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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
