Prof. Nathan Shapira (05.28.1928 - 05.16.2009), passed away this morning.
6:30, LD听到N在喊，马上起床，以为是Mari来了(Mari是N的菲佣，早上8点会来照顾他)。我看了一下表，离8点还早。LD还是起来去N的房间看他，问他需要什么帮助。N说需要Tea，LD问hot or cool，回答hot，于是LD去厨房烧水泡茶。还没泡好，又听到了N的声音，LD马上过来，他已经不能回答，接着没了呼吸。LD大声喊N的名字，没有回答。LD给他的护士打了电话(他的医生在欧洲度假)，护士建议打911. LD叫我起床，去楼下等911. 大约6:40.
楼下，Fireman已经到了。提药箱的、抬担架的，鱼贯而入。一会儿，从N房间出来，说他死了。LD给N的律师打了电话，律师可能还在睡觉，LD留言。我们问接下来怎么办，fireman给police打了电话，让我们等police的到来。半小时内他们会来。
Police询问了很多，登机了很多。现在依然和LD在客厅。已经请律师通知了N在巴黎的两个儿子，通知了他在LA的好朋友。在等待morgue的人来把body运走，11:50, morgue的人来了。
死亡，来得如此迅速。他最后一眼，无法看到自己的儿子，无法见到自己毕生最爱的女人。如果不是两个中国人和他一起住，不知尸体会在家里放几天，也没人能够知道他确切的辞世时间。人，在这个世上活一场，空空什么都不带去。
LD是非常helpful的，原本打算8点一到就去药店用自己的钱给N买急救药的。LD接受问讯时总是泣不成声。
Nicola, an engineer of Yahoo, will return to Italy with his family in two weeks. Because he lost his job two weeks ago.
Nicola, Olivia, Jacob, Cisilia, 一家四口，我们的邻居，下一个门就是。早晨听到我们屋里的动静Nicola马上出门问什么情况。他们家今天在楼下yard sale，失业，就这样发生在我们身边。那些中国兄弟每周末都会向上帝祷告，感谢上帝让他们还有工作。外国人，确实很难活下去，而裁员的，首先是外国人。想想HC(中国人)一家5口，如果HC失业的话，真的很难，而如果你在中国，即使家里有两亩地也饿不死啊。
The United States of America is a mixed world.
美国，曾经是我向往的天堂，如果不是中国那场SARS，也许我6年前就漂过了这半个地球。这次到美国，适逢金融危机，经历了N的死亡，这是我第一次经历如此近距离的死亡，4个多月后，会经历宝宝的降生。我们马上又需要找房子搬家了。各种不同的经历，总是让你有不一样的感觉。
刚刚得知宝宝的存在时，我仿佛很不适应，甚至会想：我怎么可能是一个人的母亲？听宝宝的心跳，感受TA的胎动，对TA有了越来越深的情感。无论发生什么，第一个想到的始终是保护TA.
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Prof. Nathan Shapira
ReplyDeleteMay 28, 1928 – May 16, 2009
(UCLA Design & Media Arts Professor Emeriti)
Prof. Nathan Shapira passed away the morning of Saturday, May 16th, 2009 at his home in Santa Monica, CA, he would have been 81 years old on May 28th, 2009.
Professor Emeritus of Design at UCLA, special interest in industrial design, affiliated with the University of Trento and Bologna, in Italy. http://www.ias.unibo.it/ISA/MembersFellows/SearchMembersFellows/ShapiraNathan.htm?NRMODE=Published&TabControl=VisitsTab
Under the bilateral exchange program between the University of California and the University of Trento, Shapira was serving as a research fellow in Italy, studying advanced technology and the use of natural materials in the contemporary architecture of northeastern Italy. He also had a fellowship at the Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna.
In Spring 2003 Prof. Shapira curated and designed the exhibition Visionary Architecture of Celestino Soddu at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. In January 2004 he taught a multimedia illustrated graduate seminar at Milan’s Politecnico entitled “Morphological Aspects of the Emerging Californian Identity,” and in May 2004 he was invited to participate in a study tour of the new Berlin and visited the American Academy. Most recently, Prof. Shapira had served as consultant to the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles. He had also been a guest writer for the international architecture and design bilingual monthly Ottagono, published in Italy.
Our Shared Condolences, Memories and Souvenirs of Nathan – Now You May Rest in Peace Nathan with no more deadlines to meet or people to greet –
much Love from your "FONies"
• http://www.nathanshapira.com/
• Consulate General of Romania, Los Angeles, Romanian Program to remember the Holocaust: The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust hosted on October 28, 2004 the first Romanian Program to Remember the Holocaust. The event organized at the initiative of the Consulate General of Romania in Los Angeles has been agreed upon in partnership with the American Jewish Committee together with the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust.
The program of the evening included as well the lecture of selections from a book written by Lupu Gutman, Romanian survivor, writer and filmmaker who presently lives in the US. The lecture was performed by Dr. Nathan Shapira, Romanian survivor, Professor Emeritus at UCLA.
• Shapira, Nathan H., Design or Decline: America Facing the 21st Century
Descriptors: Cultural Influences; Curriculum Development; Design Crafts; Design Requirements; Educational Philosophy; Environmental Education; Higher Education; Industrial Arts; Industry; Quality of Life; Social Change; Social Values; Technological Advancement; Technology
Source: Art Education, v44 n5 p20-21 Sep 1991
Publication Date: 1991-00-00 Pages: N/A Pub Types: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Descriptive
Abstract: Discusses the role of industrial design in the twenty-first century. Explains that technology has widened the gap between rich and poor societies. Argues that future designers must concern themselves with the quality of life. Includes a description of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Industrial Design Program. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=EJ440257&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=EJ440257
• Nathan H. Shapira, Renzo Zorzi, Design Process: Olivetti 1908-1978, catalogue of a show at the Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery of UCLA, 1979
• Arts & Architecture MAGAZINE DECEMBER 1966 NATHAN SHAPIRA COVER - eBay (item ...
UCLA Social Sciences Building by Maynard Lyndon; The Continuous City by Mario Galvangi; ... Cover is by Nathan Shapira. This is a highly desirable issue. ...
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• Gio Ponti to Esther McCoy, ca. Oct. 1966 - Correspondence ...
... of the exhibition The Expression of Gio Ponti organized by Nathan Shapira and Frederick S. Wright at the UCLA Art Galleries (now the Wright Gallery). ...
http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/searchimages/images/item_3392.htm
Our Shared Condolences, Memories and Souvenirs of Nathan,
We must plan a grand celebration and remembrance of Nathan in Los Angeles, either at UCLA, or the Italian Cultural Institute.
I will be more than happy to assist in putting together a presentation with Maria.
Ricardo
Ricardo Gomes, IDSA
Chair/Professor
Design & Industry Department
College of Creative Arts
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA, 94132
415-338-2229 office
415-338-7770 fax
http://design.sfsu.edu
http://design.sfsu.edu/node/362
"Design or Decline" is the name of the book he was working on recently.
ReplyDeleteWe were planning to buy Prof. Nathan Shapira a birthday gift on this weekends. We are very sorry and sad that he left us forever. He's so nice a person. We lived together just like a real family. Very intimate roommates and real friends.
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