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Burning Down the House: Curtis's Rules of Criticism (15:57)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down the House, Jake Alspector, Heritage Radio Network, architectural criticism, the art of writing about architecture, Nicolai Ouroussoff, translucency, transparency, The New Museum, screens, the clothes make the building, media driven architecture, components of valid criticism, Architectural Record, exposition and description, analogy, discernment, analysis assessment, Robert Venturi, art vs architecture, 41 Cooper Square,Criticizing Criticism (9:25)
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Rem Koolhaas, Cooper Union, civic architecture vs public buildings,Ryan Enschede Joins the Conversation (37:39)
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Ryan Enschede, William Lam, morning and evening light, managing weather, windows, http://inhabitat.com, Passivhaus, energy efficiency, glass facade, European standards, interior load, positive energy, increase natural light, light distribution, ambient light, Bucky Fuller, nuclear energy,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 08/20/2009 08:00PM
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This week on Burning Down The House, Curtis B. Wayne discusses what's behind a sports stadium, both architecturally & culturally.
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Introductions to Joe Le, Graduate Architect, and Sports Architecture (12:28)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Architecture, fantasies and passions, Joe Le, graduate architect, hand drafted, architects, sports architecture, large ancient oval arenas, Greek Amphitheater at Siracusa, Roman Arènes de Lutèce in Paris, artificial turf versus natural, teams and owners want natural surface, soccer or football, Yankee's stadium, Met's stadium, multipurpose uses of stadiums,Further Discussion on the Impact of Sports Arenas on Local Culture (20:52)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Architecture, fantasies and passions, Joe Le, modern sports arenas, Yankee's Stadium, air traffic, Oilers, Yankees, Fenway, sports architecture, Camden Yards, Baltimore, colloquial experiences, emotionally charged, same game, different experiences, regional differences in tail gating preferences, theatre design is manipulative, ease of navigation and consumption, safety of the player, injury is part of the game, not the stadium, field, stands, the Bronx, Chicago, Madison Square Garden, the architect becomes invisible, acoustics and seats are better in modern stadiums, intimate stadiums, Wrigley's Field, The New York Knicks,Nostalgia in the Fan Experience and Current Design Themes (17:34)
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sacred places, nostalgia in the fan experience, Yankee's Stadium, maintenance over nostalgia, world series, Yankees, subconscious architectural themes, baseball is not enclosed, baseball is a summertime game, Joe DiMaggio, basketball arenas, Madison Square Garden, multi-use arenas, general purpose design, natatorium, capital constrained, seasonal buildings, sports architecture, Wrigley's Field,Architectural Parti and Salutations (9:25)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Architecture, fantasies and passions, Joe Le, sports architecture, Carrie and Jason Gibbs, shipping containers, Roberta's restaurant, Brooklyn Velodrome, track for sports cycling, steep stadium seating, jumbo-trons, bike track, cyclists, post-tension concrete, back to human powered transportation, architectural parti, architectural creativity with architectural parti, positive notions,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/02/2009 08:00PM
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This week is all about trash on Burning Down The House. Curtis B. Wayne and Jacob Alspector discuss garbage as a design theme & The Cascadia Building Challenge.
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Garbagology (13:38)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, Jacob Alspector, Toby Cumberbatch, garbagology, Cooper Union, recycling, reprocessing, spliting open clear water bottles, ironing the pieces to make polyethylene sheets, butchering, Frank Lloyd Wright, catalogs, Woodstock revivalism, Whole Earth Catalog, there is a new one, wind turbine, self sustaining farm, Wisconsin,Garbage As a Design Theme: Visual Victims Unit (23:57)
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East Williamsburg Industrial Park, Roberta's, Tekserve, John Nouvel, shanty towns, composed of garbage, entirely recycled, high rise glass building of many picture frames, firmitas, delight, structural integrity, usefulness, far west side of Manhattan, industrial zone, high rise loft building, Calvin Klein, Martha Stewart, The High Line, The Shutter Building, The Nouvel Building, China, Dubai, nobody is going to Dubai to vacation during this recession, indoor skiing, contrast between artificial branding and experimental recycling, gasoline, he notion of being happier with less, re purposed and disposed automobile parts, Soviet Suprematist Poster Work, Soviet Suprematist architecture, perpetual avant garde, modernism, the commercial world has caught up to that, branding and commodification of architecture, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, venustas, utilitas,Cascadia Building Challenge (25:49)
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meditation, LEED, holistic, synergistic, sewage, self referential buildings, privatization of landscape, back to the age of robber barons, for profit real estate development, branding, Peter Cooper, Zaha Hadid, BMW, green washing, design washing, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Cooper Union, The Chrysler Building, The Omega Institute, new age experiences, yoga retreats, BNIM Architects, Berkebile Nelson Immenschuh McDowell Architects, renewable energy technology, lightweight materials, wood products, food waste and human waste is processed in the building, black water, treatment systems, New York sewer system, gray water, AIA, IPE documents, consensus documents,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
