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First Aired - 12/01/2010 07:00PM
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On this week's Burning Down The House, Curtis calls up Duo Dickinson, architect, author, and co-founder of The Congress of Residential Architecture, to discuss CORA's 8-point plan for rehabilitating the profession (and combating the forces of High Modernism, Leed Accreditation, Governmental Intervention, and Academic Masterbation) . This episode is brought to you by Hearst Ranch (www.hearstranch.com)
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BDH Intro (8:59)
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heritageradionetwork.com, Live from Roberta's Restaurant, Curtis B. Wayne, 50,000 loyal listeners a week, BDH is the 151st most popular food podcast on iTunes, Hearst Ranch, William Randolph Hearst, the finest grass-fed beef since 1865, a week of very severe natural occurrences, an earthquake on Long Island, Duo Dickinson, architect and author, co-founder of The Congress of Residential Architecture, The New Haven Register, The New Haven Magazine, CNN, Home Work, Yale, Rodger Williams, Harvard, Chan Chan, Buena Vista Social Club,The Manifesto (21:35)
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Duo Dickinson, CORA, Congress of Residential Architects, differentiating between architects, Jeremiah Eck, a need for architects to talk to each other, Modernism, take style and pretense out of the picture, anybody can be a member, CORArchitecture.org, The CORA Position Paper, a joint-task force to take on seminal issues in the profession, murky non-defined relationships, Head of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Design School, unlicensed architecture, Phillip Johnson's license, Che beret, take the profession back, the fiery hoops of licensure, incredibly firebranding, AIA, American Institute of Architects, licensure has been denigrated, LEAD accreditation, The 8 Points, universal standard of professional definitions, promote integration between disciplines, continuing education requirements are a specious time-dump sham, Department of Consumer Protections, growing cultural irrelevancy and LEAD competition, NCARB, educational institutions have become rarefied fine-art elitist zones, decentralize the AIA, AIA leadership have been very responsive, residential design needs far more courses in schools, architecture has become fundamentalist, High Modernism, pitched roof, the growing divide between elite Modernists and real-world architects, 1988 AIA gala for Prince Charles, anti-progressive, Money For Nothing,...Then You Have A Cult (11:36)
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hearstranch.com, Madison, Connecticut, little retro sandwich shop, best bookstore in America, LEED AP, paper men in cars, the perversion of the profession, creating value by being opaque, a salesman with a lexicon, the key to the front of knowledge and salvational truth, The Green Movement has jumped the shark, slaves in China, a growing suspicion of LEED hype and gloss, solar power installations of the late 1970s, Jimmy Carter paid for it, architects are drawn to salvational systems, Follow The Money, enormous profit motive, Henry Gifford, gigantic glass buildings, getting closer to Gaia, a really cool subtext, the high religion of Modernism, Cashmier,The Style Question (17:33)
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heritageradionetwork.com, BDH is very big in Scandinavia, Royal Barry Wills, in the style of Falling Water, the great unspoken rift in our culture, No Bad Dogs, the fundamentalist religion of High Modernism, The Modular Man, too ideologically perfect, The Texas Rangers, Colin Rowe, Bob Slutzky, John Hejduk, Cornell, the freedoms of internet radio, organic architecture, neo-cubist Cooper, when you never figure out how to build a building, The Cooper Student Show in May, Curtis gives a crit, there are geniuses and there technicians, Architectural Technologists, the number of unemployed architects in England went up by 9 times in 2009, intellectual masturbation, the teachers-teaching-teachers do loop, academic architecture needs a real-world window, Government intervention, bureaucratic regulation, $400,000 in soft costs, the AIA, the standard contract language excludes so much responsibility, Government contracts, become Universalists, dropping F-bombs in Brooklyn, embrace responsibility, Nick Agneta, Saved By Design, http://savedbydesign.wordpress.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
