Let's Get Real
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First Aired - 08/23/2010 03:30PM
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This week on Hot Grease Nicole hosts Mara Gittleman to discuss her organization Farming Concrete. While community gardens are a much-touted solution to environmental, food, and animal welfare issues, there is a surprising dearth of information about the amount of green gardens in NYC. Farming Concrete aims to gather all possible info about the city's gardens to help sustain current gardens and start new ones as efficiently as possible. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a culinary mainstay in NYC for over 55 years.
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Hot Grease Introduction: Farming Concrete (11:29)
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Hot Grease, Nicole Taylor, Mara Gittleman, Farming Concrete, Mara's Defining Moment, Tufts University, research in Univeristies didn't involve people enough, Mara is from Jersey, Mara grew up between two highways, Mara studied urban agriculture systems in Ethiopia, displacing people into high-rises and condos destroys a community's food system, deforestation in Haiti, trading jobs for the ability to grow food, Farming Concrete is a grass roots organization combining research and communities, GrowNYC, holes in data related to community gardens, putting research into the hands of community gardens empowers them, monetizing food grown, approximating greenhouse gas emissions,Mara Gittleman of Farming Concrete (13:04)
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Erik Bellsford is the other half Farming Concrete, if you have a fall harvest Farming Concrete has scales for you, data for community gardens, first time that anyone has measured the amount of food being produced in community gardens, there are 484 gardens in New York City, LandTrust, Community Garden survey, only a fifth of gardeners are using the internet, older gardeners did all the initial legwork and have all the knowledge, maps are a great tool for communication, collard greens are the most popular green, 78.9 percent of gardens have it, 77.6 percent of gardens are growing lettuce, hearty kiwis, Bengali gardeners, fruit trees, figs, top two are apple trees and peach trees, 80% of the gardens have fig trees,More with Mara Gittleman (9:13)
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Roberta's, volunteer run project, next to nothing budget, critical mapping, Farming Concrete, all the employees visit gardens by foot, it only works because of the committed team, a few cities would like to copy this model, there is a tool kit being worked on, American Community Garden Association, Daniel Bowman Simon, building gardens will help kids learn and understand the benefits of eating healthy, this a new era of community and school gardens, there are many leaders in New York City, some are known nationwide and some only known on their block, Yonette Fleming, farmingconcrete.com, they need help mapping gardens!, get involved!, contact mara@farmingconcrete.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/22/2010 07:00PM
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This week, on 2010's final Burning Down the House, Curtis sits down with two talented architects who also happen to be dedicated musicians: Jacob Alspector and Nick Agneta. Learn the obvious and not-so-obvious relationships between music, music theory, and the process of designing and building structures. The trio discuss the idea of the "addition" and its equivalent in music, plus some famous designers and their musical counterparts (is Frank Gehry the Keith Richards or Iggy Pop of architecture?). This episode was sponsored by Tekserve and their E-Waste Recycling Project.
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Riffing With Structure (15:37)
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Tekserve, E-waste Disposal Events, Tekserve.com, 22nd December, Gerta, Architecture as, Nick Agnetta, Jacob Alspector, Music and Architecture, Holiday Music, MIDI, 3/4 time superimposed over 4/4 time, the cultural arts center in Marian County, each tier of arch was a different sequence and nothing lines up, slide rule with different scales, Pythagorean was a musician AND a mathematician, tuning with an iPhone, they're all professors!, architect musicians are rather rare, Professor Knox, Urban Design, Urban Design has been co-opted by the landscape architects, landscape architects seem to have the attention of the public and the funders, this episode is a bit less structured than usual, Robert Moses's Cross-Town Expressway, there are proportions in chord formations that have a lot to do with geometry and the formation of facade, the demise of the facade, buildings that have no designed facade, the Pythagorean relationship of proportions carries over into chord formations, the tonic the third the fifth and the octave, Fibonacci Sequence, the physics of Western music and the physics of STUFF, Dorian Mode, Year of the Locust, making the sound of locusts with a mandolin, the overtone series, cross frequency overlaps, the harmonic series, mandolin as locust, frozen, music,Breaking the Mold (12:57)
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breaking the mold, you can't have riffs without an underlying structure, the Frank Gehry building on 18th Street (IAC Building), riff WITHOUT structure, 'playing against', Jean Nouvelle, this is NOT Charlie Rose, 'architecture and music will combine in the process', choosing (or not committing) to either architecture or music, an online architect forum, architecture as a spontaneous activity, improvising, Vitruvius wrote about his father playing Beethoven on the piano at night, music is very much a physical activity while architecture is not, the physicality of the built world, the depth of making architecture is far more demanding than the depth of making music, the manipulation of the physical environment, Mozarts or Keith Richards?, is Frank Gehry the Keith Richards or Iggy Pop of architecture?,Do Musicians Do "Additions?" (33:19)
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do musicians do 'additions'?, Nick's musical 'addition' to Janis Joplin, is it addition or accompanyment?, Hanselmann House, putting your ego aside and playing with the rules given you, the memory of the original piece, remixing, music has remakes whereas architecture does not, what is a remake?, Viollet Le Duke and his restorations, the West Side Railyards, Frank Repas, Raphael Vinoly, sketch all the facades of Central Park West, Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon's death, Ode to a Songwriter, win a Macbook Air! at Tekserve.com, Works Progress Administration, Starchitects, Eyeworm / Earworm, 2010 has been a hell of a year,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/15/2010 07:00PM
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This week's Burning Down the House is a potpourri of news and thought from across the spectrum of architecture and design. Curtis begins with a tribute to the late great structural engineer Ysrael Seinuk, who taught at Cooper Union, the alma mater of Curtis and fellow architect Jacob Alspector, our guest this week. Next Curtis and Jacob (alspectorarchitecture.com) discuss the ever changing skyline of NYC, touching on the history of the Empire State Building and the future of the Vornado Real Estate Trust building. The Plaza and Pennsylvania hotels plus (the original) Penn Station also come up in this discussion of buildings new and old, good and bad, within the fluctuating world of NYC's built environment. This episode was sponsored by Tekserve: your one stop shop for all things Mac.
