Last year, my Canadian visa was delayed and I had to cancel my trip to Toronto. Columbus is only a three-hour drive away from us, so on a whim, I dragged the half-reluctant E and drove south to get a card.
How is this movie? To be honest, it's not very good-looking, because the characterization and narrative are blind. It is said that it should be viewed as a visual essay, but I feel like it's an MV at most, and the editing is too great. This poetic, stylized Columbus in the film is the result of tailoring the city to the extreme. Come once in person, feel the heaven and the earth, and you can't help but be shy. So "City of Beauty" can be a love letter to Rome, but "In Columbus" can only be written to a fantasy midcentury modern utopia (very middle class).
In terms of architecture, any two small and medium-sized cities in Indiana will not be too different. A considerable number of modernist/postmodernist buildings can be found with similar urban scales, including many masterpieces. Columbus's standout is only in the density, and there is not much originality in the shape. Indeed, Saarinen and his son, I.M. Pei, Robert Venturi... all have works here, but they are not representative works: it is better to go to Minnesota to see Saarinen, to go to PA to see Venturi, to see I.M. Pei...that's too much. If you really want to take an architectural tour in the Midwest, then instead of coming to Columbus and trying to catch everything, it's better to start from Chicago and walk around the city first, Koolhaas and Ronan from IIT, and then go to Farnworth House in Mies the next day. , in Plato, less than an hour by car. After visiting Chicago, take the Racine, visit Frank Lloyd Wright's SC Johnson Headquarter (unique, the experience is very good), continue two hours north to Milwaukee, as well as various Wright churches and private houses, change your appetite and experience Calatrava's art again Hall. This way, if nothing else, the food is definitely better than in Indiana.
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