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Living in Pruitt–Igoe and Laclede Town: Michael Willis and Eric Mumford Reflect on St. Louis Housing History full Megan Lynch is joined by Michael Willis and Eric Mumford to discuss their experiences and insights on the contrasting St. Louis housing developments of Pruitt–Igoe and Laclede Town. The conversation touches on national urban decentralization policies and their effects on neighborhoods. They explore the role of modern architecture in social failures, asking whether design or its implementation led to the downfall of Pruitt–Igoe. The discussion highlights successful examples of modern architecture in Europe, which better integrated with communities. The curation of a related exhibition, featuring local historians, is also discussed. 416 Sat, 21 Sep 2024 11:54:51 +0000 TImhzHs3msNgwL3FpkEaIjBYItH37d2d news Total Information AM Weekend news Living in Pruitt–Igoe and Laclede Town: Michael Willis and Eric Mumford Reflect on St. Louis Housing History With up-to-the-minute news, information, weather and sports, no other station can match KMOX's coverage of the latest breaking stories. 2024 © 2021 Audacy, Inc.

Wykład prof. dr hab. Marty Leśniakowskiej, Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, 15 października 2015 [2h14min] https://wszechnica.org.pl/wyklad/czwarta-warszawa-architektura-w-warszawie-w-latach-60-i-70/ Zburzenie większości architektury stolicy w wyniku drugiej wojny światowej umożliwiło spełnienie marzenia modernistów o budowie miasta na nowo. O tym jak ta budowa przebiegała opowiedziała historyczka sztuki prof. dr hab. Marta Leśniakowska podczas wykładu, który był jednym z wydarzeń towarzyszących wystawie „Trasa Muzeum – Zalew Zegrzyński. Estrada sztuki nowoczesnej” w Muzeum Narodowym w Warszawie. Historyczka sztuki w trakcie swojego wystąpienia opowiedziała o czterech etapach, w jakich tworzono nową architekturę w okresie socjalizmu. Lata 1945-1949 to okres „pierwszej odbudowy”. Panowała jeszcze wówczas wolność tworzenia. Architekci odwoływali się w swoich projektach do rozwiązań wypracowanych w okresie międzywojennym. Epoka socrealizmu, która nastała po okresie „pierwszej odbudowy”, miała w założeniu modernistyczny prąd unicestwić. W latach 1949-1956 nastąpiła ortodoksyjna zmiana orientacji cywilizacyjnej z zachodniej na wschodnią. Wzorce miano czerpać z kultury radzieckiej. Jak jednak pokazała profesor Leśniakowska, architekci przemycali do swoich projektów elementy odbiegające od narzuconego przez władze komunistyczne trendu. Pokazują to choćby takie ówczesne realizacje, jak odbudowany gmach Sejmu. W latach 1956-1968, kiedy architektura wyrwała się okowów socrealizmu, architekci zwrócili się w kierunku rozwiązań neoawangardowych. Lata 70. przyniosły „śmierć modernizmu”. Za symbol początku tej epoki uznaje się wyburzenie w 1972 roku osiedla Pruitt Igoe w St. Louis w stanie Missouri w USA. Warszawie przyniosła ona m.in. początek budowy pierwszych „drapaczy chmur”. Wcześniej jedynym wysokim budynkiem w stolicy, oprócz PKiN, był gmach Prudentialu. Jednym z pierwszych wybudowanych wówczas wieżowców był budynek Intraco. Lata 70. upłynęły także pod znakiem budowy megaosiedli z wielkiej płyty. Niepowiązane z centrum miasta, zdezorganizowały całkowicie, jak powiedziała historyczka sztuki, siatkę urbanistyczną powstałą przed 1939 rokiem. Profesor Leśniakowska opowieść o architekturze stolicy po 1945 roku oparła na podstawie licznych przykładów realizacji architektonicznych powstałych w każdym z omawianych przez siebie okresów. *** Trasa M–Z - Trasa Muzeum – Zalew Zegrzyński. Estrada sztuki nowoczesnej 3 września 2015 – 18 października 2015 Projekt realizowany we współpracy Muzeum Narodowego w Warszawie ze Stowarzyszeniem Inicjatyw Twórczych „Trzecia Fala” Kuratorzy: Magdalena Nowak (MNW), Łukasz Strzelczyk (STF) Nową ekspozycją Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie włącza się w aktualną dyskusję o roli instytucji kultury w życiu lokalnych społeczności i estetyki przestrzeni publicznej. Dokumentuje ona dzieje i założenia na poły utopijnej warszawskiej inicjatywy podjętej na fali gierkowskiego entuzjazmu w 1971 roku – „Trasy M-Z“, projektu opracowania plastycznego trasy prowadzącej spod głównej siedziby MNW nad Zalew Zegrzyński. Wystawa, przygotowana we współpracy ze Stowarzyszeniem Inicjatyw Twórczych „Trzecia Fala”, skłania również do namysłu nad uproszczonymi ocenami kulturalnego dziedzictwa PRL. Ekspozycja w MNW będzie dostępna dla publiczności od 3 września do 18 października 2015 roku. Znajdź nas: https://www.youtube.com/c/WszechnicaFWW/ https://www.facebook.com/WszechnicaFWW1/ https://anchor.fm/wszechnicaorgpl---historia https://anchor.fm/wszechnica-fww-nauka https://wszechnica.org.pl/ #muzeumnarodowe #sztuka #architektura #urbanistyka #kultura #warszawa #socrealizm

