RATIO Monograph

ARCHITECTURE FROM THE HEART(LAND) Edward Keegan

American cities have always been unruly places where commerce, power, and architectural intent collide. As the population of the United States swelled through the post-WW II baby boom, targeted subsidies and social policies created deeply unfair economic incentives that extracted resources from traditional city centers at a cost largely borne by people of color and the poor. This was true even in Indianapolis, which established an urban-suburban model called Unigov in 1970 to balance this flux better than most cities. But by the early 1980s, the city’s downtown was pockmarked with surface parking lots that mostly replaced good urban infill.

Enter a new architectural firm, led by a young man who wanted to raise the level of design in his hometown. RATIO Principal and CEO William (Bill) Browne, Jr. found it necessary to leave the state to pursue architectural studies in the 1970s. But following undergraduate work at the University of Illinois and graduate studies at the University of Florida, he returned to Indianapolis, where he realized he could benefit from the network of people he already had. “I really wanted to have an impact on this place because I had left very frustrated, realizing that Indianapolis’ architectural culture was non-existent,” Browne says. Now four decades on, the projects represented in this volume demonstrate the success of this strategy.

The firm was founded under the initials of its original partners, but Browne dubbed it RATIO when he unwound the predecessor firm later in the 1980s. “The name is based on the idea of reason and thoughtfulness,” Browne says. “That’s what I want our work to always be.” By the time Browne bought his developer partners out in 1987, he had a 35-person architectural firm under his care. With the rebranding as

RATIO, he indicated the direction he wanted the firm to take: no named partners or designers on the door, just an easily recognizable name that could be built around new generations of designers who would share tasks and accolades alike.

While representing forty years of work, this book is neither comprehensive nor does it discern which of the firm’s five studios produced which project, nor does it address chronology. It is organized on geography because it allows the broad outlines of the RATIO approach to appear. The initial studio in Indianapolis has become the premier design practice in that midwestern capital. The proven dedication of the team to being good corporate citizens wherever they practice suggests that place is the most salient issue when the firm begins any new project. This derives, in part, from RATIO’s foundational expertise in historic preservation, which grounds the work in the architectural culture that precedes them in every locale. The firm has consistently produced an architecture rooted in a plain-spoken pragmatic approach that isn’t afraid to inspire.

Plainly stated, RATIO’s buildings are good neighbors. They fit in wherever they are located, from a downtown infill site like Millikan on Mass, to suburban locales like KAR Global Headquarters, and even in a more rural condition like High Acres House. Each knows its place and sits easily in its landscape.

The sense of civic order and propriety implicit in the urban design of Indianapolis sets an important context for RATIO’s work. The city’s layout is rooted in both the practical and metaphoric and may have the most sensible urban plan for an American capital city. The city’s location in the exact center

of Indiana’s borders made it the logical choice as capital in 1821. A standard gridiron layout of streets is punctuated by a central circle and four radial streets that emphasize the center. “RATIO is an advocate for the city,” Browne says. “We began with preserving what’s here, then filling in the gaps.”

A quick glance at the firm’s roster of clients demonstrates the success of its civic engagement in Indianapolis: the Indiana State Museum, which is one part of a sprawling urban enclave developed in the last few decades west of the Indiana Statehouse; the renovation of iconic sport venue Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University, which holds decades of hoop dreams for Hoosiers throughout the state; a thoughtful expansion to Michael Graves’ national headquarters for the NCAA, a linchpin that cements the city’s role as a mecca for amateur sports; multiple projects for the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, the world’s largest children’s museum; the headquarters tower for the Simon Property Group, one of the best-known global entities based in the city; and the expansion of the Indiana Convention Center. These are clients with a national and international presence—that help define the texture and fabric of Indiana’s capital city to the world.

RATIO’s work is nuanced and remarkably straightforward and understandable. Form is manipulated in the service of users, not the architects. The most repeated elements are those that are integral to almost any building, regardless of type or scale. Things like cantilevered roofs and entrances become highly choreographed, even dramatic, but they are in ways that are readily recognizable to any user.

It’s rare to find a large firm that approaches both historic preservation and new buildings with equal passion and

conviction. The skill set that’s necessary to restore and revive older structures requires patience and humility—and the architect must often subsume their own design instincts to honor the work of predecessors. But Bill Browne founded RATIO following his education at the University of Illinois, where he took classes in architectural history as well as general architectural studies. He has never viewed designing new buildings and studying old buildings as separate modes of operation. “I just thought I was pursuing architecture,” he says.

President and architect Chris Boardman is part of the rising generation of new leaders at RATIO. “It’s about understanding the story of the place and how you’re connecting to it, whether that’s a new building or weaving something into an existing condition,” he says. “Bill’s love of history, starting in preservation, is a foundational lens through which we look at everything,” Boardman says. “Preservation maintains the vitality of a place.”

The link between past and present is evident in RATIO’s work in Evansville, Indiana. Located on the Ohio River in the southwest corner of the state, Evansville is Indiana’s third largest city. RATIO has preserved the 1938 Greyhound Terminal, a classic Art Deco design whose modestly scaled downtown building’s civic standing is elevated by the sleek lines of its architecture. And just a few blocks away along the Ohio River, RATIO designed the Evansville Museum Theater as a literal jewel box, with a spherical immersive theater contained within the gridded box that recalls the clean lines of the historic Greyhound Terminal. The theater is located along one of the major approaches to the downtown area and provides a civic gateway to the city that is monumental without being overbearing.

Buildings like Rose-Hulman’s Mussallem Union Expansion in Terre Haute or the Chicago Park District’s Maplewood Park Fieldhouse in Chicago, provide modest but self-assured presences within the landscape of two very different Midwestern cities. Some of RATIO’s most interesting projects are extensions or additions to older complexes that express their own identity as bold new forms. The Indianapolis Convention Center expands a critical downtown economic driver by 700,000 square feet with a new glazed pavilion that extends a warm sense of entry to this behemoth of a building. The Indianapolis Zoo Bicentennial Pavilion is a memorable open-air special events facility consisting of eleven weathering steel “pods” that act as metaphoric trees to shelter up to 1,000 people under their canopies.

The KAR Global Headquarters in suburban Carmel, Indiana, is an evocative sculptural solution to the ordinary suburban office that is so common across the country. Its four stories are clad in black-blue glass with the singular exception of the outside corner of the L-shaped volume, where clear glass reveals a communicating stair that invites easy interaction between floors of the building while providing users and onlookers alike with a dramatic exterior identity for the building.

The Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering on the campus of Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, is more than 600 lineal feet of simplicity—three stories of brick masonry and limestone trim, with windows on the first floor joined with those on the second to create a monumental scale commensurate with the building’s overall size and program. The metal roof atop the building extends from the exterior wall to provide a soaring thin-edged cap that evokes the plane wings that the building’s namesake flew before his

career as an astronaut. But the roof extends some 70 feet out at the building’s northwest corner, where it frames a statue of the famed Purdue alumnus, connecting the Midwestern native’s humble bearing with his astounding accomplishment—the first human being to walk on a celestial body other than earth. The architectural gesture is simultaneously simple and uplifting, yet easily understood by a visitor. This is an architecture that inspires while meeting the everyday demands of the students and faculty it serves.

CU Boulder’s new Aerospace education and research facility shares affinities with the Purdue project, crowned by a similarly thin floating roof. But the Colorado project deftly breaks down its mass through a series of stone baffles that protect the building from solar gain and frame views of the Front Range mountains while subtly invoking aerodynamic flaps.

Each of these projects employ the big, bold, and relatively simple design moves that are representative of the RATIO approach.

RATIO’s success at home in Indianapolis has led to growth upward and outward. The last two decades have seen expansion to include additional studios in Champaign, IL; Raleigh, NC; Chicago, and Denver. “We’re looking to be the curator of the city, like we are in Indianapolis,” Boardman says. “It takes a combination of time and the right people with the right connections in that community, and an understanding of what we’re trying to achieve.” Now with 200 professionals working from studios in these five cities, and a growing domestic and international portfolio to match, the firm is positioned to make its mark across the globe. But this doesn’t figure to be at the expense of a genuine locale-based mindset

that recognizes and celebrates what is specific and unique to each place. When the International Style was posited nine decades ago, it seemed tone deaf to the fact that other architectures, gothic for example, had long ago been widely imported and tweaked for far-flung locales. RATIO has quietly developed its own place-based approach while being true to the idea of a truly modern international style.

RATIO acquired Chicago-based SMDP in 2011, adding Principal architects Scott Sarver and Dae-Hong Minn to the firm’s leadership. “There is a real culture in Indianapolis about what architecture is,” Sarver says. “People appreciate the narrative, the objectives, and what the stories are.”

The fact that an Indianapolis architecture can be defined is a testament to the success of RATIO: This is the architectural and design culture that Browne sought when he returned to his hometown following college forty years ago.

He didn’t find it, he made it.

The 90 projects in this volume confirm the success Browne and his colleagues have achieved to date.

With the firm’s more recent geographic growth, it’s clear that the coming decades will find RATIO’s approach spreading. “We are caretakers of communities,” Boardman says. “We believe cities are richer when considered simultaneously through the lens of both the past and the future, and when molded by the perspectives and skill of all the design disciplines to tell the whole story of a community.”

Browne refers to cities as “evolutionary places” and the fact that it’s taken four decades to reach the point represented by this book serves caution that this is not a task for the fainthearted or impatient. Understanding and evolving the deeply embedded histories of a given place require a study and patience that isn’t always celebrated in either architectural or business circles.

But the results are self-evident: an architecture that can provide enduring places for thriving communities.

Edward Keegan, AIA Chicago, 4 May 2022

Indianapolis

American cities can be loose-knit affairs, with genuine infill buildings that have no open space around them relatively rare. The downtown core of Indianapolis is no exception, with RATIO’s work within that area demonstrating a considerable range of responses.

Millikan on Mass and Hyatt Place & Hyatt House are the exemplars, filling in the empty spots that Bill Browne recalls from the downtown of the 1980s.

Simon Tower, the Indiana State Museum, and NCAA Headquarters fit a more suburban style of city development that’s become the norm in recent years for the blocks west of the Indiana Statehouse. These three buildings, which demonstrate very different scales, all contribute to a civic mode that embraces a more object-based approach to downtown buildings. The Georgia Street Improvements indicate RATIO’s facile approach to urban design, showing how a more pedestrianized experience can be coaxed from the gridiron plan of American downtowns.

Once outside the core, the city becomes considerably more dispersed. But this generalized suburban style sprawl development is not without its identifiable sense of place. Some, like the KAR Headquarters and Wabash Valley Power, for example, create this place through their bold and instantly recognizable architectural identities. Others, like the Ironworks Hotel and the State of Indiana Forensics Lab, suggest that the city’s outer districts may someday have tightly knit urban qualities similar to downtown. All carry the intrinsic urban DNA that marks RATIO’s civic-minded approach to architecture.

