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Title
Fallen Star: wide-angle view of garden and house with campus beyond
Creator
Suh, Do-Ho (South Korean sculptor and installation artist, born 1962)
Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Contributor
Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)
Date Created and/or Issued
2012
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, The UC San Diego Library
Collection
Stuart Collection Photographs
Rights Information
Under copyright
Constraint(s) on Use: This work is protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Use of this work beyond that allowed by "fair use" requires written permission of the UC Regents. Responsibility for obtaining permissions and any use and distribution of this work rests exclusively with the user and not the UC San Diego Library. Inquiries can be made to the UC San Diego Library program having custody of the work.
Use: This work is available from the UC San Diego Library. This digital copy of the work is intended to support research, teaching, and private study.
Rights Holder and Contact
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Description
Sculpture and Installations
Architecture and City Planning
Garden and Landscape
Do Ho Suh’s Fallen Star is the 18th permanent sculpture commissioned by UCSD’s Stuart Collection. It reflects Suh’s on-going exploration of themes around the idea of home, cultural displacement, the perception of our surroundings, and how one constructs a memory of a space. His own feelings of displacement when he arrived in the U.S. from Seoul, Korea in 1991 to study led him to measure spaces in order to establish relationships with his new surroundings. He had to physically and mentally readjust. Suh’s small “home” has perhaps been picked up by some mysterious force and appears to have landed or crashed onto the seventh floor of Jacobs Hall at the Jacobs School of Engineering. The roof garden is part of his design and the whole creates a space with panoramic views for small groups to gather and readjust. "The path leading to the house is made of 3/4 sized bricks and the Adirondack chairs are small ones. Everything is scaled down." - Mary Beebe, director of the Stuart Collection
UC San Diego Library, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0175 (https://library.ucsd.edu/dc/contact)
Jacobs School of Engineering: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States
Type
image
Format
Mixed media
Form/Genre
installations (visual works)
architecture (object genre)
sculpture (visual work)
site-specific works
landscape architecture
public art
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb11961307
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Roofs
Korean
Wide-angle lenses
Roof gardens
Paths
Dwellings
Humor
Contemporary
Cantilever construction
Windows
Chimneys (architectural elements)
Garden furniture
Landscape architecture
American
Lawns (landscaped grass)
Adirondack chairs
Houses
Flower (plant material)
University of California, San Diego--History
UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
Installations (visual works)
Architecture (object genre)
Sculpture (visual work)
Site-specific works
Public art

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