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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...

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Dream the Combine

2021-07-27T09:00:00-04:00

Archinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus continues this week as we introduce the winners of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. This series was introduced last week with Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, the curators of Exhibit Columbus. If you're not yet familiar with this year's Exhibit Columbus designers and programming, we encourage you to take a listen to last week's episode. To begin our first episode featuring the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize, we're sharing my conversation with Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers of Dream the Combine.

Partners in work and life, Jennifer and Tom's Minneapolis-based practice explores metaphor, imaginary environments, and perceptual uncertainties that cast doubt on our known understanding of the world. Their installation for Exhibit Columbus starts off with addressing the name Columbus, and the various associations with the controversial name. The project is aptly titled "Columbus Columbia Colombo Colón."

Listen to “Next ...

Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Part 1: A Conversation with the Curators

2021-07-20T08:27:00-04:00

Today, in partnership with Exhibit Columbus, we're introducing Next Up: Exhibit Columbus, our 5-part series of conversations with the curators of Exhibit Columbus and the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize.

The designers awarded the Miller Prize were each selected for their commitment to the transformative power that architecture, art, and design have to improve people’s lives and make cities better places to live.

Each designer, or team, was tasked with creating a site-specific installation in and around the city of Columbus, Indiana. Our conversations touch on each project within the context of the designer's body of work, the process involved during the research and development, and finally discussing each installation in detail.

The installations will be unveiled in person with a preview party on August 20th and will be open to the public from August 21st to November 28th.

To begin, our conversation today is with Mimi Zeiger and Iker Gil, co-curators of the ...

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.

This episode was sponsored by PPI - use code ARC17 for 15% off your purchase.

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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...