Kraus Campo
Date2004
Artist
Mel Bochner
(American, 1940 - 2025)
Architect
Michael Van Valkenburgh
(American, born 1951)
MediumTile-covered French curve shaped platform in the center of boxwood, azalea, and barberry plantings. Rear wall is a reverse Wittgenstein quote on a blue background.
ClassificationFine Art
SubclassificationSculpture
Credit LineCommissioned by former Trustee Jill Gansman Kraus (A’74) and Peter Kraus.
Object number2004.11
DescriptionCommissioned by former university trustee Jill Gansman Kraus (A’74) and Peter Kraus of New York City, the Kraus Campo is a unique gathering place symbolic of Carnegie Mellon’s multidisciplinary culture, and the first project in the university’s plan to integrate campus life with the contemporary artwork of its renowned alumni. Located on the roof of the new Posner Center between the College of Fine Arts and the Tepper School of Business, the Campo, designed and created by artist Mel Bochner (A’62) and landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh, is an integrated work combining art and landscape design. Rare among projects of this kind, it challenges the very definition of a garden: it is both garden-as-sculpture and sculpture-as-garden. https://www.cmu.edu/cmtoday/issues/august-2005-issue/feature-stories/the-kraus-campo
On view
Location
Posner Center, roof (4964 Margaret Morrison St.)
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