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Buildings On Air
by Lumpen Radio
Buildings on Air is a show that demystifies architecture through wild speculation, good conversation, a healthy dose of lefty political perspective, and lots of skepticism about the 'power of design.' Each show features guests from the many different facets of the architecture world in Chicago and beyond. Buildings on Air is from WLPN Lumpen Radio and hosted by Keefer Dunn. New episodes broadcast LIVE on WLPN first Saturdays of the month from 2-4pm. Visit www.buildingsonair.live and www.lumpenradio.com
Episodes
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Episode 58 - Marianela D'Aprile and Doug Spencer
This month we are joined by two Buildings on Air favorites: architecture writer/critic Marianela D’Aprile and architecture historian/educator Douglas Spencer! We answer a listener question about giving notice at an architecture job, gloss the ideas of architecture theorist Manfredo Tafuri (Mamma...
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Episode 47 - Zoning w/ Ramsin Canon
This episode of Buildings on Air we chat with organizer, writer, and attorney Ramsin Canon to talk about zoning and land use. We cover the basics of zoning, hear the legal perspective on land use, and discuss why it matters to activists. If you found our conversation interesting check out…
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Episode 46 - Stan Kaderbek
This month on Buildings on Air we chat with structural engineer, former Chicago Building Commissioner, and all around good guy, Stan Kaderbek. Stan shares some stories from his time as commissioner that should not be missed! We also chat about public service and safety, and the ins and outs of…
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Episode 45 - Mailbag Special
We are still off our regular format, but in this episode we revisit the classic Buildings on Air “Mailbag” with Nicholas Cecchi and Emily Handley. We talk air changes, bidets, and more! Look out this summer/fall for the show to return to its usual two hour format, with interviews and hopefully a...
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Episode 44 - Here There be Dragons w/ Jess Myers
This episode of Buildings on Air we are joined by Jess Myers, an Assistant Professor at Rhode Island School of Design and co-steward of the NYC Architecture Lobby to talk about "Here There be Dragons,” a podcast that delves deep into how feelings of safety and belonging in cities are experienced…
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Episode 43 - Unpaid Internships w/ Jesse McCormick
This episode of Buildings on Air we chat architectural internships with New York based architectural worker Jesse McCormick, a co-author of a recent report on the subject (link here). We chat about precarious employment conditions and dive deep into the legalities of unpaid internships, as well…
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Episode 42 - Douglas Spencer
This episode of Buildings on Air we chat with friend of the show and returning guest Douglas Spencer about his new book Critique of Architecture which will be released later this month. We talk about the current state of architectural theory, neo-Tafurianism, what radical critique means, and what...
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Episode 41 - October 22nd, 2020
What is the impact of a landmark district on gentrification? In this episode of Buildings on Air we answer that question and more with Chicago Democratic Socialists of America member and community organizer Diego Morales. We talk about the the debate surrounding the proposed Pilsen Landmark...
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Episode 40 - October 3rd, 2020
This episode of Buildings on Air we talk with Brian Campbell, a Portland based architectural worker and member of the Architecture Lobby about how the odd framing of urban policy debates can obscure power structures.
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Episode 39 - August 15th, 2020
This episode of Buildings on Air marks our triumphant return after a hiatus. We talk with Will Orr and Ricardo Ruivo, teachers at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. The AA has recently been embroiled in controversy on the vote of no-confidence and subsequent dismissal of director Eva...
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Episode 38 - A Show Update
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Episode 37 - April 4th, 2020
This episode of Buildings on Air we we chat with Sean Estelle and Sveta Stoytcheva of Democratic Socialists of America about the campaign to municipalize Chicago’s electric grid. We are still under stay-at-home orders in Illinois which means the Lumpen Radio studios are closed so we are departing...
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Episode 36 - March 24, 2020
This episode of Buildings on Air comes straight from the home recording studio of Keefer. In the midst of the state wide stay-at-home order in Illinois due to COVID-19 the offices and studios of WLPN-LP Chicago are shut down, so this episode comes courtesy of Zoom teleconferencing. Our guest this...
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Bonus - Failed Architecture Episode #11: Architects Unionise!
