Buildings On Air

This month we are joined by two Buildings on Air favorites: architecture writer/critic Marianela D'Aprile and architecture historian/educator Douglas Spencer! We answer a listener question about giving notice at an architecture job, gloss the ideas of architecture theorist Manfredo Tafuri (Mamma Mia… here we go again!), and discuss some central ideas of the emergent architectural left.

This episode of Buildings on Air we chat with organizer, writer, and attorney Ramsin Canon to talk about zoning and land use. We cover the basics of zoning, hear the legal perspective on land use, and discuss why it matters to activists. If you found our conversation interesting check out Ramsin's presentation on zoning to the 33rd Ward Working Families organization here.

This month on Buildings on Air we chat with structural engineer, former Chicago Building Commissioner, and all around good guy, Stan Kaderbek. Stan shares some stories from his time as commissioner that should not be missed! We also chat about public service and safety, and the ins and outs of what it’s like to be the cities chief building regulator.

We are still off our regular format, but in this episode we revisit the classic Buildings on Air “Mailbag” with Nicholas Cecchi and Emily Handley. We talk air changes, bidets, and more!Look out this summer/fall for the show to return to its usual two hour format, with interviews and hopefully a return to our regular, regular segments!

This episode of Buildings on Air we are joined by Jess Myers, an Assistant Professor at Rhode Island School of Design and co-steward of the NYC Architecture Lobby to talk about "Here There be Dragons,” a podcast that delves deep into how feelings of safety and belonging in cities are experienced by people and conditioned by the built environment. Stay tuned for a preview episode of HTBD and be sure to find it and subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts.

This episode of Buildings on Air we chat architectural internships with New York based architectural worker Jesse McCormick, a co-author of a recent report on the subject (link here). We chat about precarious employment conditions and dive deep into the legalities of unpaid internships, as well as the misclassification of employees as independent contractors.

This episode of Buildings on Air we chat with friend of the show and returning guest Douglas Spencer about his new book Critique of Architecture which will be released later this month. We talk about the current state of architectural theory, neo-Tafurianism, what radical critique means, and what insights a critique of architecture can give us about capitalism.

What is the impact of a landmark district on gentrification? In this episode of Buildings on Air we answer that question and more with Chicago Democratic Socialists of America member and community organizer Diego Morales. We talk about the the debate surrounding the proposed Pilsen Landmark District here in Chicago, and why/how the community is pushing back.If you want to get involved with and stay up to date about the push back against the landmark district check out Pilsen Alliance on Facebook and Twitter.

This episode of Buildings on Air we talk with Brian Campbell, a Portland based architectural worker and member of the Architecture Lobby about how the odd framing of urban policy debates can obscure power structures.

This episode of Buildings on Air marks our triumphant return after a hiatus. We talk with Will Orr and Ricardo Ruivo, teachers at the Architectural Association (AA) in London. The AA has recently been embroiled in controversy on the vote of no-confidence and subsequent dismissal of director Eva Franch I Gilabert. Will and Ric tell us about what went down at the AA, discuss how it is symptomatic of the architectural education industry in the age of neoliberalism, and talk through where we go from here. Read their open letter.

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This episode of Buildings on Air we we chat with Sean Estelle and Sveta Stoytcheva of Democratic Socialists of America about the campaign to municipalize Chicago’s electric grid.We are still under stay-at-home orders in Illinois which means the Lumpen Radio studios are closed so we are departing from our usual format to bring you prerecorded interviews.We are collecting remembrances of Michael Sorkin for possible broadcast - please send in audio clips or writing to buildingsonair@gmail.com._More info on the campaign to democratize ComEd can be found at http://www.demcomed.orgMore information on the Democratize ComEd General Membership meeting can be found here: https://www.chicagodsa.org/event/democratize-comed-march-general-membership-meetingAnd lastly if you are a dues paying DSA member you can follow this link to get involved with the national level Ecosocialist working group: http://bit.ly/ecosocialist

This episode of Buildings on Air comes straight from the home recording studio of Keefer. In the midst of the state wide stay-at-home order in Illinois due to COVID-19 the offices and studios of WLPN-LP Chicago are shut down, so this episode comes courtesy of Zoom teleconferencing. Our guest this month is BoA favorite Billy Fleming (@joobilly on twitter) who directs the McHarg Center at University of Pennsylvania. He talks to us about “A Green Stimulus to Rebuild Our Economy: An Open Letter and Call to Action to Members of Congress” (Link).Buildings on Air will continue to record during the coronavirus, albeit with an altered format accommodating social distancing and a more ad hoc schedule. Bear with us as we tweak our home recording set-up to improve sound quality. If you’ve got ideas for the show send them into buildingsonair@gmail.com.

