You’ve probably heard or questioned the possibility that SFU’s architect also designed prisons, or that the concrete design has some relation to a prison. The Peak brings you some answers.
Presented by Sina Khalili
Created by Adam Madojemu and Alex Bloom.
Special Thanks to Charles Do, and SFU Archives.
Although it is true that SFU architect Arthur Erickson did design prisons, the prisons that he designed were not the typical prisons that one might commonly associate with the word. He did not design the prisons in which Jeremy, a 19 year-old male arrested for marijuana possession, shares a cell…
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Hmmm…. That was interesting.
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