This episode of Buildings on Air is not an episode of Buildings on Air at all! Rather it is an episode of the Failed Architecture podcast. Subscribe to their feed here and check out some of their amazing writing at https://failedarchitecture.com. Big thank you to Charlie Clemoes and the rest of…
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Episode 35 - January 4th, 2020
This episode we take a look at Edward Bellamy’s socialist utopian novel Looking Backward with Garrett Dash Nelson. Check out Garrett’s excellent article on the subject in Places Journal here: https://placesjournal.org/article/edward-bellamy-urban-planning/. Then in a special edition of our…
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Episode 34 - December 7th, 2019
This episode of Buildings on Air we sit down with members of Extinction Rebellion for a discussion about the strategies and tactics that will win us climate justice. Then we open up the mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke and answer your listener questions about buildings. Lastly, in our…
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Episode 33 - November 16, 2019
This episode its classic Buildings on Air as we visit our two regular segments. First up! In our segment on the architectural discourse, Fun and Angry, Keefer and Anjulie Rao talk about hostile architecture! Then we visit the mailbag with Craig Reschke and Ann Lui of Future Firm and answer your...
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Episode 32 - The Bridgehouse Special
In this special episode of Buildings on Air we turn to the Chicago River, asking our guests about the past, present, and future of our cities waterways. This episode was recorded from the Michigan Avenue Bridgehouse in the heart of downtown, and produced in collaboration with the Tender House...
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Episode 31 - September 7, 2019
This episode of Buildings on Air marks our triumphant return to the Lumpen Radio airwaves after a summer break. First up! We will chat with Tom Jacobs of Architects Advocate about getting architects involved in the September 20th Climate Strike. Find out more at…
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Episode 30 - July 6, 2019
This episode of Buildings on Air! First, we invite writer and activist Keith Rosenthal on the show to discuss capitalism, disability, and the ADA. Check out Keith’s website here: https://joanofmark.blogspot.com/. Second, Anjulie and Keefer offer up some cool takes on the discourse in our regular...
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Episode 29 - June 1, 2019
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…
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Episode 28 - May 25, 2019
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...
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Episode 27 - April 20, 2019
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...
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Episode 26 - March 16, 2019
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...
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Episode 25 - February 2nd, 2019
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…
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Episode 24 - December 1st, 2018
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...
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Episode 23 - November 4th, 2018
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…
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Episode 22 - October 6th, 2018
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...
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Podcast Special: Audio from The Dynamic American City (1956)
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...
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Episode 21 - August 4th, 2018
This episode of Buildings on Air! We chat with economist Michael Roberts about the causes and effects of the 2008 Housing Bubble and ensuing Great Recession and have an extra nerdy, long, and edifying mailbag with regulars Ann Lui and Craig Reschke. We also have a clip from fellow Lumpen Radio…
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Episode 20 - July 7th, 2018
This episode of Buildings on Air we chat with Neil Loehlein and Andrea Hektor, members of the International Socialist Organization in town for the Socialism 2018 conference, about left-perspectives on infrastructure. Then we answer your listener questions about buildings with guest mailbag...
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Podcast Special: The Architecture Lobby at the Venice Biennale
There was no live episode of Buildings on Air this month since the regular BoA crowd was away at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Luckily, we have your back and brought a piece of Venice home in the form of an audio recording! The panel, hosted by the U.S. Pavilion curators at the Biennale was...
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Episode 19 - May 5, 2018
This episode of Buildings on Air! First, we chat with friend of the show Kate Wagner about their recent article in Common Edge called "Architecture, Aesthetic Moralism, and the Crisis of Urban Housing" http://commonedge.org/architecture-aesthetic-moralism-and-the-crisis-of-urban-housing/) Then we...
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Episode 18 - Apr 7th, 2018
This episode of Buildings on Air! We talk to the inimitable Eva Hagberg Fisher (@evahagberg) about Architecture’s PR problem! Then we answer your listener questions about buildings with Craig Reschke, 1/2 of the regular mailbag duo. Lastly, we talk to David Work (@WDavidWork) about alt-right...
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Clip: Talkin Socialism "Housing"
In our March episode, we played a clip of Andre Callot from the CDSA Talkin Socialism podcast interviewing Buildings on Air host Keefer Dunn for an episode on housing. That episode has been released and it contains tons of audio goodness. Here is a clip from the show of Andre interviewing folks...
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Episode 17 - Mar 3, 2018
First we hear a statement from the UK based anonymous collective Architectural Workers about the ongoing strikes. We also hear from a participant in the picket line about how architecture students are organizing in support of the strikes. Then! We answer your listener questions about buildings…
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Episode 16 - Feb 3, 2018
This episode of Buildings on Air! First, we talk about the challenges and opportunities of preserving Chicago's most spaceship-like buildings with School of the Art Insitute of Chicago AIADO department director Jonathan Solomon and preservationist Elizabeth Blasius. Then we revisit the…
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Episode 15 - Jan 6, 2018
First we talk to architect, author, professor and technologist Phil Bernstein about the challenges and opportunities automation and our digital tools have in store for architects. Check out his column at Architect’s Newspaper...