This episode of Buildings on Air is not an episode of Buildings on Air at all! Rather it is an episode of the Failed Architecture podcast. Subscribe to their feed here and check out some of their amazing writing at https://failedarchitecture.com.Big thank you to Charlie Clemoes and the rest of the Failed Architecture team for letting us share this episode with you.Buildings on Air Announcements:We are switching our regular time slot in March. Tune into Chicago’s WLPN-LP Lumpen Radio 105.5FM at 2pm central on THIRD Saturdays to hear our show live. The podcast version will follow shortly after. Send pitches and suggestions to buildingsonair@gmail.comFailed Architecture Episode 11 - Architects Unionise!:We tend to think of architects as professionals rather than workers. Architects design, create, delegate, follow a special calling, but they’re not often seen as “working for a living”, and they’re certainly not much like the workers who actually construct or extract the resources for the buildings they design. And yet, architectural work in the twenty first century has become ever more precarious. As with other white collar workers, architects are becoming increasingly accustomed to short-term contracts, overtime without pay and other traditional hallmarks of exploited labour.In light of this new reality, for this episode we’ll be talking to architectural workers from the UK, the USA, and Brazil, about the role a labour union could play in the contemporary architectural profession. We’ll discuss the difficulties, limits and challenges of organizing architectural workers and speculate as to why architects have, until recently, been relatively absent from the history of the labour movement. We’ll also consider how unionisation could give ordinary architectural workers greater control over the buildings and spaces they design as well as over the wider spatial production sector.Keefer Dunn is an architect based in Chicago and a former national organiser for the Architecture LobbyFernanda Simon Cardoso is an architect based in São Paulo and a former Director for the FNA (Federação Nacional dos Arquitetos e Urbanistas)Sam and Alex are architectural workers based in the UK and organisers for Workers Inquiry: ArchitectureThis episode was directed by Charlie Clemoes/Jake Soule/The Failed Architecture Team

This episode we take a look at Edward Bellamy’s socialist utopian novel Looking Backward with Garrett Dash Nelson. Check out Garrett’s excellent article on the subject in Places Journal here: https://placesjournal.org/article/edward-bellamy-urban-planning/.Then in a special edition of our regular mailbag segment we have guests from way out of town! Architecture students from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam come into the studio to ask us questions about Chicago.

This episode of Buildings on Air we sit down with members of Extinction Rebellion for a discussion about the strategies and tactics that will win us climate justice. Then we open up the mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke and answer your listener questions about buildings. Lastly, in our regular segment about the architecture discourse, Fun and Angry with Anjulie Rao, we read Patrick Sisson's recent article in Curbed that asks: who exactly is buying all these downtown luxury condos anyway?! Read more here: https://www.curbed.com/2019/11/12/20944374/apartment-downtown-empty-nester-baby-boomer

This episode its classic Buildings on Air as we visit our two regular segments. First up! In our segment on the architectural discourse, Fun and Angry, Keefer and Anjulie Rao talk about hostile architecture! Then we visit the mailbag with Craig Reschke and Ann Lui of Future Firm and answer your listener questions about building!Articles discussed in this episode include:“‘Hostile Architecture’ How Public Spaces Keep the Public Out” by Winnie Hu, appearing in the New York Times“At Cornell’s New Fine Arts Library, the Book Sets the Standard” by Audrey Wachs, appearing in Metropolis

In this special episode of Buildings on Air we turn to the Chicago River, asking our guests about the past, present, and future of our cities waterways. This episode was recorded from the Michigan Avenue Bridgehouse in the heart of downtown, and produced in collaboration with the Tender House Project. It originally aired on WLPN-LP Lumpen Radio on October 5th, 2019.Guests on today's program include Patrick McBriarty of Chicago Maritime Arts, Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago, Mejay Gula of Tender House Project, Joanne So Young Dill and John Quail of Friends of the Chicago River, and Chloe Gurin-Sands of Metropolitan Planning Council.

This episode of Buildings on Air marks our triumphant return to the Lumpen Radio airwaves after a summer break. First up! We will chat with Tom Jacobs of Architects Advocate about getting architects involved in the September 20th Climate Strike. Find out more at http://www.architects-advocate.com.Then in our regular segment “Fun and Angry” we will discuss Alexandra Lange’s reflections on S,M,L,XL (https://www.curbed.com/platform/amp/2019/8/22/20755386/rem-koolhaas-smlxl-review-oma). Regular Anjulie Rao can’t make it this month, but lucky for us the inimitable Marianela D’Aprile will be filling in.Last! We open up the Buildings On Air mailbag to answer your listener questions about architecture and buildings with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm! Send in those questions to buildingsonair@gmail.com.____Buildings on Air is hosted by Keefer Dunn, and produced by Jamie Trecker. Listen live on WLPN-LP Lumpen Radio first Saturdays of the month at 2pm central.

