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.

2022-23 Lecture and Exhibition Series

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

Opening Reception for Arboreta: An Exhibition of Paintings by John Berry

Thursday, September 01, 2022, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, September 01, 2022, 8:30 p.m.

Please join us for an opening reception for Arboreta: An Exhibition of Paintings by John Berry, with an artist talk at 6:45 pm in the auditorium.

Opening Reception for Perception and Inventions: Paintings by Donald Beal

Thursday, October 06, 2022, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, October 06, 2022, 8:30 p.m.

Please join us for an opening reception for Perception and Inventions: Paintings by Donald Beal, with an artist talk at 6:45 pm in the auditorium.

Lecture: Juliane Wolf of Studio Gang

Thursday, October 27, 2022, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, October 27, 2022, 8 p.m.

Please join us for a lecture by Juliane Wolf of Studio Gang.

Lecture: Bryan Young of Young Projects

Thursday, November 10, 2022, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, November 10, 2022, 8 p.m.

Please join us for a lecture by Bryan Young of Young Projects.

Trilateral: Works by Ana Meza and R. Spencer Steenblik

Friday, February 17, 2023, 1 p.m.—Thursday, March 02, 2023, 8 p.m.

TRILATERAL: Carbon Natural | Empirical Infinity | Particles of Light is an exhibition of works by the J. Irwin Miller M. Arch program's Ana Meza and R. Spencer Steenblik. The exhibition showcases a collaborative project and one project from each participant. A closing reception takes place Thursday, March 2 from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Lecture: Chatpong Chuenrudeemol: "Bangkok Bastards" and Indiana Crossbreeds

Thursday, February 23, 2023, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, February 23, 2023, 8 p.m.

Bangkok-based architect Chatpong (“Chat”) Chuenrudeemol.Chatpong (“Chat”) Chuenrudeemol is the principal at Bangkok-based CHAT architects, whose projects aim to stimulate community through strategies that re-interpret authentic local conditions. A scholar of Thai vernacular “street” typologies, affectionately called Bangkok Bastards, Chat holds Thailand's 2020 “Silpathorn Award,” the country’s highest award for contemporary artists.

Exhibition: Martha MacLeish and Malcolm Mobutu Smith: In Conversation

Monday, March 13, 2023, 9 a.m.—Friday, April 21, 2023, 5 p.m.

An exhibition of work investigating a compatible abstract language by Eskenazi School faculty members Martha MacLeish and Malcolm Mobutu Smith. MacLeish is Program Director and Associate Professor, Creative Core and Smith is Associate Professor, Ceramics and Director of Graduate Studies. The artists will give a gallery talk Thursday, April 20 at 6:30 pm.

Lecture: Esther Choi: The Nature of the Beast: Tecton and the Gorilla House at the London Zoo

Thursday, March 23, 2023, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, March 23, 2023, 8 p.m.

Esther M. Choi’s work as an artist and a historian primarily follows two strands: first, how concepts of nature have shaped and been shaped by the aesthetic and narrative conventions of Western worldmaking practices; and second, the potential for dialogical and televisual aesthetics to generate experimental structures of social engagement. Choi is the co-editor of Architecture At the Edge of Everything Else (MIT Press, 2010) and Architecture Is All Over (Columbia University, 2017).

Lecture: Roberto Núñez from the Núñez-Zapata Studio

Thursday, April 06, 2023, 6:30 p.m.—Thursday, April 06, 2023, 8 p.m.

Jesús Roberto Núñez is the principal and cofounder of Estudio Núñez-Zapata: an architecture, urban planning, and research studio based in Monterrey, Mexico, whose work explores urban ruins as opportunities for the revival of communities.

Miller M.Arch Lecture Series

J. Irwin Miller Architecture Program Lecture Series

2022-23 Lecture and Exhibition Series

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