![]() ![]() ![]() A University Design Research Fellow chosen to create an installation for this cycle of Exhibit Columbus, Garcia is a Belluschi Fellow at MIT in whose work, as she says, “the tools of architecture are put to the task of creating interfaces for listening and, sometimes, speaking.” Her project for Columbus, titled Recordar, is a collection of mysterious, murmuring black towers that will stand in the sunken courtyard of the I. The second reason was because of Deborah Garcia’s presentation. Recordar by Deborah Garcia (Deborah Garcia) It’s now a museum, though, so it landed as public after all. It’s one of the nicest modernist residential renditions of an ancient Greek temple that I’ve ever seen, aided in no small part by Alexander Girard’s interior decor. Irwin Miller, the Cummins director who commissioned most of this work, had a nice house in town designed by Eliel Saarinen. One local resident compared Columbus to Palm Springs, except in reverse: In Palm Springs the architectural sites are all private houses, while in Columbus it’s for everyone. More remarkable is that they’re almost all public and institutional buildings: churches, schools, fire stations, the post office, the Cummins HQ, the newspaper building, etc. The sheer quantity of monuments designed by some of the greatest 20th-century architects is astonishing. The first was that if buildings could talk, Columbus would be a good place to go for a group conversation. This memory came back to me in Columbus for a few reasons. Later, my dad’s friend Paul pulled me aside and told me that it probably wasn’t the house talking. I mentioned it to my parents at dinner one night when we had company, and they took it seriously enough to speculate about what the house might be saying. I never understood what exactly they were trying to say, but they all spoke in a muffled voice that rambled on, just barely audible behind the hum and hiss of the air conditioning. It wasn’t just my house it was all houses, all buildings. I was in Columbus, Indiana, at the end of February to see the public presentations hosted by Exhibit Columbus when I remembered that for a time when I was a child, I became convinced that my house was trying to talk to me. Matthew Graham, “Lyles Station, Indiana” The following Editor’s Note from AN’s Editor in Chief Aaron Seward introduces the issue with a reflection on his recent visit to Columbus, Indiana.Ī few trailers, a church, an abandoned school- All that’s left of this freed-slave community. In addition to architecture news and reviews from across North America, the issue includes features about spaces of play and recreation and a Focus section on wellness. The March/April 2023 issue of The Architect’s Newspaper is out today. ![]()
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