What Doesn't Kill You
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First Aired - 06/10/2012 04:30PM
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Today's episode of Burning Down the House is all about the golden ratio, the Fibonacci series, and the pentatonic scale. Host Curtis B. Wayne talks a call from HRN's president Jack Inslee to talk about Jack's trip to Bonnaroo. Curtis and Jack talk about the jam band scene at big music festivals like Bonnaroo, and how groups like Phish and The Grateful Dead use the pentatonic scale in their improvisations. Curtis goes on to talk about the Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti, and natural ratios used in his design of the Santa Maria Novella. Curtis believes that biophilia is evident in the convergence of music, architecture, mathematics, and natural phenomena! Curtis goes on to discuss ratios in the architecture of Le Corbusier, and Vitruvius's belief in interdisciplinary knowledge to help the architect. This program has been brought to you by Hearst Ranch.
"Jerry Garcia's riffs are totally architectural!"
"When you get into proportions musically, you have this oddball proportion of the sixth- which, in terms of architecture, is the mantel height...that comes directly from musical theory." --Curtis B. Wayne on Burning Down the House
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Western Music and the Parthenon (20:16)
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5, mathematics, pentatonic scale, proportion, Bonnaroo, food at Bonnaroo, food and music, Phish, Schoenberg, Jack Inslee, convergence, biophilia, Leon Battista Alberti, Western European culture, linguist, philosophy, Renaissance, architectural theory, Waldorf school, mathematics and music, Santa Maria Novella, intervals, mathematics and nature, Arab, Hindu, Leonardo of Piza, Fibonacci series, tones, lyre, thirds, fifths, Western music, diatonic, tempered scale, blues, rock music, old time music, folk music, architecture school, Greek, angles, the Parthenon, phi, Pink Floyd,Fractal Patterns and Jerry Garcia (20:35)
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Fibonacci, Cartesian plane, mollusk, fractals, Alberti, nature & proportion, geometry, Le Corbusier, scale of proportions, Red Modolur, Blue Modolur, tonic, sixth, mantel height, 20th Century architecture, numeration, Arabic numerals, Roman numerals, Liber Abaci, The Allman Brothers, golden ratio, octaves, computational morphology, Strand Books, Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture, Jerry Garcia, Wall Street, growth and decay, Fibonacci regression, markets, exponential, hymns, the end of days,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/22/2010 07:00PM
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This week, on 2010's final Burning Down the House, Curtis sits down with two talented architects who also happen to be dedicated musicians: Jacob Alspector and Nick Agneta. Learn the obvious and not-so-obvious relationships between music, music theory, and the process of designing and building structures. The trio discuss the idea of the "addition" and its equivalent in music, plus some famous designers and their musical counterparts (is Frank Gehry the Keith Richards or Iggy Pop of architecture?). This episode was sponsored by Tekserve and their E-Waste Recycling Project.
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Riffing With Structure (15:37)
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Tekserve, E-waste Disposal Events, Tekserve.com, 22nd December, Gerta, Architecture as, Nick Agnetta, Jacob Alspector, Music and Architecture, Holiday Music, MIDI, 3/4 time superimposed over 4/4 time, the cultural arts center in Marian County, each tier of arch was a different sequence and nothing lines up, slide rule with different scales, Pythagorean was a musician AND a mathematician, tuning with an iPhone, they're all professors!, architect musicians are rather rare, Professor Knox, Urban Design, Urban Design has been co-opted by the landscape architects, landscape architects seem to have the attention of the public and the funders, this episode is a bit less structured than usual, Robert Moses's Cross-Town Expressway, there are proportions in chord formations that have a lot to do with geometry and the formation of facade, the demise of the facade, buildings that have no designed facade, the Pythagorean relationship of proportions carries over into chord formations, the tonic the third the fifth and the octave, Fibonacci Sequence, the physics of Western music and the physics of STUFF, Dorian Mode, Year of the Locust, making the sound of locusts with a mandolin, the overtone series, cross frequency overlaps, the harmonic series, mandolin as locust, frozen, music,Breaking the Mold (12:57)
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breaking the mold, you can't have riffs without an underlying structure, the Frank Gehry building on 18th Street (IAC Building), riff WITHOUT structure, 'playing against', Jean Nouvelle, this is NOT Charlie Rose, 'architecture and music will combine in the process', choosing (or not committing) to either architecture or music, an online architect forum, architecture as a spontaneous activity, improvising, Vitruvius wrote about his father playing Beethoven on the piano at night, music is very much a physical activity while architecture is not, the physicality of the built world, the depth of making architecture is far more demanding than the depth of making music, the manipulation of the physical environment, Mozarts or Keith Richards?, is Frank Gehry the Keith Richards or Iggy Pop of architecture?,Do Musicians Do "Additions?" (33:19)
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do musicians do 'additions'?, Nick's musical 'addition' to Janis Joplin, is it addition or accompanyment?, Hanselmann House, putting your ego aside and playing with the rules given you, the memory of the original piece, remixing, music has remakes whereas architecture does not, what is a remake?, Viollet Le Duke and his restorations, the West Side Railyards, Frank Repas, Raphael Vinoly, sketch all the facades of Central Park West, Jungleland by Bruce Springsteen, John Lennon's death, Ode to a Songwriter, win a Macbook Air! at Tekserve.com, Works Progress Administration, Starchitects, Eyeworm / Earworm, 2010 has been a hell of a year,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
