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Episode 29 - June 1, 2019 Jun 03, 2019

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This episode! First we chat with Billy Fleming about his absolutely must read article in Place Journal entitled “Design and the Green New Deal.” After, we check in with Architecture Lobby member Caitlin Watson to talk about the Lobby’s efforts to organize around the GND.

Next! In our regular review segment Fun and Angry, Keefer and Anjulie Rao take a look at Olly Wainwright’s piece in The Guardian highlighting reemergent interest in public architecture practice in the UK. Could it be a transitional model for the US?

And lastly! We open our mailbag and answer listener questions about architecture. Our regular mailbag correspondents are out this week, but our favorite ringers Nick Cecchi and Emily Handley are in the studio to help us out!

Episode 28 - May 25, 2019 May 28, 2019

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On this episode of Buildings on Air we talk about buildings codes & public access, why the libertarian solution to the housing crisis is not the right one, and then answer your listener questions about buildings in our mailbag segment! Full line-up below:

First up! We chat with Scott Reynolds of @upcodes about why public access to the law is important, how it impacts the built environment, and why the standards developing organizations are pushing back.

Then! We head to Critics Corner (is this the episode where the segment gets renamed?!) with Anjulie Rao to discuss @Richard_Florida’s recent CityLab article apprising readers of the recent scholarship lambasting libertarian solutions to the housing crisis.

And lastly! We answer your listener questions in our favorite mailbag segment with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm! If you got a building question tag us @bldgsonair or email buildingsonair@gmail.com and we will answer it live on air!

Episode 27 - April 20, 2019 Apr 22, 2019

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First up! Writer Katherine Allen takes over the host chair and talk with Adam Nathaniel Furman (@Furmadamadam) and @KeeferDunn about the recent (and welcome) wave of scrutiny aimed at exploitative labor practices in architecture, and where we go from here. Next! We chat with Melinda Bunnage and Peter Hughes, @ChicagoCityDSA activists who are working in the @LTBcoalition. Melina and Peter tell us about the fight for housing justice in Illinois (and beyond!) is shaping up. Then! We visit @AnjulieRao in our newest regular segment "The Critics Corner" (name still pending - send suggestions!), where we offer up our cool takes on the recent @frieze_magazine interview with Keller Easterling. And last but certainly not least we open up the Buildings on Air mailbag to answer listener questions about architecture with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of @FutureFirm. DM us your questions or send them in to buildingsonair@gmail.com!

Episode 26 - March 16, 2019 Mar 20, 2019

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On this episode we introduce a new segment featuring the inimitable Anjulie Rao. Anjulie and Keefer discuss the piece “Refusal After Refusal” by Adjustments Agency, which appeared in Harvard Design Magazine as well as the article “The “B” Word: How a More Universal Concept of Beauty Can Reshape Architecture” by Mark Alan Hewitt in Common Edge.

Next Keefer opens up the mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm. Send in your listener questions to buildingsonair@gmail.com for us to answer!

Lastly, we interview Yonah Freemark to discuss his research on upzoning which set the urbanist discourse alight!

Announcement: March Buildings on Air Postponed Mar 02, 2019

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Hi Buildings on Air listeners! Just a quick FYI that due to technical issues with the WLPN-LP broadcast antenna Buildings on Air will be postponing our March show. Keep an eye out on our show twitter page for the latest news!

UPDATE: The show is rescheduled for Saturday, March 16th at our normal 2pm time slot.

Episode 25 - February 2nd, 2019 Feb 05, 2019

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First up we talk with Alexander Eisenschmidt about his essay entitled "The Story of an Intersection, or how Early Chicago Became an Urban Laboratory" which was originally published in the Architecture Theory Review.

Check out the image we are discussing here!

Then we answer your listener questions about buildings in our regular mailbag segment with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm.

And lastly we talk with artist Corey Smith about his New Prairie School project, and his upcoming “experimental architecture tour” Get more information and tickets here: http://coreyds.com/eebh.html

Episode 24 - December 1st, 2018 Dec 06, 2018

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Episode 24 - Dec 1st, 2018 Buildings on Air / Lumpen Radio

In this last episode of 2018 we present an interview with the thoughtful Dean of USC Architecture, Milton SF Curry. Then we answer listener questions in our Mailbag segment with Craig Reschke!

There will be no January episode of Buildings on Air but keep an eye on the podscast feed for something special to keep you sated!

Episode 23 - November 4th, 2018 Nov 05, 2018

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Episode 23 - November 4th, 2018 Keefer Dunn / Lumpen Radio

This episode of Buildings on Air we get into Brick Mindset™ with Will Quay from Brick of Chicago (www.brickofchicago.com). Then we chat with frequent Buildings on Air guest Marianela D'Aprile about her recetn article in Common Edge about what Productivist artist Boris Arvatov can tell us about the relevacny of architects today (http://commonedge.org/making-architecture-relevant-will-involve-changing-the-system-it-operates-in/). And last but not least we answer your listener questions about buildings in our mailbag segment with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke!

Episode 22 - October 6th, 2018 Oct 10, 2018

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This episode of Buildings on Air we talk the ins and outs of contemporary architecture education with studio professors Sarah Dunn, Ellen Grimes, and Leslie Johnson. Then we hear from researcher David Merriman about his recent study on the effectiveness of TIFS (https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/policy-focus-reports/improving-tax-increment-financing-tif-economic-development). And lastly mailbag guests Nick Cecchi and Emily Handley help us answer your listener questions about buildings!

Episode 22 - October 6th, 2018 Buildings on Air / Lumpen Radio

Podcast Special: Audio from The Dynamic American City (1956) Sep 14, 2018

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Hi Buildings on Air listeners! We didn’t have a live September episode (we’ll be back in October!) so we’ve uploaded something special to keep you going. This is audio from a very curious piece of propaganda called “The Dynamic American City.” To many of us, the urban ideas it advocates are entirely abhorrent - but as a historical document it is very interesting to see how and why these ideas were in vogue - and who was advocating for them. So sit back and get ready to facepalm and yell “why!?” as you listen.

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