Full Ep released to subscribers: 08 Mar 2024 | To join New Models, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com // One of the most compelling examples, so far, of media made using AI content generation is the video that artist Jon Rafman created for Kanye West's new album with Ty Dolla $ign, "Vultures." Rather than aiming for maximum realism in these clips, Rafman leans into visual incoherence, moments where the software experiences a collapse of distinction. This, coupled with prompts that could have gone something like “gang members in balaclavas imploding like the Pruitt-Igoe housing project demolition 1971” with style tags “cult horror, VHS, America 1986, Norwegian black metal” meant the video also conveyed a sense of what we thought might be a Witch House revival. So we called up cultural savant and 2010s historian Dean Kissick to discuss. But Witch House did not remain the central thread of our conversation. Instead, all paths lead back to something more fundamental—the struggle for iconicity in a time of infinitely available content. // For more: https://twitter.com/deankissick (X) // NOTE: Dean will be helping New Models resident Patrick McGraw to stage a very special Heavy Traffic reading at EARTH, 29 Orchard Street, New York City, on Easter Sunday, March 31st.

The Pruitt Igoe housing complex in St. Louis that was built in the 1950s and infamously demolished in the 1970s has been touted by many as a cautionary tale against public housing projects. But its history is complex. In 2012 it was reported that Pruitt Igoe was in a region targeted by the Military for secret tests that were part of a radiological weapons development program. According to government documents obtained by sociologist and researcher Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor, the Army referred to the test area a “Densely Populated Slum District.”Now Pruitt Igoe is back in national headlines. Ben Phillips and Chester Deans, both former residents of the Pruitt Igoe housing complex, are spearheading efforts to have the government recognize its wrong doing, release more information about the its covert actions, and compensate residents of Pruitt-Igoe and surrounding areas. They hope to have residents of the area added to a bill working its way through congress that seeks to compensate residents that were exposed to radiation during cold war era production of nuclear weapons in St. louis.In this episode of Breaking Green we will talk with Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor, the sociologist and researcher who examined the St. Louis open-air experiments for her doctoral dissertation at the University of Missouri Columbia, and after more than a decade of research wrote a book called Behind the Fog: How the US Cold War Radiological Weapons Program Exposed Innocent Americans. We will also talk with Ben Phillips who prior to spearheading the recent push for justice for former residents of Pruitt Igoe, received a degree in sociology from the University of Missouri at St. Louis. Phillips had a distinguished career in public service as well as St. Louis and Missouri politics. Ben Phillip's accomplishments include  a gubernatorial appointee to the St. Louis City board of elections commission,  a Mayoral appointment to the City of St. Louis Employees Retirement Board and serving as Presiding of the Missouri State President of the National Association of Blacks in Criminal Justice (NABCJ).Link to Post-Dispatch story on documentary base on Pruitt Igoe experiments.Don't miss an episode and subscribe to Breaking Green wherever you get your podcasts.This podcast is produced by Global Justice Ecology Project.Breaking Green is made possible by tax deductible donations from people like you. Please help us lift up the voices of those working to protect forests, defend human rights and expose false solutions.  Donate securely online hereOr simply text GIVE to 

Ben Phillips and Chester Deanes are former Pruitt Igoe residents and they join Tom and Megan in studio talking about documentary Target: St. Louis, Vol. 1 that focuses on the military experiment of Pruitt Igoe.

This episode, establishment left YIMBYs are racist, the US military was up to something at Pruitt-Igoe, and left architects of the past are on the official US state enemies list. Time to incubate your ideation across full-spectrum analytics. https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-community-under-the-atomic-cloud/ Intro Music: 'A Ya Ya (Who Dat)' - Ghetto Mezikanz https://soundcloud.com/djdice_chicago/a-ya-ya-who-dat-ghetto

TrueAnon St. Louis correspondent Devin Thomas O'Shea joins us to talk about his new piece in Protean (https://proteanmag.com/2022/11/28/pruitt-igoe-a-black-community-under-the-atomic-cloud) combining the history of the Pruitt-Igoe public housing project and US government chemical testing on the residents of major American cities. TrueAnon Live Tickets: https://linktr.ee/trueanon

During the cold war, the united states military conducted covert weapons development testing in what the Army identified as a "densely populated slum district". The spraying of zinc cadmium sulfide along with what evidence suggests was a radiative substance centered on a region that included the Pruitt Igoe housing complex. The film Target St. Louis, which has won the Urban World Best Documentary award in New York was directed by actor and film maker Damien D. Smith. On this episode of Breaking Green we will talk to Damien, about the film, the research it is based on and the importance of film in shinning a light on such a difficult subject. Damien was born in St. Louis and now lives as an actor, screen writer and prodcer in Los Angeles. Smith's stage and television credits include the NAACP Theater Award-winning production of “12×9,” and most recently the television series “Snowfall” on Fx Networks  and “The Purge”on USA networks.  His directorial debut short narrative film entitled ABOUT THAT…, a powerful look at love through the eyes of a mentally disturbed young man won the Arts with Impact film Award. Smith's last short film Daddy's Big Girl won the Gentleman Jack Daniel's Reel to Real Filmmaker of the Year Award. This podcast is produced by Global Justice Ecology Project.Target St. Louis Vol 1 TrailerDamien Smith IMDbIPA press release on St. Louis weapons testBehind the Fog book by Dr. Lisa Martino-TaylorSt. Louis Post-DispatchBreaking Green is made possible by tax deductible donations from people like you. Please help us lift up the voices of those working to protect forests, defend human rights and expose false solutions.  Simply text GIVE to 1 716 257 4187.Disclosure:  Steve Taylor is married to the author of Behind the Fog. 

