Averbuch’s Dove Tower

Ilan Averbuch, Israeli artist, designer and architect of the Dove Tower and Steps to the Bottom of the Pyramid sculpture next to the Information Technologies   Engineering building. Averbuch was on campus for its dedication.

Artist’s Statement

One of my goals with this project is to counterbalance the technological world of the engineering and technology students with a world of imagination and fantasy. The tower makes a historical connection because dove towers, and doves in general, were an early way of sending information across a long distance. The rising tower and sunken pyramid form a dialogue between themselves. While the pyramid offers a quiet and contemplative place to rest, the tower unsettles us. It suggests the ongoing inner dialogue between the horizontal principle and the vertical, between the earthbound and the spiritual.