Fallen Star: reflected view of house and garden in mirrored glass of Jacobs School of Engineering

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

• 2012

• Stuart Collection (San Diego, Calif.)

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

• Suh, Do-Ho (South Korean sculptor and installation artist, born 1962)

• Beebe, Mary Livingstone (American, born 1940)

Jacobs School of Engineering: University of California, San Diego; La Jolla, California, United States

mixed media

• Architecture (object genre)
• Installations (visual works)
• Landscape architecture
• Public art
• Sculpture (visual work)
• Site-specific works

• UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
• University of California, San Diego--History

• Adirondack chairs
• American
• Cantilever construction
• Chimneys (architectural elements)
• Contemporary
• Dwellings
• Entrances
• Flower (plant material)
• Garden furniture
• Houses
• Humor
• Korean
• Landscape architecture
• Lawns (landscaped grass)
• Mirrors
• Paths
• Reflections (perceived properties)
• Reflective glass
• Roof gardens
• Roofs
• Wide-angle lenses
• Windows

Point: 32.88146, -117.23532

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Architecture and City Planning

Garden and Landscape

Sculpture and Installations

• Rittermann, Philipp Scholz (American photographer, 1955 CE-)

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2022-10-27