RATIO’s unmistakable influence in its hometown is clearly based on its strong role in establishing this evolving sense of civic place in Indianapolis’ core.

Indiana Convention Center Expansion Indianapolis, IN

A 700,000-square-feet expansion of the Indianapolis Convention Center added exhibition space, meeting rooms, prefunction, and support space to the existing complex in downtown Indianapolis. Brick, limestone, and green tinted glazing match the materials used on previous phases with a memorable new entry pavilion adding to the area’s urban landscape as the west terminus of Georgia Street.

Indiana Convention Center Expansion

Georgia Street Improvements Indianapolis, IN

A three block-long section of downtown Georgia Street that links Gainbridge Fieldhouse and the Indiana Convention Center is reimagined as an “event street” to accommodate festivals, art shows, concerts, and conventions. The design removes curbs and conceals storm water drainage systems to promote a more pedestrianized experience while narrowing traffic to a single lane in each direction. A new center boardwalk with permanent infrastructure supports a variety of public uses.

Theatre Indianapolis, IN

Phoenix

Simple modern materials and exposed construction provide a permanent, purpose-built home for this Indianapolis theater with a reputation for challenging productions. An open and inviting lobby with bold applications of bright colors leads patrons to a 143-seat main stage and a black box theater.

Hotel Indy 1970’s Reuse Indianapolis, IN

An existing concrete frame office building is repurposed as a 90-room hotel in downtown Indianapolis and takes advantage of the prominent corner of Washington and Delaware Streets. The 76,000-square-feet project removes the façade panels from the first two floors to create a more welcoming streetscape and entrance. Adding one floor and a rooftop patio crowns the structure with semi-public space for the hotel’s guests and visitors.

9 on Canal Apartments Indianapolis, IN

Two parallel apartment blocks, five- and ten-stories-tall, look inward to a shared courtyard and outward to the canal on its west side. The apartment’s recessed balconies form deep vertical reveals to break the massing of the towers. Outdoor roof deck space overlooks the canal while providing panoramic views of downtown Indianapolis.

A new lobby for this downtown Indianapolis office building draws on the unique design history of the 12-story tower. Built in two parts in the 1920s and 1960s, the sleek new interventions provide a contemporary spin on Art Deco and mid-century modernism. The new backdrop for the reception desk riffs on the urban plan of the city.

Hyatt Place & Hyatt House Indianapolis, IN

Located downtown across the street from Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the 15-story-tall brick and metal panel clad tower rises from a two-story podium that fits easily within the scale of Indianapolis’ Wholesale District. The retail space at the building’s base includes a second-floor outdoor restaurant terrace that faces the arena and the Georgia Street entertainment district. An adjacent eight-story-tall parking garage provides off-street parking within a contextual wrapper.

Hyatt Place & Hyatt House

Indiana State Museum Indianapolis, IN

A soaring central atrium with long-span structure welcomes visitors to the Indiana State Museum whose straightforward axial configuration alludes to the state’s status as the “Crossroads of America.” Indiana limestone, sandstone, and other indigenous materials that include stainless steel, aluminum, brick, and glass are used throughout, grounding the building’s materiality in its specific place. The varied façade integrates built-in art pieces reflecting the iconic heritage of Indiana’s counties, creating a trail known as the 92 County Walk.

RATIO Indy Studio Indianapolis, IN

RATIO converted 12,900 square feet over two floors of a vintage downtown building into what Indianapolis native David Letterman would refer to as the “home office.” The space is configured as a design lab that promotes collaboration through an open floor plan. A new wood stair wrapped in sheet steel connects the levels and bright splashes of color highlight key features while projecting RATIO’s image to downtown Indianapolis.

NCAA National Headquarters Indianapolis, IN

Mulberry Fields Park Location

A new four-story-tall terra cotta and glass structure for the NCAA extends the overall massing and palette of a complex of existing buildings designed by Indianapolis native Michael Graves. The building’s front face develops a giant order with three-story tall piers supporting a glazed attic story and thin cantilevered cornice.

Millikan on Mass

Indianapolis, IN

This five-story-tall infill development forms a base for the existing Brutalist 21-story Barton Tower on the block. Memorable for its flat-iron prow facing downtown, the new brick masonry structure provides retail and apartments with the interior spaces of the block surrounding the tower developed as shared garden spaces for the residents.

Millikan on Mass demonstrates a thoughtful and modest approach to healing rifts in the urban fabric.

Simon Property Group HQ Indianapolis, IN

Located immediately south of the Indiana Statehouse, this 14-story-tall tower provides the headquarters for one of Indianapolis’ best-known companies. The north side, which faces the statehouse and is located on the National Road, is predominantly limestone to reflect its important position within the city and state. The south elevation, topped by a broad canopy at the executive offices level, is rendered in glass curtain wall to indicate the company’s forward thinking.

Simon Property Group HQ

Bottleworks Hotel Indianapolis, IN

The Bottleworks Hotel anchors a new 11-acre mixed-use district at the northeast corner of downtown Indianapolis along Mass Ave. The renovated Art Deco Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Indianapolis includes a one-story vertical extension of the two-story-tall building to provide 140 hotel rooms. Set back from the restored white terra cotta facades, the new third floor features sloped floor-to-ceiling glazing to maximize guest views while minimizing the visual impact on the historic structures.

IU Glick Eye Institute Indianapolis, IN

This four-story clinical research building completes a quadrangle on the campus of Indiana UniversityPurdue University at Indianapolis. Each facade responds to its immediate context; punched openings and brick face the quadrangle and bright colorful glazing, representing the yellow-amber lens material used to improve patient vision or the yellow dye used to evaluate a patient’s cornea, also marks the public street that bisects the campus. Within, the structure accommodates patient care facilities, instructional spaces, and research laboratories.

KAR Global Headquarters Carmel, IN

The highly sculptural form of the KAR Global Headquarters provides a prominent landmark in suburban Carmel, just north of Indianapolis. The five-story-tall L-shaped building captures motorists’ attention with its subtly canted dark glass skin.

An internal stair at the intersection of the volumes is visible through clear glass, revealing a communicating stair that links the building’s levels.

Butler University Apartment Village Indianapolis, IN

Apartment Village comprises eight individual three-story brick structures located on the edge of campus between the Butler Bowl football stadium and the neighboring residential neighborhood. The gabled forms fit easily within the context and their detailing, which includes limestone and metal shingled accents, is reminiscent of traditional dormitories while providing four-person suite-style living arrangements.

Indiana Naval Reserve Armory | Riverside HS Reuse Indianapolis, IN

The Indiana Naval Reserve Armory has been an imposing presence on the east bank of the White River since the Art Moderne structure was erected by the Works Progress Administration in 1936. Following decades of military use, many original features of the white-painted architectural concrete structure were restored to meet the needs of the liberal arts-focused curriculum of the new Riverside High School.

Indiana Naval Reserve Armory | Riverside HS Reuse

Butler University Hinkle Fieldhouse Restoration Indianapolis, IN

Basketball has long been akin to a religion throughout the state of Indiana. Renovating the Butler University Hinkle Fieldhouse is akin to renovating the Vatican. The building was the annual site of the Indiana High School Boys Basketball Tournament’s championship from 1928 to 1971 and stars in the 1986 film “Hoosiers.” A light touch approach to historic preservation preserves the essential qualities of this National Historic Landmark while extending its functional life as a revered venue for the students and community.

Butler University Hinkle Fieldhouse

Butler University Health & Recreation Complex Indianapolis, IN

Immediately adjacent to historic Hinkle Fieldhouse, the brick, stone, and metal clad building defers to its more famous neighbor by mimicking its bay pattern and reinterpreting its barrel vault shape. The new structure accommodates comprehensive health and fitness activities and coaching for Butler and the surrounding community. Its curved front façade welcomes visitors to its location along Sunset Ave. where academic and athletic programs join on the edge of campus.

Ironworks Hotel Indianapolis, IN

This new five-story masonry hotel on Indianapolis’ 86th Street might easily be mistaken for a renovated hundred-year-old structure. The uniquely memorable aesthetic was devised to reflect the Ironworks brand which started with the adjacent mixed-use development of the same name. This is the first boutique hotel on the north side of Indianapolis, setting a new design standard for the area.

Ironworks Hotel

Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center Indianapolis, IN

Parallel brick walls create a wedge-shaped form with long span structure to house a comprehensive wellness facility with education, wellness, and community gardening programs for Indianapolis’ Near Eastside community. A low glazed form welcomes visitors from the parking lot with the glazing reprised on the north side of the building where it allows ample daylight within the high-roofed gymnasium. The project extended into its 2nd phase creating an urban garden, greenhouse, and outdoor youth gathering space created through a master planned collaboration involving RATIO, Ball State University’s College of Architecture & Planning, and Growing Places Indy, a locally based non-profit organization based at this Center.

Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center

130 E. Washington Vault

Indianapolis, IN

As part of RATIO’s extensive renovation of 130 E. Washington St., the basement was reconfigured as a “tech speakeasy” for tenant amenities. The vault, once the centerpiece of the original bank tenant, remains the focus of the new design. The door’s intricate mechanism and the thick concrete walls that once sheltered capital in its rawest form, now provide unique a unique safe room that supports games, conversation, and catered social events.

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Dinosphere & Welcome Center Indianapolis, IN

Renovating an existing OMNIMAX theater into the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Dinosphere Exhibit & Welcome Center led the designers to think big—so big that a full-size dinosaur pops its head into the pavilion through an upraised roof. This playfulness is driven by the program but indicates the firm’s willingness to bend the strictures of modern architecture to produce a more accessible language that feels unconstrained by academic orthodoxies.

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Dinosphere & Welcome Center

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Chihuly Indianapolis, IN

RATIO designed the infrastructure that supports Dale Chihuly’s cruciform-shaped Fireworks of Glass ceiling as well as a glass tower sculpture within the museum’s five-story-tall central ramp and atrium.

Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Chihuly

Eskenazi Health Ambulatory Care Indianapolis, IN

The six-story-tall Ambulatory Care building provides a new front door for the sprawling health care complex on Indianapolis’ West Side. The structure’s predominantly glassy façades are framed by metal planes deployed as roof, end walls, and canopies. A series of vertical and horizontal fins across the glazing provide shading to mitigate solar gain. The building is capped with an outdoor Sky Garden where food product is grown for use in the cafeteria.

Indianapolis International Airport Emergency Operations Indianapolis, IN

The Indianapolis International Airport’s facilities have been extensively rebuilt in the past two decades. This 15,000-squarefeet facility is the command and control center for day-to-day operations as well as emergencies, designed to withstand an F4-rated tornado. Glass and precast concrete, as well as the exuberantly splayed columns that support the broad cantilevered roof reflect the character of the airport’s air traffic control tower.

