Columbus Museum of Art 2018 Bank of America Art Conservation Project

Featured Speakers

These visionary leaders in architecture, art, and blueprint joined usa for four days of engaging conversations.

2018–19 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Recipients

The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize forms a connecting thread between Showroom Columbus' symposium and exhibition years. Information technology honors two great patrons of architecture, art, and pattern by inviting renowned architects, artists, and designers to participate in the symposium and create innovative installations and experiences that make upward the core of the exhibition. Meet the 2018-nineteen J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize Winners in their offset public conversation as a group. Afterwards experiencing Columbus, its architectural heritage, and its community, the Miller Prize Winners will begin designing installations for the 2019 Exhibit Columbus exhibition.

Agency Landscape + Planning

Bryony Roberts Studio

Frida Escobedo Studio

MASS Design Grouping

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Meet the Miller Prize Recipients

2018–xix Washington Street Civic Projection Leaders

The Washington Street Civic Projects will showcase innovative work created by 5 mission-driven organizations dedicated to using compages, art, and design to improve people'south lives, connect communities, and catalyze efforts to brand cities more than equitable and sustainable. Every bit part of the 2019 exhibition, their projects will activate sites on and around Washington Street, Columbus' downtown commercial and civic corridor, and volition highlight the diverse efforts of the following organizations from across Due north America.

Borderless Studio

Extrapolation Manufactory

LA-Más

People for Urban Progress

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Meet the Projection Leaders

2018–nineteen University Pattern Research Fellows

The Exhibit Columbus University Design Research Fellowship was created to showcase current research by leading professors of architecture and design and highlight innovative research exploring means that compages and design tin meliorate people'southward lives and brand cities stronger. Exhibit Columbus is proud to honour six fellowships to professors representing 8 universities.

The University Blueprint Research Fellows will participate in the Thursday Afternoon Conversation: States of Design Educational activity.

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Sean Anderson
The Museum of Modern Art

Sean Anderson is associate curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modernistic Art. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, he has degrees in architectural design and history from Cornell, an M. Curvation from Princeton and a Ph.D in art history from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has practiced as an builder and taught in Afghanistan, Commonwealth of australia, Republic of india, Italy, Morocco, Sri Lanka and the U.A.East. At MoMA, he has organized the exhibitions Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter (2016-17), Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-89 (2017-eighteen) and manages the Young Architects Programme (YAP) installation and exhibition series.

Kevin Adkisson
Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research

Kevin Adkisson is the collections young man at the Cranbrook Center for Collections and Research. Since assuming that role in the summer of 2016, Adkisson has assisted with preservation, interpretation, and programs across the many buildings and treasures of Cranbrook. He has curated seasonal exhibitions within Saarinen Business firm using collections from Cranbrook Archives and Cranbrook Art Museum. A native of north Georgia, Adkisson holds a BA in Architecture from Yale, where he worked in the Yale Academy Art Gallery'southward American Decorative Arts Article of furniture Study. He is completing his MA in the University of Delaware's Winterthur Plan in American Material Culture, with a thesis examining the part of postmodernism in shopping mall architecture. Previously, Kevin worked for Robert A.M. Stern Architects in New York as a research and writing associate and at Kent Bloomer Studio in New Haven, where he designed and fabricated architectural ornament.

Gustavo Araoz
International Council on Monuments and Sites

Gustavo Araoz is an American architect whose 40-year career has focused on the direction and conservation of the historic congenital environment. His commitment to serve the professional conservation customs and to augment international cooperation to preserve the globe'southward cultural heritage earned him 3 terms as president of the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS). He was a kinesthesia member of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the Academy of Pennsylvania for seven years, and has been a visiting lecturer internationally at institutions including Yale, Brandenburg Technical University in Germany, and the International Centers for Heritage Conservation in the Canary Islands and Buenos Aires. He participated in the Nara + 20 process convened by the Japanese Bureau for Cultural Affairs and served on advisory panels for the Getty Foundation's Architectural Conservation grant programs. A native of Cuba, Araoz was awarded the Cuban National Heritage Foundation's 2011 "Herencia" honour. In 2017, he received the Ann Webster Smith Honor given by Usa/ICOMOS.

Michael Bierut
Pentagram

Michael Bierut is a partner in the New York office of the international design consultancy Pentagram, where his piece of work includes make identity, book design, packaging, and environmental graphics. His clients at Pentagram accept included the New York Times, Saks Fifth Avenue, the Robin Hood Foundation, MIT Media Lab, Mastercard, Princeton University, the New York Jets, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music. As a volunteer to Hillary Clinton's communications team, he designed the H logo that was ubiquitous throughout the campaign. Bierut is on the kinesthesia of the Yale Schoolhouse of Management and a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale Schoolhouse of Fine art. Function blueprint manual, part manifesto, Bierut's 2015 book How to utilise graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look ameliorate, make people express joy, make people cry, and (every once in a while) alter the globe, explores his career and his philosophy of creating with purpose.

