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Located on the exterior entrance wall to the Frank Forward Building, the sculpture
was commissioned by UBC for the new building in 1968. The architects asked Norris
to design a work that would accentuate the building’s entrance, which was otherwise
difficult to locate.
Norris intended that the artwork be integrated with the design of the building and link
conceptually with its purpose—to house the University’s Department of Metallurgy.
Norris’ abstract brick mosaic references a crystalline atomic structure with hexagonal
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Georg e Norr is (b. 1928)
Untitled, 1968
brick
6 x 15.25 m
symmetry. This design is an artistic interpretation of a mineral compound such as
zinc, emerald or ice, all of which are six-fold in character. Norris made many of
the bricks, and impressed designs upon them with metallic components to create
pattern and texture.
Frank Forward, after whom the building was named, was a pioneer in metallurgy and
the Head of the University’s Department of Metallurgy from 1945 to 1964. In the
early 1990s the Department changed its name to Materials Engineering.
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Located on the exterior entrance wall to the Frank Forward Building, the sculpture was commissioned by UBC for the new building in 1968. The architects asked Norris to design a work that would accentuate the building’s entrance, which was otherwise difficult to locate. Norris intended that the artwork be integrated with the design of the building and link conceptually with its purpose—to house the University’s Department of Metallurgy. Norris’ abstract brick mosaic references a crystalline atomic structure with hexagonal 25 Georg e Norr is (b. 1928) Untitled, 1968 brick 6 x 15.25 m symmetry. This design is an artistic interpretation of a mineral compound such as zinc, emerald or ice, all of which are six-fold in character. Norris made many of the bricks, and impressed designs upon them with metallic components to create pattern and texture. Frank Forward, after whom the building was named, was a pioneer in metallurgy and the Head of the University’s Department of Metallurgy from 1945 to 1964. In the early 1990s the Department changed its name to Materials Engineering.