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ProvocativeGene Arceri & Challenging World of Arceri John Paul Gene Arceri has gained Stanley J. I’veJarvis Always world attention as a ProsDorst & Ex.Cons Been Nuts writer, critic, award Stanley J. Dorst is a winning PBS reviewer retired officer of Chevron Paul Jarvis has enjoyed and publicist. A native Land Development Co. a full corporate career as New Yorker, Gene resides and CEO of Grosvenor CEO of four subsidiaries in San Francisco and 16Susan Who BergerMatter Development Co. of foreign multinationals spends considerable time Susan Berger, after a He’s been advisor to and served on six boards. Board and boat sailor, in London. Among his successful career in European governments WhenKelechi Angels Eleanya best selling books are: finance, embraced tennis player, terrible and private companies Cry Elizabeth Taylor: Her journalism as JO LEE as Vice-President of musician all tempered by Kelechi Eleanya is Life, Her Loves, Her Magazine’s Marketing The International eclectic friends – affords an economist and a Future and RED: The Editor and writer of 16 Urban Development a basis for views and committed development Tempestuous Life of Who Matter. Previously, Association and advisor opinions on a broad range expert with the UNDP. Susan Hayward. Susan held financial for The International of topics. He holds a degree in positions with major Executive Service Corps Renewable Natural institutions including on behalf of the United Resources Management TD Financial Group States State Department and a Master’s in Forest and Alliance Atlantis Agency for International Economics. Communications. Development.

LaMonte Grande S. Bell Saul Levine, Finale DoubleMD Monte S. Bell was a Entendre practicing architect in San Saul Levine, MD, is Francisco for almost 40 Lois M. Professor Emeritus years while affiliated with SensingAlan Briskin The EditorCarla Dragnea at Large in Psychiatry at the Sidmore, Owings and Unseen Carla Dragnea is a Yes,Gordon Virginia! University of California, Merrill before forming his Alan Briskin is an author, Biologist whose interest Come – Explore San Diego. Saul is an own firm in 1970. Born artist, and pioneer in the in feature writing has with Me international author in Vancouver, Canada, field of organizational encompassed ‘the study Lois M. Gordon is and former host of a Monte is now retired learning. His co- of life’. In September, a world traveler and long-running television and living in Vermont. authored “The Power 2008, she was appointed resides in California’s advice show. He is Always interested in of Collective Wisdom” Intellectual Advisor to Silicon Valley. She has especially interested in art, he began drawing won the Nautilus Book the YES! E-Help Campus spent her life as wife and the paradox of humanity: cartoons for his high Award in Leadership. His which assists 11+ million mother, chairing several our capabilities to school magazine and has work is distinguished by young people worldwide committees and indulging be benevolent and continued cartooning to a grasp of unseen forces with their problems, each in her passion for reading inspirational, yet also to the present. underlying our actions. month. yesintl.com and writing poetry. be greedy and destructive. Ray Scotty Mark Raynes L’OcchioMorris / The Eye TheRoberts Raynes Ray Scotty Morris is an Report internationally renowned Mark Raynes Roberts photojournalist and is Principal of Raynes Kathleen successful San Francisco Art + Design Ltd, an Mailliard society photographer. He internationally recognized has won 29 photo awards crystal art and design SolmssenPizzazz in just ten years – local, H. Gail Regan firm, providing interior Renowned designer, state and national, The Marvelous design solutions for writer, successful including best news Maverick luxury environments. photographer, hilarious picture of the year. Scotty Gail Regan is vice-chair of TheVera Poet’s Resnik Born and trained in speaker, chef, mixologist has received a Certificate Cara Operations, retired. Corner England, his sculpture Kathleen Mailliard of Commendation from She chairs Energy Probe Born in Prague, can be found in private Solmssen resides in the the U.S. Senate along Research Foundation Czechoslovakia, Vera and corporate art magnificent outskirts with the distinct honor and is a member of the Resnik lost most of her collections around the of San Francisco. of being written into the Canadian Association of family in the Holocaust. world. Her pinterest.com/ 107th U.S. Congressional Family Enterprise. She Her volunteer work in the fashionandflair and Record. has a PhD in Educational New Jersey court system fashionwithflair.blogspot. Theory and an M.B.A. in – as a conflict resolution com is filled with life Finance. Her background resource and advocate for lessons and laughter, in sociology and personal children’s rights – led to a exquisitely mirrored in experience of business has court appointment to the her column Pizzazz. given her an intellectual child review committee. interest in the problem Today, Vera’s writings are of evil. widely read. Dr. James T. SynapticRutka Dr. Margaret Transmission R. O’Keeffe Dr. James T. Rutka is the Umanzio R.S. McLaughlin Chair The Poet’s of the Department of Heide Van Corner Surgery at the University Dr. Margaret R. O’Keeffe of Toronto; Co-Director DorenThe Rich &Betz Umanzio, Peggy, has been Sally Anne of The Arthur and Sonia The Famous an advisor to CEOs and TheCraig Digital Ricker Labatt Brain Tumour Heide Van Doren Betz, corporate executive teams. TheReisner Poet’s Divide Research Centre, and an Art Consultant She was a cofounder of Corner Craig Ricker is a pediatric neurosurgeon specializing in Ancient the first fully-integrated Sally Anne Reisner grew prolific writer and at The Hospital for Art and Icons, has taught alternative public school up in San Francisco’s Bay among the world’s best Sick Children, Toronto, Art History and created in the U.S., has lectured Area and then taught in photographers. He went Canada. He has served world famous collections at Boston University an urban-suburban high to Russia to develop as Chairman of the of Antiquities and as well as at Stanford, school in New Jersey for an understanding of its Division of Neurosurgery, Icons. Her accomplished Berkeley and Tufts. She eighteen years. At the age world from the inside and University of Toronto photography was shown is currently writing a of fifty she left her job, to accurately portray their and President of the in a solo exhibition at the book titled Delivering on re-married and focused life predicament within American Association of Winckelmann Museum the Promise. on her writing. his books. Neurological Surgeons. in Germany. JL

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THE MARVELOUS MAVERICK

FieldBy H. Gail Regan Sociology Toronto – Canada

Sometimes the idea we use to improve seem oppressive and depressing. sociology and I am pleased that it has something may or may not be true, Recently I discovered the sociology developed. Then I had the chilling but we act on it anyway because it feels of Neil Fligstein, a developer of “field thought that field theory may be too good and is familiar from childhood theory”. According to Fligstein, disrespectful of authority to feel good, experience. organizations rarely transform and it may not be intrinsically true themselves under their own steam. either. Field theory is valid because Math, reading and writing came Organizational leaders have supportive modern society has made it so. If the easily to me, so I bought into being internal governance units that are economists are right, we have built a scholarly, conforming child. Then, sufficiently sophisticated to quash a world where people optimize what when I had to face my allergies, reformers and to resist adaptive change they buy and make investments that crowded teeth, sloppy speech and if it is costly to those in power. Either efficiently produce wealth. If the early clumsiness, I committed to allergy organizations are stable while the sociologists are right, we are good shots, orthodontics, elocution lessons elite enforce the rules, or, when their people who conform and make our and ballet, none particularly helpful, fields weaken, leaders stay in charge organizations as high performing as but I wanted to fit in. anyway. In theory, failed leaders and possible within the rules. What else organizations are winnowed out. is there to do but govern for stability When I went to university, economics and clean up immanent collapse? Field did not appeal to me and sociology However, and this is what is so theory has a ring of truth about it for did. Economics defines people as refreshing about field sociology, modern times. individuals, both self-dealing shoppers when something significantly constantly trading off price-quality and disturbing happens in an organization’s investors, weighing risk and return. field, some people, rarely the current The discipline seemed small-minded to leaders, extrude their role expectations me and uninspiring. Sociologists, and and become social entrepreneurs I became one, see people as members who successfully reconfigure the of organizations and learners of the organization and improve its field. culture of their gender and social class. Turbulence rolls through society and People live morally in the context of when it hits, people naturally gifted at their role expectations, as I knew from empathy and negotiating show up to my childhood experience. reconstruct.