Joshua Ayoroa
Ayoroa Simmons

Joshua Ayoroa is president and principal of Ayoroa Simmons, a edifice data modeling firm based in Lexington, Kentucky. Ayoroa has worked in the architecture, engineering, and structure industry since 2009. From 2011 to 2014, he worked for one of the elevation x manufacturing design-build firms in the country. During that time he worked with multidisciplinary teams of blueprint and construction professionals from effectually the state on some of the most circuitous projects in the company's portfolio. Today, Ayoroa provides building data modeling solutions to leading design professionals, contractors, and owners throughout Northward America and Europe. His squad used 3D laser scanning to provide Oyler Wu Collaborative with detailed site data for their 2017 J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize installation "The Exchange." Ayoroa holds a chief of compages degree from the Academy of Kentucky.

Linda Make
Herman Miller Cares

Linda Brand is president of Herman Miller Cares, Herman Miller'southward corporate giving foundation that funds initiatives worldwide. She is an active member of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy. Prior to joining Herman Miller, Make was president and CEO of Brand & Associates, a business concern consulting firm engaged with private foundations, philanthropists, and community leaders to touch on positive social modify. Brand was an active member of the West Michigan Strategic Alliance (WMSA), a regional collaboration resulting in significant policy and organizational impact. In 2010, forth with several local philanthropists, Linda helped develop and manage the Model Community Initiatives, a local byproduct of WMSA which continues today. This high-contour three-sector leadership forum is designed to engage local stakeholders in strategies to address community issues. Linda has served on several not-profit boards, teaches at the local customs college, is a contributing author to the book Personal Quality, and was named ane of West Michigan's Top 50 Women of Influence

Mary Chandler
Cummins Foundation

Mary Chandler is the Vice President of Corporate Responsibility at Cummins Inc. and C.E.O. of the Cummins Foundation. Chandler practiced law for 25 years and was a partner in an Indianapolis, Indiana, law business firm. She has been significantly involved in land and local public policy, serving as President of the Indianapolis Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, Chairman of the Board of the Indianapolis Local Public Improvement Bond Depository financial institution, and Commissioner on the Indiana Natural Resources Committee, amid many other roles. She is currently the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Greater Indianapolis Progress Committee. At Cummins, Chandler has led the development of pregnant global community programs including Cummins Powers Women, a global community initiative committed to the advancement and prosperity of women and girls effectually the globe. Through its Architecture Program, the Cummins Foundation has fostered Columbus' reputation for architectural excellence since 1957.

Flora Chou
Page & Turnbull

Flora Chou is a senior associate and cultural resources planner for Page & Turnbull in the Los Angeles function. Based in California, Page & Turnbull is an architecture, planning, and conservation firm imagining modify in historic environments through blueprint, research, and technology. Chou leads the architectural history and preservation planning aspects of the firm'due south Southern California projects. She holds a master's degree in Historic Preservation from Columbia University, a bachelor'southward degree from Claremont McKenna College, and is a LEED-accredited professional. She speaks regularly at conferences and workshops on preservation planning and practices. Prior to joining Page & Turnbull in 2013, Chou was a preservation advocate for the Los Angeles Conservancy. She currently serves on the national board of Docomomo US, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the buildings and sites of the modern movement.

Ballad Coletta
Memphis River Parks Partnership, Kresge Foundation

Carol Coletta is president and CEO of the Memphis River Parks Partnership. She is leading the relaunch of a nonprofit to develop, manage and programme half dozen miles of riverfront and five park districts forth the Mississippi River. Coletta is on loan from The Kresge Foundation, where she is a senior young man in the foundation's American Cities Practice. She leads a $l+ million collaboration of national and local foundations, local nonprofits and governments to Reimagine the Civic Eatables in 5 cities. She was formerly vice president of Community and National Initiatives for the John Due south. and James L. Knight Foundation. Coletta also led the two-year start-upwardly of ArtPlace, a unique public-private collaboration to accelerate artistic placemaking in communities across the U.South. She was host and producer of the weekly public radio show Smart Metropolis, where she interviewed international leaders in business organization, the arts, and cities. She continues the conversation on her podcast "Talking almost Cities."

Holly Davidson
IKEA

Holly Davidson is the store managing director of the Indianapolis-surface area IKEA that opened Oct xi, 2017 in Fishers, IN—the 45th U.S. IKEA and the first in Indiana. A native of southern Indiana, Davidson joined IKEA following successful tenures with international retail companies Blockbuster and Starbucks in regional management positions. Since its 1943 founding in Sweden, IKEA has offered domicile furnishings of good pattern and function at depression prices so the majority of people can beget them. IKEA incorporates sustainability into day-to-twenty-four hour period business concern and supports initiatives that benefit children and the environment through the IKEA Foundation. The foundation's mission is to create substantial and lasting change by funding holistic, long-term programs in some of the world'due south poorest communities that address children's fundamental needs. Good Cause campaigns in IKEA stores, similar 2017's Let's Play for Change, give co-workers and customers an opportunity to appoint directly with foundation programs.