Indianapolis Zoo Bicentennial Pavilion Indianapolis, IN

Eleven steel “tree canopies” overlap to shelter 40,000-square-feet of outdoor space at the Indianapolis Zoo. Corten steel columns support an exposed timber structure composed of a wood sunshade and a translucent roof. Abstract incised panels invoke a lush rain forest for as many as 1,000 users at a time.

Town of Fishers Central Green Fishers, IN

A new post-and-beam pavilion sits at the center of a redesigned Fishers Central Green north of Indianapolis. The design incorporates a variety of new and enhanced amenities for the existing space, including a paved plaza with a zero-depth water feature, playground, shaded terraces, lawns, and a new amphitheater that can serve larger audiences in an outdoor venue.

Wabash Valley Power HQ Indianapolis, IN

The curved two-story-tall main façade of Wabash Valley Power displays expressed diagonal cross-bracing. Located on the edge of a wooded area on the northwest side of the city, the curve riffs off the adjacent naturalized area and roundabout. Split into an office wing and a conference wing, primary circulation is along the glazed east façade. The operations center is clad in Kasota limestone, creating a strong dichotomy between interior functions as expressed on the interior.

Indiana

RATIO’s location in the center of Indiana makes it the perfect base for a design firm to serve clients anywhere in the state. And work spread to other parts of the state, starting with an early project in worldrenowned architectural destination, Columbus, and spreading most deeply to the state’s centers of academia, including Bloomington, Terre Haute, Lafayette, South Bend, and Muncie. Each of these Indiana cities have their own distinct sense of place that the firm has studied and extended in the work.

At the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, multiple commissions have helped reshape the campus’ core through an addition and remodeling of the Mussallem Union, coupled with the adjacent Glass Pavilion to enhance the school’s sense of place. Across the city at Indiana State University, a dozen completed projects including the renovation of the five 1960s-era buildings that form the Sycamore Towers complex prove that a distinct approach to historic preservation can yield compelling and sustainable results in structures that don’t immediately appear “historic.”

Taken as a whole, there is no distinct “Hoosier style” of architecture, but there is a distinctive set of architectural principles—practical, efficient, thoughtful, and straightforward that suggest an overall approach that’s clearly appropriate for the state and its citizens.

“Bill created something unusual, a following actually, that others wanted to be part of,” Rob Proctor recalls. And that “something” was more than just architecture and historic preservation. It was broad as architectural practice can be, eventually encompassing urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, and environmental graphic design.

Buskirk-Chumley Indiana Theater Restoration

Bloomington, IN

The Buskirk-Chumley Indiana Theater was built as a movie and vaudeville venue in 1922. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, it operates as a performing arts center run by the City of Bloomington. RATIO developed the Master Plan and ultimately the exterior façade restoration of the complex.

Graduate Hotel Bloomington Bloomington, IN

The Graduate Bloomington sits just three blocks from the Indiana University campus. The six-story-tall structure introduces a larger scale to its neighborhood, mitigated by carefully modulated massing and roofscape with much of the Kirkwood Avenue façade just three stories tall. Generously sized windows are deployed within a simple brick and stone masonry grid, a straightforward approach to the architecture.

Graduate Hotel Bloomington

Bloomington, IN

IU Memorial Stadium North Endzone

An addition encloses the north end of Indiana University Memorial Stadium’s seating bowl to create a horseshoe configuration with a new student athlete physical development center, hall of fame, and permanent seating. Banqueting facilities provide game day catering for club seating as well as year-round events in the new space. The design reinterprets collegiate Gothic to better incorporate the 1960s-era stadium into Indiana University’s campus.

Marion Splash House Marion, IN

Developed in a reclaimed neighborhood industrial brownfield site, this public water park in Marion, Indiana, offers varied water recreation to visitors of all ages. The Splash House is a butterfly-roofed single-story timber framed structure that contains outdoor lockers, changing and rest rooms, and concessions while shaping the exterior space and formally embracing the facility’s sprawling water features.

Northwest YMCA Bloomington, IN

The stone, wood, and concrete structure houses comprehensive community health, wellness, and fitness facilities for the northwest suburbs of Bloomington. The building is split into two distinct parts—a 1-1/2-story-tall mass which accommodates entry, treatment, and education elements and a two-story-tall, long-span structure with swimming pool and gymnasium split by locker room and exercise areas.

High Acres House Columbus, IN

This three-level single family-residence known as High Acres House is sited in the rolling hills of southern Indiana overlooking nearby Brown County State Park. The exterior is clad in roughhewn sandstone quarried directly from the site and complimented with traditional slate gable roofs and copper-clad dormers and chimneys. The plan takes advantage of the nearby views and natural ventilation by orienting every room to multiple directions. The interior is less overtly traditional, balancing millwork details with a modern open spatial arrangement.

High Acres Barn Columbus, IN

The High Acres Barn housing horses and tractors reinterprets traditional Indiana farm forms with a modern minimalist sensibility. The thin copper roof rests on ashlar patterned sandstone walls quarried from the site, but splays and comes to a razor thin edge over the small porch, revealing the structure’s formal roots in European modernism.

St. Bartholomew Catholic Church Columbus, IN

In a city known for its inspiring public architecture, RATIO’s design for St. Bartholomew does not disappoint. It features a spiraling metal roof culminating in a bell tower, stained glass, and cross high above the altar. The spiral shelters 900 congregants in semicircular pews echoing the roof form. Stone interiors and exteriors relates to earlier buildings on the parish’s suburban campus.

St. Bartholomew Catholic Church

Greyhound Terminal Restoration Evansville, IN

Evansville’s Greyhound Terminal was built in 1938 and served as a template for the bus company’s Art Moderne stations across the country. After Greyhound relocated to another facility, RATIO prepared a feasibility study to guide the building’s reuse as a downtown restaurant. This work culminated in the restoration of the building’s now iconic features—enameled steel panels, steel sash windows, and neon lighting—extending the lifespan of the building in Evansville’s downtown.

Evansville Museum Immersive Theater Evansville, IN

A white terra cotta and glass box contains a spherical immersive theater and new entry for the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science. Mottled lozenge-shaped wood shingles clad the spherical theater, providing a deeply textured surface for the idealized platonic solid. Such contrasts between shape and surface develop a deep resonance with the museum’s overall focus on the diverse but allied disciplines of art, history, and science.

Evansville Museum Immersive Theater

IPFW Helmke Library Renovation

Fort Wayne, IN

An interior renovation of a 1970-era library clarifies a two-level entry sequence at Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne. The design focuses on a new monumental stair that simplifies wayfinding by connecting the circulation desk on the first floor with a “concierge” desk on the second level. Open study spaces and a new computer lab provide multiple choices for students within a refreshed set of interior spaces.

Lafayette CityBus Center Lafayette, IN

This modest 2,000-square-feet steel and brick structure houses a passenger waiting area and customer services while accommodating as many as a dozen buses in a low-scale neighborhood just blocks from the center of downtown Lafayette. A block-long roof provides protection from the elements for those who choose to wait outside while fully integrated plantings provide relief from the surrounding pavement.

Shrewsbury-Windle House Restoration Madison, IN

Designed by Francis Costigan and completed in 1849, the Shrewsbury-Windle House was designated a National Historic Landmark for its outstanding architectural significance. Following a multi-phased museum-quality restoration and implementation plan, the two-story Greek Revival residence continues to operate as an economically sustainable historic site in the downtown of Madison.

Shrewsbury-Windle House Restoration

BSU Glick Center for Glass Muncie, IN

The Marilyn K. Glick Center for Glass is a 9,200-squarefeet brick, glass, and metal pavilion that serves Ball State University’s art glass program with a hot shop, cold shop, classroom, studios, and exhibit space. The modest form creates a built edge between existing recreational sports fields and a wooded conservation area.

BSU Glick Center for Glass

BSU Health Professions Muncie, IN

This four-story-tall building is the first phase of a new academic quadrangle near the southern edge of Ball State University’s Muncie campus. The two wings of the building respond to the varied character of the surrounding area with both masonry and glass expressions. The double-height interior atrium features laser-cut wood fins that enliven a gathering space that brings together students in various STEM and health science programs.

ISU College of Health and Human Services

Terre Haute, IN

A four-story brick, stone, and glass addition and renovation creates a collage of new and old forms that provide a rich contemporary facility that responds to evolving campus needs without needlessly destroying older structures. The two-phase complex provides a home for Indiana State University’s new College of Health and Human Sciences by integrating relevant parts of the schools of Nursing, Social Work, Applied Health Science, and Kinesiology, Recreation, and Sport.

ISU Sycamore Towers Renovation Terre Haute, IN

Originally built in 1964 and designed by Ewing Miller, Sycamore Towers provides student housing in four 12-story-tall buildings on the campus of Indiana State University. Rather than demolishing the out-of-date structures, the university chose to completely renovate the complex, including the single-story dining spaces located between the four towers. A portion of the concrete exterior wall was demolished on the face of each tower and replaced with new glass curtain wall to update the exterior look of the building and provide a floor-to-ceiling bay window lounge on each floor.

Rose-Hulman Mussallem Union Expansion Terre Haute, IN

From the original 1960s dining pavilion by Perkins+Will and ancillary collections of 1980s additions and remodeling, the recently expanded and retooled Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s Mussallem Union is once again the centerpiece of campus life at the school. The addition and renovation feature a cozy new living room perched above the lake and punctuated by a dynamic spire anchoring the center of campus.

Rose-Hulman Mussallem Union Expansion

Rose-Hulman Glass Pavilion Terre Haute, IN

The modest 920-square-feet pavilion at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology can accommodate 40-50 people inside, with floor-to-ceiling sliding glass walls that can expand the space in warmer months to serve larger gatherings on the lakeside terrace. Views to the west across the lake are framed by the pavilion and align with the White Chapel beyond.

Rose-Hulman Glass Pavilion

Purdue University Neil Armstrong Hall West Lafayette, IN

The Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering recalls the epic aeronautic history made by the Purdue alumnus who was the first man to walk on the moon. A thin-edged red metal roof, respectful of the Mediterranean-styled clay tile roofs across main campus, seems to float above the body of the building cantilevering 70 feet beyond the building’s corner where it offers cover to the entry and a statue of the building’s namesake.

Purdue University Neil Armstrong Hall

ISU Dede Plaza Terre Haute, IN

RATIO has evolved the design through two iterations, in 1988 and 2015. Each is centered on a fifty-feet diameter water feature framed by a brick-and-limestone pergola that extends the circle inscribed by the adjacent Hulman Memorial Student Union and Welcome Center, two other RATIO designs.

Dede Plaza is the principal open space on the campus of Indiana State University.

Mulberry Fields Park Zionsville, IN

Extensive recreation facilities are set within a landscape of native upland and wet prairie in the Indianapolis suburb of Zionsville. A skate park and spray ground are major features, set within a master plan that includes hiking and running trails, rugby and football fields, a sledding hill, playground, basketball courts, picnic shelters, and rest rooms.