This episode of Buildings on Air! First, we invite writer and activist Keith Rosenthal on the show to discuss capitalism, disability, and the ADA. Check out Keith’s website here: https://joanofmark.blogspot.com/.Second, Anjulie and Keefer offer up some cool takes on the discourse in our regular segment “Fun and Angry.” First, we will do our best to unpack a truly baffling article on parametric architecture from Forbes.And last! We open up our mailbag with Ann and Craig of Future Firm! Send in your listener questions for a chance to have them answered on air!

This episode! First we chat with Billy Fleming about his absolutely must read article in Place Journal entitled “Design and the Green New Deal.” After, we check in with Architecture Lobby member Caitlin Watson to talk about the Lobby’s efforts to organize around the GND.Next! In our regular review segment Fun and Angry, Keefer and Anjulie Rao take a look at Olly Wainwright’s piece in The Guardian highlighting reemergent interest in public architecture practice in the UK. Could it be a transitional model for the US?And lastly! We open our mailbag and answer listener questions about architecture. Our regular mailbag correspondents are out this week, but our favorite ringers Nick Cecchi and Emily Handley are in the studio to help us out!

On this episode of Buildings on Air we talk about buildings codes & public access, why the libertarian solution to the housing crisis is not the right one, and then answer your listener questions about buildings in our mailbag segment! Full line-up below:First up! We chat with Scott Reynolds of @upcodes about why public access to the law is important, how it impacts the built environment, and why the standards developing organizations are pushing back.Then! We head to Critics Corner (is this the episode where the segment gets renamed?!) with Anjulie Rao to discuss @Richard_Florida’s recent CityLab article apprising readers of the recent scholarship lambasting libertarian solutions to the housing crisis.And lastly! We answer your listener questions in our favorite mailbag segment with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm! If you got a building question tag us @bldgsonair or email buildingsonair@gmail.com and we will answer it live on air!

First up! Writer Katherine Allen takes over the host chair and talk with Adam Nathaniel Furman (@Furmadamadam) and @KeeferDunn about the recent (and welcome) wave of scrutiny aimed at exploitative labor practices in architecture, and where we go from here. Next! We chat with Melinda Bunnage and Peter Hughes, @ChicagoCityDSA activists who are working in the @LTBcoalition. Melina and Peter tell us about the fight for housing justice in Illinois (and beyond!) is shaping up. Then! We visit @AnjulieRao in our newest regular segment "The Critics Corner" (name still pending - send suggestions!), where we offer up our cool takes on the recent @frieze_magazine interview with Keller Easterling. And last but certainly not least we open up the Buildings on Air mailbag to answer listener questions about architecture with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of @FutureFirm. DM us your questions or send them in to buildingsonair@gmail.com!

On this episode we introduce a new segment featuring the inimitable Anjulie Rao. Anjulie and Keefer discuss the piece “Refusal After Refusal” by Adjustments Agency, which appeared in Harvard Design Magazine as well as the article “The “B” Word: How a More Universal Concept of Beauty Can Reshape Architecture” by Mark Alan Hewitt in Common Edge.Next Keefer opens up the mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm. Send in your listener questions to buildingsonair@gmail.com for us to answer!Lastly, we interview Yonah Freemark to discuss his research on upzoning which set the urbanist discourse alight!

First up we talk with Alexander Eisenschmidt about his essay entitled "The Story of an Intersection, or how Early Chicago Became an Urban Laboratory" which was originally published in the Architecture Theory Review.Check out the image we are discussing here!Then we answer your listener questions about buildings in our regular mailbag segment with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm.And lastly we talk with artist Corey Smith about his New Prairie School project, and his upcoming “experimental architecture tour” Get more information and tickets here: http://coreyds.com/eebh.html

In this last episode of 2018 we present an interview with the thoughtful Dean of USC Architecture, Milton SF Curry. Then we answer listener questions in our Mailbag segment with Craig Reschke! There will be no January episode of Buildings on Air but keep an eye on the podscast feed for something special to keep you sated!

This episode of Buildings on Air we get into Brick Mindset™ with Will Quay from Brick of Chicago (www.brickofchicago.com). Then we chat with frequent Buildings on Air guest Marianela D'Aprile about her recetn article in Common Edge about what Productivist artist Boris Arvatov can tell us about the relevacny of architects today (http://commonedge.org/making-architecture-relevant-will-involve-changing-the-system-it-operates-in/). And last but not least we answer your listener questions about buildings in our mailbag segment with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke!

