Fallen Star: distant view from Geisel Library of cantilevered house, seven stories off the ground
Creator
Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-) Suh, Do-Ho (South Korean sculptor and installation artist, born 1962) Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)
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Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)
Description
Sculpture and Installations Garden and Landscape Architecture and City Planning 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. 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
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image
Format
Mixed media
Form/Genre
public art installations (visual works) site-specific works architecture (object genre) landscape architecture sculpture (visual work)
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb83292985
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No linguistic content
Subject
Windows Humor Cantilever construction Dwellings Roofs Korean Contemporary Houses American University of California, San Diego--History UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Public art Installations (visual works) Site-specific works Architecture (object genre) Landscape architecture Sculpture (visual work)
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