Untitled (Architectural Terra Cotta Bricks), 2007

Will Cannings, Rob Glover, Juan Granados, Von Venhuizen, Sara Waters


Architectural Terra Cotta Bricks

Texas Tech University
Art 3D Annex
Located on walls around building

At first, humans unconsciously used prehistoric symbols that appear on walls as cave art; they later found it appropriate to incorporate elemental symbols that are commonly in 3D art disciplines. Symbols of hands, which represent sculpture, two crisp spirals, which represent jewelry, and a crisp spiral dissected by a textural spiral, which represents ceramics, are central features in this design. Salvaged rubble from the existing facility was used to retain a physical trace of the history of the site.