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First Aired - 06/26/2011 04:30PM
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This week on Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne takes issue with The Pritzker Architecture Prize. What does one need to do to be awared a Pritzker? Are the wrong ideas being propagated by giving out architecture awards? Tune in and hear why Barack Obama raised some eyebrows with his comments on architecture and learn why double skin technology is the future. This episode was sponsored by Cain Vineyard & Winery
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Burning Down the House: The Pritzker Architecture Prize (10:55)
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Burning Down the House, Nobel Prize of architecture, Pritzker Architecture Prize, Alfred Nobel, starchitecture, prestige, value, high art, Hyatt,Former Award Winners (12:23)
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James Sterling, award winners, form vs technology, modernism, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Glenn Murcutt, sustainability, art buildings, functionality,Preident Obama's Architectural Mishap (2:58)
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art that we can live in, President Obama, second depression, Eduardo Souto de Moura,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/04/2011 04:30PM
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This week on Burning Down the House host Curtis B. Wayne is joined by esteemed architect and professor Wilfried Wang. The conversation focuses in on quality in architecture with topics ranging from Finnish building laws to Curtis's problem with recent architecture school graduates to Eduardo Souto de Moura's Pritzker prize-winning stadium. So stay tuned for some design enlightenment and wiegh in on the everlasting debate: form or function? This episode is sponsored by Hearst Ranch.
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Welcoming Wilfried Wang (6:11)
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Burning Down The House, Curtis B. Wayne, Wilfried Wang, German, Harvard School Of Design, German consulate, formalistic architecture, quality of living space, human rights, beerfest is so loud, architecture, quality, Starchitect,Starchitects (9:38)
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quality in architecture, Finland, Finnish experience, building costs, open competition, star architects, finnish building law, concept and design, is design worth it?, architecture criticism, quality management, urban space, parking, iconic towers, Starchitect,Quality In Architecture (14:30)
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museum, spiral form, Guggenheim, building contribution, building contexts, architecture in contexts, architectural press, postmodern, Boulez, architecture, monoliths, geometry, Burlington, Chiswick, OMA, Louvre, art objects, sculptures, should architecture be simple, chair design, Qi Gong,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
