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UI prof builds meditation hut for his wife in backyard

By Melissa Merli
Saturday, December 30, 2006 10:33 AM CDT

URBANA – University of Illinois architecture Professor Jeffery Poss did all sorts of studies and plans for a second meditation hut for his wife. He eventually eliminated all of them and just started construction from scratch.

"I had an idea. I knew I wanted a three-tatami hut," he remembered. "I thought I'd better get started and just figure it out as I went along. It was a different approach to architecture than, say, what we teach in architecture school."

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