Next Up: Exhibit Columbus / Sam Jacob

Published: Aug. 20, 2021, 4:39 p.m.

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\\u200bArchinect Sessions Next Up: Exhibit Columbus concludes today with our conversations with the recipients of The J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize. Today\'s final episode is a conversation with Sam Jacob\\u200b\\u200b.\\u200b

\\u200bSam Jacob Studio\\u200b\\u200b is a London-based practice that works at a variety of scales from urban planning to architecture, design objects, art, and curatorial work. Sam Jacob also currently works as a Professor of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago\\u200b, and as a columnist for Art Review. Sam\'s installation for Exhibit Columbus is located on Washington Street. He treats the six city blocks as a design object in his project titled "Alternative Instruments," telling a story of Utopia from the perspective of both history and fiction, referencing a 16th century novel by Thomas More through symbolism, mapping, and the typography of the Utopian alphabet.

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