Melissa Dittmer
Bedrock

Melissa Dittmer is the vice president of Compages + Pattern at Boulder, leading Bedrock's internal architecture studio— a collaborative group that completes the research, analysis, programming, conceptual design, and (as needed) full architecture services for Bedrock's existent estate development projects, and the selection of external architects appropriate for each projection's strategic vision. Most recently, Dittmer co-led the organization, blueprint, and curating of a 17-day architecture exhibition called "Detroit Design" that resulted in 16 special public events, 4000 exhibit visitors, 19 published design articles, and three media outlets declaring Detroit as a top 10 tourist design destination. Earlier projects include Bedrock'south "City Modernistic" project within Detroit'southward historic Brush Park customs and leading the Detroit Blight Removal Task Force Plan. Dittmer has been published in Topos, MONU, MetropolisMag, The Plan, Places: Design Observer, and the Builder'southward Paper, and is a graduate of the Illinois Found of Engineering and Columbia University.

Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher is the Helen Hilton Raiser Curator of Architecture and Pattern at the San Francisco Museum of Modernistic Art (SFMOMA). Since 2008, Dunlop Fletcher has contributed to the museum's Architecture + Pattern program through several fundamental acquisitions and exhibitions with a focus on visionary works of design from 1980 to the present. Recent curatorial projects include Designed in California (2018), Typeface to Interface (co-curator) (2016); Lebbeus Woods, Architect (co-curator) (2013); A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living (2013); The Utopian Impulse: Buckminster Fuller and the Bay Area (2012), and commissioned works by Agency Spectacular (2017), Claudy Jongstra (2016) and Mike Mills (2013). She has published essays on the practices of A. Quincy Jones, Ewan Gibbs, Tobias Wong, and Lebbeus Woods. Dunlop Fletcher is a graduate of New York University, and earned master's degrees from Bard College in Curatorial Studies and Harvard University in Architecture History and Theory.

Laura Flusche
Museum of Blueprint Atlanta

Laura Flusche is the Executive Director of the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA). Under her leadership, the museum has been transformed into Atlanta'due south blueprint hub, a leader in blueprint thinking and STEAM educational activity for youth, and a trailblazer in exploring ways that a museum tin can serve its community in the 21st century. A classical archeologist past training, Laura lived in Rome, Italia for fifteen years where she taught at the university level, excavated on the Palatine Hill, and was a co-founder of the Institute of Design + Culture. She fiercely maintains that design is archeology backwards.

Todd Gannon
The Ohio State Academy

Todd Gannon is Robert Due south. Livesey Professor and Head of the Architecture Section at The Ohio Land University'due south Knowlton School. His most recent book is Reyner Banham and the Paradoxes of High Tech. His other books include The Low-cal Construction Reader (2002), Et in Bourgeoisie Ego: José Oubrerie'south Miller Firm (2013) and monographs on the work of Morphosis, Bernard Tschumi, UN Studio, Steven Holl, Mack Scogin/Merrill Elam, Zaha Hadid, Peter Eisenman, and Eric Owen Moss. His essays accept appeared in periodicals including Log, the Architect's Paper, and Offramp. In collaboration with Ewan Branda and Andrew Zago, he curated the 2013 exhibition A Confederacy of Heretics. His piece of work has been recognized and supported past the Getty Foundation, the Graham Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Constitute of Architects, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Ohio Land University, and UCLA.

Greg Goldin
Writer and Curator

Greg Goldin is a author and curator based in Los Angeles. For a dozen years he was the compages critic at Los Angeles Magazine. He has published widely in Architect's Newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, Architectural Tape, the L.A. Weekly, Hamlet Vox, and other publications. He co-curated the exhibitions Never Congenital New York at the Queens Museum and Never Built Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Pattern Museum > Los Angeles. He was a 2-time recipient of a Getty Pacific Standard Fourth dimension Presents: Modern Compages in Los Angeles grant for his work examining colloquial architecture. With collaborator Sam Lubell, Goldin is currently researching the unbuilt projects in Columbus' architectural history.

Sarah Urist Dark-green
The Fine art Assignment

Sarah Urist Green is creator and curator of The Art Assignment, an educational video serial produced by PBS Digital Studios that explores art history through the lens of the present. Since its premiere in February 2014, the series has grown to over 200,000 subscribers, issued assignments past more than threescore artists, and generated thousands of artworks in response. Dark-green is the sometime curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where she organized the exhibitions Graphite and Andy Warhol Enterprises, amidst others, and was instrumental in developing The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres.