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Andrew For America discusses "The Mouse Utopia," an experiment conducted by Dr. John B. Calhoun in the 1960's/70's.  He also discusses the real-world application of this study which occurred in the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. Andrew also reads a quote from Carl Sagan on the importance of books.  The song selection is the song, "Fools" by Andrew For America. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/andrew-foramerica/support

The Pruitt–Igoe housing complex opened in 1954 with many hoping it would be a model for urban housing projects. But, problems would start soon after it opened. By 1969 living conditions had deteriorated to such an extent that Black activists took action. Just press play to hear the whole story. ------ Click on search links to see if there are episodes with related content: Cicely Hunter, Housing, Landmark Locations, Black History, Civil Rights, Architecture, ------ Podcast Transcript: I'm Cicely Hunter, Public Historian from the Missouri Historical Society, and here's history, on eighty-eight-one, KDHX. ——— A rent strike ensued by low-income communities in St. Louis during 1969 and brought the issue of public housing home. Residents from Pruitt-Igoe and other public housing facilities grappled with its shortcomings in St. Louis and politicized its failures before the nation. ——— Wendell O. Pruitt Homes and William Igoe Apartments, known together as Pruitt–Igoe, were 33 high-rise buildings that were 11 stories high, and were designed as a new cutting-edge redevelopment model of public housing by urban planners and designers. Mayor Joseph Darst believed the project would recreate new and vibrant spaces within St. Louis, which he defined as “tangible evidence of progress in the continuing war against slums and decay. St. Louisians can point to their city as a model of modern development.” With this perception of progress, Pruitt-Igoe would open its doors to residents in 1954. Not long after the doors opened, tenants would see problems arise. Residents experienced rodent infestation, broken heating units, no hot water, overflowing trash incinerators, and overall insufficient living conditions. ——— The 1969 St. Louis Rent Strike demonstrated how Black activists tackled public housing as a civil rights issue. The rent strike encouraged tenants to demand better living conditions. In this community-driven initiative, tenants withheld their rent money and insisted they only pay 25 percent of their income, increase police protection, and improve maintenance. The rent strike went on for nine months and would later inform the federal legislation Brooke Amendment to the Housing Act of 1969. Though residents of Pruitt Igoe seemed to win the battle against poor conditions during that time, it was later demolished between 1972 and 1976. Essentially, what was perceived as a successful legislation, continues to leave many low-income families in intolerable condition today. ——— Here's history is a joint production of the Missouri Historical Society and KDHX. I'm Cicely Hunter and this is eighty-eight-one, KDHX, St. Louis. ———

In this episode artist, writer, and author of the recently published Sandfuture, Justin Beal, explores architecture, illness, and the work of Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed The World Trade Center and the Pruitt-Igoe apartment complex.  In this conversation he discusses his writing on migraines and the built environment, sick building syndrome and the long standing intimacy between architecture and medicine.  

