Buildings On Air

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 correspondent Tom Lee. And last but not least we chat with Architect Sessions superstars and all around good folks Donna Sink and Ken Koense about the highs and lows of the 2018 American Institute of Architects convention.

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 organized by The Architecture Lobby, a labor advocacy group for architects we frequently discuss on the show, and designed to jive with the "Dimensions of Citizenship" theme of the U.S. Pavilion. The panel is organized into two parts and features Kamabari Baxi, Peggy Deamer, Keefer Dunn, Ane Gonzalez Lara, Nathan Friedman, Ashton Hamm, James Heard, Cesar Lopez, Margie O’Driscoll (moderating), Ron Rael, Manuel Schvartzberg, Dexter Walcott, and Mabel Wilson. BIG THANK YOU to Chelsea Kilburn for recording the event and providing the audio, as well as the whole U.S Pavilion team (especially co-curators Ann Lui, Mimi Zeiger, and Niall Atkinson) for inviting the Architecture Lobby to be a part of the procedings!

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 answer your listener questions about building with one half our regular mailbag team - Craig Reschke of Future Firm. Send questions into buildingsonair@gmail.com! And last but certainly not least we chat with fellow Lumpen Radio host Matt Muchowski about the history and fate of Chicago's Balbo monument. Listen to Matt's show WGAS here: https://www.mixcloud.com/wgaschicago/ The 50th episode features Building on Air's own Keefer Dunn!

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 twitters obsession w/ “traditional” architecture!

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 from the Autonomous Tenants Union discussing how they act and organize around displacements, evictions, and poor living conditions. If you like what you hear there is much more good stuff to be had in the full episode - head over to the Talkin' Socialism podcast stream, listen, and subscribe! You won't be disappointed! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talkin-socialism/id1329585447?mt=2

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 with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke in our mailbag segment. Lastly, the interviewing tables turn when we air a clip of Andre Callot interviewing Keefer Dunn from the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America podcast “Talkin’ Socialism” - be sure to listen and subscribe to Talkin Socialism here - the upcoming episode on housing will be jam packed with good stuff! (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talkin-socialism/id1329585447?mt=2)

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 Architecture Lobby's campaign against Trump's border wall and immigration policies with Lobby members James Heard and Tyler Taylor. And lastly, we answer your listener questions about buildings in our mailbag with Craig Reschke and Ann Lui of Future Firm!

This episode of Buildings on Air we talk technology, answer your questions about buildings, and air a talk from MASContext about John Portman.

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 with the forces of politics and economy in Chicago. Then we'll be joined by Paola Aguirre of Borderless Studio who will discuss the civic-action jumpstarting City Open Workshop series that she organizes in addition to her other recent work. Then as always we round out the show with the Mailbag segment where Ann Lui and Craig Reschke answer your questions about architecture.

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 Marzio." Since that episode Ashley and Erik, along with producer Matthew Shulman, have launched a new fantastic podcast called Site Visit that fans of Buildings on Air are sure to enjoy. We are airing Episode One of Site Visit where Erik and Ashley visit Menards with Ellie Abrons of the architecture firm T+E+A+M. If you like what you hear go subscribe to their show on iTunes and listen to Episode Two! You an also visit www.sitevisitpod.com for more information or see what Ashley and Erik are up to on isntagram @outpostoffice. Happy Listening!

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 Chicago Architecture Biennial review. Lastly it's a very very very fun mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke.

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 their recent project www.compi.city that covers the Chicago Architecture Biennial and it’s relationship to power, politics, and money. We ask, how can architects be critical of and change the nature of architecture exhibitions to use them as a force for good?

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 uses and abuses of classical architecture, and what these affronts to aesthetics might tell us about bigger political and economic questions. The Mailbag Our regular segment featuring Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm. We’ll answer your listener questions about anything related to buildings. Send your questions to buildingsonair@gmail.com

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 Montana by Gilmore Mom.

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 mailbag correspondents Ann Lui and Craig Reschke to answer your listener questions about architecture.