Norwalk Community College

Norwalk, Connecticut, 2003

This work provides an open “story” which embraces an expanding view of the mission and meaning of the architecture. Ten portraits of prominent figures in the history of communication span 5000 years. Their images merge with their words and with one another to form different “conversational” groupings throughout the central atrium. These lines of faces on the wall are repeated, integrated with the regulating bands of masonry, forming an understated yet articulated narrative. The trusses above reference the classical pediment where the figures, typically in repose, dance and escape the bounds of traditional academia while remaining connected to it.