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First Aired - 07/09/2009 08:00PM
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The premier of Burning Down the House is moderated by architect and writer Curtis B. Wayne. The discussion centers around the Roman ideals of "fimitatis, utilitatis" and "venustatis" in architecture, with architects Roderick L. Knox and George Y. Sawick
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Introductions and Preview of Today's Show (5:37)
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culture of architecture, Cooper Union, Harvard Design School, Roderick L Knox, George Y Sawicki, opinionated architects, Roman, structural integrity, comfort and functionality, delight, the umami of architecture, New York architects, American Institute of Architects, Royal Institute of British Architects, Architectural League of NY, Architect's Council of New York, New York Society of Architects, New York Coalition of Black Architects, Ukrainian Museum, Pratt Institute, Kaufman Astoria Film and Television Studios, the St. George Residential Tower Complex, Chopin,Vitruvius and Delight (18:47)
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Guggenheim, Cooper Union Building, Cooper Square, where did delight go in this building?, Thom Mayne, unnecessary structural gymnastics, trend towards sensationalist architecture, new buildings satisfy ego of client and architect, Bond Street residential, green vomit building, Coke bottle green glass facade, Louis Sullivan Building, naturalistic motifs, Art Nouveau, blends in with vocabulary of its surroundings, Gehry's gumby-like buildings, self-centered buildings, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright most self-promoting architect, architects don't make sculptures, firmitas, utilitas, architecture as opera,Details and What Is on the Inside (17:40)
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warped plane, elegant detailing, unorganized within, a building as a fraud, delight is not a blank slate, no absolute truth, no absolute duty, neo-classical, repose should be offered, to take concrete straight up like steal is disappointing, Boston City Hall, discomforting works, the Jewish Museum in Berlin, the Pantheon and Parthenon, Wizard of Oz Monstrosity, Eisenman Building in Berlin, importance of details,Venustatis, Sensation and Light (16:42)
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duck beacon, respect for itself and it's neighbors, the silica makes the impact, inappropriate to the program, loud for the sake of being loud, New York and Chicago steel buildings are different, a lie is ok if it's beautiful, lintel are formal, delight in the totality of expression, juxtaposition of old and new, Coopers secret society from Yale, the interplay of light on form, MOMA, New York builds upward, Saint Vincent's Building, sensational and imperatively, lower Manhattan Art Deco style, Renaissance Pulazzo, Anne Saxelby, intrinsic beauty and style, decorater versus true builders,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
