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First Aired - 02/13/2011 04:30PM
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Let there be light! This week on Burning Down the House, Curtis sheds some light on light - and its use as it relates to architecture, design and sustainability. Tune in to learn about the origins of artificial light, where technology has taken it, and how we could stand to learn how to survive without it. Find out how natural daylight can be utilized at home or in the work place and how you can help lessen your carbon footprint. This episode was sponsored by 360 Cookware. For more information on their vapor technology visit 360Cookware.com
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Burning Down the House Introduction: Let There be Light (8:05)
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Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne, 360 Cookware, vapor technology, Heritage Radio Network, lights, oil lamps, Thomas Edison did NOT invent the incandescent lamp, he bought out the patents, he pushed electric light, CFL, induction lighting,Induction Lamps (13:57)
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magnetism, induction lamps, strong magnetic force is applied to an evacuated chamber that has rare gas, re-purposing, Bryant Park, American Express Building, that building captures heat into a heat exchange that creates steam which provides heating in other places in the building, can be fed through an absorption chiller to create air conditioning in the summer, Radio City Music Hall, has had this technology since the 30's, sustainable intergration of technologies, 95% efficient lighting, spinning mills, using what nature gives you, foot candles,Utlizing Dayight & Recycling CFL's (15:33)
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turn off the lights when you aren't using them!, saving energy, we are becoming much more careful about integrating artificial illumination with daylight, Battery Park City, Green Guidelines, based on the US Green Building Council's LEED, paying more attention to natural daylight, compact fluorescent lights, European Union, banned the manufacturing of ordinary incandescent bulbs, heat lamps, Tekserve E-Waste events, mercury waste, burned out CFLs should go into recycling bins, sustainable design, illumination, optimizing the amount of daylight,Skylights & Daylight Sensor (18:23)
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colored glass, skylights, they tend to leak, constant bright light in factories, reflected back into the space, light tubes, the hotter the light source the higher its temperature the closer it will be to white!, cool blue florescent lamps were very hot, illumination temperatures, daylight sensors, occupancy sensors, used to be exotic,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/24/2010 07:00PM
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- A Journey Through The 7 Phases Of Building Your Dream House (With An Architect) -
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Breaking Down The House (15:11)
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heritageradionetwork.com, thanksgiving eve 2010, the national secular quasi-religious event we call Thanksgiving, national feast day, Cabot Cheese, cabotcheese.com, how design services progress, Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, there are distinct phases of architectural services, Programming, have an interview with your architect, a focus on residential design, the architectural community in the United States is relatively small, a letter of agreement, The Program, the space and functions you want, budget and sight limitations, Schematic Design, SD, plans, sections, slices, elevations, the arrangement of spaces and the form of the building, the play back and forth between architect and owner, furniture and negative space, Design Development, DD, more specificity with materials and construction details, heating, cooling, lighting, Preparing The Contract Documents, drawings and specifications, material specifics have cost implications, Bidding, Construction, Construction Administration, a clerk of words, Close Out, Punch List, additional services, good caravan music, Buddha Bar, Parisian Algerians,Get With The Program (21:56)
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a journey of ideas and thoughts about what you need and want in your house, an e-mail from a prospective client, the beach house from Sleeping With The Enemy, lots of glass and ship rails, The Architect's Analysis, highly aspirational, single-person home, the kitchen, home cooking, commercial-grade stoves, Vulcan, Wolf, sous vide, circulator, Dave Arnold, Cooking Issues, getting to understand how your client lives, The Extreme Example of Frank Lloyd Wright, no storage space whatsoever, you don't need all that stuff, old-fashioned clothes presses, New Canaan Modernists, Eliot Noyes, John Johansen, items on display, gas fireplaces, window design, Dr. Edith Farnsworth House, Mies van der Rohe, energy-efficient windows, glass technology, Smith Architectural Design LLC, Connecticut, unlicensed Architectural Design, Architectural Digest, decorating magazine, working without a program, kitchen addition, set budget parameters, The Great Depression 2.0, high rates for skilled labor, documentation of expectations, cooking libido, Patti Smith, Kurt Cobain, Smells Like Teen Spirit,Flood Of Words (9:53)
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flood of words, free-association, archi-speak, talking but not communicating, you know who you are, bloated dystopian pronouncements, making the world a better place and taking care of our clients, there are lots of ways to get natural light into a building, Curtis Builds A Bank, 20,000 square feet, cupola, mansard roof, red-brick, coined-corners, ionic capitals, columns, Georgian style, Patti's little poem, symbolist poet, Paul Verlaine, symbolism, The Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau, Erik Satie, Toulouse Lautrec, integrated world of art, Moonlight by Paul Verlaine, poetry and architecture, facebook, Curtis B. Wayne,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/17/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis hosts a number of friends of the show, with architect Jacob Alspector, Katy Purviance (founder of the VERB design/build school), architect Matt Arnold, and "vox populi" Caroline Bailey. This episode was sponsored by Cabot Cheese of Vermont, Dairy Farm Family owned since 1919.
