Intro/Outro: “Something for the Girl with Everything” by Sparks

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Discussed:

• Calacatta Tucci marble
• Miele appliances
• New York State LLC purchase transparency law
• Lawsuits over construction defects at 432 Park Avenue, by Rafael Vinoly
• One57
• Trump Tower
• Lantern House by Thomas Heatherwick
• 53w53 (MoMA Tower) by Jean Nouvel
• 56 Leonard, by Herzog & de Meuron, with sculpture by Anish Kapoor
• 85% of ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals are men
• 90% of billionaires are men
• A Dubai-style free zone in Hungary
• EB-5 visas
• Editor Irena Lehkoživová and VI PER gallery
• Next project 1: World Islands, Dubai
• The Palm, Dubai
• Next project 2: London’s “Iceberg Homes”
• Oliver Bullough’s Kleptocracy Tours
• From Russia with Cash

Intro/Outro: "Balls," by Sparks

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Discussed:

• “Photography: The Middle Class Medium”
• Family Propaganda Portraits
• Photo-Marxism
• Bruce Weber
• Susan Sontag
• Cindy Sherman
• Walker Evans
• Loriel Beltran
• Marvin Heiferman
• Jose Antonio Navarette
• “Avedon Smiles” > Richard Avedon: Nastassja Kinski and the Serpent
• Brene Brown 
• Weegee
• Alfred Dupont Building, downtown Miami
• Allappattah > “Wynwood West”

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“Navigating through the excuses became part of the performance.”

“The image is more important than the reality it captures.”

“You are poking at people who can squish you.”

“Is taking a picture a crime?”

“I erase myself into these interiors.”

“I left with all the conceptual goodies I could fathom.”

“Interior decorating choices like a bad mixtape…With all of the resources at your disposal, this was your choice?”

“Buildings will eventually be like a Mr. Potato Head, with interchangeable parts.”

“Documenting architecture and fine art, I can map the gentrification that has happened in the last few years.”

Intro/Outro: “Ride Captain Ride,” by Blues Image

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Discussed:

• A Trip Down Market Street
• The City Beautiful Movement
• A. Page Brown
• California Building at the 1893 Columbian Exposition
• Embarcadero Freeway
• San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
• The Key System
• Alameda Ferry
• Golden Gate Bridge
• Dianne Feinstein
• Ballot measure 1986 – tear down the Embarcadero Freeway?
• Art Agnos
• Loma Prieta Earthquake, 1989
• Ghirardelli Square
• Lawrence Halprin
• Faneuil Hall
• Wilson Meany (Sullivan)
• Chez Panisse
• Hallidie Plaza
• The Doom Loop
• Union Square
• Hayes Valley
• Dogpatch
• Parklets

Intro / Outro: “The Deconstruction,” by Eels

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Discussed:

• Permission granted to examine house by its architect, Allied8.
• The research focused on four vectors: 
• Atomic Consciousness that dates back to the Big Bang and the earliest supernovas
• Production Consciousness that involves a vast array of ingredients that are combined to make architectural products
• Labor Consciousness that spans a wide spectrum of temporal and economic conditions 
• Source Consciousness that is multilayered and global in its reach. 

• “Consciousness” as opposed to “research” or “history”
• Deliberate obfuscation of sources of environmentally damaging materials
• Normalization of the “chemicalization” of supply chains in the building industry
• The entire industrial complex is based on exploitation of the planet – which we need to fundamentally rethink
• Design for deconstruction – labeling all materials, using machine learning in some cases, in order to consider how a building can be taken apart and reassembled into a project in the future
• Interview took place on the day a space exploration rocket mission was launched, sent in search of metallic bodies
• Attempting to quantify the inputs and normalize them for comparison proved next to impossible – and beside the point, somewhat, which is simply to establish awareness of the complexity.
• The objective is to create a generation of future designers who have the “rearview mirrors” that prior generations didn’t, when it came to understanding material sourcing.

Intro: "The Cutter," by Echo and the Bunnymen

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Discussed:

• Blank: Speculations on CLT: Jennifer Bonner & Hanif Kara
• MIT Senseable City Lab
• Katerra
• ETH Zurich Robotics Aesthetics & Usability Center
• AGO Modina - adaptive reuse in which an A.I.-designed steel kinetic roof covering the courtyard - using digitally fabricated components.
• Alpine stone bivouacs
• What’s the best tessellation?
• What’s the best kinetic result?

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Outro: "The Trees," by Pulp

At the intersection of A.I. and timber,

Intro: The Cutter, by Echo and the Bunnymen

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Discussed:

Blank: Speculations on CLT: Jennifer Bonner & Hanif Kara

MIT Senseable City Lab

Katerra 

ETH Zurich Robotics Aesthetics & Usability Center

AGO Modina - adaptive reuse in which an A.I.-designed steel kinetic roof covering the courtyard - using digitally fabricated components.

Alpine stone bivouacs

What’s the best tessellation?

What’s the best kinetic result?

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Outro: The Trees, by Pulp

Intro/Outro: “Value,” by Foliage

Discussed:

• Verse Design Shanghai – with Leon Dai
• USC American Academy in China
• Projects:
  • High-Speed Rail Station, Bengbu, China, 2010
  • Thirty75 Tech, Santa Clara, CA, 2022
  • Guenoc Valley, Lake County, CA (16,000 acres) – Ongoing
  • Adrian Zecha, partner, founder Aman Resorts
• Manhattan = 14,478 acres // California Forever, Solano County, CA = 55,000 acres
• Pro forma as a design tool

Intro/Outro: “Skullduggery” by Steppenwolf

Discussed:

• The Richard J. Daley Collection archives at University of Illinois Chicago
• The Development Plan for the Central Area of Chicago, 1958
• Chicago as a gameboard, in which skyscrapers were chess pieces
• Arthur Rubloff
• The Field Building, 1934
• 860-880 Lake Shore Drive
• C.F. Murphy, the Zelig figure of Chicago architecture and real estate
• The State of Illinois Building > James R. Thompson Center > Google Center
• The Sears Tower and its land accumulation saga
• The John Hancock Center – the “car chase” scene in the book
• Jerry Wolman
• Carl Condit
• Modern Architecture: A Critical History - Kenneth Frampton
• The Power Broker – Robert Caro