Katy Purviance Basic is talking about form and function on this week's installment of Burning Down the House. Curtis B. Wayne calls up Katy to chat about the role of architecture in improving life, and the problems with design school. Why does so much contemporary architecture neglect the users of...

Curtis B. Wayne celebrates light and architecture today by reading Louis Kahn's famous American Institute of Architect Gold Medal acceptance speech, "The Room, The Street, and Human Agreement". Listen in to hear the parallels between Kahn's speech and last week's discussion with Robert Lamb Hart concerning light and defining place...

This week on Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne is discussing volunteerism with architect Leah Kreger. Leah has been donating her time to relief efforts in Breezy Point and The Rockaways in Queens, New York in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Tune in to learn about the roles that...

This week's guest on Burning Down the House is writer Amanda Kolson Hurley, who contributes to publications such as Architect Magazine & Urbanite. Tune in for an insider conversation on the world of architectural writing, the concepts behind BIM (Building Information Management) and IPD (Integrated Product Delivery). Also hear about...

This week's conversation on Burning Down the House focuses on the fusion between urban design, architecture, transportation and shape of our cities. Curtis B. Wayne is joined by Mitchell Joachim and Melanie Fessel of Terreform ONE (Open Network Ecology), an Ecological Design Group for Urban Infrastructure, Building, Planning, and Art...

This week on Burning Down the House, Curtis B. Wayne is joined by a young group of architects who recently won the Gowanus Lowline Competition hosted by Gowanus by Design. Tune in to hear their ideas for cleaning up one of the most polluted canals in the country and how...

Fans of Burning Down the House are in for a treat this week as Curtis is joined by friends & colleagues Matt Arnold, Jake Alspector & Nicholas Agneta to discuss all things "Concerning Licensure". The NCARB has been tight lipped with their architectural licensing statistics and it's got the BDTH...

On this week's Burning Down The House, Curtis calls up Duo Dickinson, architect, author, and co-founder of The Congress of Residential Architecture, to discuss CORA's 8-point plan for rehabilitating the profession (and combating the forces of High Modernism, Leed Accreditation, Governmental Intervention, and Academic Masterbation) . This episode is brought...

On this week's Burning Down The House, Curtis is joined by Jessica Sheridan, Editor-In-Chief of the AIA NY's online magazine "e-Oculus", and Jacob Alspector, architect and Principal of Alspector Architecture. The three discuss the shifting power of the architect in today's economy and offer stories of the past and predictions...

This week is all about trash on Burning Down The House. Curtis B. Wayne and Jacob Alspector discuss garbage as a design theme & The Cascadia Building Challenge.