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Paul Discoe Talks Zen Architecture

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Partner:: Book Passage
Location:: Book Passage
Corte Madera, CA
Event Date:: 03.21.09
Speaker:: Paul Discoe
Tags:: buddhism; architecture; zen; meditation

Summary: In the 1960s, Paul Discoe was in on the ground floor of Zen architecture in the United States.

He became a student of Zen Buddhism, studying and building at the Tassajara complex in northern California. His own wood-based Zen-Buddhism architectural structures and renovations in the U.S. and Europe are the focus of this book.

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Paul Discoe

An ordained Zen Buddhist Priest, Paul Discoe studied art history and philosophy as an undergraduate in the United States and later Buddhist temple design and construction in Japan. He became a student of Suzuki Roshi at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center in California and after four years, Suzuki sent him to Japan to train under a traditional master builder for five years. Upon returning, Discoe studied and worked at San Francisco Zen Center before founding Joinery Structures in 1988. Having built both temples and high end residences Discoe is now focused on pre-fab housing and furniture using the urban forest.

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01.: Introduction

02 min 21 sec

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02.: Becoming Involved with Zen Architecture

04 min 51 sec

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03.: Designing the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center

04 min 26 sec

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04.: Designing Other Zen Centers

05 min 50 sec

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05.: Building a Zen Center in Switzerland

02 min 43 sec

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06.: Transporting a Zen Center from Japan to America

02 min 30 sec

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07.: Designing Zen-Style Houses

07 min 27 sec

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08.: Designing Larry Ellison's Zen-Inspired Compound

02 min 14 sec

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09.: Building the Compound

04 min 19 sec

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10.: Outer Buildings

05 min 05 sec

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11.: Inner Buildings

05 min 17 sec

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12.: The Rear Entrance

04 min 21 sec

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13.: Other Structures

05 min 01 sec

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14.: Ellison's In-Lake Hot Tub

03 min 03 sec

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15.: Designing a Manhattan Loft

02 min 41 sec

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16.: Building a Cardboard Meditation Hall

02 min 55 sec

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17.: Designing Affordable Prefab Houses

06 min 48 sec

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18.: Making Recycled Wood Furniture

02 min 59 sec

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Paul Discoe Designs a Cardboard Zendo for Burning Man

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Architect Paul Discoe describes the cardboard Zendo meditation hall he designed for Burning Man.

"When the pioneers were coming across the United States, they had trees...here we have cardboard," says Discoe of his unusual building material.
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Zen: Important school of Buddhism that claims to transmit the experience of enlightenment achieved by the Buddha Gautama. Arising as Chan in China in the 6th century (introduced by Bodhidharma), it divided into two schools, the Southern school, which believed in sudden enlightenment, and the Northern school, which believed in gradual enlightenment. By the 8th century only the Northern school survived. Zen developed fully in Japan by the 12th century and had a significant following in the West by the later 20th century. Zen teaches that the potential to achieve enlightenment is inherent in everyone but lies dormant because of ignorance. It is best awakened not by the study of scripture, the practice of good deeds, rites and ceremonies, or worship of images, but by breaking through the boundaries of mundane logical thought. Methods employed vary among different schools and may emphasize the practice of zazen (in the Soto school), the use of koans (in the Rinzai school), or the continual invocation of Amida (in the Obaku school; see Amitabha).; Zen on britannica.com