Sociology made sense to me at the Field theory is a more activist, time, but as I look back its assumptions optimistic view than traditional JL

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PROS & EX.CONS

TheBy Stanley J. DorstEnvironmental Catastrophe San Francisco – California

Could environmental programs be The public and the administration fear submarine fleet cuts off overseas leading us to world catastrophe? war and believe in accommodation. supplies? No, the environmental lobby If another war is likely (and has there But beyond this war, preparation has us putting our faith into windmills ever been a century without a major would injure the environment. and energy supplies from Asia. The war devastating the world?) then our Visualize reducing subsidies for wind disruption of our Arab imports would global warming fears are leading us energy, electric vehicles, battery plants, not only limit war production and use into disaster. natural gas energy plants, etc., to meet of our entire transportation system, an expanded military budget. it would prevent the providing of First, are there signals that war is adequate food and heating. coming? How long can confrontation lead only to skirmishes before major invasions Do we have manufacturing plants of China and Russia have in Europe and Asia call on energy and sufficient capacity to match China and roughly doubled their investment in manufactured war machines? Russia in building tanks and airplanes? war equipment. No, we do not. The environmental The U.S. and Europe have cut In fact we are encouraging China lobby has us divert the defense budget their defense budgets. and Russia to take what they want by funding to reduce global warming. China is expanding its nuclear taking a pacifist posture. How did submarine fleet Ronald Reagan win the confrontation Are we going to continue to reduce Russia is expanding its missile with Russia? Not by backing away, but our relative ability to face up to these capabilities by gearing up the U.S. to be able to challenges? Yes – if global warming overwhelm Russia? fears hold sway. Eventually this will put Russia Are we prepared to deal with these and China in position to carry out confrontations? What do you think: shall we encourage acquisitions they feel entitled to. a historic tendency towards war, or Do we have an energy supply in North shall we move global warming to the The U.S. is backing away from America to support our needs when research burner and develop a war confrontation with China and Russia. the growing, sophisticated Chinese ready nation? JL

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INDULGENCES

TheBy Dr. Margaret Poet’s R. O’Keeffe Corner Umanzio, Sally Anne Reisner & Vera Resnik Photography By Vera Resnik Used To Be San Francisco – California In the cave, my knowledge is rudimentary, simplistic, cerebrally Photography encapsulated in a By Peter Solmssen, exhausted cocoon, strained, stretched San Francisco House In The Redwoods My grandparents’ house stood at the as synapses connect new verbiage. top of a canyon. The stillness of tall trees hugged our Emerging the depths of young bones, technological darkness – where wrapped in childhood chatter, discombobulation. we slept on the Developed a personality disorder – porch, four of us telling ghost stories in DTI – Dissociative Technological the dark. Impairment marked with heightened confusion, Skiing In daylight we swam in the Russian magical thinking, correlated to Slow, precise, methodical River, achievement striving. Controlling every moment swinging and jumping from hanging No need to rush ropes. Cause: electronic gadgetry trauma. Body: tilting from side to side Our mothers sat on the sandy beach Symptomatology: walk and talk Knees: gently moving up and down smoking syndrome. Talks to the air, sees others Feet: keeping time with knees, like their Camel cigarettes, paying no do same. Impulsivity, unpredictability. tiny parts moving together inside Swiss attention to us. watch We were young and fearless, Auditory illusions: beeping, chirping, Boots: cutting their signature into the undaunted by the flowing current music, voices in pockets, purses. snow, fine exact, measured lines, and weekend fathers, cautious and Inability to distinguish differences. swish, slice, swish, slice watchful. Complaints: not backed up in twenty Arms: back and forth, stroke, stroke, days, calloused, swollen thumbs – vertical swimmer’s arms My mind often returns to those forefinger, neck bent 45 degrees. Face: broad, angular, defined, calm childhood days: Fears: cloudless skies, viruses, Lips: smooth, sanded down climbing sour green apple trees in the no mail, disappearing chargers, Mouth: open a whisper, slight smile family orchard; remotes, password memory loss. Eyes: pinned straight on the path roasting marshmallows at evening From a distance, red figure sailing bonfires down Treatment: pursue enlightenment down the mountain around the trees by the local bandstand; for dummies return to cave of over the bumps down performing skits for tipsy grownups; antiquity where hieroglyphics omitted Gliding gently, playfully, cutting and walking ampersands, emojis. through the curved ice up the dusty canyon road past like a bright red salmon neighbors’ porches Learn adaptation techniques – swimming downstream. lit by swinging paper lanterns. delete used to be.

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SENSING THE UNSEEN

Becoming Conscious Of Capitalism The Death & Rebirth Of Prosperity’s Dream Moving from Factions to the Whole: Paying Attention in New Ways Mind - Body Perspectives Time Range: NOW

Mind Body Wisdom – MovingBy Alan Briskin From Part to Whole San Francisco – California

Photography By Alan Briskin

Flash Point joyous, giddy, we know it from inside our physical being. Similarly, when we are feeling disturbed, frightened, The transformation of human consciousness is no longer humiliated, anxious, or angry, our body is registering that as a luxury, so to speak, available only to a few isolated well through physical processes that cannot be negated by individuals, but a necessity if humankind is not to the outer mask we wear. Eckhart Tolle said it well: “When destroy itself. At the present time, the dysfunction of you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” the old consciousness and the arising of the new are both In our research on collective wisdom, one of the surprising accelerating. Paradoxically, things are getting worse and findings was how many people in the field of facilitation better at the same time, although the worse is more apparent understood this as an essential element in their work with because it makes so much “noise”. groups. Named one of the ten key practices for preparing for the movement to wholeness, whole body sensing was “When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch described as the movement away from logical, orderly, with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose cognitive processes alone and toward the mind’s connection yourself in the world.” to a “cellular intelligence that permeates the body… for Eckhart Tolle in “Stillness Speaks” the integration of the human system… for right and left brain integration; and essentially for the integration and Mind Body Wisdom completion of collective learning.”

The movement from part to whole includes embracing the wisdom of the body. It may seem a leap, but being aware of Alan Briskin is an author, artist, and leadership coach. our body is a direct experience of wholeness. By attending His writings include books on collective wisdom and the to breath, we slow down and cultivate presence. By being role of spirit in organizational life. Pairing prose with his aware of our physical body, we bring into consciousness HDR photography and “flash points” drawn from current the wisdom of the throat, heart, and gut. By attending to and historical perspectives, the author seeks to recover lost stillness, we awaken our connection to the infinite. wisdom and courageous action beyond the shouting and The body does not lie. When we are excited, aroused, noise of today’s headlines. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 23 EXCLUSIVE opposite: The shimmering white arch in the background was Kéré’s 2014 Sensing Spaces entry.

Diébédo Francis Kéré, KéréAfrica Architecture By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

As the first son of the headman in the small village of Gando, Burkina Faso, Diébédo Kéré was the only child permitted to go to school. While attending the Technische Universität in Berlin, he founded the nonprofit association Schulbausteine für Gando in order to fund his first project, a primary school in Gando. Although the local community was initially skeptical about a structure put together from mud bricks, Mr. Kéré created a building with a wide tin roof that protected the walls from rain and allowed air to circulate underneath to keep the building cool. The result was a structure that was far better in which to attend school than traditional concrete school buildings. Completed in 2001, it was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

In 2005 he founded the firm Kéré Architecture in Berlin, with an affiliate in Burkina Faso to oversee projects in Africa. Through the power of architecture, Mr. Kéré was determined to give back to his community. His philosophy is centered around using local building materials and techniques in a modern way while building with a small energy footprint. He is committed to education and believes in training young local people in the modern use of traditional building materials.

In Burkina Faso, his buildings are constructed out of clay, creating attractive buildings that are appropriate to the physical setting. His projects encompass climatic adaptation, low building costs, and self-building, as he believes that the local community should be aware of how to monitor the climatic conditions. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 25 EXCLUSIVE opposite: House and Studio.

GlenAustralia Murcutt By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

Born in London to Australian parents, Glen Murcutt spent the first five years of his life in Papua New Guinea, where his family’s home was made from corrugated iron on top of stilts to keep out the water and animals. This primitive style of architecture greatly influenced his future work. The family returned to Australia, and Murcutt ultimately received a degree in architecture from the University of New South Wales. He joined the firm of Ancher, Mortlock, Murray and Woolley, where he worked for five years before opening his own practice.

Mr. Murcutt works alone out of a small studio without a computer. He almost exclusively builds houses, and they are always in Australia. He is solely responsible for design and planning, and he supervises construction in person. His buildings are calculated to conserve energy and blend with the environment. While his houses are modern, he uses traditional building techniques and local materials that can be produced economically such as glass, stone, brick, concrete and corrugated metal, and he constructs so that the elements can be dismantled for reuse in the future. He factors in the movement of the sun, the moon and the seasons, and his buildings are designed to blend with the movement of light and wind.

In recognition of his achievements, Mr. Murcutt was awarded the Pritzker Architecture prize, which is referred to as “the profession’s highest honor”. It is easy to see, from examination of his work, why he likes to quote the Aboriginal proverb “Touch the earth lightly”. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 27 EXCLUSIVE Pharmaceutical Sciences building, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

SaucierCanada + Perrotte By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

Located in Montreal, the firm was founded in 1988 by Gilles Saucier and André Perrotte. While the bulk of the projects have been in Canada, Saucier Perrotte has been expanding to Japan, China, the Middle East and Africa, working on institutional, cultural and residential projects. By focusing on the physical and symbolic importance of the sites, the firm links its architecture to geology and the landscape, attempting to provide new ways of perceiving the world.