Photo 1: Harry Weese's Given Institute, Photo 2: The planned Vornado Tower at 15 Penn Plaza, Photo 3: McKim Mead & White's Pennsylvania Station
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Burning Down The House Intro - Ysrael Seinuk and Harry Weese (13:42)
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Curtis B. Wayne, news, new listener, our friends in Scandanavia, friend of the show Jacob Alspector, CDANALYTICS.org, Ysrael Seinuk, Ysrael Seinuk's death, Cuban revolution, thin concrete, parabolic structures, taught structures at Cooper Union, Ricky Ricardo on meth, posing at the blackboard, a passion for building, Harry Weese, the Washington DC Metro, beautiful modernist building, University of Colorado School of Medicine, landmarking modern architecture, Docomomo International, preserve good works of modernist architecture, The Time Life Building in Chicago, sitting in the garden of Roberta's, Heritage Radio Network, drop by, the heritage radio stadium, the march of dollars accross the landscape, Harry Weese building demolition,The New York Way (17:15)
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Tekserve, your number one source for all things Apple, Jacob Alspector, the ever changing landscape, the ever changing Manhattan skyline, Penn Station, Madison Square Garden, Renzo Piano's New York Times Building, 12000 feet tall, desecration of New York's skyline, most prominent thing in Midtown, there is no more beautiful building than the Chrysler Building, Gail Fenske lecture 9/16/10, Spitzer School of Architecture, Woolworth Building, Chicago, writing about skyscrapers, first city and second city, why is architecture in Chicago so much better?, a conversation between Bob Stern and Stanley Tigerman, boom to the construction industry, the changing nature of urban life, tower will block Alspector's view, The Great Northern River, The Hudson River, Europeans living in New York since the 1620s, few remnants of dutch settlement, relics of New York ancestry, Brooklyn Museum, the oldest house in Manhattan, The Morris-Jumel House, traces of the previous cultures, Pot Cove in Queens, excavating architectural artifacts, the sunken ship found near Battery Park, family trip to Portugal, patterned stone work, irregularly cobbled toufa stone, driving on a 2 thousand year old road, Roman architecture, what architectural artifacts are we leaving behind, the kind of glass we didn't have 20 years ago, the New York of the early 60s, how things have changed, the post-Giuliani years, Vornado Realty Trust's new building, only a few blocks from the Empire State Building, Vornado Tower, the Lenni Lenape, Manhatta,Demolition Remorse (14:35)
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Dan Breindel, Love of Three Oranges, March of the Nights, Prokofiev, Hotel Pennsylvania being turned down, adaptive reuse, Giorgio Cavalieri, the originator of adaptive reuse, The Astor Library, learning to love old buildings, Mies, Phillip Johnson, articulation of different scales of structure, still studying architecture, The Vornado Project, what Norman Foster did for the Hearst Building, maintaining street scale, The Pennsylvania Hotel has seen better days, The Plaza hotel at it's peak was fewer than a thousand rooms, Pennsylvania Station, a huge disaster for New York, McKim Mead & White, Cooper Union Green Camp, straddling a pair of sculpted eagles, ornament and the passing fashions of what we live to see, developer's remorse, conservation of the beautiful things of our past, the thing that replaced Penn Station, the city in the 60s, the solution was screamingly modern, a terrible train station replacing a beautiful one, a time-bound ethos, Schinkel, 2200 rooms,Freedomland (11:35)
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exodus to the suburbs, CoOp City, Levittown, New York was the most elegant place to live in the 20s, the Landmarks Preservation Commission, Jackie Onassis, Freedomland, the power of money in New York cannot be underestimated, Dutch trading post, three-way trade, the engines of real estate in New York, banks and borrowing, ORO properties, Vornado, The Empire State Building, Great Depression, The Empty State Building, built in 14 months, dirigible dock, Merrill Lynch, World Trade Center, Bear Sterns Building, the demands on the public infrastructure, circumcision of the Jean Nouvel Tower, ten million dollars for transit improvements, the new Penn Station, Union Station in Washington, filing tax returns, new monuments are not allowed to have front steps, The Met, ramps drive a different design aesthetic, masters of the ramp, The New York Exodus of the 1960s,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