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Episode 14 - Dec 2nd, 2017
First up, Marianela D'Aprile will discuss her article (and light up the haters) published in Common Edge titled "The Politics of Architecture Are Not a Matter of Taste." Then Steve Vance of Streetsblog Chicago and Chicago Cityscape will join the show to discuss how information can help us grapple...
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Featuring: Site Visit Episode 1
Buildings on Air is taking a break this month (don't worry we will be back in December!) but in lieu of our regularly scheduled program we have a special treat. You might remember Ashley Bigham and Erik Herrmann of Outpost Office from Episode 9 when they talked about their project "Another Campo...
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Episode 13 - Oct 7th, 2017
This episode Alex Billet of Red Wedge Magazine drops by to talk about art and socialist movements, revolutionary pessimism, and other things. Then we are joined by two of Chicago's best architecture writers Zach Mortice and Anjulie Rao who discuss some of their recent writing before we do a…
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Episode 12 / CAB Special Pt 2 - Sept 16th, 2017
This Episode! The Architecture Lobby Leaders, thinkers, and activists from the Architecture Lobby talk about organizing architects, how we can change the profession for the better, and what to expect from the Lobby in the coming year. Adjustments Agency Nick Korody and Joanna Kloppenburg discuss...
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Episode 11 / CAB Special Pt 1 - Sept 14, 2017
This episode! Karen Narefsky Author and organizer Karen Narefsky joins us to talk about her recent article in Jacobin “What’s in my backyard” about YIMBYs and why the market can’t solve the housing crisis. Kate Wagner We talk with Kate Wagner, of McMansion Hell fame about large gaudy homes, the...
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Announcement and Studs Terkel Recess
Buildings on Air will temporarily depart from its usual schedule to have two shows in mid September. In lieu of our regularly scheduled podcast, the announcement is followed by a wonderful Studs Terkel interview with Carl Condit, Richard Nickel, and Ben Weese. Background track for the intro is...
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Episode 10 - August 5th, 2017
This episode of Buildings on Air host Keefer Dunn chats with Byron Sigcho of the Pilsen Alliance on the fight against gentrification, and Sarah Rafson of Point Line Projects about CARYATIDS, a feminist architecture group working in the 90's in Chicago. Lastly, Skylar Moran subs in for our regular...
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Episode 9 - July 1st, 2017
This episode of Buildings on Air! First, William Emmick of Studio Gang talks to us about the firm and Bridgeport's shiny new Eleanor Street Boathouse along with Owen Lloyd, neighborhood fixture and a member of the park's advisory council. Then Piranesi meets ASCII as we are joined by Erik…
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Episode 8 - June 3rd, 2017
First up on this episode of Buildings on Air is Doug Spencer chatting with Keefer about his book “The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance.” Next we chat with journalist and two-time Buildings on Air guest Zach Mortice about…
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Episode 7 - May 6th, 2017
This month's edition of Buildings on Air! First we speak with Jeffrey Roberts of New World Design to talk about his project to float flying pigs in front of the Trump tower. Next up Hamza Hasan and Shota Vashkamadze talk technology and its uses and abuses. Then it's Will Martin and Khoudia Sylla...
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Episode 6 - April 1st, 2017
This episode Keefer talks to Lynn Muller, Felipe Tendick-Matesanz and Billy Burdett about food policy and urban agriculture in the city of Chicago. Marianela D'Aprile spoke on agency and architecture, and how the profession might organize into a modern labor movement. Lastly, we open up the…
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Episode 5 - March 4th, 2017
This episode of Buildings on Air we talk about public housing, Trump's Wall and architectural activism, and then we open up the mailbag to answer listener questions. First up we are joined by writer Maya Duskmaova and Chicago Public Housing Initiative's executive director Leah Levinger for an...
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Buildings on Air is a show that demystifies architecture through wild speculation, good conversation, a healthy dose of lefty political perspective, and lots of skepticism about the 'power of design.' Each show features guests from the many different facets of the architecture world in Chicago and beyond. Buildings on Air is from WLPN Lumpen Radio and hosted by Keefer Dunn. New episodes broadcast LIVE on WLPN first Saturdays of the month from 2-4pm. Visit www.buildingsonair.live and www.lumpenradio.com
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