The Walking Wall

Randall Hoyt, Mark Zurolo, & Barry Svigals, 2003.

This Frieze, a broad horizontal band of relief sculptures on a building, is featured on two identical buildings at the center of the UConn Storrs campus — The Neag School of Education and the Center for Undergraduate Education (CUE).  The design of the frieze was a collaboration between students, faculty, and university constituents.  It is over 300 feet long and consists of figures and words composed of anagrams from the twelve unique letters in “UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT”. The words appearing on the building were chosen from among hundreds of anagrams by the NEAG School of Education and Center for Undergrad Education at UConn that best represented the ideals of education. The phrases in the frieze are exhortations — short two word sentences composed of a noun and a verb. Randall Hoyt and Mark Zurolo, design faculty in the Department of Art & Art History in the UConn School of Fine Arts at the time this work was created, conceived and designed the final composition with architect for the renovation of the buildings, Barry Svigals, of Svigals & Associates, New Haven. Svigals sculpted walking figures into the large-scale typography by Hoyt and Zurolo which were then used to create interchangeable molds from which to cast the reliefs.

Architectural video: https://vimeo.com/54106673.