Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
COLUMBUS, INDIANA REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community Steven R. Risting, AIA CSO Architects
Columbus Area Visitors Center Tour Guide training 29 January 2013
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
“First we shape our buildings, therefore, they shape us.”
Winston Churchill
Creating a better COMMUNITY with architectural design excellence
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Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church Steven R. Risting (Ratio Architects) 1999-2002
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A daun'ng task to design in the shadows of recognized great architecture…
Saarinen, Weese
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About the people, COMMUNITY
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
North Christian Church, Eero Saarinen, 1964 (National Historic Landmark, 2000)
First Christian Church, Eliel Saarinen, 1942 (National Historic Landmark, 2000)
LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP AIA: a place of memory and inspira'on…integra'on of city and architecture
Integra'on of architecture and landscape
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St. Paul’s Episcopal Church renovation, Thomas Beeby, 2002 First Baptist Church, 1965 (National Historic Landmark, 2000)
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AIA: a place of “majestas” (majesty) and “mysterium” (mystery)
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Commons Office Building for Cummins CSO Architects in collaboration with Koetter Kim & Associates, 2008-2009
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Commons Office Building expansion for Cummins CSO Architects in collaboration with Koetter Kim & Associates, 2011-2012
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Irwin Union Bank, Eero Saarinen, 1942 (National Historic Landmark, 2000)
Irwin Union Bank @ Hope, Ben Weese (Harry Weese & Assoc.), 1958
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Good design is good business
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Irwin Union Bank @ Eastbrook, Harry Weese, 1961
Cosco Office Building, 1962 (Dan Kiley landscape)
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Cummins Engine Plant 1 Expansions 1960, 1965 Harry Weese, 1996 Kevin Roche
Cummins Midrange Engine Plant, Walesboro, Harry Weese, 1973
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AIA: a wonderful place to work…everyone has a smile
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City Hall, Edward Charles Bassett (SOM), 1981
The Republic, Myron Goldsmith (SOM), 1972 (National Historic Landmark, 2012)
AIA: aspira'ons of “openness”, “freedom”
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Northside Middle School addition (not built) Steven R. Risting (Ratio Architects) 2002
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
Schmitt Elementary School, Harry Weese, 1957
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Mabel McDowell Adult Education Center, John Carl Warnecke, 1960 (National Historic Landmark, 2000)
Daylight, scale, warmth The Cummins Founda/on made its first grant to support architects fees for this school, with the desire to provide an alterna/ve to the standard, but uninspiring, school buildings being built in the baby boom era of the late 1950s and early 1960s. That design grant, repeated several /mes for other public facili/es, eventually became the Cummins Founda/on Architecture Program.
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L. Frances Smith Elementary School, John Johansen, 1969
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John Johansen “Harvard 5” 1916-‐2012
Northside Middle School, Ben Weese (Harry Weese & Assoc.), 1961
Ben Weese design
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Advanced Manufacturing Center for Excellence, Cesar Pelli, 2011
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Columbus Learning Center, Kevin Kennon (KPF), 2005
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The Commons Koetter Kim & Associates in collaboration with CSO Architect, 2007-2011
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a COMMUNITY design
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an indoor PARK
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the “BAND SHELL” in the park
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Otter Creek Country Club, Harry Weese, 1964 Hamilton Center Ice & Community Center, Harry Weese, 1958
LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP “…we (Cummins) would like to see the
community be… the very best of its
size in the country.”
J. Irwin Miller, 1964
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Par 3 Golf Clubhouse, Bruce Adams, 1972
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CERAland Recreation Center, Harry Roth, 1982
Bruce Adams connec'ons/collabora'ons Harry Weese (Schmia School, Hamilton Center), Cummins General Office Buildings
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Mill Race Park, Michael Van Valkenburgh/Stanley Saitowitz, 1992
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Cummins Child Development Center, Carlos Jimenez, 2001
AIA: integra'on of landscape and architecture
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The COLE, Steven Risting (CSO), 2009-2013
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URBAN ELEMENTS apartments, Steven Risting (CSO), 2012-2014
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Miller House & Garden, Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, Dan Kiley, 1957
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AIA: rigorous architectural discipline…”yet a place I wanted to live at.”
Collabora'on of architecture, interior design and landscape
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Columbus Village, Harry Weese, 1950-1962
LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Irwin Miller was a member of a mayor’s committee to build rental housing that could be used as an incentive to lure the brightest and most capable young people, many of the freshly graduated from Ivy League schools, to a small Midwestern town. 1950
The Architecture of Harry Weese
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Pence Place family housing, Gwathmey & Siegel, 1984 Sycamore Place elderly housing, Gwathmey & Siegel, 1982
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A Look At Architecture 7th edition, 1998 (1st edition 1974) A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012
Photo by Jennifer Risting
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
Photos by Indianapolis Museum of Art A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
Public Art in Columbus, Indiana A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
Graphic Design & Corporate/Community Branding A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
Historic Architecture in Columbus, Indiana
AIA: wonderful spaces inside…expressed democracy
A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012
Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community
Creating a better Community ….with architectural design excellence
Defining Architectural Design Excellence 2012 AIA Committee on Design
“Great architecture is…a triple achievement. It is the solving of a concrete problem.
It is the free expression of the architect himself. And it is an inspired and intuitive expression of the client.”
J. Irwin Miller
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The VALUE of a commitment to EXCELLENCE
“MEDIOCRITY is EXPENSIVE”
“It is expensive to be mediocre in this world. Quality has always been cost effective.
The tragic in history that’s always been made by the well-to-do is that they have feathered their own nests.
Today we know that society does not survive unless it works for everyone.”
J. Irwin Miller, 1987
Creating a better Community ….with architectural design excellence