It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s a…House?

A scene right out of the "Wizard of Oz," with a few modern twists, took place Nov. 15 at the Jacobs School of Engineering. A small house landed on top of Jacobs Hall, hoisted by one of the largest cranes in the United States. It was all part of the installation of a new sculpture for the Stuart Collection, which brings site-specific works of art to the UC San Diego campus. Other pieces in the collection include Sun God, near the UC San Diego Faculty Club, and Bear, in the Engineering Courtyard. The project is supported entirely by private donations to the Stuart Collection and a $90,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. This latest work is titled "Fallen Star" and is a three-quarter-sized version of a house in Providence, R.I. The entire sculpture consists of the house, cantilevered at an angle from the corner of Jacobs Hall, also known as EBU 1, surrounded by a roof garden.
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