's planned for this year's inaugural symposium.

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