Saucier + Perrotte designs progressive, future-oriented buildings, combining architectural design with social, cultural and topographic juxtapositions. They believe that an architectural design concept plays a crucial role in expressing the positive cultural values represented by a client, institution or community. The firm has earned numerous Governor General’s Medal in Architecture awards for its projects. These include the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, which was planned around the concept of users creating meeting spaces that generate informal discussion, the First Nations Exhibition Building in Montreal, and the Communication, Culture and Technology Building at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. Its School of Music at McGill University, Montreal, is considered one of the world’s top facilities for sound technology and recording.

When awarding the RAIC Award of Excellence for the Best Architectural Firm in Canada to Saucier + Perrotte, the jury at the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada stated: “Their work explores many different themes – light and material, landscape and architecture, abstraction and occupation. The firm has pursued and achieved ‘poetics of space’ in architecture.” JL

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MADChina Architects By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

In 2014, Ma Yansong, the Beijing-based founder of MAD Architects, was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, one of the 100 most creative people in business, and the only architect on the list. MAD Architects believes it is ushering in a new era in architecture. By incorporating value, desire, culture and politics into its designs, MAD considers that structures are no longer Please resend image! isolated objects as per architectural modernity; the buildings become natural components of human life and the urban environment.

In Tianjin, China, MAD was chosen by the government to create a landmark for its new central business district. The key design feature they created is the honeycomb façade, which is comprised of five different sizes of hexagonal windows, a traditional element in Chinese architecture. The pattern gives life to the building, changing the way it looks from different perspectives. The honeycomb, in which the windows appear random, is in fact designed around the patterns of the wind and the sun on the building. The windows are placed so as to minimize heat loss in the winter and heat gain in the summer.

The Absolute Towers in Mississauga, Canada, which have been named the Marilyn Monroe towers, were designed by MAD to challenge the typical boxy skyscrapers. Whereas in most skyscrapers all but two of the floors are identical, in the Absolute Towers, none of them are. They created buildings that represent the twisting fluidity found in life, for which they were awarded the Best Tall Buildings in the Americas prize by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 31 EXCLUSIVE The Kildren Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand, Norway.

ALAFinland Architects By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

Based in Helsinki, ALA Architects combines traditional design methods with modern tools such as parametric design (generation of a design through the use of mathematical and geometric relations) and 3D printing. The firm designs a wide range of projects, pursuing fresh angles and flowing forms, including underground stations, houses, high rises and cultural venues.

In 2013, with their entry Käännös, ALA won the design competition for the new Helsinki Central Library. The ultra-modern structure is divided into three levels, with the traditional, quiet library atmosphere on the top floor, which looks out onto the cityscape, floating above busy central Helsinki. The ground floor is an active space, with the two contrasting floors connected by an arching wooden volume, which contains support spaces for the other two levels. The library is being constructed from local materials and will be very energy efficient, paying strict attention to local climate conditions.

ALA designed the Kildren Performing Arts Centre in Kristiansand, Norway to represent a transition from the everyday world to the creative environment of the arts. This notion is enhanced by setting the Centre in an industrial area, with an undulating oak wall that extends beyond the Centre’s entrance into the dull landscape, offering a portal into a new world. The rippling façade of the building echoes the canal in front of the Centre, proposing the idea that the building is fluid and exists outside the structure of everyday life. Contrasting the soft shape of the building’s façade, the walls of the main theatre are covered in metal sheets folded into sharp, geometric shapes, which suggests the industrial landscape outside. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 33 EXCLUSIVE Acropolis Museum, Athens.

Bernard Tschumi ArchitectsFrance By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

With offices in Paris and New York, Bernard Tschumi Architects is focused on the interface between 21st century culture and architecture. His philosophy centers on the concept that there is no architecture without events, actions or activity. It is not defined by its outside structure, but by its combinations of spaces, movements and events. Mr. Tschumi has stated that he wishes to produce works “upon which visitors can project their own interpretations, fantasies and obsessions.”

Bernard Tschumi Architects designed the New Acropolis Museum, at the base of the Acropolis in Athens, with the mathematical precision of ancient Greece. The route the visitor takes on an architectural promenade goes from the archeological excavations to the Parthenon Marbles and back through the Roman period. The Alésia Museum and Archaeological Park in central France commemorates the battle between Julius Caesar and the Gauls in 52 BC. Although no evidence of the battle remains, the firm has managed to integrate two buildings with the landscape, deferring to the battle site while creating a sense of respect and awe. The museum is partially buried into the hill so that it looks like an extension of the landscape, and the roof of the interpretive center is a garden which hides the building when seen from the town above.

Bernard Tschumi Architects has received numerous awards, including France’s Grand Prix National d’Architecture as well as many awards from the American Institute of Architects and the National Endowment for the Arts. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 35 EXCLUSIVE Visualization of the Estrel, Berlin’s new Hotel and Conference Centre.

BarkowGermany Leibinger By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

With an interdisciplinary approach towards architecture, Barkow Leibinger’s interaction of design, research and teaching allows them to respond to ever-changing knowledge and technology. Their projects include buildings for the workplace (industry and office), cultural, housing, event spaces, exhibitions and installations in the public realm.

In 2014, Barkow Leibinger won a competition to design a new hotel tower and conference center in Berlin as part of the city’s largest hotel complex, the Estrel. The project is designed as a series of triangulated volumes of different sizes and heights, mediating the tower into the low-rise surrounding neighborhoods. As it is not restricted by the historical constraints of the city center, it will be a collection of elements revolving around the sloped silhouette of the tower with its roof terrace pointing to the city. At 175 meters, the tower will be the tallest in Berlin.

Also in 2014, Barkow Leibinger exhibited a Kinetic Wall in a room dedicated to the history of the wall at the Venice Architecture Biennale. The Kinetic Wall was designed to “revisit the utopian dream of an architecture that can move”, altering the proportions of the space in front of it. The surface, which expanded and contracted, was activated by a grid of motorized nodes hidden behind translucent layers of fabric. Programmed to move in and out periodically, it appeared to breathe. The wall, which was materially and spatially dynamic, being made of natural and synthetic/ recycled materials, offered an alternative future. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 37 EXCLUSIVE Galleria Department Store, Cheonan, South Korea.

UNStudioHolland By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

UNStudio, which stands for United Network Studio, was founded by Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, and currently has offices in Amsterdam and Shanghai. Specializing in architecture, urban development and infrastructure projects, the name reflects the collaboration of the firm with a network of international consultants.

UNStudio developed Raffles City Hangzhou, located southwest of Shanghai, as a mixed-use complex, including retail, office space, housing and hotels. The philosophy of the project is to emphasize how the urban context meets the landscape of the city. The towers have been designed so that they twist towards the landscape, and the landscape aspect twists towards the urban context. Raffles City is located near the Qiantang River, and it contains a wave-like motion to reflect the movement of the nearby river.

The Galleria Department Store in Cheonan, South Korea was designed by UNStudio to build on the retail climate in Asia, where department stores act as social and semi-cultural meeting places in which people meet, eat, drink and shop. With this in mind, the quality of the public spaces in the building was considered an important part of the project. Included in the building are an art and cultural center, a food court and a supermarket. The façade of the building, on which 4,330 glass discs are mounted, is a constantly changing surface. The discs give a mother-of-pearl effect during the day, and at night each disc is lit by LED lights which are programmed to create a variety of colors and effects. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 39 EXCLUSIVE Le Zénith de Strasbourg concert hall, Strasbourg, France.

FuksasItaly By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

Run by Massimiliano Fuksas and his wife Doriana, Studio Fuksas has offices in Rome, Paris and Shenzhen, China. The firm consists of architects, designers, urban planners, landscape architects, a multimedia team, and graphic designers who work with consultants, engineers and artists in their designs. Their vast scope of projects includes offices, residences, cultural centers, retail developments, hotels and shopping malls.

Fuksas designed the Bao’an International Airport Terminal 3 in Shenzhen to resemble a manta ray. Wrapped by an internal and external skin, the building sustains a honeycomb motif throughout, which both allows natural daylight to filter through in interesting patterns and reduces the need for electric lighting.

In 2013 Fuksas won a competition to build the Moscow Polytechnic Museum and Educational Center. It will be located 10 km from Red Square, close to buildings built during the communist period, and is designed to communicate with the architecture of the past and to come into conflict with it. The project is composed of four elements that result in a sculpture of irregular geometry, as if cut by the wind, and is covered by pre-oxidized copper that provides streaks of green and blue. Massimiliano Fuksas called it one of his most beautiful projects. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 41 EXCLUSIVE Solstice Arts Centre, Navan.

