Exhibit Columbus has sent out a “save the date” for its 2018 national symposium in September, a reminder that the city is again extending an invitation to continue a conversation about preserving and celebrating modern architecture.
The Sept. 26 through 29 national symposium is themed “Design, Community, and Progressive Preservation,” a continuation and extension of the inaugural symposium in 2016 and a reminder that although many of the 2017 Exhibit Columbus installations are gone, new installations are in the works.
“Though the Exhibit Columbus exhibition closed in November, we’ve been quietly hard at work planning this symposium,” said Richard McCoy, in a telephone interview from Columbia University in New York, where he is presenting tonight at a Preservation Lecture Series for the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.
“We’re looking at ways to make the whole project more efficient and better,” he said.
To do that, Exhibit Columbus will collaborate with Docomomo US, the American Institute of Architects (Indiana and Kentucky chapters) and Newfields, a 152-acre cultural campus which is home to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, McCoy said.
“We feel like this project and collaboration will take the symposium a quantum leap forward in terms of the number of people and the scale of the symposium,” he said.
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