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York's World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect's name or know much about his portfolio of more than 200 buildings. One is tempted to call him America's most famous forgotten architect. He was classed in the top tier of his profession in the 1950s and '60s, as he carried modernism in novel directions, yet today he is best known not for buildings that stand but for two projects that were destroyed under tragic circumstances: the twin towers and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. This book undertakes a reinterpretation of Yamasaki's significance that combines architectural history with the study of his intersection with defining moments of American history and culture. The story of the loss and vulnerability of Yamasaki's legacy illustrates the fragility of all architecture in the face of natural and historical forces, yet in Yamasaki's view, fragility is also a positive quality in architecture: the source of its refinement, beauty, and humanity. We learn something essential about architecture when we explore this tension of strength and fragility. In the course of interpreting Yamasaki's architecture through the wide lens of the book we see the mid-century role of Detroit as an industrial power and architectural mecca; we follow a debate over public housing that entailed the creation and eventual destruction of many thousands of units; we examine competing attempts to embody democratic ideals in architecture and to represent those ideals in foreign lands; we ponder the consequences of anti-Japanese prejudice and the masculism of the architectural profession; we see Yamasaki's style criticized for its arid minimalism yet equally for its delicacy and charm; we observe Yamasaki making a great name for himself in the Arab world but his twin towers ultimately destroyed by Islamic militants. As this curious tale of ironies unfolds, it invites reflection on the core of modern architecture's search for meaning and on the creative possibilities its legacy continues to offer. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color illustrations of Yamasaki's buildings, Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture (Routledge, 2021) will be of interest to students, academics and professionals in a range of disciplines, including architectural history, architectural theory, architectural preservation, and urban design and planning. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York's World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect's name or know much about his portfolio of more than 200 buildings. One is tempted to call him America's most famous forgotten architect. He was classed in the top tier of his profession in the 1950s and '60s, as he carried modernism in novel directions, yet today he is best known not for buildings that stand but for two projects that were destroyed under tragic circumstances: the twin towers and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. This book undertakes a reinterpretation of Yamasaki's significance that combines architectural history with the study of his intersection with defining moments of American history and culture. The story of the loss and vulnerability of Yamasaki's legacy illustrates the fragility of all architecture in the face of natural and historical forces, yet in Yamasaki's view, fragility is also a positive quality in architecture: the source of its refinement, beauty, and humanity. We learn something essential about architecture when we explore this tension of strength and fragility. In the course of interpreting Yamasaki's architecture through the wide lens of the book we see the mid-century role of Detroit as an industrial power and architectural mecca; we follow a debate over public housing that entailed the creation and eventual destruction of many thousands of units; we examine competing attempts to embody democratic ideals in architecture and to represent those ideals in foreign lands; we ponder the consequences of anti-Japanese prejudice and the masculism of the architectural profession; we see Yamasaki's style criticized for its arid minimalism yet equally for its delicacy and charm; we observe Yamasaki making a great name for himself in the Arab world but his twin towers ultimately destroyed by Islamic militants. As this curious tale of ironies unfolds, it invites reflection on the core of modern architecture's search for meaning and on the creative possibilities its legacy continues to offer. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color illustrations of Yamasaki's buildings, Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture (Routledge, 2021) will be of interest to students, academics and professionals in a range of disciplines, including architectural history, architectural theory, architectural preservation, and urban design and planning. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York's World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect's name or know much about his portfolio of more than 200 buildings. One is tempted to call him America's most famous forgotten architect. He was classed in the top tier of his profession in the 1950s and '60s, as he carried modernism in novel directions, yet today he is best known not for buildings that stand but for two projects that were destroyed under tragic circumstances: the twin towers and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. This book undertakes a reinterpretation of Yamasaki's significance that combines architectural history with the study of his intersection with defining moments of American history and culture. The story of the loss and vulnerability of Yamasaki's legacy illustrates the fragility of all architecture in the face of natural and historical forces, yet in Yamasaki's view, fragility is also a positive quality in architecture: the source of its refinement, beauty, and humanity. We learn something essential about architecture when we explore this tension of strength and fragility. In the course of interpreting Yamasaki's architecture through the wide lens of the book we see the mid-century role of Detroit as an industrial power and architectural mecca; we follow a debate over public housing that entailed the creation and eventual destruction of many thousands of units; we examine competing attempts to embody democratic ideals in architecture and to represent those ideals in foreign lands; we ponder the consequences of anti-Japanese prejudice and the masculism of the architectural profession; we see Yamasaki's style criticized for its arid minimalism yet equally for its delicacy and charm; we observe Yamasaki making a great name for himself in the Arab world but his twin towers ultimately destroyed by Islamic militants. As this curious tale of ironies unfolds, it invites reflection on the core of modern architecture's search for meaning and on the creative possibilities its legacy continues to offer. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color illustrations of Yamasaki's buildings, Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture (Routledge, 2021) will be of interest to students, academics and professionals in a range of disciplines, including architectural history, architectural theory, architectural preservation, and urban design and planning. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York's World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect's name or know much about his portfolio of more than 200 buildings. One is tempted to call him America's most famous forgotten architect. He was classed in the top tier of his profession in the 1950s and '60s, as he carried modernism in novel directions, yet today he is best known not for buildings that stand but for two projects that were destroyed under tragic circumstances: the twin towers and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. This book undertakes a reinterpretation of Yamasaki's significance that combines architectural history with the study of his intersection with defining moments of American history and culture. The story of the loss and vulnerability of Yamasaki's legacy illustrates the fragility of all architecture in the face of natural and historical forces, yet in Yamasaki's view, fragility is also a positive quality in architecture: the source of its refinement, beauty, and humanity. We learn something essential about architecture when we explore this tension of strength and fragility. In the course of interpreting Yamasaki's architecture through the wide lens of the book we see the mid-century role of Detroit as an industrial power and architectural mecca; we follow a debate over public housing that entailed the creation and eventual destruction of many thousands of units; we examine competing attempts to embody democratic ideals in architecture and to represent those ideals in foreign lands; we ponder the consequences of anti-Japanese prejudice and the masculism of the architectural profession; we see Yamasaki's style criticized for its arid minimalism yet equally for its delicacy and charm; we observe Yamasaki making a great name for himself in the Arab world but his twin towers ultimately destroyed by Islamic militants. As this curious tale of ironies unfolds, it invites reflection on the core of modern architecture's search for meaning and on the creative possibilities its legacy continues to offer. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color illustrations of Yamasaki's buildings, Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture (Routledge, 2021) will be of interest to students, academics and professionals in a range of disciplines, including architectural history, architectural theory, architectural preservation, and urban design and planning. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Few figures in the American arts have stories richer in irony than does architect Minoru Yamasaki. While his twin towers of New York's World Trade Center are internationally iconic, few who know the icon recognize its architect's name or know much about his portfolio of more than 200 buildings. One is tempted to call him America's most famous forgotten architect. He was classed in the top tier of his profession in the 1950s and '60s, as he carried modernism in novel directions, yet today he is best known not for buildings that stand but for two projects that were destroyed under tragic circumstances: the twin towers and the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. This book undertakes a reinterpretation of Yamasaki's significance that combines architectural history with the study of his intersection with defining moments of American history and culture. The story of the loss and vulnerability of Yamasaki's legacy illustrates the fragility of all architecture in the face of natural and historical forces, yet in Yamasaki's view, fragility is also a positive quality in architecture: the source of its refinement, beauty, and humanity. We learn something essential about architecture when we explore this tension of strength and fragility. In the course of interpreting Yamasaki's architecture through the wide lens of the book we see the mid-century role of Detroit as an industrial power and architectural mecca; we follow a debate over public housing that entailed the creation and eventual destruction of many thousands of units; we examine competing attempts to embody democratic ideals in architecture and to represent those ideals in foreign lands; we ponder the consequences of anti-Japanese prejudice and the masculism of the architectural profession; we see Yamasaki's style criticized for its arid minimalism yet equally for its delicacy and charm; we observe Yamasaki making a great name for himself in the Arab world but his twin towers ultimately destroyed by Islamic militants. As this curious tale of ironies unfolds, it invites reflection on the core of modern architecture's search for meaning and on the creative possibilities its legacy continues to offer. Beautifully illustrated with over 100 color illustrations of Yamasaki's buildings, Minoru Yamasaki and the Fragility of Architecture (Routledge, 2021) will be of interest to students, academics and professionals in a range of disciplines, including architectural history, architectural theory, architectural preservation, and urban design and planning. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