GraftonIreland Architects By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 with the philosophy that architecture is a “silent language that speaks”, a language that can be understood by humanity worldwide without the constraints of specific cultures. They build in cities, believing that one must understand and add to the character of the city.

In 2008, Grafton Architects won the World Building of the Year Award at the World Architecture Festival for the Universita Luigi Bocconi in Milan. The building includes offices for 1,000 professors, five conference halls, lecture theatres, courtyards and concourses, with offices for teaching staff suspended above. At the award ceremony, the building was deemed to have “a heavy relationship with the landscape of Milan”, and to have “the capacity to make a profound difference to the lives of its users. Grafton Architects have opened up the past of the city with a 21st century attitude”.

Although most Irish towns contain a pivotal element that forms the center, such as a market or a church, the historic market center in the town of Navan, Ireland was empty until 2006 when it became home to the Grafton-designed Solstice Arts Centre. It is now the new cultural anchor of the town.JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 43 EXCLUSIVE The Musashino Art University Museum and Library, Tokyo, Japan.

SouJapan Fujimoto By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

A designer of contemporary architecture, Sou Fujimoto is inspired by nature, particularly forests, caves and nests. Mr. Fujimoto’s cutting-edge residential homes ignore typical space planning, challenging people to adjust to how they live. For a home in Tokyo, he designed a structure out of steel and glass without interior walls. Regarding the cave as a raw space where function was determined according to human behavior, Mr. Fujimoto designed the Final Wooden House in Kumamoto, a structure composed of large cedar beams stacked like blocks that encouraged the residents to interpret the space according to their own needs and use the surfaces as walls, floors or sitting areas.

The library at the Musashino Art University Museum & Library in Tokyo, designed by Mr. Fujimoto, is made of spiraling walls of bookshelves, and suggests a new relation between the users and the books, which surround and shelter them. Circulation routes spiral around the ground and first floor between spaces cut out of the shelving.

In 2013, Mr. Fujimoto accepted an invitation to create the annual summer pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Inspired by the forests of Hokkaido in northern Japan, he designed a grid of intersecting white steel tubes that merged with the landscape, encouraging visitors to interact with the Pavilion in different ways throughout the four month exhibition. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 45 EXCLUSIVE Soumaya Museum, Mexico City.

FR-EE Fernando RomeroMexico Enterprise By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

Fernando Romero was chosen a “Global Leader of Tomorrow” by the Architect and World Economic Forum, a designation given to people of outstanding ability who had an interest in global progress and who took action on issues critical to the global agenda of the future.

In keeping with this outlook, Fernando Romero’s firm designed FREE City, a model for constructing new cities in emerging economies of the 21st century. The prototype redefines the concept of a city by integrating ideas of sustainability, population growth and urban interactions. The city is designed in a radial pattern, creating hierarchical zoning which allows for continuous growth in all directions. The public transit system allows residents to always be within an eight-minute walking distance of a tram station, and hence the city is car-free.

Another significant accomplishment of Fernando Romero was the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City. Its complex geometry and top-heavy shape were achieved by the inclusion of 28 curved steel columns of varying sizes and shapes into the building shell. The structure is covered with 16,000 hexagonal tiles of mirrored steel, which gives the museum a varied appearance depending on the weather and the viewer’s vantage point. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 47 EXCLUSIVE Busan Opera House, South Korea.

SnøhettaNorway By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

With offices in Oslo and New York, Snøhetta has sought to rethink the relationship between building and landscape.

The Busan Opera House in South Korea, which is situated on reclaimed land on the city’s waterfront, plays a part in converting the former industrial area into a public space. The layout of the building is based on historical and philosophical relationships that are very important in Korean culture, where trigrams of Kun (Heaven), Kon (Earth) and Kam (Water) meet. The bars of the trigrams are deformed so that they bend, touch and meet each other.

In 2004, Snøhetta was awarded the commission to design the only building on the memorial plaza of the World Trade Centre site in New York City. The low, horizontal Pavilion and its uplifting geometry serves as a bridge between the Memorial and the Museum, between the light above the ground and the dark of the Museum below the ground, between collective and individual experiences. The reflective and transparent surfaces of the Pavilion inspire visitors to walk right up to it, to touch it, and to look into the building. Snøhetta has stated that they want people to physically engage with the building, and believe it leads them on to other areas of the site. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 49 EXCLUSIVE The projected structures of Casa das Histórias Paula Rego incorporate fundamental elements at the site.

SoutaPortugal de Moura By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

A follower of the minimalism of Mies van der Rohe with a flair for originality, Eduardo Souta de Moura is known for his skilled use of materials and for his startling use of color. He has stated that he avoids using endangered or protected species; wood should be used in moderation and forests replanted. In awarding Souta de Moura the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the jury stated, “His buildings have a unique ability to convey seemingly conflicting characteristics – power and modesty, bravado and subtlety, bold public authority and a sense of intimacy – at the same time”.

In designing the museum in Cascais, Portugal dedicated to the work of local artist Paula Rego, Souta de Moura explored the premise that a museum should be a place of gradual discovery, leading the visitor along a pathway that encourages interaction between the art and the spaces that contain it. The museum, constructed from red-colored concrete, contains two pyramid-shaped towers which appear to announce the rest of the building behind.

One of his most interesting works is a football stadium carved into a mountain in Braga, Portugal. The Braga Municipal Stadium was awarded the Chicago Athenaeum International Architecture Award for best new global design. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 51 EXCLUSIVE Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture to be completed 2015. Washington, DC.

DavidUnited Kingdom Adjaye By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/London/ Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

Born in Tanzania, David Adjaye set up his practice in 2000 and currently has offices in London, Berlin, New York and Accra, Ghana. In 2007 he received the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from the Queen for services to British architecture.

Adjaye Associate’s largest commission has been the design of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. The building is a modernistic structure imbued with African motifs. It is clad with 3,600 aluminum panels coated with bronze and are modeled on ornamental metal castings originally done by slaves in Charleston and New Orleans using techniques that had been developed in Africa. Designed along the lines of ancient ziggurat temples, the building itself suggests upward mobility into the sky. The intention is not to exhibit past trauma, but to be uplifting, showing a people who overcame their difficulties and made America a better place.

Working in Europe, North America, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Mr. Adjaye has built two public libraries in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo, and the Bernie Grant Arts Centre in London. JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 53 EXCLUSIVE Barclays Center: View from Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues at Dusk.

SHoPUnited States Architects By Susan Berger Special Assignment New York/San Francisco/Hong Kong/ London/Tokyo/Rome/Toronto

Photography By Bruce Damonte

Located in New York City, SHoP Architects has a vision of reimagining urban spaces and building better cities.

Their work on the New York City waterfront has encouraged them to answer the question, “What does it mean to build on the water’s edge in an era of climate change?” Their solutions have been varied. At the soon- to-be-built Harbor Commons, a retail and hotel complex next to the Staten Island Ferry terminal, they are designing parking garages to gather floodwater before it flows to the residential areas. The plan for the redevelopment of Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar factory site includes porous parklands that will absorb rising waters, thereby protecting the surrounding buildings.

SHoP constructed the Barclays Center arena in Brooklyn with 12,000 weathered steel woven panels forming a wall surrounded by three articulating glass bands. With reference to its urban environment, the panels incorporate the essence of Brooklyn’s brownstones. The band at ground level rises and lowers and ultimately cantilevers out forming a beautiful canopy and creating a public space in what was one of New York’s busiest traffic intersections. A second glass band permits views from inside and outside the building, and a third band floats around the roof. JL

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YES, VIRGINIA! COME - EXPLORE WITH ME

As you venture out into our world, your travel can consist of a day visit to the closest towns or a journey that will place your feet clear on the other side of the world. It is all about discovery and about everywhere you walk. So, COME – EXPLORE WITH ME. opposite: Open-air Atrium Lobby aboard Viking Longships.

Christmas On The River Rhine By Lois M. Gordon AboardSilicon Valley – California Viking River Cruises

If you have never experienced the you sail by and tour both Marksburg with the tunes of traditional carols Christmas Markets along the Rhine, Castle and the ruins of Heidelberg around every corner. it is time. These markets make us all Castle. wish for times now past. However This is a great trip filled with wonder the old traditions are still alive with Admire Cologne, the jewel of the and beauty. beautiful markets with beautiful Rhine, with its awe-inspiring Dom, decorations and food to tempt and experience the lush landscape A Viking River cruise is always a everyone. of the Black Forest region. The special treat, but at Christmas, it is Cathedral, begun in 1248, was not truly wondrous offering a more refined Booths are lined up, the winter air completed until 1880. For over seven and intimate experience. is filled with the delicious smells of centuries, the same faith and a spirit Stollen (a fruit bread), bratwurst, of absolute fidelity to the original Rhine Getaway — eight days, six and spicy gingerbread cookies; all are plan inspired successive builders. In guided tours, four countries. difficult to resist, as is the mulled wine the heart of the town stalls are set out and baked apples. No watching the displaying a huge range of traditional View Christmas Cruise dates and waist on this trip! Christmas gifts and decorations, prices / See Holiday Cruises to other wooden toys, glass and ceramic and destinations: www.vikingcruises.com There are wooden figures, musical porcelain items; with marionettes, clocks, wonderful baked goods and nutcrackers, music boxes and figures hand-made gifts and decorations. The being among the most popular. horns of heralding angels are replaced by hunting horns, the animals baying Explore Holland’s famous windmills in the manger are real and pet-able. and waterworks, encounter And if you’re lucky, you’ll see Santa multicultural Strasbourg in France, making an appearance in a horse and take part in the inviting nightlife drawn sleigh with the horns and a in Rüdesheim’s Drosselgasse. On children’s choir heralding his arrival. this itinerary you see a lot without spending a lot. Visit all the highlights of the legendary Rhine in just eight days. The Magic of the European Christmas has cruises sailing from November 29 In Germany, see the many charming through December 14. Here, the spirit castles commanding the riverbanks as and romance of the holidays come alive JL

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The Provoc & Challenging

DaughterBy Gene Arceri Dearest Exclusive New York – San Francisco – London

Christina Crawford dipped her herself in at the time. So a seed was temperamental bitch! Not on your poison pen into the well of cupidity sown which reaped its harvest when goddamn life!” He ended up adoring to tome yet another book about life she adopted her ideal blond, blue- her. She ended up with an Oscar! with mother, to exhume the ghost eyed children. Like the ethereal of the legendary star with coffers Dearest, with her child, Joan hoped Joan lived in a Fifth Avenue dwindling – could it have been a to emulate that relationship. Joan penthouse apartment in Manhattan need for attention? also gave her adopted children from where her fans always got a names that began with the letter C return note. Joan Crawford’s espoused child – Christopher, Christina, the twins claims her benefactor and rescuer, Cathy and Cindy because her given When her last husband died and demanded she be called “Mommie name was changed to Crawford condolence cards came in – 15 Dearest” out of some psychotic quirk. which she believed brought her and minutes later it seemed, there were Sorry, Christina but Joan heard the her children luck. notes in return. I thought, “What name on the movie set of “Little did she do? Write thank you notes to Lord Fauntleroy” (1936) while she An Aries, Joan, worked her way out her thousands of postal fans during was making “The Gorgeous Hussy” of a tough childhood; laundress, the burial service?” Joan found (1936). The movie was based on the waitress, shop-girl, contest dancer. jobs for fans, gave financial aid, and novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, It taught her very strict discipline. hearing someone was sick became a written over 100 years ago, in 1886. Self-improvement was one of her nurse who demanded you get well. commandments. She really should have adopted her Mommie’s name, in the book and fans! film, was Dearest, played by the When she was taken on at MGM beauteous actress Dolores Costello. Studios it was not a convent, but Crawford was undeniably riveting Crawford admired Costello for her literally a lions den. In those days it and a great actress. Turner Classic lady-like gentility, and her blond, was a man’s world and the big stars Movies agreed. blue-eyed sweetness. The scenes that survived became masculinized between mother and devoted child too. When director Michael Curtiz brought tears to Joan’s eyes. heard that Bette Davis dropped out of Mildred Pierce and that Impressionable Joan always played Joan Crawford would replace whatever role she happened to see her, he raged, “Me, direct that JL

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PIZZAZZ

AndBy Kathleen That’s Mailliard Solmssen Pizzazz San Francisco – California

Photography By Peter Solmssen Jewelry designed by Kathleen Mailliard Solmssen

We met a few weeks ago at a museum We have friends all over the world. play cupid. Just last night, a very press preview in San Francisco. “Call With a click of “Send”, we can share close friend and my pal’s brother had when you get to New York, I’ll pick our friends. One of my best friends a first cocktail date in Beverly Hills. you up at the airport. You will get is teaching art on a world cruise. Curious? Yes, they had a delightful along like a house on fire with my Last week, she shot a quick email evening together. When we were wife.” Last month, before leaving on to me: “Could you please send a children, sharing anything was nearly a Mexican coast cruise, a pal wrote: picture of me to your friend so she impossible. Today, sharing is a gift “I’m wintering in Puerto Vallarta. will recognize me when I meet her at and sharing friends is THE BEST. While you’re in port, let’s have the restaurant in Mumbai?” Never margaritas at my favorite spot!” New having met, my two friends had a Remember, during the initial “hello” relationships can come to life just as marvelous evening in India. Lyle in emails, because the scenes aren’t old friendships can stay alive through has been working in Shanghai for involved, wit, wisdom, likes and the “Zip-A-Dee-Doodah” – “faster the past 10 years. Anne just moved dislikes get to surface – safely. than a speeding bullet.” From LOL there. After a few weeks of “back blasts to profound thoughts, writing and forth”, they met for tea. Just as Let the heart lead. All else will heart to heart emails can create and I had hoped for, before the teapot follow! And that’s PIZZAZ! strengthen relationships. way empty, they had become close friends. In our grade-school days, most of us had pen pals. My best friend But back to my Mexican coast cruise. wrote to a girl in France. My pen The first day out, I met a single, great pal lived in Boston. Every day, I’d guy. Fast forward: after my long check the mailbox to see if there was distance introduction, he is now in an envelope with my name on it. an emailing relationship with a pal WOW it was exciting to receive a real here in San Francisco. I knew it letter from “my” special pen pal. would work.

Today with the Internet, it’s all Now, back to margaritas in Puerto about instant gratification, stories, Vallarta. During a few rounds and suggestions, applause and support. our share of girl-talk, we decided to JL

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THE RAYNES REPORT

NovaBy Mark Raynes Scotia Roberts - The Charm Of The Maritimes Toronto – London

Photography By Mark Raynes Robert.

Over the past few centuries, the including Nova Scotia School of Art yachtsmen, who enjoy the thrill of the Maritimes have staged many historical and Design, University of King’s treacherous Atlantic Ocean and the battles including the Acadian Civil College, Dalhousie University, St. knowledge of a safe mooring at the end War, colonial wars, and the War Francis Xavier and St. Mary’s, among of each day, not to mention a cold beer of 1812, so it doesn’t take much others, and has a very vibrant cultural and a bite to eat at Chester’s Rope Loft imagination to appreciate why scene. An exciting new addition to Inn, situated right in the harbor. Halifax is such a well-fortified city. Dalhousie University is the Dalhousie The magnificent Fort George still School of Performing Arts which was Even the iconic, postcard place of sits regally upon Citadel Hill, in the supported by the kindness of Halifax Peggy’s Cove is beyond what you might perfect position for any skirmish, philanthropists, Fred and Elizabeth imagine. The great, sloping rocks which nowadays is most likely to Fountain. atop which the Lighthouse stands are involve a coach full of smartphone- spectacular and wonderfully moody wielding tourists. The province of Nova Scotia dates back subjects for photography with the sea in the Royal Charter to 1621, and is rising and falling and slapping them This defense-focused architectural the second smallest Canadian province with waves. The popularity of the past is different from the charm and after Prince Edward Island. Cape place in the summer months is a good openness you will encounter with Breton Island, famous for the Cabot reason to visit Peggy’s Cove in the off- Maritimers. My first encounter with Trail Scenic Highway, and Sable Island, peak times so you can experience and a Haligonian (a Halifax resident) was famous for its many shipwrecks and capture one of the country’s wildest, back in 1982, when a Stan Rogers (a wild horses that still roam free, are also most beautiful, and inspiring sites. storied Canadian folk singer) album part of Nova Scotia. was thrust into my hands as imperative Nova Scotia holds a part of Canada’s listening for any new immigrant to What I love to explore are the early soul and its a lasting one, too. Canada, which I was at the time. I am charming villages and towns outside of still a fan of the late Stan Rogers, and Halifax, such as historical Lunenburg his “Barrett’s Privateers”. (a UNESCO World Heritage site), Chester and Mahone Bay, which are Halifax, the capital of Nova Scotia, beautiful retreats by the sea. It is also also boasts several major universities a sailing mecca for many world-class JL