Ivy Tech Community College Muncie, IN

This striking three-story limestone, glass, and zinc building provides a bold new identity for Ivy Tech Community College in downtown Muncie. Diverse student-centered services are accommodated within including the school’s award-winning culinary program. A restaurant promotes interaction between the college and the public.

Ivy Tech Community College

Rose-Hulman Academic Building Terre Haute, IN

This 70,000-square-feet structure at the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology arrays design studios, flexible classrooms, chemistry, biochemistry and food science labs, collaboration workspaces, and faculty innovation spaces around a two-story interior atrium that promotes interdisciplinary interaction among students, visitors, and faculty. The brick, stone, and glass building is the first project in Indiana to achieve WELL certification.

ISU Hulman Center Addition and Renovation Terre Haute, IN

Indiana State University’s Hulman Center Arena has been an important regional spectator venue in Terre Haute since it was built in 1973. It was a national hub of excitement in 1979 during the undefeated season of Larry Bird’s fighting Sycamores until the final championship game. The renovation creates an expanded concourse surrounding the arena while wrapping the previously bland and undifferentiated exterior with variated metal panels floating above a ribbon of glass that reflects the active streetscape and promotes community activities within. A dramatic new one-and-a-half-story-tall entrance pavilion facing downtown creates a clear “front door” while enhancing overall security control for the arena.

Cummins COB Interior Renovation Columbus, IN

The Cummins Corporate Office Building Renovation, or COB, was originally designed by Pritzker Prize laureate Kevin Roche in the late 1970s. RATIO’s complete interior renovation preserves many key features of the original design—including exposed octagonal concrete columns, coffered ceilings, end-cut wood flooring, tinted glass and mirrors, and art installations— while updating the spaces to meet the contemporary demands of the “Cummins Office Strategy” which stresses mobility, flexibility, collaboration, and socialization throughout the company’s facilities.

Midwest

While the firm’s earliest years leveraged Browne’s connections in Indiana, he remained close with college colleagues in downstate Illinois. That led to commissions, initially developed out of the Indianapolis studio, and to RATIO’s first expansion when they opened a studio in Champaign in 2005.

Growth has been thoughtful, methodical, and—much like the architecture—straightforward. Browne recalls: “The University of Illinois said, ‘If you had an office here, we’d give you more work.’” RATIO initially teamed with Champaign-based Severns Reid Architects for several projects, eventually merging them into RATIO as the firms proved a good match.

More recently, the addition of a Chicago studio has doubled the firm’s presence in Illinois and led to commissions in the nation’s third largest city—long heralded as a center of American architecture. And reaching further across the region, projects in St. Louis and South Dakota have added to the portfolio. The Town of Normal Uptown Station leverages a remarkable set of transportation resources and adds municipal offices to create a new idea of civic center rooted in midwestern concepts of practicality.

The Big Ten Headquarters in the Chicago suburb of Rosemont takes a typical sprawl site and integrates mixed uses to maximum advantage create a more public experience for a typical office structure.

CPD Maplewood Park Fieldhouse Chicago, IL

A new fieldhouse for the Chicago Park District’s Maplewood Park embraces the low-scale domestic character of the West Town neighborhood with a pitched butterfly roof. Multifunctional interior spaces supplement the park’s outdoor offerings, with an L-shaped plan that provides an exterior courtyard within the broader confines of the 1.3-acre park.

CPD Maplewood Park Fieldhouse

J. Parker Rooftop at Hotel Lincoln Chicago, IL

Overlooking Lincoln Park in Chicago’s Old Town neighborhood, this rooftop bar enjoys views of the neighborhood, Lake Michigan, Lincoln Park Zoo, and the Loop. An attractive moveable glass roof enclosure extends the popular attraction’s operation from seasonal to year-round.

Town of Normal Uptown Station Normal, IL

A civic-scaled clock on a four-story-tall building in downtown Normal denotes the new structure’s position within the community. The ground floor is a multimodal transportation center that creates easy connections between Amtrak passenger rail, intercity bus, local mass transit, car, intra-community shuttles, taxis, airport shuttle service, bike and pedestrian-related amenities with an attached parking garage. The upper floors house the city’s municipal offices and City Council chambers with additional public multipurpose conferencing rooms.

Town of Normal Uptown Station

SDSU AME Building

Brookings, SD

The contemporary masonry and glass building fits easily among its earlier forebears on the South Dakota State University campus. The state-of-the-art facilities promote collaboration among the architecture, engineering, and math students with its heart a high-bay fabrication area on the first floor. Additional facilities include an exterior work yard, design studio, engines lab, wood shop, and metals shop.

RATIO Chicago Studio

Chicago, IL

Remaining true to the firm’s interest in architectural preservation, RATIO’s Chicago presence is located in the midcentury landmark Inland Steel Building on the 5th floor in the original Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill studio. The 40-person studio is centered on an open plan “design lab,” with varied seating configurations that can support all sizes of impromptu meetings to promote creativity and collegiality.

B1G Headquarters Rosemont, IL

This three-story mixed-use structure houses the headquarter offices of the Big Ten Athletics Conference. The L-shaped building, clad in terra cotta, accommodates a restaurant, an interactive media attraction, and a high-tech conferencing center that provide complementary facilities for one of the country’s best-known collegiate sports leagues on a suburban site close to Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.

UIUC Khan Health Sciences Addition Urbana, IL

Originally constructed as Huff Hall, this infill addition completes the popular gymnasium and classroom structure some 90-years later. With careful interpretation, the new north wing continues the massing, brick masonry walls, tall chimneys, and slate roof lines of the original 1922 building on the main campus of the University of Illinois. New instruction spaces support the Masters in Public Health program, with seminar and multipurpose rooms, laboratories, and faculty offices expanding the College of Applied Health Sciences’ facilities, within a contemporary variation on their longtime home.

UIUC Demirjian Soccer Stadium Urbana, IL

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UIUC Demirjian Soccer Stadium

A 1,500-seat grandstand serves the University of Illinois’ main campus as the primary soccer venue. The bleacher seating is backed by a two-story glass and steel structure bookended by masonry pavilions that provide services for fans and discretely house locker rooms, meeting spaces, and recruiting amenities. State-of-the-art broadcasting technology is seamlessly integrated within the new facilities.

SLU Pius Memorial Library ATC St. Louis, MO

The Academic Technology Commons at Saint Louis University applies a bright and lively color palette to an open configuration of stand-up desks with a variety of options for seating. Library services are rethought for a new generation offering a variety of interactions, including concierge support and Genius Bar-style interactions, between staff and students. The renovated space provides digital and collection-based resources with active learning environments.

Busey Bank Champaign

Champaign, IL

A palette of brick, glass, and white aluminum mark this elegant solution for contemporary banking. Extensive drive-thru facilities are supplemented by a glassy banking hall that opens to the parking lot. A broad canopy at the front entrance welcomes pedestrian traffic and relates architecturally to the long roof sheltering the automobile service lanes that incorporate pneumatic tube transaction cannisters.

EIU Blair Hall Restoration Charleston, IL

When fire severely damaged Eastern Illinois University’s historic limestone Blair Hall, the third oldest building on the campus, the loss of its classroom and office spaces required a thoughtful and swift remodeling. RATIO extended the 34,000-squarefeet structure to thoughtfully include new high-tech features while restoring the limestone structure to its original design aesthetic.

Dr. Howard Elementary School Champaign, IL

Replacing an old school in a mature urban neighborhood, the two-story-tall, 58,000-square-feet Dr. Howard Elementary School serves K-12 in a single structure. Incorporating color into the building’s extensive glazing creates a memorable character and maximizes daylight and natural views for users and visitors alike.

Dr. Howard Elementary School

UIC University Hall Façade Restoration Chicago, IL

University Hall is an iconic 28-story-tall tower on the campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago campus. The exposed concrete structure widens as it rises, creating a unique Brutalist profile high above its West Side neighbors. Designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill’s Walter Netsch in 1963, the building’s concrete façade and window wall system required a comprehensive rehabilitation to address long-term issues while maintaining its historic appearance that will endure for generations.

Southeast

As the firm expanded across the Midwest, more specialized design and planning work in higher education also grew. The Principals began to look beyond the region in their pursuit of new work. The firm made a cold call to Duke University, which resulted in a commission to do a master plan for the university’s football stadium. The school sits within North Carolina’s Research Triangle and success there promised more work in the area.

As in Chicago and Champaign, the firm decided to establish a more permanent presence in the area. Principal/Vice President Rob Proctor explains the process: “We were introduced to a strong local design firm with a similar culture. We worked together and since both firms were looking to have a larger impact, we ultimately merged.” This process was completed in 2011, resulting in a new design studio in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina.

The Duke University Parking Structure uses “Duke stone” and complementary mottled terra cotta panels to integrate the building into its unique academic setting. The Southeast Raleigh YMCA & School is conceived as a vibrant community destination, combining a full-service Y with an elementary school. The renovation and expansion of the Forsythe County Central Library reimagines the library as a 21st century information destination.

The firm’s Raleigh studio enlivens the base of a 1950s building, maintaining the midcentury structure’s vital formal role within the city while immersing RATIO’s professionals in local urban life.

Southeast Raleigh YMCA & School Raleigh, NC

A colorful checkerboarded exterior wall combines with extensive glazing to welcome users to this innovative project that brings together a YMCA and an elementary school within a single, two-story structure. Both institutional partners share a mission to provide tools for wellness and education for the community in conjunction with the Southwest Raleigh Promise Initiative.

Southeast Raleigh YMCA & School

University

of South Carolina Indoor Training Center Columbia, SC

Clearstories on all four sides of this long-span structure provide ample natural light for a full-size indoor football practice field with a 75-feet-tall ceiling that enables punting and kicking practice. The simple pitched roof volume creates an axial promenade through new parking lots to the football stadium.

Duke University Parking Structure Durham,

NC

A seven-level cast-in-place post-tensioned concrete parking structure on the Duke University campus features a green wall and rooftop canopies that support solar panels. The main stair tower features a base of “Duke stone,” a locally quarried material used in many campus buildings. Terra cotta tile infill panels on the stair tower and throughout the garage mimic the stone with their mottled appearance.

Town Center Entry Experience

Boca Raton, FL

A monumentally scaled canopy provides the new main entrance for the upscale Town Center of Boca Raton shopping mall. Outdoor seating, lush new landscaping, and redesigned signage all promote clarity of wayfinding while enhancing the shopping experience.

Garner High School Garner, NC

Garner High School

Garner High School had evolved through eight buildings totaling more than 300,000-square-feet complex built since 1967. RATIO was retained to reconfigure the campus to meet today’s educational challenges. Central to the reorganization is a new four-story classroom tower at the east end of the existing complex that creates a new sense of place through a new entry and thoughtfully expressed solar design.

