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First Aired - 01/23/2011 04:30PM
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Burning Down the House debuts at it's new time slot - now airing live every Sunday at 4:30PM EST. Tune in this week as Curtis is joined by special guest Steve Fuchs and friends of the show Roderick L Knox & Caroline Bailey. Together they embark on a conversation that revisits the old form/function debate, with a twist - Steven Fuchs's idea of "Formtion". The gang goes on to explore the idea of monuments as architecture, imagery in Church design and the significance of the tallest buildings. This episode was sponsored by Hearst Ranch - the nations largest single source supplier of grassfed and grass finished beef. For more information visit www.hearstranch.com
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Burning Down the House Introduction: New Time, Same Place (8:52)
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Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne, Heritage Radio Network, Hearst Ranch, Roderick L. Knox, Steve Fuchs, J.D. from Boston University, financing for department stores and supermarkets, Steve now works as a screenwriter and desert guide, he has written a manifesto - a trinity theory, architectural theory is worthy of satire, form + function = formtion,Steve Fuchs Explains "Formtion" (19:22)
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Steve harvested tangerines today, it's 20 degrees in New York, does form follow function?, Sir Banister Flight Fletcher, Vincent Scully, William Barrett, Joseph Campbell, decadence of culture, decay, decrepitude, development of architectural expressions, minimalism, is it our new mannerism?, architecture is the art of decoration, embellishing utility, embellishing logic, to make things beautiful takes a specific talent, design vs decoration, stretching the truth, monumental myopia, stevefuchs.blogspot.com, nature or nurture, form and function are synonymous, can sculpture be architecture?, monuments as sculpture or architecture?, architecture functions, sculptures are free to leave out human accommodation all together, form follows philosophy, architects solve problems, Cooper Union Building, some art is monumental, installation art, sculpture can be architectonic,A Progressive, Decadent Culture (14:53)
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the pyramids are architecture, much more than they needed to be, all the architecture that we revere is really dedicated to the dead or the metaphysical realm, every church is a monument to a dead carpenter!, architecture informs us, when society was church driven the tallest building in town was a church, in the 19th century that became governmental buildings, in the 20th century they became businesses, things morph over time in terms of their meaning, architecture is well intentioned, as a culture progresses it becomes increasingly decadent to the point where only form and decoration matter, The Holocaust Museum, Renaissance traditions where architects paint sculpt and build,Truth is Beauty (Except When You're Lying) (8:49)
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www.rodknox.com, cdanalytics.org, The Pantheon, truth is beauty, except when you're lying all the time, pretending to be something you're not, an icon is something that is often duplicated, acknowledge what the material is and listen to it, inspiration for medieval architecture, pay attention when you go into a gothic cathedral, Christianity is a pagan religion!,Closing Thoughts & "Real Food" (7:39)
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in California you ignore the architecture and enjoy the nature, single family homes are very interesting works of architecture in California, Steve Fuchs has a new food related venture, childhood obesity has doubled, Captain Crunch is better than nothing, Steve invested in a new food startup company, Real Food, cashew frozen desset, will taste as good as ice cream, we will always eat what's in front of our face,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/04/2009 08:00PM
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This week on Burning Down The House, Curtis B. Wayne is joined by friend of the show Roderick L. Knox to discuss eloquence in architecture.
