Exhibit Columbus is a program of Landmark Columbus Foundation and an exploration of community, architecture, art, and design that activates the modern legacy of Columbus, Indiana. It creates a two-year cycle of programming that uses the context of Columbus to convene conversations around innovative ideas and then commissions site-responsive installations to create a free, public exhibition that demonstrates the power of art and architecture to make cities better places to live for everyone.
Symposium
2017 Symposium inside the sanctuary at First Christian Church.
The Symposium places the modern legacy of Columbus into a global perspective through presentations and conversations between professionals and community leaders while serving as inspiration for and introduction to participants making work in the exhibition. It acts as a convenor of people and ideas around Columbus and its cultural heritage.
Design Presentations
MASS Design Group presents their installation concept presentation on stage at The Commons at the 2018 Design Presentations.
The Design Presentations build excitement for the Exhibition and provide an opportunity for our community to experience the design process first-hand. In an open and public format, participants present their installation concepts for the upcoming exhibition and receive community feedback.
Exhibition
Dream the Combine, Columbus Columbia Colombo Colón, 2020–21 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipient.
The Exhibition features site-responsive installations created by participants (architects, designers, academics, artists, and communication designers). They create experiences that use Columbus’ heritage as inspiration and context, while highlighting the role that a visionary community plays in growing a vibrant, sustainable, and equitable city.
Past Exhibitions
2016–17 Inaugural
J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipients
studio:indigenous
Wiikiaami
Milwaukee
IKD
Conversation Plinth
Boston
Oyler Wu Collaborative
The Exchange
Los Angeles
Plan B Architecture & Urbanism
Anything can happen in the woods
New Haven
Aranda/Lasch
Another Circle
Tucson and New York
Washington Street Installations
Formafantasma
Window to Columbus
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Pettersen & Hein
PAUSE
Copenhagen, Denmark
Productora
Columbus Circles
Mexico City, Mexico
Cody Hoyt
Theoretical Foyer
Brooklyn
Snarkitecture
Playhouse
New York
University Installations
Ball State University College of Architecture and Planning
49262
Muncie
The Ohio State University
Inscribed
Columbus, Ohio
University of Cincinnati
Alchemy
Cincinnati
Indiana University
Synergia
Columbus
University of Kentucky
Indelible Pattern(s)
Louisville
University of Michigan
Cloud / Bank
Ann Arbor
High School Design Team
Between the Threads
Environmental Design and Wayfinding
Thirst
Chicago
2018–19 Good Design and the Community
J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipients
Agency Landscape + Planning
XX
Boston
Bryony Roberts Studio
Soft Civic
New York
Frida Escobedo Studio
Untitled
Mexico City, Mexico
MASS Design Group
Corn/Meal
Boston
SO—IL
Into the Hedge
New York
Washington Street Civic Projects
PienZa Sostenible
Las Abejas
Mexico City, Mexico
BORDERLESS STUDIO
Love Letter to The Crump
Chicago and San Antonio
Extrapolation Factory
What If Columbus
New York
LA-Más
Thank U, Next
Los Angeles
People for Urban Progress
Jungle Subtraction
Indianapolis
University Design Research Fellows
Viola Ago and Hans Tursack
Understorey
The Ohio State University
and MIT
Cambridge and Columbus
Sean Ahlquist
Playscape
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
Christopher Battaglia
DE|stress
Ball State University
Muncie
Marshall Prado
UTK Filament Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville
Sean Lally and Matthew Wizinsky
The Long Now
University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Cincinnati
Chicago and Cincinnati
Daniel Luis Martinez and Santiago
Entry Portal
Indiana University
Columbus
High School Design Team
DENCITY
Environmental Design and Wayfinding
Thirst
Chicago
2020–21 New Middles: From Main Street to Megalopolis, What is the Future of the Middle City?
J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipients
Future Firm
Midnight Palace
Chicago
Dream the Combine
Columbus Columbia Colombo Colon
Minneapolis & Ithaca
Ecosistema Urbano
Cloudroom
Miami & Madrid, Spain
Olalekan Jeyifous
Archival/Revival
Brooklyn
Sam Jacob Studio
Alternative Instruments
London, England
University Design Research Fellowship
Derek Hoeferlin
Tracing Our Mississippi
Washington University St. Louis
St. Louis
Jei Jeeyea Kim with Dorian Bybee
LaWaSo Ground
Indiana University
Columbus
Joyce Hwang
To Middle Species, With Love
University at Buffalo
Buffalo
Natalie Yates
Calibrate
Ball State University
Muncie
Ersela Kripa and Stephen Mueller
Spectral
Texas Tech University at El Paso
El Paso
Ang Li
Window Dressing
Northeastern University
Boston
Lola Sheppard and Mason White
This Appearance Is _____
University of Waterloo and University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
High School Design Team
Tunnel Vision
Environmental Design and Wayfinding
Jeremiah Chiu
Los Angeles
2022–23 Public by Design
J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipients
Tatiana Bilbao ESTUDIO
Designed by the public
Mexico City, Mexico
Practice for Architecture and Urbanism
InterOculus
New York
PORT
THE PLOT PROJECT
Philadelphia and Chicago
Studio Zewde
Echoes of the Hill
Harlem
University Design Research Fellowship
Joseph Altshuler and Zack Morrison
A Carousel for Columbus
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chicago and Urbana-Champaign
Esteban Garcia Bravo and Maria Clara Morales
PRISMA
Purdue University
West Lafayette
Jessica Colangelo and Charles Sharpless
Ground Rules
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville
“BLDS” Tameka Baba, Forbes Lipschitz, Shelby Doyle, and Halina Steiner
PIPE UP!
The Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio
Deborah Garcia
RESPONDER
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Molly Hunker and Greg Corso
Side Effects
Syracuse University
Syracuse
Katie MacDonald and Kyle Schumann
Sylvan Scrapple
University of Virginia
Charlottesville
High School Design Team
Machi
Communication Design
SIGNALS
Boston
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