What constitutes great affordable housing design has changed over the decades. Where hulking concrete structures—Cabrini-Green in Chicago, Pruitt-Igoe in St. Louis—were once seen as economic answers to the affordability crisis, time has proven such designs do little in the way of elevating the lives of residents. There's mounting evidence that the buildings we live in […] The post (un)affordable: Beautiful by design appeared first on Boulder Weekly.

Directors Damien D. Smith and Alana Marie provide background and attention to important events in their respective films "https://www.cinemastlouis.org/sliff/target-st-louis-vol-1 (Target: St. Louis Vol. I)" and "https://www.cinemastlouis.org/sliff/kinloch-doc (The Kinloch Doc)." The films are a part of the https://www.cinemastlouis.org/sliff/film-listings (St. Louis International Film Festival) and can be seen online. "Target: St. Louis Vol I," tells the story of the U.S. government's secret Cold War-era dispersal of aerosolized radioactive material in Pruitt-Igoe and other North City locations with majority Black populations to gauge their effects. "The Kinloch Doc" explores how two major political decisions — a city merger and the Lambert Airport buyout — essentially destroyed the community. [01:08] Background https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1902520/ (Damien D. Smith) [02:30] "Target: St. Louis Vol I" Overview [04:08] Government and Company Complicity [11:44] The St. Louis Black Community [14:22] Where to get more information and Future Volumes? [22:38] Background http://thekinlochdoc.com/kinloch-crew (Alana Marie) [23:35] Writing and Storytelling [24:11] Overview of "The Kinloch Doc" [27:22] The Airport Buyout [29:57] The Strength of Community [31:02] From Social Work to Film Director [34:48] The Dissolution of the Kinloch Schools [39:08] Kinloch Today [41:55] Will there be more films from you? This is Season 4! For more episodes, go to https://stlintune.com/ (stlintune.com) #film #SLIFF #director #stlouis #movies #filmfestival #PruittIgoe #Kinloch #airport #radiation #radioactivematerial #cinemastlouis #damiendsmith #alanamarie #education #schooldistrict #chemicalcompanies

Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki's most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture's role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki's life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki's most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture's role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki's life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki's most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture's role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki's life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art

Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki's most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture's role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki's life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/architecture

Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki's most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture's role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki's life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Sandfuture (MIT Press, 2021) is a book about the life of the architect Minoru Yamasaki (1912–1986), who remains on the margins of history despite the enormous influence of his work on American architecture and society. That Yamasaki's most famous projects—the Pruitt-Igoe apartments in St. Louis and the original World Trade Center in New York—were both destroyed on national television, thirty years apart, makes his relative obscurity all the more remarkable. Sandfuture is also a book about an artist interrogating art and architecture's role in culture as New York changes drastically after a decade bracketed by terrorism and natural disaster. From the central thread of Yamasaki's life, Sandfuture spirals outward to include reflections on a wide range of subjects, from the figure of the architect in literature and film and transformations in the contemporary art market to the perils of sick buildings and the broader social and political implications of how, and for whom, cities are built. The result is at once sophisticated in its understanding of material culture and novelistic in its telling of a good story. Bryan Toepfer, AIA, NCARB, CAPM is the Principal Architect for TOEPFER Architecture, PLLC, an Architecture firm specializing in Residential Architecture and Virtual Reality. He has authored two books, “Contractors CANNOT Build Your House,” and “Six Months Now, ARCHITECT for Life.” He is an Assistant Professor at Alfred State College and has served as the Director of Education for the AIA Rochester Board of Directors. Always eager to help anyone understand the world of Architecture, he can be reached by sending an email to btoepfer@toepferarchitecture. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/asian-american-studies

Artist and author Justin Beal shares the career and legacy of influential yet often forgotten architect Minoru Yamasaki. Yamasaki's human-centered architectural design was often overrun by economics, politics, and capitalist symbolism, leading to his two most well-known developments, the Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis and the World Trade Center in New York City, to … Continue reading Sandfuture: Exploring Minoru Yamasaki, Lost Humanist Architecture, and the Rise of Sick Buildings and Sick People →

"It's so depressing talking to these people." In this episode of RADICALIZING REDNECKS WITH BIG TIM MURPHY and Shaan, they are joined again by Kyle Waare and they talk about Tim's twitch debate with right wingers and capitalists, the 1973 military records fire, CIA fake polio vax drives, the Pruitt-Igoe housing projects of St. Louis, Joe Manchin and the myth of the moderate Dems, and much more!