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Breaking News!!! (6:06)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Fairway Market, Roderick L. Knox, visual victims, Chicago, olympics, the demolition of a Walter Gropius pavillion at the Michael Reese Medical Center, eloquence of surviving architecture,Eloquence in Architecture (31:48)
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Love of Three Oranges, the experience of going to the villa savoye, France, free standing sink in the entrance, honesty in architecture, doing right by the environment and your client, if you lose your clients trust you can't function anymore, architectural lies, Frank Gehry, architecture is an art that doesn't give you much latitude, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, John Silber - Architecture of the Absurd, ad hoc partitions, test your ideas!, consulting a foundation of reality, making a sculture to live in is mocking architecture, Monsanto House of the Future, The Bauhaus, Gerrit Rietveld, Rietveld Schroder House, Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, The Netherlands, steel is equal in tension and proportion, The Philip Johnson Glass House, ribbon windows on the second floor of Cooper Union, the Glass House is not transparent because of the surrounding landscape, curves make straight lines look straighter, Athenians, scale and proportion, it can be disturbing to be brutally honest sometimes, art is a lie that tells the truth, The Seagram Building,Spaces, Curves & "Vesica" (21:57)
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La Boeme, Bobst Library, suicides, Philip Johnson, the magic word in architecture is adequete, materials move, nothing is exact, the job is to keep out the water, a totally rigid building would break, materials expand at different rates, The John Hancock Building, the glass was ill desgined for the pane, opera was a place to be seen, the prominade, the horseshoe shape is ideal for seeing other opera goers, thin shell structures, the shape bears the weight, can be very efficiant, Guggenheim Museum, they treat the open space like a void, it's a votex, Hugh Downs and Frank Llyod Wright toured the museum, The Today Show, you must start at the top and prominade down because that is the flow of gravity, they never thought art would become the new religion, manipulation of scale, Gerogia O'Keefe, vesica, vaginal imagery, inter uterine experience,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/13/2009 08:00PM
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This week on Burning Down The House, host Curtis B. Wayne is joined by an expert panel of aspiring "master architects". They discuss the relationships and responsibilities between designers, contractors, builders, and clients.
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Introduction: Becoming a Master with Bill & Chris Sharples and Roderick L Knox (21:39)
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Shop architects, Bill Sharples, Chris Sharples, Corey Sharples, Roderick L Knox, production, construction, critiquing tradition, Columbia University, www.shoparc.com, executing design, post structuralism, Bernard Tschumi, materials, manufacturers warranty, legalities, fabricators, developing designs from the ground up, deep immersion in history of design, visionary passion, good liberal arts education, holistic approach, theology, philosophy, comparative religion, art history, internships, eight years of education required to be a licensed architecture, architecture is a lifelong learning experience, renaissance education, school debt, structural engineer, recession, starving artists attitude, Wall St., graphic design, historian, fine arts, managing egos, abroad experience, drawing on different skill sets, printmaking, Dickinson College, some tools prevent creative aspirations, drawing as a tool, computers, 3D drawing, modeling, carpenters, Greenport, Long Island, budgeting, public bid, carousel house, creating a visualization device to convey the intricacies of design, painting, calking, crude technology, graphic projection, mechanical drawing, drafting, Cooper Union, vocational education, ingredients inspire creation, knowing the possibilities of materials,A Continuing Discussion on Form & Performance (19:54)
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building models, Philip Johnson, if making buildings is so much fun, who would want to go on vacation, walking around with a mason square, liability issues, insurance, transparency, aesthetics, Howard Hughes, razzle dazzle, form follows performance, political issues, cultural, zoning issues, art deco model, financially viable plans, Michael Graves, zinc, shadow drawings, John Ruskin, cathedral, organic form, variations, Hong Kong, balconies, playing with the standard sheet size, roofing contractors, putting a puzzle together, Houston St & Mulberry St, Puck Building, computer assisted design, porterhouse, buildings live in their environment, Rudolf Steiner, craftsmanship, architects have an obligation to the public, leeway to take liberties, Pre-Raphaelite, separating architects from builders, contextuality,Getting Things Done: The Relationship Between Designers, Contractors & Clients (21:17)
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practicing architecture is almost painful, simplicity can be confusing, leaving leeway for adjustments, you can't expect competent construction from drawings anymore, communication, money is made on complexity, working more than necessary on a project, AIA guidelines, seeing a job all the way through has become a dream, offering clients integrity, construction administration, The American Institute of Architects, the built environment, speaking on the clients terms, clients don't want to hear the truth, one of 10 projects you design get built, cost concern, self serving approach doesn't work, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Costanza, Tom Hanks, Woody Harrelson, Indecent Proposal, Charles Bronson, Richard Gere, Howard Rourke, asking a client; what doesn't work for you?, single family houses, how it's built doesn't matter, except when it's the only thing that matters, apropos, looking at other industries and how they operate, Air Space Industry, measurement tolerance, Kelly Johnson, no nonsense architecture, British Museum, Yale, wood paneling, six story yellow brick warehouse, Bugatti,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
