Door, House, Trantor Mir Suite, MC Escher Cooperative House, 1500 Gilbert Court, North Campus, University of Michigan, August 16, 2024
Year
2024
Month
August
Day
16
History of the Inter-Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor
MC Escher House
https://umsi580.lsait.lsa.umich.edu/s/student-cooperative-movement-in-aa/page/escher-house
“Escher House, a complex located at 1500 Gilbert Court, is the name given to the North Campus cooperatives as a whole. It is one building comprised of nine suites: Valhalla, Bertrand, Karma, Falstaff, Trantor-Mir, Walden III, John Sinclair, Bag End, and Zapata. These nine suites initially operated as nine distinct co-ops, but were consolidated due to perceived inefficiencies in administration.
Maurits Cornelis Escher, commonly referred to as MC Escher, was a Dutch graphic artist. His body of work features abstract mathematical concepts, and has become famous due to its representation of impossible space.”
Inter-Cooperative Council of Ann Arbor Facebook page
Explanations of the suite names at the Escher Cooperative House from Larry Jacobson, Escher Cooperative Alumnus
“Trantor Mir. This was a compromise between those who preferred Mir, which phonetically is the Russian word for peace, and Trantor, which is the planet at the 'center of the universe' in Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy."