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Merit Award
Strands of History, California State University Chancellor's Administration Building
Location
Long Beach, CA
Client
California State University
Design Firm
BJ Krivanek Art + Design, Chicago
Design Team
BJ Krivanek (Principal in Charge), Joel Breaux, Lillian Jones, Karen Jean Hunt
Fabricators
BRO Designed Construction
Consultants
LPA, Inc. (landscape architect)
Photographer
Jeff Kurt Peterson
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Working with historians and archivists, BJ Krivanek researched California history and recent social contexts to develop an environmental art program that builds upon the urban design of the campus, siting a program of environmental elements within a metaphoric landscape. The installation is comprised of three primary groups of elements; a History Wall (an historic timeline structure inscribed with suggestive issues related to California history), Possibilities + Outcomes (layered panels inscribed with interrelated issues – possibilities and their outcomes), and Campus Foundings (lighting fixtures inscribed with the names and founding dates of the 23 campuses, which illuminate the previous elements in a metaphoric manner).
Jury Comment: "Students at this campus explore changes in the school, state, and society as they walk past three strands of text beside a raised walkway. An extrememly conceptual piece, but with clear and elegant execution. The layered type treatments are genuinely beautiful and the installation itself fits almost seamlessly in with the surroundings."
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