1998: Breaking Bonds – by Stephen Luecking

1998: Breaking Bonds – by Stephen Luecking

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Breaking Bonds – by Stephen Luecking
1998 / Stainless Steel and Copper.
Commissioned by the Illinois CBD Art in Architecture Program
Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Material Science Building).

“One of the rewards of my landing a public commission is the opportunity to once again work with Vector. The level of craft and art knowledge and their superb problem solving skills make them as much the sculptors’ colleagues and collaborators as their fabricator.”

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1998: Breaking Bonds – by Stephen Luecking

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Breaking Bonds – This three-part sculpture rests in a central courtyard among three chemistry buildings dedicated to materials science, physical chemistry and organic chemistry. It incorporates the forms of carbon molecules characteristic to each field. Most prominent is a large “soccer ball” representing the geometry of a man-made carbon atom, called the buckminsterfullerene or bucky ball. Two shapes have broken free and left a rupture in the ball. One is a single hexagon, reminiscent of a graphite platelet; the other suggests an organic molecule.

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1998: Breaking Bonds – by Stephen Luecking

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1998: Breaking Bonds – by Stephen Luecking

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Steve Mueller

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