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DOUBLE ENTENDRE

GetBy Saul Levine,Thee MD To A Shrink! San Diego – California

Cynics say that the first response to ways of coping with stress. A mental Others use a wide range of a personal crisis in Manhattan and health professional (psychiatrist, alternative therapies and swear by Hollywood is, “Get thee to a shrink”. psychologist, social worker, their effectiveness, like mindfulness, Psychotherapy is both praised and counselor, etc) might well be helpful, EMDR (eye movement denigrated. It is seen by some as but there are many other supports. reprogramming and reprocessing), healing, by others as an exercise in Some people use friends or family biofeedback, naturopathy, futility, and still others as an excuse as sounding boards for meaningful hypnotherapy, Chakra-based for lack of individual accountability. support and counsel. Others confide healing, guided imagery, mind-body Depending on the perceptions in their rabbi/minister/priest/imam, integration, and many others that are of different cultures, it might be etc, or their family physician, and offered nowadays. considered appropriate by some, or some confide in their hairdresser or shameful by others. bartender. But merely hanging up a shingle doesn’t confer expertise, and Psychotherapies (and medications) Whether to see a therapist is usually accepting “whatever works” as a can be/are critically important in a personal decision, but when dictum can actually be dangerous. the diagnosis and treatment of troublesome symptoms (anxiety, The public has to be protected from serious mental disorders, like severe anger, insomnia, sadness, confusion) self-anointed amateurs, charlatans anxiety, depression, psychosis, bipolar persist, and become severe enough and even dangerous practitioners. disorder, and substance abuse. to affect our functioning, these Stringent regulations of all the are strong reasons to seek professional healing practices, including their But how about the problems of guidance. education, training, licensure everyday living, the distress we feel exams, ethics, confidentiality when we are inundated by pressures, Perhaps surprisingly, many even and monitoring/supervision are or when we get into repetitive sophisticated families consult their absolutely necessary. difficult situations, or we feel astrologers, or other nontraditional overwhelmed? People use different seers when the going gets tough. JL

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THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS

opposite: Pierre Bonnard’s “Paris on Bastille Day” 1890, one of many stunning examples of small impressionist paintings.

Bouquets To Art And Impressionist Paintings At San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums Photography and Text by Heide Van Doren Betz San Francisco – California

“God Loved the Flowers and Invented and African art, as well as costume and paintings by giants of the Impressionist Soil; Man Loved the Flowers and textile arts. In creating floral pieces period, such as Van Gogh, Cézanne, Invented Vases.” Author Unknown for this year, the 125 invited floral Gauguin, Renoir, Monet, Bonnard and designers were asked to complement others. These small treasures usually Annually, museums across the United a specific work of art by considering hang in a special suite in the National States invite well known, creative not only the image but the lines, color Gallery’s East Building. These spaces floral designers, gardeners and garden and shapes. There was no wrong way are currently undergoing renovation clubs to create floral arrangements that of interpretation – a gut reaction with so the Fine Arts Museums of San interpret or mimic certain paintings a splash of floral color to express the Francisco is exhibiting these treasures. and sculpture in the museum’s feeling of the artwork often resulted collection. These exhibitions include in a stunning creation. The final These small-scale (therefore intimate) lectures and hands-on floral design outcomes ranged from miniature to works were painted for the patron or instruction. Usually lasting four or five gigantic. friend’s salon or the home. They often days (flowers are refreshed daily) they deal with subjects of everyday life, such are the best attended in the museum Across town, on a hill overlooking as a woman with her cat, or a woman communities and raise considerable the famous Golden Gate Bridge, the in the kitchen, or just a vase of flowers. donations for museum programs, Legion of Honor, a replica of the Palais They emphasize the close relationship such as art acquisitions and special de la Légion d’Honneur in Paris, was and friendship the artist often had with exhibitions. built for the International Exposition his subject. of 1915. The museum’s collections This year, San Francisco’s 30th “ include European paintings, sculpture To link these two exhibitions consider Bouquets To Art”, was held at the (Rodin’s “Thinker” rests in the these quotations: “I owe having landmark de Young Museum, the courtyard), ancient and decorative art, become a painter to flowers.” Claude original building stemming from an and an extensive collection of works on Monet. “There are always flowers for international exposition in 1894. The paper. those who want to see them.” Henri present building, a contemporary Matisse. copper and glass design by Herzog & “Intimate Impressionism from de Meuron, opened in 2005. It houses the National Gallery of Art” is an significant masterpieces of American outstanding exhibition of masterpiece JL

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 77 opposite: Floral Design Inspired by a Tiffany Lamp: these incredible patterns would decorate any tree any time.

Lovey’s Garden by Debbie Hitchcock Art: Franklin Simmons’s “Penelope”. Shiny, silver holiday baubles reflect the crowd and complement the colorful stripes in the painting. opposite: IM Designs stunningly set off Robert Motherwell’s “At Five in the Afternoon”. Yes, less is more!

opposite: White anthuriums on mahogany steps (clever substitute for your next tree) echo the photorealist depiction of Alexander Pope’s “The Wild Swan”.

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L’OCCHIO / THE EYE

opposite: Gilberto Munguia on his way to the Teatro Angela Peralta to perform in a Chamber Concert for the San Miguel Chamber Music Festival, in Mexico. The Parroquia is illuminated in the background.

GilbertoPhotography and TextMunguia from the private - collection World of Ray ScottyRenowned Morris Cellist San Francisco – California

World-renowned cellist, Gilberto Asia, South America and the United distinguished Gilberto Munguia has Munguia was born in Kingsville, Texas States. He once turned down a royal served as Director of Concert series in 1937. His father, an orchestra leader performance with the king of Belgium, world wide and currently is the director and trumpet player, instilled in him his due to a prior commitment he felt he of the Festival de San Miguel de Allende love for music. He started piano lessons could not break. The press around the which he founded in 1987. The 10-day at the age of five and at thirteen switched globe has praised him as a great cello chamber festival takes place the last two to the cello. With a masters degree in talent who has, as a Swedish music critic weeks of the year in this beautiful city in music from Yale University he was ready wrote, “solid technical skill and beautiful the heart of Mexico and was recognized to begin his career. He’s since performed tone”. in the International Herald Tribune as at Carnegie Hall, New York, the “one of the most extraordinary festivals Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, as well as With a career which has encompassed of our time”. in dozens of venues throughout Europe, all the hallmarks of success, the JL

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Gilberto greeting guests at a Halloween party at his villa. Gilberto relaxing with his morning coffee by his pool.

Rehearsal on stage at San Miguel’s Teatro Angela Peralta.

At home, catching a little nap with Tanki on guard.

INDULGENCES

opposite: Syd Gris during sunrise at Burning Man.

Opulent Temple Music Camp

AtBy Karin Burning Conn Man San Francisco – California

Photography By Samantha Hogg San Francisco

Opulent Temple is a leading not-for- the soul getting left behind,” explains Turkish. It incorporates an interactive profit art and music stage production DJ and Opulent Temple founder Syd element and when participants dance, based in San Francisco. In addition to Gris. lights change color and flames ignite. nightly parties at the annual Burning Man experience, it hosts events Mr. Gris is a modern-day Bay Area Burning Man denies grant money or throughout the year that showcase Renaissance man, a board member any funding to support this project underground, world-class electronic and producer of San Francisco even though its specs are within dance music. Their vision is to gift LovEvolution (formerly known as specified guidelines. “We still built this a space for sacred dance with the LoveFest and Love Parade), founder of art piece and went to the community intention of creating an opening Opel Productions, a music producer, via a Kickstarter campaign. I’m just for peak experience, community blogger on social issues, and a DJ. frustrated that the Burning Man development, and inspiration. He has been consistently voted in the administration doesn’t realize that the Opulent Temple creates a playground Top 10 San Francisco Dream Team success of their event is as much to do for connection with the eternal, but poll, and plays the biggest events in with the musical art as it is with the is still infused with a need for social California. Syd also happens to be visual and structural art,” says Gris who action in the real world. a child psychologist with a Doctorate founded Opulent Temple at Burning in transpersonal psychology. Man 11 years ago, arguably the biggest “Big beats and community are the music camp and longest running – launching point for insight to remind Opulent Temple exists through the still going strong solely because of the us there is a point to evolution; efforts of its “tribe” and the volunteers community that backs it. transcendence and nothing less. who put a lot of time and money into It might sound like hippy New these efforts on a year-round basis. Burning Man 2014 took place in Age nonsense, but it doesn’t mean it Opulent Temple’s 2014 DJ booth at Black Rock City, Nevada from August isn’t true. It is our view that social Burning Man was co-created with 25th to September 1st. To learn more change will not happen without a well-known artist, Sean Orlando visit: http://www.burningman.com/ individuals doing their part to elevate (Rocketship, Steampunk Treehouse). whatisburningman/ our collective spiritual center of gravity, Sean and members of Opulent Temple nudging our own evolution to catch up designed a metal sculpture called Opulent Temple website: http://www. with the growth of technology without the Armagan, meaning “the gift” in opulenttemple.org JL

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WHEN ANGELS CRY

The Next 100 Years: One Child’s Journey. How She/He Will Live, Love And Never Really Die.

