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Friday in lawrence Hall with seven teams of University architecture students led by a professor or practicing architect, competing only for token prizes and the chance to say it was the best. .Teams were given untilnoon Sunday to complete the project. Story by Craig Loughridge Photos by Derrel Hewitt In a large room, organizers1 gave the teams background information on Bend, and instructions and resources for dealing with the problem For the next several hours., team members poured over city planning charts, contour maps and aerial photographs, exchanging ideas on how to at tack the problem. Most teams decided to center ef forts on developing Bend's tourist trade, improving its traffic circulation through downtown and luring high-tech industry into the area. Each team then traced road maps, photographs and planning charts, deleting and adding features wherever needed. Some buildings wore torn down and new ones built. Some parks were paved, and others were expandeci. By 2 a.m., nearly everyone had gone home. On ly a few hard-core participants led by Tom Briner, an r —— M >" ■■ architect from Vail. (tola., remained Most team members were back at work by H a m Saturday, and by that evening, most of them had decided on plans and went working on finished pro ducts. throe 30-by-40-inch drawings showing the improved city. Aland half of the teams worked straight through from Saturday morning to the Sunday noon deadline. When organizers came around to collect the completed entries, participants let nut fatigued sighs and went home to sleep, waiting for the judg ing to be completed. At the 6:30 p m. awurd ceremony, first prize -- was given to a leani led by Henry Fit/.gibbon, a Portland architect. Team members, who each receiv ed a pen set worth about $45. included <Irani Faust, fourth year, architecture; Robert Fry. fourth year, ar chitecture; Nguyen Lam. second year, architecture; (leorgo l>ew. graduate, architecture; Debra Shown, fifth year, architecture; Scott Toll, graduate, land scape architecture; an«l David /.agel. second year, architecture. lit/.gibbon said he stressed a team approach and "brainstorm programming” in solving the assigned problem."It was really a 100 percent effort." he said. The purpose of the contest was to provide city planners in Bend with ideas for dealing with the future of their city, while giving students practical experience in urban planning, said Lance Nichols, the University's American Institute of Architects chapter president and contest organizer. Organizers began planning the contest about nine months ago. In August, they sent letters to 26 cities in Oregon in order to find a city interested in helping and in what the contest could offer. 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