What would it mean to live out a fair and better future, right now? Join artist Jen Liu and scholar Candace Borders as they explore the complex role that women have played in labor rights and activism in both the US and China. This episode digs into the history of St. Louis's Pruitt-Igoe housing project and the African American women who lived there, organized, and performed everyday acts of resistance. Our guests unpack the radical idea of building community and the immense possibilities that open up when we think together beyond our current circumstances.Jen Liu is a visual artist based in New York and Vermont, working in video/animation, genetically engineered biomaterial, choreography, and painting to explore national identities, gendered economies, neoliberal industrial labor, and the re-motivating of archival artifacts.  She is a 2019 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, 2018 LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant, and 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video.  She has presented work at The Whitney Museum, MoMA, and The New Museum, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC; Royal Academy and ICA, London; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunsthalle Wien; Aspen Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MUSAC, León; UCCA and A07 @ 798, Beijing; Times Museum Guangzhou, and the 2014 Shanghai Biennale and 2019 Singapore Biennale.Candace Borders is a PhD student at Yale University in the departments of American Studies and African American Studies. She also works as a Wurtele Gallery Teacher at the Yale University Art Gallery. Currently, her dissertation focuses on the experiences of African American women who grew up in St. Louis, Missouri's Pruitt-Igoe housing project. Through the use of oral history and Black feminist methods, the work accesses Black women's everyday experiences at the nexus of race, gender, class, and public assistance in the mid-20th century. More broadly, Candace is interested in Black Feminist theory, the politics of knowledge production, public humanities, and the intersections between race and architecture. Prior to starting her graduate studies, Candace was the PNC Arts Alive Fellow at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis.-As a major component of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis's exhibition Stories of Resistance, Radio Resistance assembles the voices of intersecting local and global agents of change. Artists featured in the exhibition are paired with figures from the past, present, and future of St. Louis, coming together to transmit messages of dissent. Eleven episodes will be released over the course of the exhibition, amplifying shared struggles, collective dreams, and models of individual and group action. Using a historically rebellious medium, Radio Resistance broadcasts social narratives of defiance and hope.Selections of Radio Resistance will be broadcast on St. Louis on the Air, the noontime talk program hosted by Sarah Fenske on St. Louis Public Radio. Full episodes will be released biweekly in a listening station at CAM, and on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and Stitcher. A publication celebrating Stories of Resistance, featuring episode highlights, will be released later this year.

Welcome to the Instant Trivia podcast episode 118, where we ask the best trivia on the Internet. Round 1. Category: Let's Get Married! 1: There wasn't a traditional song for this pair to dance to at the reception until the following was written:"You filled my life /With so much joy /As I watched you grow /From that little boy". the groom and his mom. 2: It was once believed evil spirits hovered at this part of the house, so the bride is carried over it. the threshold. 3: A cap named for this Capulet adorns many a blushing bride. Juliet. 4: This queen wore English lace on her 1840 bridal gown to give the British lace-making industry a boost. Victoria. 5: Instead of throwing rice, some guests release these insects--painted ladies, for example. butterflies. Round 2. Category: Bush 1: ...who was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. George Herbert Walker Bush. 2: ...born in Midland, Texas and earned a masters degree at the University of Texas. Laura Bush. 3: ...who was the first Republican reelected governor in his state's history. Jeb Bush. 4: ...who wrote a bestselling nonfiction book in 1990. Barbara Bush. 5: ...who served as an artillery captain in World War I. Prescott Bush. Round 3. Category: Work Time 1: Specific term for an investigator of insurance claims. Claims adjuster. 2: In L.A. County jails, "inmate worker" has replaced this term that's a synonym for "reliable". trusty. 3: A carnival worker whom customers try to dunk, or a Larry Harmon clown. Bozo. 4: Type of 'banker" who buys issues of stock and resells them to the public. Investment banker. 5: Business of the Loizeaux family, known for their work on the Pruitt-Igoe housing project and the Sands Hotel. Demolition. Round 4. Category: It Borders China 1: In area, it's the largest country that borders China. Russia. 2: 2 of the 5 "stan"s that border China. (2 of) Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. 3: Of the nations that border China, it has the largest population. India. 4: The one country that borders both China and the Yellow Sea. North Korea. 5: One of the 2 monarchies that border China. Nepal (or Bhutan). Round 5. Category: The Liquor Cabinet 1: This corn whiskey was named for a county in Kentucky. bourbon. 2: Gin and grenadine are the main ingredients in this color lady; the same color squirrel is a different mix. a pink lady. 3: When called this, quinine water pairs up with gin in a famous drink. tonic. 4: This top brandy from the Charente region of France is a blend that's distilled twice. cognac. 5: Sercial is a madeira used as an aperitif and bual is one used as this type. digestif (after-dinner accepted). Thanks for listening! Come back tomorrow for more exciting trivia!