RATIO Raleigh Studio

Raleigh, NC

Located in the base of a classic 1950s office building in downtown Raleigh, the RATIO Studio draws on the open offices of that era to inspire the creative output and everyday mood of its own space. Overlooking Fayetteville Street and public plazas, the 2nd floor studio visually connects the studio to activity surrounding the building.

University of Georgia Indoor Athletics Training Center Athens, GA

This 165,000-square-feet athletic facility features a full-size naturally lit indoor football field under a shallow curved 76-feet-high ceiling. Headquarters for the renowned Georgia Bulldog football team, 2022 NCAA National Champions, the design includes coaches’ offices, locker room, weight training, and meeting rooms.

Displays celebrate the accomplishments of all University of Georgia athletic teams, including a trophy room on the second floor.

University of Georgia Indoor Athletics Training Center

Rolesville High School Rolesville, NC

Designed as a prototype high school to serve more than 2,200 students, Rolesville High School’s four-story-tall classroom wings feature a central media/café that provides a new paradigm for connecting students with culturally relevant design. The exterior expression features buff brick, extensively glazed areas, and carefully articulated stair towers at the end of each wing.

Rolesville High School

KY

University of Kentucky Marksbury Building Lexington,

The building has two distinct sides: a brick face with punched openings facing the neighboring residential community, and a brick colonnade supporting a two-story glazed façade opening towards the campus. Computing and visualization research labs receive ample natural light while connecting occupants’ views to the campus. A pitched roof allows PV panels to be an integral part of the building’s architecture. The cubic mass at the end encloses the signature Digital Theater presentation room.

University of Kentucky Marksbury Building

Poyner Downtown YMCA Raleigh, NC

This 32,100-square-feet facility occupies part of the ground floor and two subgrade levels of a ten-story mid-century building in downtown Raleigh. The ground level is configured as a partial mezzanine allowing ample daylight to fill the lower levels of the project. Facilities include a cafe, locker room, saunas, fitness studios, wellness areas, sprinting track, and administrative functions.

Poyner Downtown YMCA

Forsyth County Central Library

Winston-Salem, NC

A glazed three-story addition to Winston-Salem’s existing Central Library was part of a comprehensive renovation and expansion to invigorate the city’s library facilities to inspire life-long learning to achieve excellence within the community. The resulting open, flexible, and collaborative design features a café, outdoor reading garden, auditorium, makerspace, and a “technology petting zoo” within a contemporary envelope that welcomes all members of the community.

Having established themselves with projects at Colorado State University and the University of Colorado Boulder, it seemed sensible to extend RATIO’s reach via a new studio in Denver. Like the earlier Champaign, Chicago, and Raleigh additions, the 2019 merger with a local firm allows RATIO to more closely serve academic, institutional, civic, and community clients in the American west.

The application of a straightforward design approach in the more clearly dramatic landscapes of the High Plains is instructive. CU Boulder Aerospace has some formal similarities with Purdue University Neil Armstrong Hall, an Indiana project with similar allusions to flight. But moving from the simply flat landscape of Indiana to the dramatic high plains of Colorado displays a shift in focus. Both employ a cantilevered roof, but the structure in Boulder turns down the overall volume, recognizing that a more daring display would be humbled by the nearby mountains. This “tuning” of architectural form to meet the specific locale demonstrates a sophisticated approach that’s likely to be continued as RATIO’s footprint increasingly widens throughout the United States and beyond. The Community Library in Ketchum, Idaho, extends the traditional forms of the original building while introducing new diagonal elements to freshen a longtime image of a local civic institution.

These thoughtful and continuing evolutions of the RATIO approach suggest enormous potential in the coming years.

CU Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Boulder, CO

The four-story-tall structure supports interdisciplinary aerospace teaching and research at the University of Colorado Boulder. A flexible layout of offices, classrooms, fabrication shops and research labs are contained within a tautly conceived masonry and glass envelope under a thin floating roof. Stone baffles deflect the sun and open direct views to the nearby Front Range, while recalling aerodynamic forms that remind users of the advanced research contained within the building.

CU Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences

Community Library

Ketchum, ID

Design interventions renewed the existing library that was built in this Sun Valley community through three prior building campaigns in 1976, 1986, and 1996. Honoring the mountain lodge architecture ensures that the refreshed building remains culturally relevant within the community while upgrading to serve as a 21st century library.

Atlantis Apartments Denver, CO

Developed by longtime accessibility champions Atlantis Community Inc. (ACI), this four-story-tall apartment block in Denver’s Baker neighborhood has 60 units that incorporate the principles of Universal Design for maximum accessibility. The ground level includes public meeting rooms, offices for ACI, a museum, fitness center, computer lab, and courtyard. The structure’s block-long mass is modulated by the use of brick, stucco, and glass to create a lively urban presence.

CSU Chemistry Research Building

Fort Collins, CO

This four-story building provides Colorado State University with flexible labs that accommodate more than 130 researchers in spaces that meet the needs of rigorous research today and for the foreseeable future. A mix of locally sourced masonry, metal panel, and glazing grounds the building’s modern expression in this particular place.

CSU Bioengineering Building

Fort Collins, CO

The three-story-tall glass and masonry structure at Colorado State University, situated as the College’s gateway to engineering, houses both learning and research facilities that enable cross-disciplinary studies in emerging biomedical engineering fields that span health, environment, and energy.

Dedicated spaces house multi-disciplinary labs, research offices, classroom and collaborative work areas, administrative space, and a 24-hour study space.

CU Boulder Physiology Lab Boulder, CO

The new 31,000-square-feet building housing laboratory and clinical spaces for University of Colorado’s Department of Integrative Physiology reinterprets the campus’ distinctive architecture style known as Tuscan Vernacular Revival. The four-story-tall sandstone, Indiana limestone and red-tiled roofed structure fits easily into its century-old context with tightly drawn details inspired by the advanced research conducted within its walls.

International

As RATIO steadily has increased its geographic range, the 2012 acquisition of Chicago-based SMDP added a strategic international component. That this step would come through Chicago seems obvious, as practitioners in the country’s third largest city have long maintained international profiles while still operating from within the American Midwest. It’s as if Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan have met contemporary global needs through the lens of Indianapolis.

Centropolis’ staccato mullion pattern mixes traditional Korean craft and contemporary expression with material choices that are distinctly local in their look and feel. At Acro Seoul Forest, three distinctive black and white sheathed towers create a dramatic skyline presence rooted in the straightforward RATIO approach with a bold graphic identity. Currently in design is a new project in Cairo, Egypt, bringing RATIO’s design savvy to North Africa and one of the centers of the ancient world.

As the firm continues to expand its reach farther and farther from Indiana, the international work might be the most interesting thing to watch during the firm’s fifth decade.

ACRO Seoul Forest Seoul, South Korea

This mixed-use complex in central Seoul comprises a pair of 49-story-tall T-shaped residential towers and a more conventional rectangular 33-story-office block. Gridded facades of white porcelain on the residential towers reflect the spatial organization of apartments whose mullion-free windows create unobstructed views from every unit. A retail base unites the three structures at the lowest levels and houses shared amenities.

ACRO Seoul Forest

Brunnen 90

Seoul, South Korea

This boutique residential tower in Seoul’s central business district derives its curvilinear forms from nature. The undulating horizontal lines that define the building’s façades metaphorically refer to the water of the nearby river that residents view from the tower and from which the building’s name, Brunnen or German for water, is derived.

Chungdam Square Seoul, South Korea

This mixed-use complex includes a 17-story-tall office tower and the adjacent five-story shopping structure. The tower’s distinctive dark crystalline and pixelated facades represent weaving as a metaphor for the diverse local culture of the area, a vibrant shopping and cultural district in Seoul.

Nine One Hannam Seoul, South Korea

Hannam Village is located in central Seoul, on property previously occupied by U.S. military personnel. The luxury development features 340 villas designed for inhabitants who prioritize security, privacy, and comfort. Each unit features private yards, underground parking, personal elevators, and high-end finishes. The design was selected through an international design competition.

Four Points by Sheraton Seoul, South Korea

This 21-story-tall luxury hotel’s bold prismatic shape places its longest side towards one of Seoul’s busiest intersections in the Sinsa-Dong district of Gangham-Gu. A syncopated pattern of vertically oriented mullions across the building’s glass curtain wall façade helps differentiate the structure with the urban landscape. A public plaza and retail at the building’s base enhance the guest experience within one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the world.

This 21-story-tall luxury hotel’s bold prismatic shape places its longest side towards one of Seoul’s busiest intersections in the Sinsa-Dong district of Gangham-Gu. A syncopated pattern of vertically oriented mullions across the building’s glass curtain wall façade helps differentiate the structure in the urban landscape. A public plaza and retail at the building’s base enhance the guest experience within one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the world.

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Tower Seoul, South Korea

The headquarters for Samwon Paper was designed with an explicit reference to the company’s products: the white grid of the upper floors of this tower represent clean sheets of paper. White glass panels and deep reveals delineate the darker vision units to form a giant order across the façade with every three floors grouped as one on the skyline.

Centropolis Seoul, South Korea

Two twenty-five story-tall towers, set perpendicular to each other to preserve views and light for both buildings, are located in Seoul’s central business district. The glass curtain wall features a unique stepped ladder-like motif alluding to traditional Korean stone walls and created with an articulated porcelain panel system. Street level retail provides connections across the site with the tower lobbies located one floor above the street.

A CAST OF HUNDREDS

Bill Browne recognized early in his career that the idea of a single voice that drives architecture is a thing of the past. “It takes many people to deliver a building, particularly the large complex buildings that we’re doing,” he says.

“We are a collective, as we have a number of individuals leading design and it’s not coming from the corner office,” Principal and Vice President Rob Proctor says.

As RATIO emerged from its predecessor firm in the late 1980s, the firm’s approach was based on an interdisciplinary understanding of architecture that recognizes not just architecture and historic preservation, but equal status for urban design, landscape architecture, interior design, and environmental graphic design. As the firm has grown, each discipline has been represented by thoughtful practitioners who have contributed to the work and become leaders within the firm. It’s in this understanding of design as a genuine community value, one that can be enriched by each additive piece, that reveals the rich interplay of preservation and new design in RATIO’s work.

“We’re blurring the line between disciplines,” says landscape architect Lisa Esterrich. “We are all designers and we have discovered that we can create stronger ideas, better experiences, and have more impact if we are working together, seeing beyond the silos of our discipline.”

Interior designer and architect Brooke Funkhouser sees one area where the firm has evolved in recent years. “We’ve become stronger listeners and we’re attracting clients who have the courage to trust in that journey,” she says. “We’re able to unearth the underlying need that drives a concept and then stick to that concept and allow it to transform the organizations we work for.”

