COLUMBUS, INDIANA REDISCOVERED · Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community ... Koetter Kim & Associates in collaboration with CSO Architect, ... Photos by Indianapolis

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


“First we shape our buildings, therefore, they shape us.”

Winston Churchill

Creating a better COMMUNITY with architectural design excellence

LIVE WORK PLAY LEARN WORSHIP


St. Bartholomew Roman Catholic Church Steven R. Risting (Ratio Architects) 1999-2002



A daun'ng task to design in the shadows of recognized great architecture…

Saarinen, Weese



About the people, 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


St. Paul’s Episcopal Church renovation, Thomas Beeby, 2002 First Baptist Church, 1965 (National Historic Landmark, 2000)


AIA: a place of “majestas” (majesty) and “mysterium” (mystery)


Commons Office Building for Cummins CSO Architects in collaboration with Koetter Kim & Associates, 2008-2009



Commons Office Building expansion for Cummins CSO Architects in collaboration with Koetter Kim & Associates, 2011-2012



Irwin Union Bank, Eero Saarinen, 1942 (National Historic Landmark, 2000)

Irwin Union Bank @ Hope, Ben Weese (Harry Weese & Assoc.), 1958


Good design is good business


Irwin Union Bank @ Eastbrook, Harry Weese, 1961

Cosco Office Building, 1962 (Dan Kiley landscape)



Cummins Engine Plant 1 Expansions 1960, 1965 Harry Weese, 1996 Kevin Roche

Cummins Midrange Engine Plant, Walesboro, Harry Weese, 1973


AIA: a wonderful place to work…everyone has a smile



City Hall, Edward Charles Bassett (SOM), 1981

The Republic, Myron Goldsmith (SOM), 1972 (National Historic Landmark, 2012)

AIA: aspira'ons of “openness”, “freedom”



Northside Middle School addition (not built) Steven R. Risting (Ratio Architects) 2002


Schmitt Elementary School, Harry Weese, 1957


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.


L. Frances Smith Elementary School, John Johansen, 1969


John Johansen “Harvard 5” 1916-‐2012

Northside Middle School, Ben Weese (Harry Weese & Assoc.), 1961

Ben Weese design


Advanced Manufacturing Center for Excellence, Cesar Pelli, 2011


Columbus Learning Center, Kevin Kennon (KPF), 2005


The Commons Koetter Kim & Associates in collaboration with CSO Architect, 2007-2011


a COMMUNITY design


an indoor PARK


the “BAND SHELL” in the park


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


Par 3 Golf Clubhouse, Bruce Adams, 1972


CERAland Recreation Center, Harry Roth, 1982

Bruce Adams connec'ons/collabora'ons Harry Weese (Schmia School, Hamilton Center), Cummins General Office Buildings


Mill Race Park, Michael Van Valkenburgh/Stanley Saitowitz, 1992


Cummins Child Development Center, Carlos Jimenez, 2001

AIA: integra'on of landscape and architecture



The COLE, Steven Risting (CSO), 2009-2013


URBAN ELEMENTS apartments, Steven Risting (CSO), 2012-2014



Miller House & Garden, Eero Saarinen, Alexander Girard, Dan Kiley, 1957


AIA: rigorous architectural discipline…”yet a place I wanted to live at.”

Collabora'on of architecture, interior design and landscape


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

Columbus, Indiana REDISCOVERED Creating a better Community Housing is important.

Pence Place family housing, Gwathmey & Siegel, 1984 Sycamore Place elderly housing, Gwathmey & Siegel, 1982



A Look At Architecture 7th edition, 1998 (1st edition 1974) A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012

Photo by Jennifer Risting


A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012


Photos by Indianapolis Museum of Art A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012




Public Art in Columbus, Indiana A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012


Graphic Design & Corporate/Community Branding A Look At Modern Architecture & Art 8th edition, 2012


Historic Architecture in Columbus, Indiana

AIA: wonderful spaces inside…expressed democracy



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


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



A Look At Modern Architecture & Art Steven R. Risting 2013


The Commons and Bartholomew County Courthouse (photo by Susan Fleck)

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