Miller M.Arch Lecture Series

J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program Lecture Series

The J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program Lecture and Exhibition Series brings prominent working artists and architects to Columbus. Lectures take place in the auditorium and exhibitions in the gallery, both located within The Republic Building, 333 2nd Street in Columbus. The gallery is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.

Banner image: Lisa Iwamoto, Ivy Tech Community College in Columbus, Indiana.

2024-25 Lecture and Exhibition Series

A architectural rendering of a white building created for Ivy Tech in Columbus, Indiana.

Marquise Stillwell: Storytelling by Design

Thursday, September 05, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, September 05, 2024, 8 p.m.

Designer Marquise Stillwell discusses how the process of storytelling is an opportunity to bring together communities of knowledge from different disciplines to create new intersections, and therefore create new possibilities for how systems are designed.

BairBalliet (Kelly Bair & Kristy Balliet): Floor Models

Thursday, September 19, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, September 19, 2024, 8 p.m.

A lecture by Kelly Bair & Kristy Balliet of BairBalliet launches their exhibition "Floor Models," which includes a series of models that present a constellation of projects: three houses, two community centers, and a game board that puts the projects into play.

Kate Stewart and Ward Davenny: Architecture of Imagery: Building Two-Dimensional Space

Thursday, October 24, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, October 24, 2024, 8 p.m.

Artists Kate Stewart and Ward Davenny explore aspects of image-making by examining physical, illusory, and poetic conventions of pictorial space. In this lecture, they will share insights on the commonalities between artists’ and architects’ relationships to space, whether illusory or habitable.

Kelly Wilson, Gary Rohrbacher, Anne Filson: Paths Cross

Thursday, November 14, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, November 14, 2024, 8 p.m.

“Paths Cross” is a linked body of paintings and CNC machined bas-relief panels that employ distinct materials and production to explore shared formal and spatial themes. Using processes and techniques instigated through parallel co-creation: Wilson creates vibrant and subdued compositions of layered colors to hold oppositions in tension as Filson & Rohrbacher explore digital craftsmanship by recasting the CNC router as a creative agent.

Nader Tehrani: The Building, in Conversation

Thursday, December 05, 2024, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, December 05, 2024, 8 p.m.

Nader Tehrani presents a talk around architectural representation not so much as a pictorial discipline, but rather as a constructive one. With practices ranging from geometric and projective protocols, the act of drawing invariably speaks to protocols of assembly, the means and methods of fabrication, and a way of building the world around us.

Miller M.Arch Lecture Series

J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program Lecture Series

2024-25 Lecture and Exhibition Series

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