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First Aired - 10/29/2009 08:00PM
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Curtis B. Wayne talks with guest Jake Alspector about the new masters and what they can collectively do about taking responsibility for the entire process of creating the built environment
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New Masters & Change In The Industry (19:42)
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Jake Alspector, Curtis B. Wayne, master builders, Burning Down The House, breaking news!, October 1st broadcast with Henry Gifford, LEED certification process, Henry spoke about this here first, LEED buildings do not necessarily use less energy than the average building, essay by Nikoli Warsoff, New York Times, Charles Gwathmey, Peter Eisenman, The New York Five, Cooper Union, The W Hotel, windows without sill flashings, flashing used to be built into stone, Europeans have a very different system, detailing is worked out with the contractors and the tradespeople after the fact and done in the field, a green building can now have its LEED cerficiation revoked, John Hejduk, tastemakers not heroes, Richard Henderson, USGBC,Pratice Vs. Praxis (28:23)
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the legacy of Charles Gwanthley, golden handcuffs, white buildings, natural materials, Richard Meyer, the Eisenman house in Vermont had to be restored, the aesthetic goals outweighed everything else, constructability, pragmatics, this is not a new argument, flat arches, slanted arch bricks, these buildings have lasted 150+ years, there is a show at Cooper on the history of architectural drawing, 7th st between 4rd and 4th ave, Roberta's, temporary dirt track, low performance motorcycle race, color theory, the more natural light the lighter the color should be, how can we reclaim the title of master builders?, architecture is all inclusive, embracing that concept, modeling for the physical world, Colin Rowe, architect talk isolates us from the public, Terry Gilliam, Bob Siegel, The Smith House, a pristine pavilion that lives in a world without weather, practice vs. praxis, caring about materials lead to fabulous expressions of cast iron structure, Houghten Gallery, feng shui, calculus takes aggregations of data and systematizes it to come to a mean string of data, the mathematics of the ideal villa,Architects: Champions Of The World! (11:55)
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Fairway Market, http://www.fairwaymarket.com, quarry, sustainable materials, new masters, CDA, Jake Alspector, the format of the show is a conversation, no softball questions!, no expensive suits and ridiculous ties!, info@heritageradionetwork.com, Construction & Design Analytics,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/20/2011 12:00PM
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This week on A Taste of the Past, Linda explores the history of the modern kitchen. Joined by food journalist and culinary historian Meryle Evans, Linda tells the story of the kitchen from its basement beginnings to its growth into a "perfect work triangle". Tune in and hear the stories behind some of the most commonly used and overlooked kitchen tools such as Tupperware, Chemex & ice cream scoops. This episode was sponsored by Route 11 / Tabard Inn. For more information visit www.rt11.com
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A Taste of the Past Introduction: Counter Space with Meryle Evans (19:43)
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Linda Pelaccio, A Taste of the Past, Heritage Radio Network, kitchens, what do they mean to us?, Counter Space: Design & The Modern Kitchen, Museum of Modern Art, runs until May 2nd, the kitchen at the turn of the century, kitchen was not a very visible place to be, sometimes dark and hidden, not much thought given to design, no modern appliances, Catharine Esther Beecher, Home Economics movement, Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards, The Frankfurt Kitchen, originated by woman / architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, earliest work by a female architect in the exhibit, the perfect work triangle, early tea kettle designs, electricity and gas, fire by coal, Tupperware, Chemex, people turned away from brewed coffee in the 60's and went to drip coffee, Meryle Evans,The Evolution of the Modern Kitchen (17:42)
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Evolution of the modern kitchen, stainless steel, dishwashers, sustainability push, Victory Gardens, things move in cycles, pressure cooker, first one looks like a battleship, old films on kitchens, Mixmaster, looks the same as they are today, KitchenAid, many things have stood the test of time, American housewife as a nutritionist, designed on the ideal model of a woman, men and women have gotten taller and taller, counter tops are higher today than they used to be, Hoosier cabinet, late 19th century, all in one workstation, ice cream scoop from 1940, egg slicer, sugar cubes were invented in 1872, square bottom paper bag patented in 1869, inventiveness of industrial designers, roast holders, cake slicer, Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/18/2009 02:15PM
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On the premiere episode of The Naturalist, Bernie Wides teaches us about the glacier that would have eaten New York City and the sex life of barnacles.
