Creative Construction: How Artists and Engineers Collaborate

Exploring the technical challenges behind five works of public art

Janet Echelman’s “Dream Catcher” net sculpture, viewed from below. Photo © Studio Echelman. Courtesy of Studio Echelman.

From the monumental Picasso sculpture in Chicago’s Daley Plaza, to Isamu Noguchi’s Red Cube in Lower Manhattan, SOM’s history of integrating iconic artworks into a wide variety of building sites is well documented. Perhaps less known, however, is the…