Don’t miss the chance to register kids in grades 3–8 for Camp Architecture & Design or your kids in grades 9–12 for High School Design Studio!
🟠 Camp Architecture and Design weeks:
Week 1: June 1-5, 2026, OSU
Week 2: June 8-12, 2026, OSU
Week 3: June 15-19, 2026, OSU
Week 4: June 22-26, 2026, OSU
Week 5: July 6-10, 2026, CFAD
Week 6: July 13-17, 2026, CFAD
Week 7: July 20-24, 2026, CFAD
Week 8: July 27-31, 2026, CFAD
OSU weeks are held at Knowlton School at The Ohio State University and CFAD weeks are held at the Center for Architecture and Design in Downtown Columbus.
🟠 High School Design Studio week:
June 1-12, 2026, OSU
Learn more about the programs and register at the link in our bio.
Join us on Thursday, February 12th at the Columbus Center for Architecture and Design from 6:00 to 8:00.
Come see some relics from CSCA’s history including Pinewood Derby cars in Creative Best through the past 56 years — featuring work from our 2025 winners.
Hang out with CSCA leadership and volunteers, which some winning videos and animations from 2025, and get up close with some fun CSCA ephemera.
📍 50 W Town St
🕕 6:00 to 8:00
🥤 Drinks and refreshments
Open to all! No registration required.
More LEGO buildings are going up in our window! Join us for the opening this Thursday to see them all in person with the train in motion!
🚂 2025 Orange Line Opening Reception
📍 @centercbus , 50 W Town St
🕔 5:00 to 7:30
The LEGO buildings are going up in our window! Join us for the opening this Thursday to see them all in person with the train in motion!
🚂 2025 Orange Line Opening Reception
📍 @centercbus , 50 W Town St
🕔 5:00 to 7:30
Join us tomorrow to celebrate Letters to Ms. 1000 with Co-Author and OSU Alumni Jennifer Rittler and Illustrator, Ochuko Evwaraye!
Register: Behind the Book: An Evening with Letters to Ms. 1000 – AIA Columbus https://share.google/07fkIbFhI35lqju52
Meet our Board: Max Hentosh
Max Hentosh joined our board in 2022 and is now the chair of our Exhibits Committee. His desire to blend art, architecture, and music, lends itself to a unique perspective on our community.
Max is the Principal of HR Department Studio, a residential and boutique commercial architecture firm with research projects into the urban fabric and progressive sustainable design.
He spends his free time managing and playing in his band, DSTRESSR. An audiophile at heart, his home was designed with a full music recording studio and live room. Known to his friends as the man with too many hobbies, he enjoys woodworking, developing games, painting and drawing, and when time permits, enjoying a relaxing weekend with his partner, cat, and two dogs.
Meet Our Board: Bill Cody
Bill Cody joined our board in 2023 to further his goals of expanding the reach and understanding of design in Columbus, Ohio. He is confident that design can solve many problems that Columbus faces now and in the future.
He is a Project Architect at AECOM, where he works on projects that shape the design fabric of Columbus. Bill has also been a member of the @aiacolumbus Committee on Design since 2019.
When he’s not working or spending time with his family, Bill spends time cooking and writing. His favorite dish to cook is the sweet corn and blackberry ice cream from the Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams cookbook. He is also a cinephile, still finding time to go to the theater every now and then.
🚂 The Orange Line 2025
Urban Columbus: The Future in Focus
The Center for Architecture and Design is excited to launch The Orange Line 2025! Our theme this year is Urban Columbus: The Future in Focus, and we invite architects, landscape architects, designers, students and community members to propose new structures to fill out Downtown’s urban fabric for our city’s future.
Register by November 21 and plan a time to pick up your LEGO kit. You will need to drop off your finished design to the Center by December 1. Registration link in bio!
Please mark your calendars to join us for a celebration of the exhibit Thursday, Dec. 4, 5 p.m.-7:30 p.m., at CFAD, 50 West Town St.
One final note: If your firm is too busy this year to build a model for the Orange Line, please consider sponsoring one of our student teams from architecture and design program at central Ohio high schools.
Thanks to today’s panel and all of our attendees for joining us today for our Columbus Forward Design Month discussion!
Our Panel:
Doug Buchanan (Moderator), Editor in Chief, Columbus Business First
Amy Taylor, President, Downtown Columbus Inc.
Dan Hanes, Managing Member, The Columbus Architectural Studio
Michael Bongiorno, Managing Principal/Design Director, AECOM
Meet Our Board: Rachel Foster
Rachel is the Board Chair at the Center for Architecture and Design (CFAD). She joined our board in 2023 and has been volunteering with CFAD since 2017. Rachel is dedicated to community engagement in design and is passionate about inspiring young people to explore architecture and design.
She began as a counselor for Camp Architecture and Design and later joined the Exhibits Committee, where she curated and installed multidisciplinary design exhibits in CFAD’s downtown Columbus gallery window. She also helped facilitate Voices of Design, an annual award recognizing projects that have positively impacted central Ohio. Rachel continues to serve on the Youth Design Committee, helping develop programming for Camp Architecture and Design.
Rachel is an Architectural Designer at The Columbus Architectural Studio (@cbusarch ). She is interested in community-focused architecture and seeks projects that align with creating a meaningful, lasting impact within the built environment of Columbus and central Ohio.
Happy Design Month! Join us on October 16th from 1:00 to 12:00 PM for a panel conversation at the Center for Architecture and Design.
If you’ve been Downtown recently, you’ve noticed there’s a lot of development and construction going on, and more is coming.
We’ve come a long way and a cow town no longer are we. Please join us at CFAD to hear some of the city’s top players — including representatives from Downtown Columbus Inc. and Edwards Companies — discuss the urban renewal of our city’s core and what’s next.
The discussion will be moderated by Doug Buchanan, longtime Columbus journalist and editor of Columbus Business First.
🥡 Bring your own lunch; soft drinks, water and snacks will be provided. RSVP if you can to help us get an idea of head count, but feel free to bring colleagues along with you day of! Link in bio.
Meet Our Board: Murtadha Al-Shaikhli
Murtadha is a Team Lead with CESO, INC. He joined the Board of Trustees in 2024 because he wanted to support and apply our mission and vision to the design community:
“As part of the minority group in the design world, making design accessible to everyone is something I thrive to achieve.
Design Pop has always my favorite activity with the Center. It gives me the opportunity to interact with creative kids and see their design thinking skills and how they approach the final result.”
🗓️ Have a kid in grade 3–8? We have a free Design Pop event coming up on October 25th at the Center! They can design a mini fall/spooky house. Registration is open now on our site.