“Our core mission as designers,” notes urban designer and landscape architect Tom Gallagher, “is to know our clients well enough to express their values in built form. This translation requires deep knowledge of not only who they are and aspire to be but also of the ecoregion and culture in which they reside. This is a driving factor in our multiple studio strategy.”

Toronto-based private family office Hennick & Company invested in RATIO in 2021, adding to its roster of business and real estate investments. “We have a perpetual partnership model that allows for the next generation of the firm’s leaders to emerge and become equity owners and share in the value appreciation that RATIO generates,” says Hennick & Company managing director Brad Hennick. This strategic long-term investment uniquely positions RATIO for future growth across the nation.

The RATIO work represented in this volume is the collective achievement of more than 800 past and present colleagues who are recognized in the following list.

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Edward

RATIO Design Staff Listing

1982 - 2022

Current Staff indicated in bold type

1982–1987 as HDGA

William Browne, Jr.

Harold Garrison

Cornelius (Lee) Alig

Jane Rudy

Jennifer Curtis

John Rigsbee

Nancy Barnes

Leonard Scheurich

Bill Cotterman

Tom Weigel Georgia Davis

Rodney Reid Carolyn Goode

Virgil (Keith) Tharp Semyon Smolkin

Michael Lester Patrick Marks William White Geoffrey Lisle Susan Fox

Margaret Whipple

Thomas Cancilla Kathy Franklin Kathleen Gillen

James Kalleen

David Rausch

Vicki Goodpaster Ron Goad

Gary Adams James Mack

Cory Hunnicut

Kimberly Nidiffer

William Davidson

Lenzy Hendrix

Joseph Kurken

Sharon Wildridge-Resor

Marina Barickman

Susan Pederson

R. Tim Barrick

Anita Busse

Scott Hirschman

Elizabeth Brown

Joe Zody

Susan Stanich

Leslie Neibert

Lesley Romine James Dawson Brian Morales

Leigh Ann Hellem Paul Gibson Marilyn Rinker Charles Scott Debra Whitlock Sandra Alexander Donald Selander Marvin Ros Joseph Mitchell Kevin Jarrett Robert Mooney Sally Maners

Randi West Brian Cook Steve Grim Cartier Tiggs Laura Rolfe Lori Webster Mark Reynolds Craig Brighton

1987–Present

James Edwards

John Thomas

Clayton Spillman Steven Risting J. Morgan Markoe Kenneth Boyce 1990 Jeff Parker Rita Hughes

Rob Proctor, Jr. Julie Zigler

Nicholas Foussianes Mike Emerson Melissa Lamb

Wendy Carlile

Mark Sanders

Kevin Wright Suzanne Thompson David Post

as RATIO

Julie McFatridge

Joseph Stenger

Lisa McCullough

Kristen Brandt

Robert Shilts

Vicki Richards Frank Schwer

Jeff Getts Jeff Rinehart

Don Hellem Renae Hull

Rita Sutton Hayes Gunta Beard Pamela Bowen Patricia Ellison Janet Thomas Dawn Denman Dwight Quarmily Karen Planet Laurence George Mary Inchauste Kristine Owens Laura Lynch Tiniti Dey Danny Lis Zhaoheng Huang Anand Devarajan Bill Browing Melanie McCarley Kathleen Davis Lynn Glaze Nan Girton Donna White Donna Winter Kathy Farmer Kevin Callahan

Susan Wiethorn Stephanie Horstman D. Kim Rothenberger

Leslie Cordano Celeste Cunningham Richard Cass Pedro Caceres

Michael LoSasso Linda Huotilainen

Rebecca Bostwick David Smith James Stouffer Terry Bonbrake David Kroll Curtis Wahle Kathryn Fodroci Mark Kroekel

Randy Sherman John Jackson Gary McKee Kim Fong Howard Smiley

Lisa Donato

Thomas Bell Mary Ellen Gadski

Scott Pauw Maria Cisco Joseph Briggs Laurence Armstrong David Roth

Susan Presser

Sarah Weinkauf

John Suter

Craig McCormick

Ann Reed

Lee Ann Walters

Alison Bowman Katrina Green

Thomas Cheesman

Charles Bauer

Mike McGuire

Neil Dixon

Jonathon Mooney

Eric Fulford

William Tabberson Charles McClintic

Sherry Hurt Melissa Yaryan Lori Wingerter

Carol Schleif Charles Henry Sean Sanger James Higgins Michael Franklin Tracy Imes Cynthia Hanneman Justin Hawkins Andrew Risch Connie Jung Bryan Strube Anita Wasson

Julie Hudson Trent Champ Keith Clark William Johnson

Michael Sweebe Mark Meyerholtz Gail Pierce

Patricia Crask Gail Dennison C. Wayne Olander Brett Hatchett

Carrie Fulp

Lora Mascari

Robert McGill

Jeffrey Zapf Francis Mullen

Mike Sorensen

Norbert Tony Steinhardt Gregory Buchanan Kathleen Gallagher

Joshua Green Kristine McGranahan

David Funk

Gigi Siekkinen

Sarah Tombaugh

Rick Goforth

Darren Reno

Mike Bivens

Adam Moore

Peter Moore

Cynthia Wellington

Julia Bauer Bradley Johnson Phil Weichel

Amy Daniels

Alexandria Blong

Jeffrey Milliken

Donald Jerabek

Tami Phillips Anita Day

Brian Padgett

Todd Barker Mark Sporleder

Ashley Arvin Erica Ceder

Kathleen LeMonte

Scott Perkins

Natasha Suttler

Charles Scharbrough

Jeffrey Schroeder

Shelina Lawson

Adam Ratcliff

Gerard Lehner

David Young Pat Jacobs

Nichole Schrader

Meghan Kelly

Jason Victor Anita Gambill

Michelle Petty

Michael Kamiski

Abigail Matthews

Jennifer Broemel

Jennifer Humphries

Kent Hughes

Jason Larrison

Christopher Boardman

Robert Dunbar

Jeffrey Morgan

Carrie Harney

Joseph Londt

Anne Walker

Robert Rosner Gregory Baker Russell Bueche

Jeffrey Strycker Rebecca Thompson Patrick Brunner Joel Fuoss Sheila McKinley 2000

Douglas Henson Jennifer Shockley

Jason Stocker William Marquez Rachel Leo W. Brad Dixon David Fuqua Shawn Harmon Jacob Plummer Brian Robinson Scott Utter

Brock Roseberry

Anne Kilponen

Adam Green

Jeffrey Bergman

John Hartlep

Brian Garrett

Christopher Reiter Michele Meregaglia

J. Todd McLean

Kara Byrn

Eric Anderson

Rene Martinez-Chavez

Jacob Stephens

Tao Zhang

Gordon Henderson Malcolm Williams

Krista Beyer

Joshua Desmond Matthew Griffin Kevin Senninger

Brian Bishop Mark Kinn

Anthony Paiano T. Anthony Brummett

Kristen Bixler John Petersen Christina Hurst Brian Berry Tonie Barrett Heather MacInnis Heather Worrell

Courtney Selph Jared Smith Thomas Cloud Jennifer Gahimer David Ralich Robert Bettis Danielle Rogers William Swanson Toni Grimes Aimee Adams Christoph Wagner Natalie Mazanowski Erin Gonterman Jeremy Nye Terri Smith Chun Sheh Teo Cathy Daily William Devine Rodney Reid Dale Wise Barbara Pirie Kevin Spahn Nicholas Weber Lynn Rollins

Sharon King

Kevin Johnson Amy Masten

Jonathan Young Molly Winkler

Dustin Eggink

Sandra Yencho Peter Fritz

Thomas Gallagher

Timothy Kettler

Francesco Rocchio Angela Overton Kyle Kibler Rachel Ley Cathy Holdman Andrew Robinson Seth Rogers Barbara Carothers

Jeffrey Pitts Janice Rivera-Hall Alyssa Theile Jennifer Higginbotham Carrie Clemmons Karen Hartlep Jennette Moline Joseph Fischer Melissa Kleinschmidt Matthew Lee Scott Winter Ryan Hinz

Brianne Smith

William Burt

Bryan Ziolkowski

Rebecca Schweitzer

Brian DeMuynck

Phillip Graf

Jacqueline Turner Steven Albright

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Maciej Taczalski

Benjamin Jennings Robert Taggart

Emily Bechler

David Dodson

Dawn Hein

Erin McCloskey

Michelle Taggart

D. Allison Pitner

Charles McNeely

Dariusz Markowicz

David Poellot Larisa Forester Scott Pannicke

Igor Taskov Joseph Yount Matthew Piker Jeffrey Klancer Kelly Maienbrook Jeremy Schwer Edward Scopel Lech Grabski Maria Kazmierczak Jana Dalton Anna Miller

Virginia Smith Kalpa Baghasingh

Melissa Martin Anthony House

Ashley Tisue Anson Dible Emily Morgan Suzanne Mayberry Mara Braspenninx

David Ericsson Martin Lockwood-Bean

Richard Kluger

Alison Norris Clifford Carey

Richard Getz

Michael Wenta

Simeon Nabors

Benjamin Hartigan Ashley Tschopp M. Todd Briggs

Benjamin Ross

Shauna Haynes

Brandon Skinner

Tammy Chumbley Tiffany Roberts Brooke Funkhouser Scott Hunt

Robert McKinzie

Sheri Repovich

Lynda Anderson Andrea Babb Sarah Hale Kimberly Barnett Michael Jefferson Erik Schlegel Benjamin Griffin Tara Shaul Annette Lang

2010

Jennifer Weber

Madeline Kennedy

Kimberly Nordhoff Charles Bridenthal Brian Staresnick

William Baker Brittany Brown Justin Myers Erin Haglund

Danielle Stimac Louis Cherry Harold Bowen

Sharon Crawford Reagan Wise

Christie Giemza

Eric Sowers

William Friend Amy Bullington

Gabriel Smith

Martha Fox

Miranda Downer Brent Covington

Jesse Green

Jennifer Fante

Jennifer Sisak Karen Steele

Michael Brannan Kevin Huse Missy Zwierlein Elyse VanFleet Ryan Doran Brook Panaranto Joseph Barnes Sydney Eisenmann Adrianna Beech Michelle Heltzel Jaemyung Byun Insung Chu John Garb Jihun Jun

Dae-Hong Minn Scott Sarver David Valaskovic Josh Pabst Li Jin Maria Safina John Testa Caitlin McCready Brenda Rager Sukyoung Jung Keojin Jin Eric Cheng

Erica Manuel Amy Hiemstra Heather McKendree Ting Wang Rui Song Yalin Fu Yingqui Wu Craig Glazier Lisa Esterrich Ron Hoeppner

Kate Francis Anastasia Milliones

Samuel Adams Melissa Brewer

Edwin Whitted John Lee

Zachary Morrison Dongyu Qie Craig Smith Rongbo Lu Elizabeth Woodruff Julie Zent Lara Brainer-Banker Aaron Kowalski Stacy Anderson Andrew Heilman Robert Taylor Alexander Ellenbogen Keegan Browne Sara Sweeney Ewa Hally Rebecca Hinz Paul Lipchak Chris Lake Jessica Gilbert Bryan Callahan Wesley Urschel April Fetz Casey May Ivette Bruns Megan Bell Annie Hollibaugh David Shaffer Brittian Warner Mark Stoner Daniel Eisinger Shuping Yu Zachary Hilleson Kim Strawbridge Maria Wainscott Natalie Menke Andrea Haydon Matthew Zetzl Louise Sarver

Michael Weiner

Craig Butler Matthew Edmonson Ha To

Lesley Roth Eric Meckley Matthew Rueff Emily Robinson Tyler Welsh Dia Holman Duane Sohl Amber Kazansky Sarah Wood Jonathan Hutslar Ann Erskine Benjamin Horn Peixi Sun Emily Earle Rachana Kulkarni Julie Poovey Jameson Skaife Rick Cobb Brian Cruse Benjamin Kutscheid Lora Teagarden Dana McNutt Nathalie Belanger Nikita Taylor Emily Ewing James Merriman Matthew MacDonald Cody Bornsheuer Ryan Macyauski

Susan Shepherd

Sunghak Ko Jennifer Worley Clare Ardizzone

Catherine Waligora Erich Brunk Thomas Kemp

Keri VanVlymen Yueming Zhou

Chris Meier

John Miles

Sarah Causey Katarina Marjanovic Wei Lei

Bridgette Cannon Matthew Hayes Patrick Slattery Yan Ding Mark Gerardot Rebecca Patterson Pat Dimond Eli Lechter Scott Cicero Daniel Tse Travis Schiess Benjamin Huse Jourdann Borski Woei Low Rebecca Palmer

Changhyun Kim Minsung Kim Joonwon Lee Junghoon Lee Grace Rappe Karam Lee Xuchang Zhao Arlene Vespa Julian DiMaio Colleen Bishop Amy Cunningham Matt Nichols

Paul Kitchen Cameron Rodman Andrea Caputo Anne Schneider

Stephen Ulman Erik Ruge

Steven Pantazis Jennifer Kelliher Mallory Hyde James Johnston

Emily DeSmit

Lily Jackson

Alexandra Heitzman

Jennifer McCord

Charles Dillard

Leslie Bartlebaugh Yuki Gottschaldt

Grace Kennedy Christian Pepper

Drew Gingrich Brett Frenier Samantha Schonegg

Gonzalo Coronado Antone Sgro Anna Waggoner Lisa Knust

Angela Doyle Teresa Smith Ellen Wilson Alex Brosh Neeti Menon

Ashley Danielson Abby Fox Rebecca Scire Helia Taheri Nita Christopher Diana Hancock Yudi Fu Beck Schultz Morgan Rubenstein Riley Higgins Andrea Gregory Nicholas Robertson Bill Kissinger

Monica Guillaud Kristen Ambrose Carrie Grogan

Danielle Young Brawner

Kim Bolan Cullin

Jessica Edwards Yeonho Kim

Jaewan Park Howard Friend Rebecca AndersenBurke Shannon Fitzgerald Karolina Chojnowska Jess Hughes Mike Johns Dylan Scheumann Emily Homan Zhanpeng Liu Kevin Stewart Ngoc Tran Tafhimur Rahman Robert Smith Melissa Hemmingsen Sheetal Vora Allender Contarino Dennis Humphries Joseph Poli Thomas Vecchio Eric Doner Alexander McCann Jackson Opgenorth Eric Grebliunas

Leanna De La Torre Maxwell McCloskey Ben Nissley Melanie Short Aleksei Horn Craig Friedman Elizabeth Rivers Kiffany Boggess Isabella James Alisa Penkala Cherie Roberge

Sheena Rude Ashley Boyer Joel Miller

Lawrence Sykes Ashley Russell Ramona Burns

Lance Chen Xiaoyan Yin Ty Austin Erin Sanchez Ryan Turner Amber Watkins 2020 Ken Downes William Zyck Danny Karas Derrek Fields Jun Huk Jang Hyunjoong Kim Kristin Wimmer Dayle Barnes Katie Chrisco Ji Young Song Regina Pilot Kitty Yuen Victoria Piscotti Matthew Pearson Dennis Cole Patrick Meiburg Katelyn Schmitt Grace DeBaun Soyoon Kwon Chaeyoon Lee Victor Schelechow Albert Park Seungpum Yoo Andrea Morton Anna Grace FitzGerald Seong Hwi Cho Chris Harrison Gabe Bergeron Rachel Cox Megan Keller Jihyeon Kim Tommy Freeborn Juliana Rohrmoser Xiang Yin

Cameron Simko Auja Smith Jay Yi Adam Groth Nicholas Dodge Akshitha Reddy Kolagatla Andrew Harrell Marcus Avendano Claire Gilliland Jennifer Song Koeppe Maya Phillips Dante Collins Noah Holman Natalie Jorge Nicole Feldman John Scarfo Keith Sattler Jennifer Quach Elizabeth Price Alyssa Herbst Laura McHugh Anthony Shupe Tyler Parker Yoshi Rivera Christopher Padgett Hyungju Chae Keebeom Kim Seungha Kim Dongho Lee Kevin Gabonay

Niloofar Heydarian Charles Rymer Jacob Lafever Imani Person Maharshi Patel Donovan Lawnicki

Photographer Credits

Indianapolis

8. Indiana Convention Center Expansion, © William Zbaren 10. Indiana Convention Center Expansion, © William Zbaren 11. Indiana Convention Center Expansion, © William Zbaren 12. Georgia St. Improvements, © Jason Lavengood 14. (left and right) Georgia St. Improvements, © Susan Fleck 15. Georgia St. Improvements, © John Jackson / RATIO 16. Phoenix Theatre, © Susan Fleck 18. Phoenix Theatre, © Susan Fleck 19. (top and bottom) Phoenix Theatre, © Susan Fleck 20. Hotel Indy, © Kendall McQuay / The Addison Group 21. (top and bottom) Hotel Indy, © Kendall McQuay / The Addison Group 22. 9 on Canal Apartments, © Susan Fleck 24. 9 on Canal Apartments, © Susan Fleck 25. left and right, 9 on Canal Apartments, © Susan Fleck 26. 130 E Washington St, © Susan Fleck 28. 130 E Washington St, © Susan Fleck 29. 130 E Washington St, © Susan Fleck 30. Hyatt Place & Hyatt House, © Susan Fleck 32. Hyatt Place & Hyatt House, © Susan Fleck 33. Hyatt Place & Hyatt House, © Susan Fleck 34. Indiana State Museum, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto 36. Indiana State Museum, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto 37. Indiana State Museum, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto 38. RATIO Indy Studio, © Susan Fleck 40. RATIO Indy Studio, © Susan Fleck 41. RATIO Indy Studio, © Susan Fleck 42. NCAA National Headquarters, © Bill Zbaren 44. NCAA National Headquarters, © Bill Zbaren 45. NCAA National Headquarters, © Bill Zbaren 46. Millikan on Mass, © Susan Fleck 47. Millikan on Mass, © Susan Fleck 48. Simon Property Group HQ, © Jon Miller / Hedrich Blessing 50. Simon Property Group HQ, © Jon Miller / Hedrich Blessing 51. Simon Property Group HQ, © Jon Miller / Hedrich Blessing 52. Bottleworks Hotel, © Susan Fleck 54. Bottleworks Hotel, © Susan Fleck 55. Bottleworks Hotel, © Susan Fleck 56. IU Glick Eye Institute, © Susan Fleck 58. IU Glick Eye Institute, © Susan Fleck 59. IU Glick Eye Institute, © Susan Fleck

60. KAR Global Headquarters, © Brad Feinknopf 62. KAR Global Headquarters, © Brad Feinknopf 63. KAR Global Headquarters, © Brad Feinknopf 64. Butler University Apartment Village, © Megan Van Valer /MV2 65. Butler University Apartment Village, © Megan Van Valer / MV2

66. Butler University Apartment Village, © Megan Van Valer / MV2

68. Indiana Naval Reserve Armory | Riverside HS Reuse, © Susan Fleck

70. Indiana Naval Reserve Armory | Riverside HS Reuse, © Susan Fleck

71. Indiana Naval Reserve Armory | Riverside HS Reuse, © Susan Fleck

72. Butler University Hinkle Fieldhouse, © Susan Fleck

74. Butler University Hinkle Fieldhouse, © Susan Fleck

75. (top and bottom) Butler University Hinkle Fieldhouse, © Susan Fleck

76. Butler Univ Health & Recreation, © Megan Van Valer / MV2

77. Butler Univ Health & Recreation, © Megan Van Valer / MV2

78. Ironworks Hotel, © Susan Fleck

80. Ironworks Hotel, © Susan Fleck

81. Ironworks Hotel, © Susan Fleck

82. Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center, ©GrowingPlacesIndy.Org

84. Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center, ©Megan Van Valer / MV2

85. Chase Near Eastside Legacy Center, ©Megan Van Valer / MV2

86. (top and bottom) 130 E Washington Vault, © Susan Fleck

87. 130 E Washington Vault, © Susan Fleck

88. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Dinosphere & Welcome Center, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto

90. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Dinosphere & Welcome Center, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto

91. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Dinosphere & Welcome Center, © Susan Fleck

92. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Chihuly, © Susan Fleck

94. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Chihuly, © Susan Fleck 95. Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Chihuly, © Susan Fleck 96. Eskenazi Health Ambulatory Care, © Jason Keen

98. Eskenazi Health Ambulatory Care, © Timothy Hursley

99. Eskenazi Health Ambulatory Care, © Timothy Hursley

100. Indianapolis International Airport Emergency Operations, © Susan Fleck

102. Indianapolis International Airport Emergency Operations, © Susan Fleck

103. Indianapolis International Airport Emergency Operations, © Susan Fleck

104. Indianapolis Zoo Bicentennial Pavilion, © Daniel Showalter

106. Indianapolis Zoo Bicentennial Pavilion, © Daniel Showalter

107. Indianapolis Zoo Bicentennial Pavilion, © Susan Fleck

108. Town of Fishers Central Green, © Chris Butcher

110. Wabash Valley Power HQ, © Brad Feinknopf

112. Wabash Valley Power HQ, © Brad Feinknopf

113. Wabash Valley Power HQ, © Brad Feinknopf

Indiana

116. Buskirk-Chumley Indiana Theater, © Susan Fleck

117. Buskirk-Chumley Indiana Theater, © Susan Fleck

118. Graduate Hotel Bloomington, © Christian Horan

120. Graduate Hotel Bloomington, © Christian Horan

121. Graduate Hotel Bloomington, © Christian Horan

122. IU Memorial Stadium North Endzone, © Megan Van Valer / MV2

124. IU Memorial Stadium North Endzone, © Megan Van Valer / MV2

125. IU Memorial Stadium North Endzone, © Megan Van Valer / MV2

126. Marion Splash House, © Susan Fleck

128. Marion Splash House, © Susan Fleck

129. Marion Splash House, © Susan Fleck

130. Northwest YMCA, © Susan Fleck

132. (top and bottom) Northwest YMCA, © Susan Fleck

133. Northwest YMCA, © Susan Fleck

134. High Acres House, © Albert Vecerka / Esto

136. High Acres House, © Albert Vecerka / Esto 137. High Acres House, © Albert Vecerka / Esto

138. High Acres Barn, © Susan Fleck

140. St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto

142. St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto 143. St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, © Jeff Goldberg / Esto

