Awards:
National Honor Award: Floor of the Year | National Terrazzo and Mosaic Association
Golden Trowel Award | International Masonry Institute
Design Awards: Honor Award for Architecture | AIA Wisconsin Chapter
Reviews:
Art in America as the Best in Public Art from 2002
Architectural Record
Algorithmic Tapestry is a 10,864 sq. ft. seven-color 3/8-inch epoxy terrazzo public art floor for the Engineering Centers Building at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The design is based on geometric algorithms commonly used by engineers, with depictions of quasicrystals, nanocrystals, and a series of digital and analog references to computing technology and numeric systems from 20,000 years ago to the present.
Artist: Scott Parsons
Architects: Flad, Madison, WI and Kohn Pederson Fox, New York
Terrazzo Strip: Scott Parsons
Terrazzo: RD Roman, Rockford, IL
General Contractor: J. P. Cullen and Sons, Janesville, WI
Installation photos here.
