Client: Texas Tech University
Location: Lubbock, United States
Completion date: 2014
Artwork budget: $235,000
Project Team
Artist
Owen Morrel
Architect
Diego Otero
Overview
Stainless Steel, Mirror & Aluminum. 10' x 10' x 10'. Commissioned by Texas Tech University. Situated in the courtyard of Texas Tech’s Experimental Sciences Building, Astrolabe is a platform for observing and questioning empirical information. The design, based loosely on the primitive navigational instrument
of the same name, is inspired by the evolution of scientific exploration.