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First Aired - 10/29/2009 08:00PM
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Curtis B. Wayne talks with guest Jake Alspector about the new masters and what they can collectively do about taking responsibility for the entire process of creating the built environment
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New Masters & Change In The Industry (19:42)
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Jake Alspector, Curtis B. Wayne, master builders, Burning Down The House, breaking news!, October 1st broadcast with Henry Gifford, LEED certification process, Henry spoke about this here first, LEED buildings do not necessarily use less energy than the average building, essay by Nikoli Warsoff, New York Times, Charles Gwathmey, Peter Eisenman, The New York Five, Cooper Union, The W Hotel, windows without sill flashings, flashing used to be built into stone, Europeans have a very different system, detailing is worked out with the contractors and the tradespeople after the fact and done in the field, a green building can now have its LEED cerficiation revoked, John Hejduk, tastemakers not heroes, Richard Henderson, USGBC,Pratice Vs. Praxis (28:23)
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the legacy of Charles Gwanthley, golden handcuffs, white buildings, natural materials, Richard Meyer, the Eisenman house in Vermont had to be restored, the aesthetic goals outweighed everything else, constructability, pragmatics, this is not a new argument, flat arches, slanted arch bricks, these buildings have lasted 150+ years, there is a show at Cooper on the history of architectural drawing, 7th st between 4rd and 4th ave, Roberta's, temporary dirt track, low performance motorcycle race, color theory, the more natural light the lighter the color should be, how can we reclaim the title of master builders?, architecture is all inclusive, embracing that concept, modeling for the physical world, Colin Rowe, architect talk isolates us from the public, Terry Gilliam, Bob Siegel, The Smith House, a pristine pavilion that lives in a world without weather, practice vs. praxis, caring about materials lead to fabulous expressions of cast iron structure, Houghten Gallery, feng shui, calculus takes aggregations of data and systematizes it to come to a mean string of data, the mathematics of the ideal villa,Architects: Champions Of The World! (11:55)
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Fairway Market, http://www.fairwaymarket.com, quarry, sustainable materials, new masters, CDA, Jake Alspector, the format of the show is a conversation, no softball questions!, no expensive suits and ridiculous ties!, info@heritageradionetwork.com, Construction & Design Analytics,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/19/2009 11:00AM
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On the latest episode of The Naturalist, Bernie Wides is joined by friend and butterfly expert Carol A. Butler. They talk about the monarch butterfly and its amazing migration.
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The Naturalist Introduction: Butterflies (14:03)
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Carol A. Butler, butterflies, monarch butterflies, butterfly conservatory will be open until May, Carol writes nature books, Hazel Davies, the monarch butterflies are on their way to Mexico, moths, we know most of the butterfly species, 90 percent of moths have not been identified, lepidoptere, Urquhart, tagging butterflies to figure out the flight path and migration roots, Central Mexico, they travel a certain distance and then reproduce to continue the journey, The American Museum Of Natural History, micro, diapauses,The Migration Of The Monarch Butterfly (11:06)
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turkey vultures, thermals are warm air currents, flight simulator, circadian rhythm, butterflies produce heat by flapping their wings, butterflies need warm weather to be active, when it's cold they huddle up for heat by the trees, a monarch from Canada flying to Mexico would be the equivalent of a tall person going around the equator 11 times, the antenna has some function for navigation, butterflies are sensitive to ultraviolet light, most of these butterflies funnel through Texas, they are ectothermic,Milkweed & Toxicity (12:40)
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the milkweed is the most important plant for monarch butterflies, females lay their eggs on milkweed because the babies eat it, the purpose of toxicity is to keep other animals away, birds won't eat the entire butterfly, book format, question and answer, Do Butterflies Bite?, they only drink nectar from flowers, some moths don't eat at all, they live off their body fat, Atlas moths live for about a week, the name butterfly comes from old English, they were butter colored before butter was yellow, a field guide for butterflies would be huge, they are losing their habitats from deforestation, http://www.monarchwatch.org/, milkweed makes them arsenic, they spend all their life giving off pheromones they reproduce and then they die, the monarch butterflies are in trouble,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/15/2009 08:00PM
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The Good, the Bad, the Ugly, the Butt Ugly and the Criminal; Discussions with Curtis B. Wayne, Manuel Saez, and Richard Thrush on "Ugly" design. http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com/
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Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder; Ugly Design or Uncomfortable Beauty? (28:17)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, architect, design, Burning Down the House, built environment, Roberta's, Heritage Radio Network, interior design elements, Richard Sapper, Tizio lamp, MOMA, Richard Thrush, over fifty and less than dead, icon of good taste, Eames rocker, polypropylene, Herman Miller, Bucky Fuller, Frank Llyod Wright chairs, Garrett Wright Field, http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com, monument to a designers ego, comfort versus statement, looks aren't everything, Manuel Saez, Wave Hill, Stokowski, uncomfortable, indisputably ugly, it sucks and blows, painful to see, clutter overstimulates and bores, strictly functional value, Walmart, designing for the everyman, iPhone, function over form, simple and nice, retro in a disturbing way, Dieter Rams, Braun travel clock, over-simplification, beautiful object, objectivity, favorite ugly phones, American's like the clam design, Europeans prefer stick phones, looks like a split turd, free is best, Tracfone, pay as you go, functional and petite,Ugly Designs by Curtis and Studio Guests Manuel Saez & Richard Thrush (22:43)
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Burning Down the House, Manuel Saez, Richard Thrush, Talking Heads, Heritage Radio Network, Men from U.N.C.L.E., ugly Bic pen, cheap pens, ugly is sometimes iconic, bug zapper, elongated Japanese lantern, killing rods, architects have subtle taste, cost versus design, recycled plastic is always black, decision based on cost, cheaper is better, does the job, not styled, looks better on paper, designing in a capsule, design for the caste system, Home Depot, universal tool, some tools are hired help, purposes that design objects serve, gas cylinders suck, Human Scale, Freedom Chair, 20 year gas cylinder, impossible compromise, masturbatory design concept, product design has more foresight, always die hard in architecture, presenting the paradigm, best presentation wins, Pritzker Prize for bullshitters, architecture, architect, design, http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com, plasticine, Braun, Stinger,The Visual Victims Unit; Criminaly Ugly Design. (10:00)
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architecture, architect, design, Burning Down the House, http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com, Manuel Saez, Richard Thrush, hate on, design crimes, Phillipe Stark, famous for the outrageous, Beauty and the Beast, Torscher chandelier, Joe Moinian, chandelier, sell the experience, Goldman Sachs, Design Authority, meed keeps happy, hate music, Law and Order, cars are hateful, love outweighs failure, Ducati, Fiat, Dalai Lama,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