Sharon Haar
University of Michigan

Sharon Haar is professor and chair of the Compages program at the Academy of Michigan's Taubman Higher. Her current research investigates the function of entrepreneurship, blueprint innovation, and global networking in the transformation of architectural practices devoted to social activism and humanitarian relief. Professor Haar is the author of The City as Campus: Urbanism and Higher Instruction in Chicago (2011), the editor of Schools for Cities: Urban Strategies (2002), and publishes frequently in journals and edited volumes. She has received numerous grants from institutions including the Graham Foundation, Richard H. Driehaus Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and American Architecture Foundation. She has taught at Parsons Schoolhouse of Pattern in New York and at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she was professor of architecture and the associate dean for Research at the College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts.

Adrienne Heflich
Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates Inc

Adrienne Heflich is an associate with Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA) in Brooklyn, NY. She improves gimmicky public spaces by learning from and enhancing a site's natural and cultural landscapes. For the past 6 years, she has been a part of MVVA'southward pattern and structure administration team for the Gateway Curvation Park in St. Louis, MO. As MVVA'due south project manager for Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, NC, she guides the transformation of the site from quondam land institution to destination public park. The project seeks to promote salubrious and diverse local communities through new opportunities for outdoor activities and education, rehabilitate the site's cultural landscapes, and restore and celebrate the environmental of the region. In addition, Heflich has managed landscape improvements to Vassar and Albright Colleges and Green-Forest Cemetery in Brooklyn, NY. Heflich is a graduate of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Bowdoin College and has worked with MVVA since 2009.

Jeffrey Johnson
Academy of Kentucky

Jeffrey Johnson is the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Pattern and a principal of SLAB Architecture. Johnson'southward work and research focuses on the intersection of architecture and the city. His contempo research has been investigating the radical transformations of Cathay's urban landscape through the proliferation of superblock evolution, the basic DNA of large-scale urban growth, which will be included equally part of a book he is co-editing entitled The China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanisms. Currently, Johnson is critically examining the unprecedented museumification of Mainland china as a result of the current museum edifice boom. Johnson has taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia Academy, the Illinois Establish of Applied science, and Tongji Academy in Shanghai. Johnson was the curator and co-academic managing director of the 2013 Bi-Urban center Biennale of Urbanism + Compages in Shenzhen, China.

Yugon Kim
IKD

Yugon Kim is a founding partner of IKD, an architectural design firm based in Boston and San Francisco that operates at the intersection of art, architecture, culture, and community. IKD'due south clients include the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the National Building Museum, and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Kim's long experience with timber led to the realization of the "Conversation Plinth," a Miller Prize installation at Exhibit Columbus' 2017 exhibition which was the first hardwood Cross-Laminated Timber structure constructed in the United states of america. This ongoing material research was awarded a Wood Innovation Grant by the Usa Forest Service and aims to exist a goad for a new timber industry by upcycling depression-value regional hardwood. The "Chat Plinth" was named 2017's Best New Building Material by the Architect's Paper and earned Architizer'southward 2018 A+ Award for Best Temporary Structure. In addition to his professional person practice, Kim is a faculty member at Rhode Island Schoolhouse of Design.

Matthew Kreilich
Snow Kreilich

Matthew Kreilich is a design principal at Snow Kreilich Architects in Minneapolis. The studio received AIA's 2018 Architecture Firm Accolade, an honor that recognizes a practice that consistently has produced distinguished architecture for at least 10 years. He is the centre of the firm'southward collaborative working model, with an agile participation in both strategic and detail design resolution. Kreilich provides his design leadership on all the house's projects. He has taught at the University of Minnesota Higher of Design and Syracuse Academy and participated in visiting critiques at the GSD and Washington University. Kreilich was recently a juror for the Progressive Architecture Honor. He continues to participate on AIA juries throughout the country and requite lectures in both academic and professional settings.

Gavin Kroeber
Studio for Fine art and Urbanism

Gavin Kroeber is an creative person whose projects and writings poach from visual art, urban theory, and operation. He produces curatorial projects and performance events that are concerned broadly with cultural dynamics of power and in item with their expression in the poetics of place. Recent piece of work includes the two-mean solar day festival Dwell in Other Futures: Art / Urbanism / Midwest and the interdisciplinary social series At the Edge of Everything Else, both held in St. Louis. His projection New Cities, Time to come Ruins, which received the 2016 Meadows Prize, investigates planetary crises of growth, migration, and sustainability in the sprawling cities of the Sun Belt. Projects in evolution are focused on St. Louis equally a suburbanized region and the burn zones of California'due south 2017 wildfires. He holds a primary'due south degree in Design Studies in Art, Design, and the Public Domain from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Elizabeth Kubany
Kubany Judlowe

Elizabeth Harrison Kubany studied architecture and architectural history at Columbia College and the Architectural Association in London. Subsequently working every bit manager of public relations at Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates in New York and Los Angeles, she joined the staff of Architectural Record magazine equally practice editor. In this position, she covered the business and management issues against architectural practitioners, also as writing nigh design. In 2000, Elizabeth was hired equally firm-wide director of public relations for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill to conceive, organize, and direct a public relations strategy for the 1,100-person, nine-office house. She worked in this position for two years, when she founded EHKPR and then Kubany Judlowe. Elizabeth has spoken widely on the role of public relations and marketing in the practice of compages, ethics in architecture, and the issues with architectural fees. She serves on the board of Open up Firm NY and on the Curatorial Informational Committee of Exhibit Columbus.

Mila Lipinski
2017 Exhibit Columbus Loftier School Design Team

Mila Lipinski is a 2017 graduate of Columbus East Loftier Schoolhouse. She was already planning to pursue a career in architecture when her art teacher, Denise Kocur, suggested she volunteer to join the Exhibit Columbus High School Design Squad. Nether the guidance of a squad of experts, Lipinski and five other students met weekly during their 2016-2017 school yr to explore, learn, design, advise, and construct an installation intended to serve as a meeting point during Showroom Columbus' inaugural exhibition. The resulting installation, Betwixt The Threads, was a playful and inviting maze of brightly colored panels made with plastic string that vibrated in the breeze. Featured in a New York Times article about the 2017 exhibition, Betwixt the Threads was i of the most popular—and well-nigh photographed—installations. Lipinski is currently a pupil University of Illinois where her studies in compages are guided by an interest in community and humanitarian blueprint.

Sam Lubell
Author and Curator

Sam Lubell is a writer based in New York. He has written eight books about compages for Phaidon, Rizzoli, Urban center Books and Monacelli Press. He is a Contributing Editor at the Builder's Newspaper and writes for the New York Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, Wired, the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, Architectural Record, Architect Mag, Contract, Architectural Review and other publications. He co-curated the exhibition Never Built New York at the Queens Museum and the shows Never Built Los Angeles and Shelter: Rethinking How Nosotros Live in Los Angeles at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum > Los Angeles. With collaborator Greg Goldin, Lubell is currently researching the unbuilt projects in Columbus' architectural history.

Ed Mitchell
Academy of Cincinnati

Edward Mitchell is the manager of Architecture and Interior Design at the Academy of Cincinnati. Prior to this appointment, he was associate professor at the School of Architecture, Yale Academy, where he served as director of the Post-Professional program and coordinated the postal service-professional and graduate studios in architecture and urbanism. His accolade-winning practice has been recognized by the Architectural League of New York and the Boston Social club of Architects. He has been a member of Vita Nuova, an ecology planning consortium, and the Urban Design Workshop at Yale. His two latest books, A Train of Cities and Common Wealth are studies of the regional potentials in one-time industrial centers in Boston and South Coast Massachusetts. He has been the Chair of the National ACSA annual meeting and has lectured and exhibited internationally, including at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, The University of Illinois, Aalto University in Helsinki, and the Salzburg Seminars in Austria.

Jorge Otero-Pailos
Columbia University'southward Graduate School of Compages, Historic Preservation

Jorge Otero-Pailos works at the intersection of art, architecture and preservation. I of the leading thinkers defining the new field of "experimental preservation," Otero-Pailos' work on historic monuments has been commissioned and exhibited widely, from the Venice Biennale to the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is the founder and editor of the journal Future Anterior, co-editor of Experimental Preservation (2016), author of Compages's Historical Plow (2010) and a prolific contributor to scholarly journals and books. He has received awards from major art, compages, and preservation organizations such every bit the 2012 UNESCO Eminent Professional person Accolade, the American Institute of Architects, the Graham Foundation, and the Canadian Center for Architecture. Otero-Pailos holds a PhD from MIT and was a founding faculty fellow member of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico. He is manager and professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture in New York.

Todd Palmer
Chicago Architecture Biennale

Todd Palmer is the executive director of the Chicago Compages Biennial, the largest compages and design exhibition in North America, which explores the manner nosotros live, work, and organize club globally. The adjacent edition of the biennial will be on view from September 2019 – January 2020 in venues throughout Chicago. Trained in the history, theory, and exercise of architecture, Palmer has 2 decades of blueprint, curatorial, educational, and planning experience. Prior to joining the Biennial in 2016, he was acquaintance director and curator at the National Public Housing Museum, where he spearheaded the rehabilitation of the museum's historic site, organized exhibits, and piloted programs to catalyze social change. An author and artist, Palmer exhibited with The Studio Museum in Harlem, produced public artworks, and published in the Avery Review and African American National Biography. He is vice-president on the Executive Commission of the non-profit Chicago Cultural Brotherhood's Board of Directors.

