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First Aired - 09/10/2009 08:00PM
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On the September 10, 2009 episode of Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne tells the tales and histories of the great masters of architecture. For additional materials on the show check: http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com
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A Day in the Life; Stories about the Great Maters of Architecture (17:53)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Thomas G. Smith, Tales of Architecture, renowned and fabled, Renaissance, architecture as high art, Gergio vulsary, Pioazi, Medidicchi, Florence, colonnade, student show for art and architecture, John Hejduk, Cooper, pristine geometric buildings, Richard Meier, the Meier lofts, Peter Eisenman, Michael Graves, Charlie Gwathmey, personal tales, Sharples Twin's, sHoP architecture, Tom Smith, green houses, hammer-headed bean tressels, dead heads, drug tolerant, Tony Smith, Jackson Pollock, William De Kooning, bumble bees blew through, master architect, Greatful Dead,The Poetry of Architecture; More Stories of the Great Masters (13:07)
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architecture, John Q. Hejduk, Cooper Union, Dean Hejduk, walking with the penguins, mindless beings in stark suits, Giorgio Savari, the white architects, the five white architects of New York, theoretical works of architecture, Edinborough Zoo, emperor penguin, University of Chicago, contract is creating a place and time, poet laureate of architecture of the twentieth century,Jerzy Soltan and the Fibonacci Sequence (11:39)
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Athena, Balzac, Rodan, architecture, Warsaw, POW, Jerzy Soltan, Le Corbusier, cubism, John Ray Cree, the white architects, the five white architects of New York, Charles Gwathny, Dean Hejduk, teachers, master's teachings, Polish prisoner of war, Corbeau, progression of proportions, the golden section, Greek concept, three units by five units, the most pleasing proportion, the Fibonacci sequence, le modulor, based on the proportions of men, When the Cathedrals Were White, rational construction of structure, George Washington Bridge, American modular, red and blue, Italian stone quarry, you can not rush Italian quarrymen,Eisenman and Graves; Wordsmiths and Architects (20:21)
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Graves, Princeton, Cornell, mylar, Gropious, the white architects, White Rabbit was the number one hit in 1967, the summer of love, Phillip Johnson, ziecobunt, locked in time, Walter Gropius, Meier, Hejduk, Eisenman, Gwathney, Gershwin, Cambridge University, Nazi Germany, Corbeau, Noam Chomsky, deconstructivist liguists, Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies, Richard Meier, purists architecture, pre-Raphaelite glory, Charlie Gwathmey, Michael Graves, passing the torch, architecture is one of intermittent chaos, sharkskin suits, Venice grand tour, the Acdemiea on the Grand Canal, Venetian Sun, precise and clean, formalistic Kabuki style, Charles Eims, the Power of Ten, epitome of elder architecture, master architect, structure with color and graphic images, accommodating your guests, accommodating your client,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/03/2009 08:00PM
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The Dark Side Of Being Green: Curtis and guest Katy Keifer discuss the overlooked implications of "going green".
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Sustainability and CFL Bulbs (29:20)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Katy Keifer, green, earthy crunchy, bunkum, sustainable, sustainability, recession, back to the Earth, recycling, heavy metals, incandescent Bulbs, Britain's not making bulbs, saving energy, hoarding of incandescent bulbs, LED lights for smaller spaces, General Electric, Westinghouse, CFL bulbs contain mercury, compact fluorescent lamps, mercury as a toy, EU illegalizing incandescent bulbs, European imperialism and fads, the Weather Underground, current Cold War of electricity, energy commerce battle, electricity merchant states, water as a commodity, Silanus Valley in California, Staten Island garbage dump,Wasting Energy and Efficiency Design (23:21)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Katy Keifer, Forrest Gump, USDOA, United States Department of Agriculture, data-centers eat energy, US Green Buildings Council, data-service center, 50 percent humidity is optimal for computing machines, LEED, Leadership in Energy and Efficiency Design, VOC, volatile organic compounds, petroleum, nylon sweats, plastics, Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania strip mines, land was raped, prescriptive way of estimating the performance of building, Energy Star, ventilation and prevention of mold, an era of cheap energy, natural air-cooling chimneys, LEED is a marketing tool, LEED certified, efficiency design,Energy Saving and Green Roofs (13:40)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Katy Keifer, the dark side of green architecture, green roofs, sod houses, garden on a roof-top, Corbeau homes, repurpose Brooklyn roofs, planted roofs can be dangerous, dirt is great insulator, earth, low wavelength infrared energy, planted roofs are efficient, Green Buildings Movement, irrigation of green roofs, sewage treatment plants for green roofs, the grey area, no clear answers, the Accidental Yankee, Little House on the Prairie,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
