"Fiat Lux" takes form as installation illuminates UC Berkeley's newest engineering building
Illumination: The Strauch Hypercube
Beauty is not foreign to mathematics. The natural order is far more interdisciplinary than academia’s hyper-compartmentalized disciplines might suggest. Take the Strauch Hypercube, hanging in the Grimes Engineering Center: elegant in its symmetry, this floating lightwork embodies what one might call “mathematical beauty.”
Suspended above the building’s atrium, the Strauch Hypercube roared to life last fall at a Dean’s Society event celebrating its installation. Alumni, faculty and distinguished guests gathered across three floors as the multicolored spectacle illuminated the interior space after dark. The building’s open-concept design turned the display into a beacon visible to the surrounding campus.
The Strauch Hypercube is a generative work. It is in conversation with itself, parsing the data encoded into its LED framework to create an infinite supply of visual patterns that never repeat. (Photo by Noah Berger)