Theodore Prudon
Docomomo United states of america

Theodore H.Thousand. Prudon is a practicing architect and preservationist. He received his didactics in the Usa (MS Curvation and PhD from Columbia University) and the Netherlands (MS ArchEng from the University of Delft). He is a boyfriend of the American Institute of Architects and the Association of Preservation Applied science International. He has been on the faculty of the Graduate Programs in Celebrated Preservation at both Columbia Academy and Pratt Establish for over thirty years. He has lectured and published extensively and is the author of Preservation of Modern Compages, of which likewise a Japanese and Chinese language edition has appeared. The volume received the Lee Nelson Book Honour from the Association for Preservation Technology. Dr. Prudon is the president of Docomomo US and serves on the Informational Board of Docomomo International based in Lisbon, Portugal. In 2016 he was awarded the architecture prize past the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Enrique Ramirez

Enrique Ramirez is a scholar and historian of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism. He is a member of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative and an informational editor for Manifest: A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism. Ramirez has lectured widely and his writings, which cover a diverseness of topics, accept appeared in publications like the Avery Review, the Journal of Architecture (Uk), Harvard Pattern Magazine, and Perspecta: The Yale Architectural Journal. He contributed an essay to the companion volume for Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Ramirez brings his erstwhile experiences equally a lawyer and entertainment industry veteran to behave on his research, which considers diverse topics such every bit legal history and cinematic representations of landscapes. He is currently working on a manuscript that considers how exchanges between architectural and aeronautical cultures in 18th- and 19th-century France synthetic new ideas about air and the natural environment.

David Rubin
DAVID RUBIN Country Collective

David Rubin is the founding main of DAVID RUBIN Land Collective, a mural architecture and urban design studio committed to practicing with an emphasis on socially-purposeful design strategies. He is pattern critic at the Harvard Academy Graduate School of Design and young man of the American Academy in Rome. His projects take received honors from the American Constitute of Architects and American Society of Landscape Architects, amidst others. David is responsible for the design of Canal Park in Washington, DC; Lenfest Plaza at The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Academy of Pennsylvania'southward Pennovation Campus, both in Philadelphia; likewise equally The Commonground at Eskenazi Health Infirmary, the Indianapolis Museum of Art Principal Plan, and the Cummins DBU Headquarters, all in Indianapolis. His current work includes Franklin Park in Washington, DC; the White River Master Program, and Grand Junction Plaza in Westfield, Indiana; and the Envision Columbus Downtown Strategic Development Plan for Columbus, Indiana.

Susan Saarinen
Artist and Designer

Susan Saarinen, daughter of architect Eero Saarinen and sculptor Lily Swann Saarinen, is an artist, designer, and artisan comfortable working in many different media. Susan grew up in the Cranbrook Educational Customs, an intensely creative environment where her gramps Eliel Saarinen was managing director, sculptor Carl Milles and ceramist Maija Grotell were teachers, and Susan'south godfather Charles Eames, furniture designer Florence Knoll, weaver Jack Lenor Larsen, and metallic sculptor and article of furniture designer Harry Bertoia met and developed their crafts. Profoundly influenced past her early years, she holds degrees in Fine Arts (weaving and ceramics) and Landscape Architecture. Her business firm, Saarinen Mural Architecture, concentrates on environmentally appropriate projects. When she has time, she balances her design exercise with fine arts. Saarinen has taught at Harvard, the University of Colorado at Denver, the Fine art Educatee's League of Denver and a cultural substitution center in southwest France. She is presently writing her memoirs.

Michelangelo Sabatino
College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology

Michelangelo Sabatino is an architect, preservationist, and historian whose enquiry broadly addresses intersections between culture, engineering, and design in the built and natural environment. He is dean of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Found of Applied science, where he holds the Rowe Family College of Architecture Endowed Chair and is the countdown John Vinci Distinguished Research Boyfriend. Previously, Sabatino taught history and theory of architecture at Yale Academy and the University of Houston. Sabatino lectures and publishes widely, participates in juries, and serves on a number of editorial boards, including Architectural Histories, the journal of the European Architectural History Network. His monograph Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Colloquial Tradition in Italian republic (2011) was recognized with multiple awards, including the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Accolade. His next book, Advanced in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony, co-edited with Ben Nicholson, is forthcoming in 2019.

Jose Sanchez
Plethora Project

Jose Sanchez is an architect, developer, and game designer based in Los Angeles, California. He is the managing director of the Plethora Projection, a research and learning project investing in the hereafter of on-line open-source knowledge. He is also the creator of Cake'hood, an honour-winning city edifice video game exploring notions of crowdsourced urbanism. He has taught and guest lectured in several renowned institutions beyond the world, including the Architectural Association in London, the University of Practical Arts (Angewandte) in Vienna, ETH Zurich, The Bartlett Schoolhouse of Architecture, University Higher London, and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure D'Architecture in Paris. Today, he is an assistant professor at USC School of Compages in Los Angeles. His enquiry 'Gamescapes' explores generative interfaces in the form of video games, speculating in modes of intelligence augmentation, combinatorics, and open systems as a design medium.

