Stuart Collection
Tilted cottage cantilevered off a rooftop, floors sloped to unsettle every visitor inside.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Stuart Collection's Fallen Star at UCSD in San Diego follows artist Do Ho Suh through the November 2011 crane lift that hung a nearly seventy thousand pound cottage off the edge of Jacobs Hall, a project seven years in the making. It traces the house back to a small home Suh once knew in Providence, Rhode Island, and the engineering behind meeting earthquake code and shrugging off hundred mile an hour wind. You'll also hear about Suh's own move from Korea in 1991 and the sensation of arrival he built into the tilted rooms. Step inside and notice which way your body wants to lean.
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