Global Child Trafficking Closing The Gates By Kelechi Eleanya United Nations Development Program The Niger Delta – Nigeria

Every year, children of up to $10 billion per year. hazardous conditions, such in demand for adoption different ages, races, tribes Trafficking of children links as handling chemicals and has helped to propel the and cultures are illegally all countries and regions in a pesticides or for operating unlawful trafficking of migrated from one location web of international crime. dangerous machinery. babies and young children. to another for several Children are smuggled The International Labor Children, particularly young purposes. These children are across borders and sold Organization (ILO) boys, have been trafficked forced and coerced against like commodities annually. estimates that the majority as camel jockeys. The their will to achieve the Others are trafficked within of child domestics are girls. sport is a lucrative industry, goals of the traffickers. The their home countries, Children, especially girls, and children are especially Palermo protocol defines usually from rural to urban are trafficked to work in appealing for this purpose trafficking in persons as “the areas. brothels, massage parlors, because of their small size. recruitment, transportation, prostitution rings, or strip transfer, harboring or receipt It is estimated that 50 clubs, or used to produce Children may be recruited of persons by means of percent of trafficking victims pornographic materials. and trafficked to earn money threat or use of force or worldwide are children. It is estimated that child for others by begging or other forms of coercion, of soldiers have been used in selling goods on the street. abduction or of the giving Children are trafficked more than 30 ongoing or or the receiving of payments into a range of exploitative recent armed conflicts in There is a strong need or benefits to achieve the practices that include: labor almost every region of the for cooperation among consent of the person exploitation, marriage, world. Girls are trafficked countries of origin, of having control over another military conscription, sexual as brides for various reasons. transit, and of destination as person, for the purpose of exploitation, domestic Early marriage is common means to eliminate human exploitation”. Trafficking in work, illicit adoption, in Central and Western trafficking. human beings, one of the begging, sport and organs. Africa, where 40 percent most lucrative and fastest Children may be trafficked and 49 percent, respectively, Let’s all fight this evil – with growing transnational crimes to work on plantations, of girls under the age of 19 all our voices – and close the generates approximately in mines or in other are affected. An increase gates on child trafficking. JL

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THE DIGITAL DIVIDE

WhyBy Craig Ricker The Left Hates Vladimir Putin Moscow – Russia

When one steps back and observes the society was in the hands of criminal non-Marxist societies but does not conflict in Ukraine and the rabid anti- oligarchs, bandits, and corrupt explain what a Marxist society will be. Putin media campaign, the question bureaucrats. Mr. Putin achieved an Strobe Talbott’s one world government must be asked, why? amazing success. He gradually and is the same, it exists only to demolish artfully enforced the law. Step by step all societies which stand in the way of Putin’s Russia is not threatening the he reeled in the criminal anarchy. This his global conquest, as explained in his West and has been a good partner on is what has infuriated the left! Have a book “The Great Experiment.” Today the war on terror. This means that look at BBC’s HARDtalk and watch Putin’s Russia is not oppositional, there is no rational reason for this Strobe Talbott lamenting for the thus standing in the way of globalism. extreme aggression from the Western good old days of Yeltsin’s dystopian To grasp the totality of oppositional left. We must look to the irrational for nightmare as apposed to today’s relative theology one must understand that answers. law and order in Russia. in the 4th century the oppositional theology Christianity was officially I have identified two aspects of the You might ask, “Craig, why would born followed by Islam, then Marxism Putin regime that have driven the left the left get upset about law and and now Globalism. It has been a to risking a third world war for no order?” Imagine how loud the left sixteen hundred year blood bath. concrete reason. The first is Putin’s would scream if an American president Ukraine is just one more tiny step. style of leadership and the second enforced existing laws, no presidential is a bit more abstract, oppositional decrees, just existing law. For example: theology. enforce immigration law and the war on drugs. The Molotov cocktails In 1999 when Mr. Putin took power would be flying. In 10 years Mr. Putin Russia was in a state of criminal won the war on drugs and crushed anarchy. An anarchy created by the the mafia. Things are far from perfect Trotskyite left in the West and inside in Russia, but it is a world away from Russia: the Andropov, Gorbachev Yeltsin’s Russia. alliance connecting to the Strobe Talbott radical globalist left. Second point is oppositional theology. What is that? It is a regime that exists Mr. Putin faced an impossible task. only in opposition to something else. Every aspect of the economy and Marxism exists in opposition to all JL

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THE PRIVATE MUSEUMS

TheBy Julie Rekai OctagonRickerd Museum Toronto – Canada

Once Washington, in the District for brightness using very expensive a large wine storage area and living of Columbia, was chosen as the pigments, had “hidden” closets for the quarters for the servants and slaves. Of permanent capital of the United States, guests and two staircases, one for the the several outbuildings that included its first president, George Washington, family, the other for servants. Guests two barns only an ice house remains. called on his friends to build their mingled in the drawing room off the homes nearby. Among them was entrance hall before crossing the foyer The Octagon Museum has been Colonel John Tayloe III, the wealthy to the dining room for a sumptuous national headquarters for the American owner of the Mount Airy plantation in dinner. Both rooms have large Coade Institute of Architects since 1899, a Warsaw, Virginia, who built a winter stone fireplaces for warmth and two group that has renovated this historic home for himself, his wife Ann, and his entrances, one from the butler’s pantry, house to perfection. Many pieces of large family a block and a half from the another from the service stairs to the furniture and artifacts are authentic, President’s White House. kitchen. or of the period. Not only is The Octagon Museum visually exciting, it Dr. William Thornton, the first The Tayloes’ master bedroom, their is steeped in an accessible history of the architect of the U.S. Capitol, designed dressing rooms, the Colonel’s study, a not so distant past. the Tayloes’ mansion in 1799 on nursery, and a guest room occupied the a wedge-shaped lot as an “urban second floor. Following the burning 1799 New York Avenue, NW, plantation” with Greek-revival of the White House by the British in Washington, DC 20006 interiors. Thornton, an abolitionist, 1814, President James Madison and his www.theoctagon.org who was born into a monied British wife Dolley, a great friend of a friend of Hours: Thursdays and Fridays: Self- family on the British Virgin Island Mrs. Tayloe, took refuge in the house guided Tours: 1:00 – 4:00 PM of Tortola, nevertheless created for six months. It was in Tayloe’s Admission: Free accommodation for the Tayloes’ study that President Madison signed For a private or group tours call: 202- servants and slaves. the Treaty of Ghent ending the War of 626-7439 or e-mail: octagonmuseum@ 1812. aia.org The main floor of the three-storey building was geared to the Tayloes’ The older children and their tutor took lavish and frequent entertainments. over the third floor. The basement The circular entrance hall, painted pink housed a cistern, an enormous kitchen, JL

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SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION opposite: Simulating neurosurgery - A neurosurgical trainee is practicing his microsurgical skills using this computer workstation.

WhenBy James T. Rutka, MDPractice Makes Perfect Toronto – Canada

Photography by James T. Rutka, MD

I can recall as a young child my simulation that is advancing the pace suture tying, bladder catherization, mother’s words to me as I argued with which surgeons are acquiring and laparoscopic cholecystectomy to with her about practicing piano their technical abilities. name a few. between each lesson. She told me time and again that “practice makes Much like practicing the piano, While I have described the perfect”. I reluctantly followed surgical simulation involves importance of simulation for training her advice at first, but over time, I repetition of tasks that model a surgeons, simulation strategies are realized that she was right. My piano given surgical procedure. These now being used across numerous playing improved, and I managed tasks are repeated time and again disciplines in medicine. Some of the somehow to matriculate from the until mastery of the task is acquired. opportunities for simulation include Royal Conservatory School of Music The difference between surgical e-simulation, virtual patients, task Grade X piano exam after many simulation now, and the mode of trainers, virtual reality, role-playing years. I still play piano to this day for training surgeons in the past is that and standardized patients. enjoyment. surgical simulation is performed in a non-threatening environment where There is an old adage for surgeons Following medical school, I entered technical skills can be honed before that to do a specific case, and to the training program in neurosurgery translating those skills to patients in master it, they must first “see one, at the University of Toronto where I the operating room. Some of the do one, and then teach one”. These spent many years mastering the art goals of surgical simulation include days, thanks to surgical simulation, and science of neurosurgery. One the reduction of medical errors in the this adage is changing to reflect the of the most important skills of a health care sector, the improvement fact that surgeons must practice neurosurgeon, as with all surgeons, of quality of care for patients, and “a thousand times” in a simulated is the technical skill to do complex the opportunity to train health environment before doing a case surgical tasks within the exposed professionals more quickly, better, on a patient. There is no question operative field. In years gone by, we and more cost effectively than ever that by doing it in this manner, our learned these skills through repetition before. These days, surgeons in patients will receive the best care and and graded responsibility in the training can learn important surgical treatment possible. operating room. However, today, skills on simulated models that there is a whole new field of surgical reproduce the tasks of bronchoscopy,

Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 105 Fernando VARELA I have heard very few“ voices like yours. Pavoratti’s Conductor ”

- Maestro Giancarlo Chiaramello

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While in sunny piazzas, They prominently display a their hidden cell phones parents now give a silver cell drinking wine, listening to photograph of themselves to report profits to Gypsy phone. talented buskers, I observed holding an infant while Headquarters, beggars with the most ubiquitous signaling “donations” are for cell phones – please. Observations: Gypsies, recorded through “my little baby”. The image the centuries since 1422. perfectly portrays each Most countries are now Art trend – graffiti frescos Known for their pick- bedraggled mendicant, but inundated with organized are on every available pocketing and aggressive curiously most photographs tours of newly prosperous surface, subways and trains, begging, it defines itself have the same baby in mainland Chinese, flaunting some rendered by very with warnings posted in identical blue striped the latest designer clothing, talented artists, the majority, public places, currently swaddling. head to toe, the more glitter simply vandalism. engendering the design of the better but absolutely the more secure front pack This Beggars Guild presents mandatory that the logos be Conclusion: replacing the backpack. the beaten down, prostrate attention-getting. demeanor of sprawled I leave to you. Begging is strategic with cripples, and a beggar with Armani, Prada and Gucci a territory. The women one hand who, undoubtedly, now complement Burberry, PS: The bulk of overweight position themselves at has a speech impediment. the perennial favorite. people? Tourists. I t Takes One C a l l church entrances, ragged But when the church closes 4 0 7 . 8 9 7 . 8 8 2 4 and dirty, while beseeching they rise, miraculously When babies are christened, the tourist faithful for coins. intact and immediately open instead of a silver rattle, JL Masciolientertainment.com LEADERS IN ENTERTAINMENT SINCE 1969 Producing Entertainment Around The World Jo Lee Anniversary 2014 107 Accounting | Consulting Accountingwww.mcaccounting.caAccounting | Consulting | Consulting www.mcaccounting.cawww.mcaccounting.ca EDITOR AT LARGE

MindsetBy Carla Dragnea Shifts For Permanent Weight Loss Bucharest – Romania

It’s time to leave your old self behind to getting there. Exercise and eating on. Life throws curveballs all the time, and to welcome change into your life healthy aren’t things I do when it’s but they aren’t reasons to throw my for a better you! convenient; they are what I have healthy habits away. I deal with the decided to do no matter what. reality of the situation and creatively “Losing weight is easy. Keeping it work toward overcoming adversity. off is the hard part.” Is this saying 2. I am proactive rather than reactive. true? I think losing weight is hard, but I take time at the beginning of each 6. I have self-compassion. I’m only keeping it off is even harder! week to plan my meals, figure out human and there are times when when I can get to the grocery store and things don’t go as well as I’d like. I just Permanent weight loss requires a lot schedule my exercise. And I always do the best I can. When I slip up, I of change. And for most, change is have a Plan B so I can stay on track in get right back on track. I do not beat difficult. You have to change what and case something unexpected happens. myself up if a few pounds creep back how much you eat, your activity and on. exercise habits, sleeping habits, daily 3. I am disciplined. My mind is schedule and shopping habits. That’s a always focused on my vision. It’s not Can “you” do this… lot of change! about how I feel right now. It’s about what I want for my future self. Despite However, the most important changes not always wanting to do what needs you can make aren’t about what you to be done, I do it anyway. do, but rather how you think. People who have reached weight-loss goals and 4. I share my goals and plans. My kept off the pounds often experience friends and family are aware that taking mindset shifts. They think differently good care of myself and keeping the than they did before. They share these weight off is a core value of mine. I core attitudes and beliefs, which assist stand up for myself without apology. them in their quest for a healthier, When I am feeling vulnerable, I ask for thinner and vibrant self! help.

1. I believe that I can do it. I am 5. I am resilient. When I stumble responsible for – and in control of – or fall down, I pick myself up and my destiny, and I am fully committed resourcefully figure out how to move JL

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Happy 14th AnniversaryBy Monte S. Bell Warren – Vermont

JL WITS END

Gandhi’sBy JO LEE Magazine Wit New York / San Francisco / Hong Kong / London / Tokyo / Rome / Toronto

When Gandhi was studying law at the University Gandhi, if you were walking down the street and found College of London, there was a professor, whose last a package and within it there was a bag of wisdom and name was Peters, who felt animosity for Gandhi and another bag with a lot of money, which one would you because Gandhi never lowered his head toward him, their take?” “arguments” were very frequent. Without hesitating, Gandhi responded, “The one with One day, Mr. Peters was having lunch in the dining room the money, of course.” Smiling, of the University and Gandhi came along with his tray Mr. Peters said, “I, in your place, would have taken the and sat next to the professor. wisdom.”

The professor, in his arrogance, said, “Mr. Gandhi: you “Each one takes what one doesn’t have,” responded do not understand. A pig and a bird do not sit together Gandhi. to eat.” On the exam sheet, Mr. Peters wrote “idiot” and gave it To which Gandhi replied, “You do not worry professor, to Gandhi who took the exam sheet and sat down. I’ll fly away,” and he went and sat at another table. A few minutes later, Gandhi goes to the professor and Mr. Peters, green with rage, decided to take revenge with says, “Mr. Peters, you signed the sheet but you did not the next exam, but Gandhi responded brilliantly. “Mr. give me a grade.” JL

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The Coit Tower murals were done in Saturday at 11:00 a.m. gives visitors of industry. As a tribute, the mural is the 1930s under the auspices of the access to the spiral stairway and second compositionally very similar to Rivera’s DESIGN & PHOTOGRAPHY Public Works of Art Project, the first floor murals. first sketch for the recently destroyed of the New Deal federal employment Rockefeller Center mural (all that Mr. programs for artists. The Coit Page 112: One of the figures, John Stackpole would have seen). ALEXANDRA EGAN Tower murals were painted during Langley Howard, reaches for a copy a particularly disruptivepending period in of Karl Marx’s Das Kapitalimage? while Page 118: The NRA and eagle symbol U.S. history. Depression-related crumpling a newspaper in his other on the crates workers are filling with economic challenges led to much hand. The titles of books on the oranges refers to the National Recovery discussion about alternate forms of shelves include Rexroth (The poet, Administration and the Blue Eagle photography & design government. A four-day general strike essayist and social critic Kenneth Drive. (Bloody Thursday) accompanied by Rexroth is reaching for a book on the widespread rioting in San Francisco top shelf.), Hitler and Oscar Wilde Page 120: The opening of Coit Tower triggered the 83-day, 1934 West Coast (controversial because he was suspected and the display of its murals were waterfront strike. of being homosexual). Newspaper delayed several months because of the headlines (which Ralph Stackpole is controversial content of some of the These Diego Rivera-inspired murals, reading) cover the artists’ protest of the paintings. many depicting the struggles of Riviera fresco destruction and other working-class Americans, were topical subjects. Jewish literature and Page 122: City Life, one of the largest completed in 1933 to 34. Coit Tower traditions are also included in the murals at Coit Tower, was painted by muralists protested and picketed painting. Victor Mikhail Arnautoff who had at the tower when Rivera’s mural, worked as an assistant to Diego Rivera commissioned for Rockefeller Center Page 114: Industries of California, in Mexico and taught at the California in New York City, was destroyed after another large mural in Coit Tower, School of Fine Arts (CSFA). Arnautoff he refused to change an image of Lenin was painted by Ralph Stackpole. Mr. later taught at Stanford University in the painting. Stackpole carved the agriculture and returning to Russia after the death of industry grouped statues on the former his wife. The murals at Coit Tower are available San Francisco Stock Exchange Building for daily viewing by the general public (where Rivera created his first U.S. ronhenggeler.com alexandraegan.com for free but access to the second floor mural, Allegory of California). murals is restricted to once a week tours. Page 116: The Ralph Stackpole mural depicts chemical, steel mill, cannery, The San Francisco City Guides free newsgathering, packaging line, and alexandraegan.com walking tour of Coit Tower every other workers as cogs in the machines JL

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