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Images for September 10th: Tales of Architecture in the Tradition of Vasari

Late breaking update: no sooner had I spoken of Ray and Charles Eames, and their movie The Powers of Ten but that Alice Rawsthorn's article about the Eameses and this very movie appeared in the Sunday...

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Images for September 24th: Transforming neighborhoods - Rails, development &...

With Oliver Allen, Deborah Allen and Frederick Allen we discussed rail in Manhattan, the many transformations of landscape that transit and economic trends have brought about.Here, some images of...

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Images for October 1st: The US Green Building Council, the LEED standards &...

Sustainability, energy efficiency, interior air quality, locally-sourced materials, renewal materials - these are all aspects of the US Green Building Council's attempt to codify...

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Images for October 8th: Darwin Martin, Frank Lloyd Wright & early 20th...

A recent rendering of the Darwin Martin house complex, in Buffalo NY.A view from the new visitor's pavilion, designed by Toshiko Mori, looking towards the Martin House.Frank Lloyd Wright, the...

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Images for October 15th: Ugly, Butt-Ugly, and Criminal Designs

In the run-up to Hallowe'en it's not entirely inappropriate to review some designs from the recent past and wonder: what were they thinking?And then, there are the classics of design that, nowadays,...

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Breaking News: USGBC bows to Henry Gifford's criticism

On October 1st, as you loyal listeners will recall, Henry Gifford opined that LEED certification plaques should be temporarily attached.Thank you Henry. And thanks to you listeners. We have been a part...

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October 29th: The New Masters

The Old Masters luxuriated in their pursuit of aesthetics, often to the detriment of the quality of their buildings.Today there are New Masters of architecture, for whom the pursuit of an integrated...

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November 4th: International Attention!

RADIO ARCHITECTURE IS HEARD EVERYWHERE ON THE PLANET.Dear friends of the program - especially our friends in the blogosphere - thank you for the mentions!We learned this week thatButterpaper.com - a...

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Images for November 4th: Architecture and Eloquence

First, for the breaking news that Gropius is being actively dishonored in Chicago, my home town, in the demolition of one or more of his Bauhaus-style buildings on the South Side. O tempore o...

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November 11th: Architecture & Eloquence - Part II

Here we are, in a continuation of our conversation with Professor Roderick L Knox, architect on the vast topic of Architecture & Eloquence. Rod declined to elaborate further on the Vesica Piscis,...

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November 18th: Students speak their minds about Eloquence - Part I

This week and next we have a lively conversation with students, who give their takes on Architecture & Eloquence.Here are our students, in the studio; a short video of us setting up:This experiment...

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November 25th: Students speak out on Eloquence - Part II

In this continuation of our conversations with students from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, our students spoke their minds on Eloquence in Architecture - Part II.First up: a...

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December 2nd: Trash talkin' about ----- trash

On this segment of Burning Down the House we're talking trash: trash as a natural resource, trash architecture (all that glitters is NOT gold), and what to do with waste products of life in a...

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Images for December 16th: Omega Institute

The Omega Institute's Center for Sustainable Living, the Living Building Challenge, and the Cascadia Region Green Building Council were discussed in a lively discussion among Skip Backus, CEO of Omega;...

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Three Kings of Design - Epiphany 2010

On January 6th, the Feast of the the Three Kings, Manuel Saez, Pedro Reissig and Mathias Fernandoborg joined us to talk about their particularly unique attitudes towards design. Our Three Kings of...

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The Radio Architecture Project

The Radio Architecture ProjectDear friends and listeners, we're very pleased to announce the next phase in the evolution of  Burning Down the House–- your weekly fix on design and architecture.We will...

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23rd June 2010: The Dire Condition of Architectural Education and Licensure

Joining us are two thoughtful and inquisitive architects - Matthew Arnold, a graduate of the Cooper Union - who has been researching the time it takes for recent architectural graduates to become fully...

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30th June 2010: The Dark Prince

The extreme animosity held by the Prince of Wales against modern architecture, which he habitually calls "brutalist" is well known, well documented. From his pronouncement that the Sainsbury wing of...

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July 7, 2010: The Institute for Public Architecture

There are a few architects whose focus is not on profit, but rather on service to the public. To further this Social Contract architects Jonathan Kirschenfeld and Robert Marino have founded the...

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