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BE SURE TO SEE THE SHOWNOTES AND LISTEN TO THIS EPISODE HERE Eve Picker: [00:00:13] Hi there, thanks for joining me on Rethink Real Estate, I'm on a mission to make real estate work for everyone. Real estate can help to solve climate change, can house people affordably, can create beautiful streetscapes, unify neighborhoods and enliven cities. So I'm on a journey to find the most creative thinkers and doers out there. I'm not the only one who wants to rethink real estate. You can learn more about me at EvePicker.com or you can find me at SmallChange.co. A real estate crowdfunding platform with impact real estate investment opportunities open for investment right now. And if you want to support this podcast, join me at Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate, where there are special opportunities for my friends and followers.   Eve: [00:01:17] Today, I'm talking with Kevin Cavenaugh, who may very well be my favorite developer. Kevin has carved out a special place for himself in the Portland real estate world. His buildings are memorable escapes from the mocha colored vinyl covered buildings he so disdains. Forgotten buildings in forgotten neighborhoods, buildings that you and I would not look twice at, are transformed into little creative hubs and bright spots in streetscapes in Kevin's hands. And now he's bringing heart into his practice as well, setting himself the challenge of incorporating homeless housing or anti-gentrification into his projects. All with no subsidy and all providing a return to his investors. I'm going to learn a lot from Kevin and so might you. So listen in. If you'd like to join me in my quest to rethink real estate, there are two simple things you can do. Share this podcast or go to Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate to learn about special opportunities for my friends and followers and subscribe if you can.   Eve: [00:02:45] Hello, Kevin, I'm just really thrilled to have you on my show.   Kevin Cavenaugh: [00:02:49] Howdy, Eve. Thanks for having me.   Eve: [00:02:52] You are one bad ass developer. I'm really not sure where to start with this interview. I've seen so many tantalizing quotes by you, so I figured I'd start with those. Is that Okay?   Kevin: [00:03:05] Okay. Yeah, of course.   Eve: [00:03:07] The one I probably love the most is, "I do a bunch of weird stuff." So what is it you do?   Kevin: [00:03:14] Oh. Boy, that's a big essay question. So I guess for your audience, I'm educated as an architect and I became a developer only because I knew nobody would hire me to do that weird stuff. Well, and when I was working for an architecture firm, I was doing really boring stuff. And I realized early on that I was being hired at phase one as the architect, and the interesting thing is phase zero. Like I wasn't deciding what the 'it' was supposed to be, what the program is. Here's a piece of land, who gets to decide whether it's going to be an apartment building or retail or mixed use. I wanted to decide that. That's why I became a developer. Once that I realized that the developers weren't necessarily smarter than me. They just control the money. And once I realized that it wasn't their money, they just grabbed the important seat at the table. They asked around. I took some of the developers to coffee. I'm like, hey, is there any reason I can't grab that seat myself? And they all said, no, you know, go for it. So that allows me to build my weird stuff. So I design and then develop and own and manage projects that I always wished somebody would hire me to do. If that makes sense.   Eve: [00:04:30] Yeah, it does. So there's another quote which probably comes right off that. "I'm tired of mocha colored vinyl window boring. I can't change the fact that the streets are gray and the sky is gray, but the buildings?" So is this your mission statement? How does this play out in your world?   Kevin: [00:04:48] Well, I've got like a dozen mission statements. It's an ever evolving mission statement. But Portland, Oregon, the skies are gray and the city's gray and it's that's great. I can't change that. But I rail against institutional money. I never, I run away from institutional money. I run away from national franchise tenants. I want to be quirky and local. And actually, I want to prove that being quirky and local and colorful and not doing copy and paste buildings is just as profitable, if not more profitable than the mocha colored vinyl windows buildings. I don't put vinyl in anything. As a trained architect, the design comes first.   Eve: [00:05:29] Vinyl is pretty offensive.   Kevin: [00:05:31] It's so bad, it's so bad. And it's cheap and it makes sense in a pro forma if I'm going to sell the building. But because I don't sell anything, I can do deeper dives on what I put in the building. I can paint The Fair-haired Dumbbell. That paint job on that building...   Eve: [00:05:47] Is insane.   Kevin: [00:05:47] Cost a half a million dollars. It's the most expensive paint in the world. And I'm never going to sell the building, so I can make different decisions and I can add to the city skyline in a way that institutional money would never consider.   Eve: [00:06:02] Yes, and that is impactful, isn't it?   Kevin: [00:06:04] I think so. I hope so.   Eve: [00:06:06] So there's a final quote I'm going to read to you.  "I just realized that I don't have to play by the rules. It's that simple." How does that play out?   