After the Jump
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First Aired - 06/23/2010 07:00PM
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Curtis sits down with Cooper Union's Prof. Roderick L. Knox and architect Matthew Arnold to talk about the shockingly shifting state of architectural education and to name names.
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Burning Down The House Season 2 Premiere (13:38)
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Burning Down The House, season 2, Curtis B. Wayne, Greenpoint Brooklyn, Cooper Union, Professor Roderick L. Knox, Vienna Virginia, Matthew Arnold, architectural education, architectural certification, Architectural Registration Examination, Edward Tufte, edwardtufte.com, NCARB, increase in unaccredited degrees,The Unlicensed Professorial Class (24:57)
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revolutionary times, NCARB, indentured servitude, design firms, computer-administered architect examinations, sitting in the backseat of your career, cartoonist, Cooper Union, expedition, stairwaytoarchitecture.com, unlicensed architecture professors in Virginia, the unlicensed professorial class, registered Deans are very rare, Judith DiMaio, NAAB, National Architecture Accreditation Board, Harvard, Yale, the arrogance of lifelong academics, mystery speak as architectural theory, hunger for making a difference in reality, architecture is all about truth, not a field for dilettantes, curiosity for everything about everything, Connecticut McMansions, creating serendipity, Frank Gehry, The new Cooper Union Building, architecture on a subliminal level, how to read a building, The Custom House, allegories and symbolism in stone, the tool of destruction, the voice of beauty, Tom Mayne, obscene billboard for young people, a building as a response to the program and the site, the social contract, education, The Agnostic Gospel Choir, NYIT, Kass Gilbert,The Wackadoodle World of Architecture (19:11)
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smoked fish, acmesmokedfish.com, salmon, whitefish, iTunes, heritageradionetwork.com, wackadoodle stuff about the world of architecture, half of the people working in architecture aren't architects, Scott Preston Cohen isn't licensed, naming names, New York chapter of the American Institute for Architects, Politburo, Intern Development Program, IDP, Kandinsky, the architects who taught us, the expansion of building codes, LEED, Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, the growth of regulation, increased complexity and remoteness, City College, Professor Gebert, computational architecture, punch cards, paper versus screen, the death of drafting room chatter, The Morgan Library, Original Drawings of Andrea Palladio, see the thinking line by line, demand for drawing, teachers terrified of students, anonymous criticism, college accreditation considerations, Harvard GSD, the Palladian style,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 11/10/2010 07:00PM
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This week on Burning Down the House Curtis addresses Henry Gifford (of Gifford Fuel Savings INC) and his claim that the US Green Building Council's system of rating how "green" a building is (the LEED system) is a scam, and does not actually translate into positive effects for the environment. To discuss this assertion LEED AP and architect Ryan Enschede calls in, who ultimately reminds us that what is important is constant innovation, no matter what system is used to measure progress. This episode was sponsored by Acme Smoked Fish: a NYC culinary mainstay for over 55 years.
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BDH vs. USGBC (5:50)
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Curtis B. Wayne, Henry Gifford, USGBC, United States Green Building Council, LEED rating system, green building, Gifford Fuel Saving Inc., class action suit alleging fraud and racketeering,I'm No Statistician... (19:14)
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Henry Gifford, Roberta's pizza, vox populi, Sandra Lackovic, Ryan Enschede, LEED AP, discontents with the USGBC, Gifford Interview, the LEED system, LEED buildings claim to save 25% to 30% on energy use, CBECS data, skewed results, mean versus median in data analysis, U.S. Green Building Council, study excluded data from high energy buildings, The New York Times, is the LEED system a scam?, architectural rating systems, comparing new buildings to old, LEED certification may be rescinded, compel the council to release data, some municipalities require LEED certification, performance tracking for buildings, real-time energy control, photo-censors, Lutron Radio Powr Savr, operating energy used, sustainability, use less energy,The Squirrely World Of Green Building (18:11)
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the monopolistic hegemony, Architects, architects have really dropped the ball on energy, California's case-study houses, gigantic west-facing walls of glass, insulation installation, identify your air infiltration barrier, Ryan puts Curtis on the spot, the lawsuit averse environment of the 1970s, The American Institute of Architects, encouraged architects to not take responsibility, architects must take responsibility for everything, the USGBC won't release their data, Cascadia's Living Building Challenge, Omega Institute Sustainable Living Center, Skip Backus, LEED certification, a credential like any other, display an understanding of the LEED rating system, LEED rating has become wrongly synonymous with Green Building, merit badges and club membership, Passivhaus Training, Wolfgang Feist, Passivhaus Building Standards,A Highly Efficient Building Envelope (11:09)
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The interest explosion in energy conservation after the oil crisis of the 60s and 70, Passivhaus, Passive House, Wolfgang Feist, The Super Insulated House, volatile organic compounds, as a house becomes more air-tight it becomes more energy efficient, proper ventilation, sustainability shelved in the 80s, The Rocky Mountain Institute, a highly efficient building envelope, the money-efficiency curve, the break in the graph, overcoming the heating system, relying on electricity to move air, natural convective currents, worried about when the grid goes down, everything counts,A Few Choice Words For The USGBC (7:30)
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Matt Arnold, a few choice words for the USGBC, people make bad decisions based on fraudulent statistics, a point-system is for children, sustainable cannot include subsidies, the USGBC is tax-dollar funded, join the class-action suit, LEED system does more damage than good to the sustainability movement, there's no argument against releasing data, RYANENSCHEDE.com, stairwaytoarchitecture.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
