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Rebar and the Alvord Lake Bridge
Episode 81
There’s something about rebar that fascinates me. If nothing else because there are very few things that invoke a fear of being skewered. My preoccup…
12 years, 8 months ago
An Architect’s Code
Episode 80
Lawyers have an ethics code. Journalists have an ethics code. Architects do, too. According to Ethical Standard 1.4 of the American Institute of Arch…
12 years, 9 months ago
The Symphony of Sirens plus Soviet Design
Episode 79
For the ancient Greeks, sirens were mythical creatures who sang out to passing sailors from rocks in the sea. Their music was so beautiful, it was sa…
12 years, 9 months ago
No Armed Bandit
Episode 78
Americans have always had an uneasy relationship with gambling. To circumvent anti-gambling laws in the US, early slot machines masqueraded as vendin…
12 years, 10 months ago
Game Changer
Episode 77
Regardless of how you feel about basketball, you’ve got to appreciate the way it can bring groups of strangers together to share moments of pure adul…
12 years, 10 months ago
The Modern Moloch
Episode 76
On the streets of early 20th Century America, nothing moved faster than 10 miles per hour. Responsible parents would tell their children, “Go outside…
12 years, 11 months ago
Secret Staircases
Episode 75
Wherever there is sufficient demand to move between two points of differing elevation, there are stairs. In some hilly neighborhoods of California–if…
12 years, 11 months ago
Hand Painted Signs
Episode 74
There was a time when every street sign, every billboard, and every window display was made by a sign artist with a paint kit and an arsenal of squir…
12 years, 11 months ago
The Zanzibar and Other Building Poems
Episode 73
There comes a time in the life of a modern city where it begins to grow up–literally. Santiago, the capital of Chile, has been going through a tremen…
13 years ago
New Old Town
Episode 72
Like many cities in Central Europe, Warsaw is made up largely of grey, ugly, communist block-style architecture. Except for one part: The Old Town. W…
13 years ago