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Introduction (3:49)
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BDH is big in Scandinavia, Caroline Bailey, Jacob Alspector, Cabot Cheese, Matthew Arnold, Katy Purviance, Accredation, Degrees, the license system overseas, we have issues from state to state, never being satisfied,Licenture and Accreditation (15:15)
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why bother getting a degree?, why bother getting a license, where the densest population of architects are in the US, states vary on what they require of architects, half the architects in the US live in states that DON'T require a professional degree, NCARB, a clearinghouse for credentials across states, NAAB, architecture school is often not taught by architects, imagine a medical school where the professors are not physicians, the relevance of an accredited degree is called into question, how much of your architecture education is going toward qualification, the time between leaving school and getting a license, 25 years to get your own firm, apprenticeship, the whole notion that you SHOULD have a degree can fade, City College tuition, people can be very qualified and not licensed, unlicensed architect, Ray Eames, a guest versus a guest interlocutor, William Wesley Peters, Curtis thinks you can't be an unlicensed architect, getting a license for ONE project, Robert Moses interceded on Frank Gehry's Guggenheim built, the builders of the Guggenheim suggested a lot of 'value engineering' items, Caroline worked at the Guggenheim, the Guggenheim restoration, feeling safe going up the spiral, grandfathered in, falling or jumping off a parapet, .,Architecture as Science or Art (15:11)
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Bruce Springsteen's act has not changed in 35 years, the VERB school, learning how to start a school, Los Angeles Institute of Architecture and Design, Regulatory boards, states where apprenticeship is statisfactory, the extreme cost of a professional degree program, The Map, architectureaddiction.com, you CAN become and architect without graduating, NCARB intern development rules, NCARB hates the idea of learning through apprenticeship, disappointment with architecture school, the logic of teaching people to build things that wil never be built, having a degree and never having built anything, Canterbury, the architect is the master builder and traditionally came up through the building ranks, what do contractors think of the architect who comes in thinking he knows something about building?, a middle-of-the-road approach between school and doing, how many professors are REALLY licensed?, Deans without licenses, NAAB does not talk about aesthetics or beauty, students are certainly not discouraged from assimilating the design peculiarities of other buildings, Matt resents the implication that someone who argues for construction knowledge is against beauty, construction knowledge is what makes beauty possible, architecture as science or art?, smart means beautiful, necessary but not sufficient, specialists, Aesthetics, a hunger for integration, Louis Kahn,Everything Counts (17:27)
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guitar in architecture school, will there be music in the curriculum at VERB?, new wave, the complexity of actually DOING architecture, the reason to be an architect is because everything counts, architecture as music, Vitruvius, Harvard Design School, AKC Papers, getting a masters at Cooper Union was expected, Construction Management, Acoustics, mathematically rigorous acoustics, the frets on a guitar are arranged logarithmically, Doing It For Love, Katie started as a microbiologist, using both the science and art parts of your brain, an apprenticeship is no guarantee you will be exposed to everything you need to learn, passing exams, the social contract, the change in how the drawings are produced, paper versus digital, education is more bureaucratic, the VERB school is going to be everywhere,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
