2019 Exhibition
The 2019 exhibition featured 18 site-responsive installations by architects, designers, academics, artists, and graphic designers. These designers created outdoor installations and experiences that use Columbus’ built heritage as inspiration and context, while highlighting the role that visionary community plays in growing a vibrant, sustainable, and equitable city.
For inspiration, Exhibit Columbus looked to the 1986 exhibition, Good Design and the Community: Columbus, Indiana, created when Columbus business leader and philanthropist J. Irwin Miller became the first person inducted into the National Building Museum Hall of Fame in Washington. Mr. Miller chose to emphasize the community’s process and involvement in building, rather than the architecture itself, as a source of his hometown pride.
Elaborating on the connection between the tangible and intangible culture that Mr. Miller described, the 2019 exhibition explored the idea of “good design in the community,” and what it means today.
J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize
Washington Street Civic Projects
University Design Research Fellowships
High School Design Team
Wayfinding and Environmental Design
“Architecture is something you can see. You cannot see a spirit or a temperament or a character, though, and there is an invisible part of this community of which I am very proud because, in a democracy, I think that the process is more important than the product.”
– J. Irwin Miller, The Washington Post, 1986
Thanks and Support
2019 Exhibition Presenting Sponsor
Cummins Inc.
Curatorial Advisory Committee
Sean Anderson
Museum of Modern Art, Assistant Curator of Architecture and Design
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Curator of Architecture and Design
Sarah Green
The Art Assignment, Producer; Independent Curator
Elizabeth Kubany
Kubany Judlowe, Principal
Chris Merritt
Merritt Chase, Founding Principal
Jonathan Nesci
Designer
Dung Ngo
August Editions, Publisher
Enrique Ramirez
Independent Writer
David Rubin
David Rubin Land Collective, Founding Principal
Matt Shaw
Architect’s Newspaper, Senior Editor
Janice Shimizu
Ball State University, Professor; Shimizu+Coggeshall Architects, Founding Principal
Donna Sink
Rowland Design, Architect; Archinect, Writer
Rick Valicenti
Thirst, Creative Director
Kelly Wilson
Indiana University Masters of Architecture Program, Director
Mimi Zeiger
Critic and Curator
2019 Exhibition Sponsors
Presenting Sponsor
Cummins Inc.
J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize
Heritage Fund--The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County
Washington Street Civic Projects
Elwood Staffing
University Design Research Fellowship
Deer Crossing Fund
High School Design Team
City of Columbus
Exhibition Guide
The Miller Family
Wayfinding and Environmental Design
Versteel
Family Activity Guide
The Republic
Hear/Here App
Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives
Exhibition Walking Tours
Columbus Regional Health
2019 Exhibition Support
Anonymous
Baker’s Fine Gifts & Accessories
Bartholomew County Public Library
Becky Church
BroParco
City of Columbus
Columbus Area Visitors Center
Columbus Indiana Architectural Archives
Columbus Parks Department
Dell Brothers Inc.
Duke Energy
ESL-Spectrum
Faurecia
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Heritage Fund--The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County
Eskenazi School of Architecture, Art + Design at Indiana University
Ignition Arts
Indiana Modern
Landmark Farms Foundation
Merritt Chase
R. Wayne Estopinal College of Architecture and Planning at Ball State University
Taylor Bros. Construction Co.
Upland Brewing Co.
Viewpoint Bookstore
Volunteers
Rick Valicenti