The Challenges of Preserving a Small, Local - and Globally Famous - Design Legacy

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On its outskirts, you'd be forgiven for assuming that Columbus, Indiana is a suburban American town like any other. But travel downtown and you're suddenly greeted with an unexpected variety of modern architecture. The small midwestern city has for the past half-century been a kind of laboratory for contemporary architecture, attracting designers as diverse as Kevin Roche and IM Pei. Children attend school in a building designed by Richard Meier, congregants attend services in a church designed by Eliel Saarinen.

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Cite: Samuel Medina. "The Challenges of Preserving a Small, Local - and Globally Famous - Design Legacy" 31 Oct 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/905011/the-challenges-of-preserving-a-small-local-and-globally-famous-design-legacy> ISSN 0719-8884

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