INDIANAPOLIS —Ask 50 architects about their ideas to improve the urban, built environment, and chances are you’ll get 50 different ideas. Those ideas, including hand-drawn sketches will be on display beginning June 27 as part of an exhibit, “Dear Mayor: 50 Letters from Architects,” at The Hall (formerly old City Hall), 202 N. Alabama. The show opens at 5:30 p.m.
AIA hopes it helps inspire others to think, which is why, in partnership with People for Urban Progress (PUP), those who attend the exhibit are encouraged to write and draw their own ideas, which also will be posted in the gallery space.
Architects submitted a variety of ideas from urban forestry and recycling to a 5K run on the Cultural Trail to an energy efficiency program that would require all commercial and industrial buildings to post their average energy use per square foot on their front doors.
The exhibition runs through July 31. The opening coincides with the Indy 5X5 event, re:Purpose presented by People for Urban Progress.