Lecture by Paul Discoe
Presented as part of CCA’s Design and Craft Lecture Series
Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 7–9 pm
Timken Lecture Hall, San Francisco campus
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Paul Discoe is a designer and Zen Buddhist priest. He apprenticed in Japan with traditional temple builders and has designed and built many Zen temples, residential projects, grand estates, and modular structures. He helped transform a rustic hot-springs resort into Tassajara Zen Mountain Center. His team at Joinery Structures recently created a modular cardboard zendo for Burning Man. Currently he is working on a new Zen temple complex for Sonoma Mountain Zen Center. Discoe focuses on sustainable design and building practices.
His commitment to the environment (and deep respect for wood as a material) inspired him to open an urban lumber mill that salvages and recycles trees cut down in Oakland to make low-cost, prefabricated housing systems and furniture. His lecture will include not only an overview of his past work, but also an in-depth discussion of the wood types available in this area, their uses, how to cut and dry them, when to machine them, and how to deal with imperfections.
The Design and Craft Lecture Series is funded by the Wornick Endowment Fund.
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