This episode of Buildings on Air we talk the ins and outs of contemporary architecture education with studio professors Sarah Dunn, Ellen Grimes, and Leslie Johnson. Then we hear from researcher David Merriman about his recent study on the effectiveness of TIFS (https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/policy-focus-reports/improving-tax-increment-financing-tif-economic-development). And lastly mailbag guests Nick Cecchi and Emily Handley help us answer your listener questions about buildings!

Hi Buildings on Air listeners! We didn’t have a live September episode (we’ll be back in October!) so we’ve uploaded something special to keep you going. This is audio from a very curious piece of propaganda called “The Dynamic American City.” To many of us, the urban ideas it advocates are entirely abhorrent - but as a historical document it is very interesting to see how and why these ideas were in vogue - and who was advocating for them. So sit back and get ready to facepalm and yell “why!?” as you listen.

This episode of Buildings on Air! We chat with economist Michael Roberts about the causes and effects of the 2008 Housing Bubble and ensuing Great Recession and have an extra nerdy, long, and edifying mailbag with regulars Ann Lui and Craig Reschke. We also have a clip from fellow Lumpen Radio show Radio Free Bridgeport about some urbgan planning projects hitting our nieghborhood streets very soon.

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!

First we talk to architect, author, professor and technologist Phil Bernstein about the challenges and opportunities automation and our digital tools have in store for architects. Check out his column at Architect’s Newspaper https://archpaper.com/2018/01/mass-timber-architects-rethink-basic-services/ Then, our regular mailbag correspondents are out of town but Bridgeport architecture super stars Nicholas Cecchi (www.nicholascecchi.com) and Emily Handley (www.pointplanepattern.com) step in to answer your questions about buildings! Check them out on instagram at @playitfaster and @handleyemily Then lastly we air a talk by Charles Rice from our friends at MASContext about the legacy of John Portman. If you want to follow along with the images check out the website here: http://www.mascontext.com/events/mas-context-fall-talks-2017/mas-context-fall-talks-2017-charles-rice/.

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. 

This episode of Buildings on Air! First, William Emmick of Studio Gang talks to us about the firm and Bridgeport's shiny new Eleanor Street Boathouse along with Owen Lloyd, neighborhood fixture and a member of the park's advisory council. Then Piranesi meets ASCII as we are joined by Erik Herrmann and Ashley Bigham of Outpost Office who chat about their project "Another Campo Marzio" currently on display at Future Firm's Night Gallery. Lastly, Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm join us to answer your listener questions in our monthly mailbag segment!  

First up on this episode of Buildings on Air is Doug Spencer chatting with Keefer about his book “The Architecture of Neoliberalism: How Contemporary Architecture Became an Instrument of Control and Compliance.” Next we chat with journalist and two-time Buildings on Air guest Zach Mortice about his recent writings on the landscape architecture of the Obama Library and the preservation crisis of African-American cemeteries. Lastly, it’s the mailbag segment with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm who will answer your listener questions about buildings. Got a home improvement question? Send it in to buildingsonair@gmail.com!

This month's edition of Buildings on Air! First we speak with Jeffrey Roberts of New World Design to talk about his project to float flying pigs in front of the Trump tower. Next up Hamza Hasan and Shota Vashkamadze talk technology and its uses and abuses. Then it's Will Martin and Khoudia Sylla recapping this years American Institute of Architects convention with a cameo by friend of the show Skylar Morain. Last its a particularly silly mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm where we answer your listener questions about buildings!

This episode Keefer talks to Lynn Muller, Felipe Tendick-Matesanz and Billy Burdett about food policy and urban agriculture in the city of Chicago. Marianela D'Aprile spoke on agency and architecture, and how the profession might organize into a modern labor movement. Lastly, we open up the mailbag with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm and answer your listener questions!

This episode of Buildings on Air we talk about public housing, Trump's Wall and architectural activism, and then we open up the mailbag to answer listener questions. First up we are joined by writer Maya Duskmaova and Chicago Public Housing Initiative's executive director Leah Levinger for an in-depth discussion about housing policy in Chicago. Then it's activist Carlos Roa, Dexter Walcott of the Architecture Lobby, and Gabrielle Printz of feminist architecture collaborative F-Architecture for a discussion of the real impacts of Trump's immigration policy and what architects can and are doing to organize an opposition now and moving forward. Then Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm join us as always to answer your questions about buildings!

This episode Keefer is joined by Journalist Zach Mortice telling us about the redevelopment of the Chicago Housing Authorities Lathrope Homes. We'll also chat with architecture educators Eric Ellingsen, Leslie Johnson, and Lukasz Kowalczyk about how to talk politics in the classroom and what educators can do under Trump. Then we'll open up the mailbag to answer listener questions about architecture with Ann Lui and Craig Reschke of Future Firm. And lastly we'll talk with Priyanka Shah of the Architecture Lobby and Sarah Rafson of Architexx to talk about the architect's contingent at last weeks Women's March in DC!