Shelley Selim
Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields

Shelley Selim is the associate curator of Design and Decorative Arts at the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, where she provides curatorial oversight of the museum's design and decorative fine art collections, likewise every bit its ii celebrated homes—the Lilly Business firm and the Miller House and Garden. She recently curated a reinstallation of the IMA's Design Gallery, the largest permanent collection gallery devoted to modern and contemporary design of any museum in the state. Prior to her arrival at the IMA, she was the Jeanne and Ralph Graham Assistant Curator at Cranbrook Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and a curatorial banana at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. She has edited and written numerous publications near design, craft, and art, and has also lectured widely on these topics. She earned her MA in the History of Decorative Arts and Pattern from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum/Parsons, the New School for Design.

Matt Shaw
The Architect's Paper

Matt Shaw is the senior editor of the The Architect's Newspaper and a Columbus native. He teaches critical writing at SCI-Arc and is the founder and co-editor of Mockitecture, a half-manifesto/half-satire collection of architectural debauchery. He has worked for the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting (C-Lab), Storefront for Art and Architecture, Architizer, and been published in the Architectural Review, Across, Domus, and Icon. He wrote and researched two editions of the guidebook "Europe's Top 100 Architecture and Design Schools" for Domus, and helped edit with Mark Foster Cuff the forthcoming volume Aesthetics Equals Politics: New Discourses Across Fine art, Compages, and Philosophy (MIT Press, Spring 2019). Shaw has led the experimental research group Critical Method Unit of measurement (CMU) at Syracuse University NYC Architecture Program, and has been an invited critic at numerous schools including Yale University, Columbia University, Princeton University, Penn, and UCLA.

Janice Shimizu
Ball Land University

Janice Shimizu is an assistant professor in the Section of Architecture at Ball State University and a chief at Shimizu + Coggeshall Architects. Licensed in California and Indiana, she has worked on an array of programs, scales, and conditions. Prior to joining Brawl State, Shimizu taught at the Academy of Southern California and worked at SmithGroup, Hodgetts + Fung, Guthrie + Buresh, and Morphosis Architects. Shimizu coordinates the Commencement Thursday Arts Walk for Muncie Makes Lab and is an associate curator for Showroom Columbus. Shimizu's work with Showroom Columbus focuses on promoting and supporting cutting-border piece of work at midwestern universities. She coordinated the Academy Installations for the 2017 exhibition, and has adult the 2018-nineteen University Pattern Enquiry Fellowships in club to showcase current design enquiry past leading professors of architecture and design in the region, grow a community that cares about design heritage, and provide splendid educational opportunities.

Donna Sink
Rowland Design

Donna Sink is an architect at Rowland Design, an Indianapolis compages business firm focused on cultural and residential projects throughout the state. For the concluding 25 years, Sink has worked on urban design, cultural institution, and art exhibition design projects, and has called Philadelphia, Detroit, Portland, and Phoenix home. She is committed to contributing to increasing the demand for expert pattern in the city of Indianapolis, serving as president of the board for People for Urban Progress and a member and by president of the local chapter of the American Plant of Architects. She was honored with a 2016 Indianapolis Business Periodical Women of Influence laurels. Sink completed her primary of compages caste at Cranbrook Academy of Fine art.

Tracy Souza
Heritage Fund––the Community Foundation of Bartholomew County

Tracy Souza is President and CEO of Heritage Fun––The Community Foundation of Bartholomew County. Heritage Fund, with assets of $72.7M, is a primal community-focused philanthropic system. Souza has lived, worked, and volunteered in Columbus for forty years, including 32 years at Cummins. Her involvement spans the Columbus Human Rights Commission, Arts Council, United Fashion, Community Education Coalition, and many other boards and commissions. She has been closely involved in public/private partnerships, peculiarly around community/downtown evolution. Souza was an early champion for Landmark Columbus and Exhibit Columbus. She is defended to ensuring that Columbus has a manner to laurels, intendance for, and fully utilize its architectural avails for broad community benefit. It is a way to award the remarkable contributions of past community leaders while didactics and developing a new generation of leader that will keep to brand Columbus a great place to alive, piece of work and play.

Andrea Swartz
Ball State University

Andrea Swartz is an architect who has taught extensively in professional architecture programs at Ball State, Rensselaer Polytechnic Constitute, and at the Yale School of Compages where she earned undergraduate and Chiliad.Arch degrees and was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Medal. Swartz has worked for firms in Rhode Island, Maine, Washington, and California. Her pattern work has earned recognition, including a 2nd-place award at the Toronto Sukkahville Design + Build Competition and Exhibition (2014), and recognition at state AIA design "ideas" competitions (2017, 2015). Her photography and artwork has been exhibited nationally. Prior to serving as the Chair of Brawl Land's Department of Architecture, she taught architectural design studios and courses in photography, material investigations, and article of furniture design, equally well equally introductory structures courses. Swartz received the 2014 Charles 1000. Sappenfield Honor from alumni in recognition of her "dedication, contribution, and commitment to the education of students of the College of Architecture and Planning."

