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illustratedvancouver:

Simon Fraser University campus concepts by Arthur Erickson & Geoffrey Massey Architects, Zoltan Kiss, Rhone & Iredale, and R.F. Harrison, from the architectural competition of 1963, seen in the book Seven Stones: A Portrait of Arthur Erickson.

Update: I didn’t realize it wasn’t solely Erickson & Massey who ended up designing the buildings at SFU; from page 57 of Radical campus: Making Simon Fraser University by Hugh J. M. Johnston:

Five firms divided the project according to their placement in the competition. Erickson and Massey, with the first pick, considered the Academic Quadrangle, but took the mall because it was the central building that integrated all the others and that they believed really defined SFU. Rhone and Iredale, with second pick, had their eyes on the Academic Quadrangle, but were persuaded by Zoltan Kiss that the science centre would be better because it would expand in subsequent phases of construction, while the quadrangle, once built, was finished.

Zoltan Kiss took the Academic Quadrangle, which he had wanted all along. With a choice of theatre and gym or library, Robert Harrison chose the library. Duncan McNab and Associates were left with the theatre and gym/pool complex, a result which pleased McNab, who had been a diver on the McGill swim team.

A few more names I had omitted that deserve credit, from the SFU website:

The design chosen was that of a young UBC architecture professor, Arthur Erickson, and his colleague Geoffrey Massey. The four other winners were William R. Rhone and Randle Iredale; Zoltan Kiss; Duncan McNab, Harry Lee, and David Logan; and Robert F. Harrison. The Erickson and Massey design had been the unanimous choice of the judges, and had met all the requirements that Shrum had outlined in his memo.

beingblog:

Producing, Mindfully
Andy Dayton, Associate Web Producer

Shortly before I dove into production on the Web site for this week’s program, Shiraz popped up in my Twitter feed with a little note:

is appreciating Jon Kabat-Zinn’s mindfulness presentation at Google. I wish I had heard of him 1,000 days ago.

This is how it often works. As the production process works its way forward, the material we’re covering hits us at different times. Krista watched this video even earlier during her interview preparation, and she brought it up in her conversation with Kabat-Zinn — asking him to do a guided meditation like the one in his presentation. (We actually ended up going with a clip from the video instead, but you can download an mp3 of the unedited interview if you’d like to hear his impromptu version.)

Kind of like Seane Corn’s demonstration of “body prayer” in our yoga program, it seemed necessary to give a sampling of meditation and mindfulness in practice, not just in theory. The necessity of this was pretty well articulated in the cuts & copy session last week; we had made it about halfway through the script, and most of us were soaking up Kabbat-Zinn’s words of wisdom when Trent stepped forward as a voice of dissent. His point was worth considering, which I’ll attempt to paraphrase: What’s the point of spending all of this time talking about mindfulness, rather than just doing it? The hope is that the clip from this video in the program gives listeners at least a little taste of the doing.

We all absorb things differently here — at different times, in different ways, and to different degrees. And sometimes there’s a bit of dissonance as well. Earlier this week I found myself stressed out while writing some language for the script, and very “mindful” of the irony of my situation. What to do when you’re producing a program that discusses tools for relieving stress and anxiety, and it’s causing you to experience stress and anxiety? Well, for starters, breathe…