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The Naturalist Introduction & Show Summary (7:00)
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The Naturalist, Bernie Wides, science, industrial arts, teaching, environmental organizations, The Phoenix, coastal ecology, Long Island Sound, Everglades National Park, interpretive park ranger, canoe trips, The Ten Thousands Islands, mangroves, docent, Bernie's areas of expertise are ocean life, butterflies, and earth & space, Central Park, greensward guide, future show topics, The Museum of Natural History, greensward means an open green space in a forest, biography, mosquitoes,Giant Glacier Eats New York! (10:14)
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glacier, New York Times, 12,000 years ago the climate was much colder and we were in an ice age, if New York City existed, it would have been devoured by glaciers, laurentide glacier, glaciers slowly advance and retreat, the leading edge was 1,000 feet thick, Empire State Building, George Washington Bridge, interglacial epic, the earth is still warming up from the last ice age, this is what we mean by global warming, fossil fuels, co2, without humans the next ice age would be 100,000 years from now, there's nothing we can do to prevent ice ages, we don't know why earth goes through these cycles, theories, orbit, the earth's axis is tilted 23 1/2 degrees, the earth's axis wobbles like a top, heat energy, the sun, why was there an ice age?, Milutin Milankovitch, building dimensions in New York City, Chrysler Building, the earth is naturally warming up, but humans are speeding up the process, changes in the tilt of the earth's axis,Glacier Add-On (6:36)
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the glacier stopped advancing at New York City, Bushwick, Brooklyn, everything north of Brooklyn to the North Pole was ice covered, the ice front advanced along the Northern hemisphere, ice sheet, glacial evidence, Eastern Parkway, Grand Army Plaza, Flatbush, Staten Island, Queens, Highland Park, terminal moraine, glacial hills, hills, Long Island, north shore is hilly, south shore is not hilly, sands from the glacier were carried south and formed Flatbush down to Jamaica Bay, beach formations, fresh water, New York City shoreline used to be 100 miles further south, Ronkankama moraine, Inwood park, Marcus Garvey Park,The Sex Life of the Barnacle: Size Does Matter! (10:34)
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barnacle, sex life in the animal kingdom, barnacles look like little white dots, they are volcano shaped, inside the cone is a tiny animal like a crab, they are related to shrimps and blue craw crabs, the shell of a barnacle is made by the animal, calcium carbonate, young barnacles are free swimming critters, plankton are at the mercy of the waters, young barnacle is a millimeter in size, eventually, it let's itself sink to the bottom of the water and finds a hard surface, most settle on rocks, they produce an amazing glue that sets underwater, dentists, the barnacle legs point upward out of the cone, operculum, air would dry them out and kill them, they capture plankton with their legs, dinoflagellates, barnacles have the capability of gender changing, the male has a penis that is long enough to reach over into the next barnacle, the penis is longer than its body, females give off pheromones, reproduction, the male extends its penis all around until it finds a female, the barnacle has the biggest penis per body size in the entire animal kingdom, penis envy, sometimes they attach to whales, barnacles cannot move around, diatoms,The Bulletin Board: Events In New York City (4:44)
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estuaries, 2009 New York State Beach Cleanup, Littoral Society, 1-800-449-0790, http://www.alsnyc.org/, Jamaica Bay Sunset Cruise, September 26th, 3 hour narrated tour, shore birds, shoreline, Don Reape, 718-318-9344, tell him Bernie sent you!, has been going on for 24 years,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