Barry Threw
#NEWPALMYRA

Barry Threw is a technologist, designer, strategist, and cultural producer with over 15 years of experience incubating innovative and influential products, experiences, teams, and businesses ranging across art, congenital environment, and creative technologies. His piece of work has been presented internationally at sites such as the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale; Mutek, Montreal; Siggraph, San Diego; St. Peter's Basilica, the Vatican; UNESCO Headquarters; the United nations Headquarters, and the Beijing 2008 Olympics. He is the former director of Software at Obscura Digital, a San Francisco-based creative technology studio creating architectural project mapping and installations globally. Threw is currently CEO of Fabricatorz, a global art technology studio based in St. Louis, MO; on the Board of the Gray Area, a San Francisco non-turn a profit catalyzing fine art and engineering science for social, civic, and cultural touch on; and Manager of #NEWPALMYRA, an community platform dedicated to the virtual remodeling and creative reuse of architecture from the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra.

Susana Torre
Architect and Critic

Susana Torre is an builder and critic who examines the connection betwixt architectural grade and cultural context from a feminist standpoint. Torre'due south portfolio is marked by social concerns and questions of purpose and pregnant in architectural spaces and in the profession of architecture. The start woman to participate in the Cummins Foundation Architecture Program in Columbus, Torre designed Firehouse 5 to integrate female firefighters, focusing activity to foster mutual trust amidst firefighters in communal spaces rather than segregated locker rooms, and replacing traditional dormitories with private bedrooms to accomplish privacy for both men and women. She is likewise known for innovative projects such every bit a proposed Ellis Island primary program (1981) and the renovation of Schermerhorn Hall at Columbia Academy (1985). Women in American Architecture. A Celebrated and Contemporary Perspective, the exhibition and book she curated and edited in 1977, is considered a game-changer regarding the position of women in both the discipline and the profession, inspiring recent efforts to document and inscribe women's histories in the architectural survey and online sites such equally Wikipedia. She teaches and publishes internationally; represented the U.s. in the 1980 Venice Biennale of Architecture; has received numerous scholarly and pattern awards, and has held leadership positions at Barnard College, Columbia University GSAPP, Cranbrook University of Art, and Parsons School of Design.

Ben Wever
Miller Firm and Garden

Ben Wever has worked at the Miller House and Garden for nineteen years, starting time every bit a groundskeeper and so as site ambassador for Newfields for the last nine years. As site ambassador, Wever is responsible for the overall care and administration of the Miller House and Garden. Wever has besides helped maintain several Dan Kiley landscapes, including N Christian Church. Previous experience included working the gardens and greenhouse of the Irwin Abode equally well every bit being a personal assistant to J. Irwin Miller for four years. An accredited horticulturalist since 2000, Wever has too managed the Columbus branch of Engledow Group, which maintained several Kiley designs for Cummins Inc. and Miller Business firm and Garden. Ben has served on Landmark Columbus' Pattern Advocacy Committee, where his noesis of Columbus history and modern design and architecture helped preserve historical landmarks and architecturally pregnant buildings too as public art and landscapes.

T. Kelly Wilson
Indiana University

T. Kelly Wilson is the director of the J. Irwin Miller Architecture Plan at the Indiana University Center for Art + Blueprint and an acquaintance professor of Indiana University. Wilson is both an creative person and architect: his paintings and architectural drawings have been published widely and exhibited nationally. He is as well the principal of Studio 922, an architectural and urban design practise involved with national and international urban projects. Auburn Academy has awarded him the Paul Rudolph Fellowship twice. Wilson has been an invited lecturer at institutions from the Bermuda National Gallery of Art, the to the American Academy in Cairo. His lectures address the subjects of spatial invention within drawing and compages, focusing upon the perceptual system of architecture and the city. Earlier leading IUCA+D, Wilson held an Associate Professorship at Harvard Graduate School of Pattern where he taught design, visual studies, and co-directed the Harvard Rome Program.

Ernest Wong
site design group ltd.

Ernest C. Wong, founder and principal of Site Design Grouping, has been instrumental in the development of both the firm and the landscape compages profession in the Urban center of Chicago. In managing the firm for over 28 years, Wong has established Site'due south reputation for creative blueprint solutions and thoughtful, community-oriented urban spaces. The house has won numerous national and international design awards for projects like the Field Museum landscape, Positioning Pullman master plan, and the Chinatown Branch Library. A strong proponent of civic and customs engagement, Wong sits on the board of numerous service organizations and professional juries, including the Driehaus Award for Architectural Excellence in Community Pattern, Nigh Southward Planning Board, and the Chicago Landmarks Committee. In addition, Wong is a frequent speaker at universities as well as design, business, and diversity conferences, including serving every bit the keynote speaker at the National Minority Supplier Development Council in 2016.

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