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“It is our hope that we may live in harmony with our architectural past and that our generation may in turn create an equally harmonious future for the generations that succeed us.” So ends the preface of the 1974 publication, The Survivors: Existing homes and buildings of Yuba and Sutter Counties’ past.

The authors, Janet R. Sullivan and Mary-Jane Zall, were inspired, as many are today, by the elegance, charm and unique place in history these early buildings and homes embodied. They were also determined to raise awareness that monuments such as these tend to give slowly away to the needs of a developing city. Unfortunately, The Survivors, after being out-of-print for over thirty years, has been a waning force in preserving Yuba-Sutter’s architecture…until now.

The book itself has become a monument, a significant piece of Yuba-Sutter history and a survivor in its own right. For this reason, along with the commitment of its members to renew the community’s interest in local history, the Mary Aaron Memorial Museum of Marysville, California has announced its re-publication of The Survivors.

Although some very minor changes were made, the publisher and the editors have taken great care to preserve the content and design of the first printing. It contains over fifty images of significant and familiar structures in the Yuba-Sutter area, including the Danville House, the Old Harter Home, the Ramirez Home (otherwise known as “The Castle”), Sutter’s Hock Farm and the Harkey House. The authors provided invaluable information about each building, giving historical backgrounds of the initial occupants and commenting on each building’s architectural elements and historical context.

The message of the book is clear: if we are to preserve our heritage, we must preserve it purposefully, consciously and out of a genuine appreciation. The preservation of The Survivors was also purposeful and certainly inspired by appreciation for the authors and their original intentions. Thanks in part to the efforts of Mrs. Zall and Mrs. Sullivan, only a minimal number of the buildings mentioned in the original edition have been destroyed. This book, therefore, as was the hope of two community members in 1974, remains a work about survivors. Their legacy continues…
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SPEAKER:

Owen O'Malley is a Software Architect in Yahoo's Grid Computing team and is the chair of the Program Management Committee for Apache Hadoop. He has been a Hadoop committer since March of 2006 and more than 200 of his patches have been committed to Hadoop. Before working on Hadoop, he worked on Yahoo Search's Webmap that builds and analyzes the graph of the World Wide Web. Prior to Yahoo, he worked at NASA Ames Research Center on software model checking and at Sun working on a distributed version control system. He received his PhD in Software Engineering from University of California, Irvine.

Home page: http://people.apache.org/~omalley
email: omalley@apache.org

Free for eBig Members, Guests $10.
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Kongjian Yu, turenscape
Beijing, China
http://www.turenscape.com

Dr. Kongjian Yu received his Doctor of Design Degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 1995. He is the founder and dean of the Graduate School of Landscape Architecture at Peking University and is founder and president of turenscape, one of the largest private landscape architecture firms in China.

Quote:

"Yu Kongjian, China's pre-eminent landscape architect, was brought down from Beijing to lend the project some cachet and, as is often the case, his first move was to throw a wrench into other people's plans. Zhongshan didn't need more flowers, Yu told the city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass, the city should grow weeds. Zhongshan's leaders found the plan unsettling. 'We wanted something distinctive, but this made us nervous,' says He Shaoyang, then head of the city's planning commission. 'It wasn't like a Chinese garden with a rock here and a tree there.' But, in time, the ecological soundness and low cost of Yu's ideas won them over. 'After all,' says He, 'Zhongshan has a lot of parks. They shouldn't all have to look the same.'"

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,501060410-1179413,00.html

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and
UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
(http://www.sala.ubc.ca)

Robson Square
C300 Theatre
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from The Telegraph online
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