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First Aired - 02/13/2011 04:30PM
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Let there be light! This week on Burning Down the House, Curtis sheds some light on light - and its use as it relates to architecture, design and sustainability. Tune in to learn about the origins of artificial light, where technology has taken it, and how we could stand to learn how to survive without it. Find out how natural daylight can be utilized at home or in the work place and how you can help lessen your carbon footprint. This episode was sponsored by 360 Cookware. For more information on their vapor technology visit 360Cookware.com
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Burning Down the House Introduction: Let There be Light (8:05)
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Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne, 360 Cookware, vapor technology, Heritage Radio Network, lights, oil lamps, Thomas Edison did NOT invent the incandescent lamp, he bought out the patents, he pushed electric light, CFL, induction lighting,Induction Lamps (13:57)
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magnetism, induction lamps, strong magnetic force is applied to an evacuated chamber that has rare gas, re-purposing, Bryant Park, American Express Building, that building captures heat into a heat exchange that creates steam which provides heating in other places in the building, can be fed through an absorption chiller to create air conditioning in the summer, Radio City Music Hall, has had this technology since the 30's, sustainable intergration of technologies, 95% efficient lighting, spinning mills, using what nature gives you, foot candles,Utlizing Dayight & Recycling CFL's (15:33)
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turn off the lights when you aren't using them!, saving energy, we are becoming much more careful about integrating artificial illumination with daylight, Battery Park City, Green Guidelines, based on the US Green Building Council's LEED, paying more attention to natural daylight, compact fluorescent lights, European Union, banned the manufacturing of ordinary incandescent bulbs, heat lamps, Tekserve E-Waste events, mercury waste, burned out CFLs should go into recycling bins, sustainable design, illumination, optimizing the amount of daylight,Skylights & Daylight Sensor (18:23)
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colored glass, skylights, they tend to leak, constant bright light in factories, reflected back into the space, light tubes, the hotter the light source the higher its temperature the closer it will be to white!, cool blue florescent lamps were very hot, illumination temperatures, daylight sensors, occupancy sensors, used to be exotic,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 12/09/2009 08:00PM
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Curtis B. Wayne gets his first call-in guest as the theme of this show is "revolution". Topics discussed include Pelli Clarke Pelli & Proposed Energy Law For Existing Buildings.
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Burning Down The House Introduction: News! (18:33)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Burning Down The House, Heritage Radio Network, Fairway Market, Cesar Pelli, Pelli Clarke Pelli, www.pcparch.com/, Hartford, IBD, Design-Build, Science Center Sues Architects, the fear factor, fixed sum, software, calking, reading on electronic devices vs hard copy, electroluminescent screen, sil flashing, dam flashings, dam ends, exterior walls are cavity walls, Graphic Standards, loss of quality in the studio, personal computers, iPods in the studio, there used to be constant communication,Ryan Enschede Calls In: Proposed Energy Law For Existing Buildings (17:07)
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Volunteers of America, Greenhorn Radio, we are now streaming 24 7, The Greener Greater Buildings Plan, New York building code, New York energy code, retrofits of equipment, upgrades are not required due to a loophole, wire glass skylights that aren't double insulated, stimulus money, Obama, there is a crude way of providing heat in old buildings, timed boilers, Henry Gifford, State Incentive Program, BPI, gas fired space heater, sustainability, adaptively reuse structure, NYSERDA,More With Ryan: Energy & Quality In Sustainable Agriculture (19:46)
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Pirate Radio, Katy Keiffer, rent stabilized apartment, capital improvements, how much gets passed on to the consumer, translating things into economic terms, energy audit, subsidized cost of energy, we don't feel the cost, Switzerland has the highest savings rate in the world, getting quality and living with it, quality doesn't wear out, Tammany Hall, green rooftops, Chicago, Boss Tweed, fois gras, PETA, Rietveld Chair, www.ryanenschede.com, sustainable agriculture,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 10/08/2009 08:00PM
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Thursday October 8, 2009 - Curtis B. Wayne discusses Frank Lloyd Wright and the turn of the twentieth century with Oliver E. Allen, Debra Allen, & Jake Alspector. http://burningdownthehouse-radioarchitecture.blogspot.com & www.alspecorarchitecture.com
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The Climate of Architecture of Frank Lyod Wright in 1904 (17:00)
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Curtis B. Wayne, architecture, architect, design, Greatest Hits of 1904, Scott Joplin, Darwin D. Martin houses, easy winner, Buffalo, Lake Eerie, Eerie Canal, Larkin Soap Company, Oliver E. Allen, Debra Allen, Jake Alspector, Darwin D. Martin, Larkin Building, Robie house of Chicago, Hyde Park, Delaware Avenue, Miss Barton, Martin and Barton, University of Buffalo, 40 million dollar restoration, restore all buildings to 1907, prairie style, progressive thinking, Theodore Roosevelt, speech, Teddy Roosevelt, Edison cylinder, Sagamore, Pure Food and Drug act, we can do better, Zeitgeist, muckrakers, Frank Lloyd Wright, innovative design content,Theodore Roosevelt; a progressive thinker and an influence to the time of Wright (8:50)
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architecture, architect, design, Oliver E. Allen, Debra Allen, Jake Alspector, large library, cozy furniture, 1904, escape from summer sun, dark cave, nineteenth century, great eyebrow overhead, breaking the box, abstractions, Grey Cliff, shore of Lake Eerie, Derby, romantic houses, Gothic horror, Wright influenced by Germany and Austria, Viennese Work Studios, expressive mode, inspired by Orientalism, Mahler, Frank Lloyd Wright,Wright and the creation of "ism's"; and Times at the Turn of the Century (36:10)
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architecture, architect, design, Oliver E. Allen, Debra Allen, Jake Alspector, Wooded Victory, Henry Moore, 1094, conformist, gloomy 19th century, Shoenburgh, Red house, pre-Raphaelites, Hartley House of Oak Bark, Darwin G Martin house, Glestner house, Villa Laduc, Modernism, German Romanticism, end of Prairie school movement, manipulation of the landscape, glorify nature, natural is better, work with nature, linear act of design intervention, harrow discs of the great plains, Almstead, Martin house, relentless grid, no straight line vistas, centripetal composition, analog of the ego, Guggenheim, Orientalism, Louis Comfort Tiffany, grid allows for a vastness infinity, John Atlee Kouwenhoven, The Beer Can by the Highway, America is like jazz, physical manifestation of manifest destiny, Modern, era of streamlined expression, Mayan influenced houses, Johnson Wax, Gwathmey Siegal, Charlie Gwathmey, Eric Steel, adulterous love stories, Mrs. Cheney murdered, Wright attracted misery, German and Viennese, social-sexual movements, broadcast radio not until the twenties, era of benign and incremental change, Futurists, Dadaists, a great belief in progress, progress or good living, neologism, sustainability of life, ranch house is popularization of the prairie house, Falling Water house, not buildings but a sculpture, Mister Martin, Buffalo Hyatt Regency, Louis Sullivan building, total decoration, Simon and Garfunkel, Form follows function, Frank Llyod Wright, Stravinsky, Bauhaus, Wright-ian, mosaic, Pyrex tubes skylights, Buffalo pilgrimage, the cult of Frank Llyod Wright,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
