Columbus to host statewide summit on civic design
Columbus leans into its leading role in the national design conversation when it hosts the Civic Design Institute's Prove It: A National Summit on Design Excellence as Civic Practice. The free opening keynote among design leaders on October 8 will be moderated by Miller Architecture Program Director Daniel Luis Martinez.
Drawing by Eskenazi's van Strien acquired by British archive
A graphite drawing inspired by a Norwegian steel plant by Miller Architecture Program faculty Sam van Strien was recently acquired by Drawing Matter, a British organization that explores the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice. Their collection includes works ranging from the Renaissance to the present.
Columbus secures nearly $330K in READI 2.0 funds for artistic bus shelters
The City of Columbus has been awarded nearly $330,000 in state funds to partner with the Miller Architecture Program and Ignition Arts to design, build, and install three bus shelters for ColumBUS transit. Miller Design-Build Studio students created the blue bent-plate steel shelter installed at Nexus Park in 2025.
M.Arch students design for Shelbyville
Work is underway on a new landscape and public art project outside the Blue River Community Foundation building on West Broadway. The project was funded through a Lilly Endowment grant and designed with assistance from students in the J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program.
Members of the Miller Architecture Program faculty, including newest member Sam van Strien, Daniel Luis Martinez, and Silvia Acosta, together with students, exhibit their work in the exhibition "Projective Impressions" at the 411 Gallery in Columbus. The Republic reports.
Whether seeking creative stimulation or simply hoping to relax, students in IU's J. Irwin Miller Architecture program have a new resource: a donated piano whose origin story can be traced deep within the Columbus community, as can the program's own.
The expansion of Centerstone's Community Engagement Center marks the first project in Columbus, Ind. in which the architect-of-record on the project--Jacquelyn Brice--is a graduate of IU's J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program. A member of the program's founding cohort, which graduated in May 2021, Brice is principal of the design firm EchoWorks.
Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture