Columbus, Indiana

“As an architect, when I face Saint Peter I am able to say that out of the buildings I did during my lifetime, one of the best was this little church.” EERO SAARINEN, ARCHITECT

of midcentury modernism that Columbus, Indiana, is one of the most important design destinations in America. A laboratory of ideas spurred in the 1940s and 1950s by the patronage of the forward-thinking Miller family and its Cummins Engine Foundation, the city of 46,000 is home to a staggering number of public works created by the most recognizable names in 20th-century architecture: Saarinen, Roche, Weese, Noyes, Pei, and Pelli, among many others.