144. Greyhound Terminal Restoration, © Susan Fleck

146. Evansville Museum Immersive Theater, © Susan Fleck

148. Evansville Museum Immersive Theater, © Susan Fleck 149. Evansville Museum Immersive Theater, © Susan Fleck

150. IPFW Helmke Library Renovation, © Susan Fleck

151. IPFW Helmke Library Renovation, © Susan Fleck

152. Lafayette CityBus Center, © Susan Fleck

154. Lafayette CityBus Center, © Susan Fleck 155. (left and right) Lafayette City Bus Center, © Susan Fleck 156. Shrewsbury-Windle House Restoration, © Susan Fleck 158. Shrewsbury-Windle House Restoration, © Susan Fleck 159. Shrewsbury-Windle House Restoration, © Susan Fleck 160. BSU Glick Center for Glass, © Susan Fleck 162. BSU Glick Center for Glass, © Susan Fleck 163. BSU Glick Center for Glass, © Susan Fleck 164. BSU Health Professions, © Brad Feinknopf 166. BSU Health Professions, © Brad Feinknopf 167. BSU Health Professions, © Brad Feinknopf 168. ISU College of Health & Human Services, © Susan Fleck 170. ISU College of Health & Human Services, © Susan Fleck 171. ISU College of Health & Human Services, © Susan Fleck 172. ISU Sycamore Towers Renovation, © Josh Pabst / RATIO 174. ISU Sycamore Towers Renovation, © Josh Pabst / RATIO 175. ISU Sycamore Towers Renovation, © Susan Fleck 176. Rose-Hulman Mussallem Union, © Susan Fleck 178. Rose-Hulman Mussallem Union, © Susan Fleck 179. (top and bottom) Rose-Hulman Mussallem Union, © Susan Fleck 180. Rose-Hulman Glass Pavilion, © Susan Fleck 182. Rose-Hulman Glass Pavilion, © Susan Fleck 183. Rose-Hulman Glass Pavilion, © Susan Fleck 184. Purdue University Neil Armstrong Hall, ©Megan Van Valer / MV2 186. Purdue University Neil Armstrong Hall, ©Megan Van Valer / MV2 187. Purdue University Neil Armstrong Hall, ©Megan Van Valer / MV2 188. Indiana State University Dede Plaza, © Susan Fleck 190. Mulberry Fields Park, © Ken Schory 191. Mulberry Fields Park, © Ken Schory 192. Ivy Tech Community College at Muncie, © Susan Fleck 194. Ivy Tech Community College at Muncie, © Susan Fleck 195. Ivy Tech Community College at Muncie, © Susan Fleck 196. Rose-Hulman Academic Building, © Josh Pabst / RATIO 197. Rose-Hulman Academic Building, © Josh Pabst / RATIO 198. ISU Hulman Center, © Josh Pabst / RATIO

200. (top and bottom) ISU Hulman Center, © Josh Pabst / RATIO

201. ISU Hulman Center, © Josh Pabst / RATIO

202. Cummins COB Interior Renovation, © Brad Feinknopf

204. Cummins COB Interior Renovation, © Brad Feinknopf

205. (top and bottom) Cummins COB Interior Renovation, ©Brad Feinknopf

Midwest

208. CPD Maplewood Park Fieldhouse, ©Tom Harris

210. CPD Maplewood Park Fieldhouse, ©Tom Harris

212. J. Parker Rooftop at Hotel Lincoln, © Susan Fleck

213. J. Parker Rooftop at Hotel Lincoln, © Susan Fleck

214. Town of Normal Uptown Station, © Susan Fleck

216. Town of Normal Uptown Station, © Susan Fleck 217. Town of Normal Uptown Station, © Susan Fleck

218. SDSU AME Building, © Kenneth Petersen

220. RATIO Chicago Studio, ©Tom Gallagher / Eleven 9 Studio

221. RATIO Chicago Studio, ©Tom Gallagher / Eleven 9 Studio

222. B1G Headquarters, © William Zbaren

224. B1G Headquarters, © William Zbaren 225. B1G Headquarters, © William Zbaren

226. UIUC Khan Health Sciences Addition, © AJ Brown

228. UIUC Khan Health Sciences Addition, © Susan Fleck 229. (top) UIUC Khan Health Sciences Addition, © AJ Brown 229. (bottom) UIUC Khan Health Sciences Addition, © AJ Brown 230. UIUC Demirjian Soccer Stadium, © Sam Fentress 232. UIUC Demirjian Soccer Stadium, © Sam Fentress 233. (top and bottom) UIUC Demirjian Soccer Stadium, © Sam Fentress

234. SLU Pius Memorial Library ATC, © Sam Fentress 236. (top and bottom) SLU Pius Memorial Library ATC, © Sam Fentress

237. SLU Pius Memorial Library ATC, © Sam Fentress 238. Busey Bank Champaign, © Susan Fleck 239. Busey Bank Champaign, © Susan Fleck 240. EIU Blair Hall Restoration, © Susan Fleck

242. Dr. Howard Elementary, © Josh Pabst / RATIO 244. Dr. Howard Elementary, © Josh Pabst / RATIO 245. (top and bottom) Dr. Howard Elementary, © Josh Pabst / RATIO 246. UIC University Hall Façade Restoration, © Tom Harris 248. UIC University Hall Façade Restoration, © Tom Harris 249. UIC University Hall Façade Restoration, © Tom Harris

Southeast

252. Southeast Raleigh YMCA & School, © Keith Isaacs 254. (top and bottom) Southeast Raleigh YMCA & School, © Keith Isaacs

255. Southeast Raleigh YMCA & School, © Keith Isaacs

256. University of South Carolina Indoor Training Center, © Gary Matson / GMATPHOTO

258. University of South Carolina Indoor Training Center, © Gary Matson / GMATPHOTO

259. University of South Carolina Indoor Training Center, © Gary Matson / GMATPHOTO

260. Duke University Parking Structure, © James West Productions

262. Town Center Entry Experience, © Marc Sillman 263. Town Center Entry Experience, © Marc Sillman 264. Garner High School, © Keith Isaacs

266. Garner High School, © Keith Isaacs

267. Garner High School, © Keith Isaacs

268. (left and right) RATIO Raleigh Studio, ©Monica Slaney / PhotographieFourSeven 269. (left and right) RATIO Raleigh Studio, ©Monica Slaney / PhotographieFourSeven

270. University of Georgia Indoor Athletics Training Center, ©Rion Rizzo / Creative Sources

272. (top and bottom) University of Georgia Indoor Athletics Training, ©Rion Rizzo / Creative Sources

273. University of Georgia Indoor Athletics Training Center, ©Rion Rizzo / Creative Sources

274. Rolesville High School, © Mark Herboth 276. Rolesville High School, © Mark Herboth

277. Rolesville High School, © Mark Herboth

278. University of Kentucky Marksbury, © Moberly

280. University of Kentucky Marksbury, © Moberly

281. University of Kentucky Marksbury, © Moberly

282. Poyner Downtown YMCA, © Keith Isaacs

284. Poyner Downtown YMCA, © Keith Isaacs

285. Poyner Downtown YMCA, © Keith Isaacs

286. Forsyth County Central Library, © Monica Slaney / PhotographieFourSeven

288. Forsyth County Central Library, © Monica Slaney / PhotographieFourSeven

289. (left and right) Forsyth County Central Library, © Monica Slaney / PhotographieFourSeven

West

292. CU Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, © David Lauer

294. CU Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, © David Lauer

295. CU Boulder Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences, © David Lauer

296. Community Library, © Gabe Border 298. Community Library, © Gabe Border 299. Community Library, © Gabe Border 300. Atlantis Apartments, © Paul Brokering 302. Atlantis Apartments, © Paul Brokering 303. (top and bottom) Atlantis Apartments, © Paul Brokering 304. CSU Chemistry Research Building, © Ross Cooperthwaite 305. CSU Chemistry Research Building, © Ross Cooperthwaite 306. CSU Bioengineering Building, © Raul J. Garcia 308. CSU Bioengineering Building, © Michael Mastellar 309. CSU Bioengineering Building, © CJ Berg 310. CU Boulder Physiology Lab, © Anne Chan / HCM 312. CU Boulder Physiology Lab, © Anne Chan / HCM 313. (top and bottom) CU Boulder Physiology Lab, © Anne Chan / HCM

International

316. ACRO Seoul Forest, © Time of Blue

318. ACRO Seoul Forest, (top) © DL ENC, (bottom) © Time of Blue

319. ACRO Seoul Forest, © Time of Blue

320. Brunnen 90, © Time of Blue

321. Brunnen 90, © Time of Blue

322. Chungdam Square, © Time of Blue 324. Chungdam Square, © Time of Blue 325. Chungdam Square, © Time of Blue

326. Nine One Hannum, © DS Hannum Ltd.

327. Nine One Hannum, © Time of Blue

328. Four Points by Sheraton, © Time of Blue

330. Four Points by Sheraton, © Time of Blue

331. Four Points by Sheraton, © Time of Blue

332. G Tower, © Time of Blue

334. Centropolis, © Seung Moo Lee

336. Centropolis, © Seung Moo Lee

337. (top and bottom) Centropolis, © Seung Moo Lee

338. Doosan Haeundae Zenith, © Albert Dros Photography

Acknowledgements

Editorial

Edward Keegan

Edward Keegan is a Chicago-based architect, writer, curator, broadcaster, and educator who has used these diverse platforms as an outspoken critic and strong advocate for the profession for more than three decades.

Mr. Keegan is a Contributing Editor for Architect magazine and writes regularly for Crain’s Chicago Business. He has written for Architecture Architectural Record Architectural Lighting Azure Builder Contract Custom Home Residential Architect Metropolis Interior Design Chicago Chicago Architect, the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, and Inland Architect

Design

Steve Liska

Liska + Associates is a Chicago-based design firm that specializes in strategic branded communications for a diverse body of clients including some of the world’s best known cultural institutions, architecture firms, real estate companies, and healthcare institutions.

A wide range of clients have partnered with Liska + Associates, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize, University of Chicago, United States Department of State, Global Payments, Northwestern Medicine, and The Art Institute of Chicago.