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REDISCOVERED Creating a Better Community COLUMBUS, INDIANA REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community Steven R. Risting, AIA CSO Architects Columbus Area Visitors Center Columbus,Tour Guide training Indiana REDISCOVERED29 January 2013 Creating a better Community “First we shape our buildings, therefore, they shape us.” Winston Churchill Creating a better COMMUNITY with architectural design excellence LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church Steven R. Risting (Ratio Architects) 1999-2002 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community A daunng task to design in the shadows of recognized great architecture… Saarinen, Weese Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP About the people, COMMUNITY Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP AIA: a place of memory and inspiraon… integraon of city and architecture Integraon of architecture and landscape First Christian Church, Eliel Saarinen, 1942 North Christian Church, Eero Saarinen, 1964 (National Historic Landmark, 2000) (National Historic Landmark, 2000) Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP AIA: a place of “majestas” (majesty) and “mysterium” (mystery) First Baptist Church, 1965 (National Historic Landmark, 2000) St. Paul’s Episcopal Church renovation, Thomas Beeby, 2002 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Commons Office Building for Cummins CSO Architects in collaboration with Koetter Kim & Associates, 2008-2009 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Commons Office Building expansion for Cummins CSO Architects in collaboration with Koetter Kim & Associates, 2011-2012 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Good design is good business Irwin Union Bank, Eero Saarinen, 1942 Irwin Union Bank @ Hope, Ben Weese (Harry Weese & Assoc.), 1958 (National Historic Landmark, 2000) Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Irwin Union Bank @ Eastbrook, Harry Weese, 1961 Cosco Office Building, 1962 (Dan Kiley landscape) Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP AIA: a wonderful place to work… everyone has a smile Cummins Midrange Engine Plant, Walesboro, Harry Weese, 1973 Cummins Engine Plant 1 Expansions 1960, 1965 Harry Weese, 1996 Kevin Roche Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP AIA: aspiraons of “openness”, “freedom” The Republic, Myron Goldsmith (SOM), 1972 City Hall, Edward Charles Bassett (SOM), 1981 (National Historic Landmark, 2012) Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Northside Middle School addition (not built) Steven R. Risting (Ratio Architects) 2002 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Daylight, scale, warmth The Cummins Foundaon made its first grant to support architects fees for this school, with the desire to provide an alternave 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 facilies, eventually became the Cummins Foundaon Architecture Program. Schmitt Elementary School, Harry Weese, 1957 Mabel McDowell Adult Education Center, John Carl Warnecke, 1960 (National Historic Landmark, 2000) Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP John Johansen “Harvard 5” Ben Weese design 1916-2012 Northside Middle School, Ben Weese (Harry Weese & Assoc.), 1961 L. Frances Smith Elementary School, John Johansen, 1969 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Columbus Learning Center, Kevin Kennon (KPF), 2005 Advanced Manufacturing Center for Excellence, Cesar Pelli, 2011 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP a COMMUNITY design The Commons Koetter Kim & Associates in collaboration with CSO Architect, 2007-2011 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP the “BAND SHELL” in the park an indoor PARK Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community 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 Hamilton Center Ice & Community Center, Harry Weese, 1958 Otter Creek Country Club, Harry Weese, 1964 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Bruce Adams connecons/collaboraons Harry Weese (Schmi School, Hamilton Center), Cummins General Office Buildings Par 3 Golf Clubhouse, Bruce Adams, 1972 CERAland Recreation Center, Harry Roth, 1982 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP AIA: integraon of landscape and architecture Mill Race Park, Michael Van Valkenburgh/Stanley Saitowitz, 1992 Cummins Child Development Center, Carlos Jimenez, 2001 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP The COLE, Steven Risting (CSO), 2009-2013 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP URBAN ELEMENTS apartments, Steven Risting (CSO), 2012-2014 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Collaboraon of architecture, interior design and landscape AIA: rigorous architectural discipline…”yet a place I wanted to live at.” Miller House & Garden, Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, Dan Kiley, 1957 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community 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 Columbus Village, Harry Weese, 1950-1962 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP Sycamore Place elderly housing, Gwathmey & Siegel, 1982 Pence Place family housing, Gwathmey & Siegel, 1984 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Housing Creating is important. a better Community Photo by Jennifer Risting A Look At Architecture 7th edition, 1998 (1st edition 1974) 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 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 AIA: wonderful spaces inside…expressed democracy Historic Architecture in Columbus, Indiana 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 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community Creating a better Community ….with architectural design excellence 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 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community Creating a better Community … . with architectural design excellence A Look At Modern Architecture & Art The Commons and Bartholomew County Courthouse (photo by Susan Fleck) Steven R. Risting 2013 Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community .
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