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 hosts a number of friends of the show, with architect Jacob Alspector, Katy Purviance (founder of the VERB design/build school), architect Matt Arnold, and "vox populi" Caroline Bailey. This episode was sponsored by Cabot Cheese of Vermont, Dairy Farm Family owned since...