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This week on Burning Down The House, Curtis B. Wayne is joined by friend of the show Roderick L. Knox to discuss eloquence in architecture.
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Fairway Market, Roderick L. Knox, visual victims, Chicago, olympics, the demolition of a Walter Gropius pavillion at the Michael Reese Medical Center, eloquence of surviving architecture,Eloquence in Architecture (31:48)
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Love of Three Oranges, the experience of going to the villa savoye, France, free standing sink in the entrance, honesty in architecture, doing right by the environment and your client, if you lose your clients trust you can't function anymore, architectural lies, Frank Gehry, architecture is an art that doesn't give you much latitude, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, John Silber - Architecture of the Absurd, ad hoc partitions, test your ideas!, consulting a foundation of reality, making a sculture to live in is mocking architecture, Monsanto House of the Future, The Bauhaus, Gerrit Rietveld, Rietveld Schroder House, Farnsworth House, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, The Netherlands, steel is equal in tension and proportion, The Philip Johnson Glass House, ribbon windows on the second floor of Cooper Union, the Glass House is not transparent because of the surrounding landscape, curves make straight lines look straighter, Athenians, scale and proportion, it can be disturbing to be brutally honest sometimes, art is a lie that tells the truth, The Seagram Building,Spaces, Curves & "Vesica" (21:57)
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La Boeme, Bobst Library, suicides, Philip Johnson, the magic word in architecture is adequete, materials move, nothing is exact, the job is to keep out the water, a totally rigid building would break, materials expand at different rates, The John Hancock Building, the glass was ill desgined for the pane, opera was a place to be seen, the prominade, the horseshoe shape is ideal for seeing other opera goers, thin shell structures, the shape bears the weight, can be very efficiant, Guggenheim Museum, they treat the open space like a void, it's a votex, Hugh Downs and Frank Llyod Wright toured the museum, The Today Show, you must start at the top and prominade down because that is the flow of gravity, they never thought art would become the new religion, manipulation of scale, Gerogia O'Keefe, vesica, vaginal imagery, inter uterine experience,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