Kevin: [00:06:17] Real estate development is so easy and straightforward and simple. It's almost, I'm never the brightest person in the room. The only thing I am is the person with the largest risk appetite, in the room. So once I took Francesca Gambetti to coffee and she was a client of ours when I was in the, at the architecture firm and I said, hey, how do you, what is a pro forma, how do you do what you do. And she laughs. She's like, you're already doing it, Kevin. You just bought a house in my neighborhood and I saw that you're fixing it up and you're selling. That's development. That's real estate development. You just have to shift the decimal point over. And instead of doing your house, do a little mixed use building. Or it could be an adaptive reuse. It could be new construction, but A plus B equals C, um, you know, hard cost plus soft cost plus land cost, you know, that's that's your total all in cost. And as long as when you're done, throw a cap rate on it, it's worth more than what it costs. You're a successful real estate developer. So then my first question is like, that's great, Francesca, what the hell's a cap rate? So like, I was starting at zero. And after twenty minutes, I knew I knew everything. And then she emailed me her pro forma, which is the pro forma that I still use today, and all of my pro forma are up on my website open source. So people are downloading my pro forma from my products every day because if she gave it to me, I can pay it forward. It's not complicated. It's simple. And when people try to make it complicated, they mystify it in a way that keeps the layperson out of real estate development.   Eve: [00:07:51] Absolutely.   Kevin: [00:07:52] Which makes American cities dumber and uglier and more mocha colored.   Eve: [00:07:56] And doesn't spread the wealth around. That's what I deal with every day in crowdfunding. The fact that people don't understand the special language that's been developed for the developing incrowd, that just doesn't have to be that complicated.   Kevin: [00:08:07] It's not necessary.   Eve: [00:08:08] Yeah.   Kevin: [00:08:09] It's so dumb. It's just it's you buying the neighbor house across the street that's dilapidated and fixing it up and selling it. That's real estate development. What you and I do, Eve, is no different. It just takes a little longer and it's C for commercial instead of R for residential. But...   Eve: [00:08:25] That's right, right.   Kevin: [00:08:26] Everything else is the same.   Eve: [00:08:27] Yeah. I can't wait to download one of the pro formas. I'll probably use it.   Kevin: [00:08:32] You're welcome to it.   Eve: [00:08:33] There's nothing worse than getting a pro forma that's like 20 pages, 20 tabs, an Excel spreadsheet and you've got to work your way for every number, trying to figure out where it came from.  That's just too complicated for me.   Kevin: [00:08:43] Not necessarily. Mine's one page. And the funny thing is, I go to a bank, with that pro forma that that you're about to download, and it's one page and I show it to a bank and I can get a 10 million dollar loan. So complex isn't required. Banks aren't demanding it. It's just part of that language that we feel we have to create to keep the outsider out, which is just not helpful.   Eve: [00:09:07] Not at all. So going back to your quote about the mocha colored vinyl window boring, many of your projects have really both striking facades and pretty far out names like Atomic Orchard Experiment, Burnside Rocket, or Dr. Jim's Still Really Nice, which I admit is my very favorite building.   Kevin: [00:09:29] That's where I live. That's that's what I'm talking to you from, right now.   Eve: [00:09:31] Oh, that's a beautiful building.   Kevin: [00:09:32] There are stories behind all the names. I don't know that I want to tell you the stories, though.   Eve: [00:09:35] Oh, well, what are you trying to accomplish with your buildings? Let's talk about that.   Kevin: [00:09:41] They are all experiments. They're all just things that I want to do and I'm curious about professionally and sadly probably like you, it all is interesting. It all like when someone brings an opportunity to me, I look at it. I have such a hard time saying, no, I'm an actual addict. Like I, I can see fun in almost any project. And I go to my coworkers, like should we do this and they're just as bad as me. They've never said no, no boss, don't buy that property, don't do that building. We are all in all the time. The names are funny. It's just that if I told you that the names are so deeply personal to me and I found in the past that when I explain to somebody what a name means, they're almost disappointed because the story that's in their head or what they've kind of thought of is much more compelling than what I just told them.   Eve: [00:10:32] I have no preconceptions about who Dr. Jim is.   Kevin: [00:10:36] Dr. Jim Saunders is an eye doctor.   Eve: [00:10:39] Oh.   Kevin: [00:10:40] And he sold me a warehouse over on Southeast Ankeny Street. And I got really creative financing and I borrowed hard money for hit the down payment. He carried a contract so I bought his building without any money of mine. And as soon as I closed on it, a hard money guy reached out to Dr. Jim Saunders and said, hey, Cavenaugh has no skin in the game. I want to replace him. I want, the buildings worth more than you sold it for. I'll pay you more.   Eve: [00:11:06] Oh. Eww.   Kevin: [00:11:07] A just as little end around. And I had bounced a check, my first payment to Dr. Jim bounced. So like, I was in a really vulnerable place. And Dr. Jim called me up and he's like, Hey Kevin, like what are you doing. Like I like you. You've been, we've been talking for a year. We're like, you put this together and like I believe in your vision. Don't like, I don't want to get calls like this. So he could have made more money. And he said he had other offers for more than than what I was paying him as well. And he kept honoring his handshake to me.   Eve: [00:11:41] He is really nice.   Kevin: [00:11:44] Yeah, he's really nice. So ,that building, that project was called Dr. Jim's Really Nice. Now, in the recession, I had to sell that warehouse because the bank put a gun to my head and I lost everything in the recession.   Eve: [00:11:57] Awww.   Kevin: [00:11:57] But lo and behold, eight years later, I bought another warehouse, a hundred year old warehouse, one more neighborhood over. The exact same program, that exact same phase zero that I talked about, I was doing. And when thinking of a name, I just I wanted to still honor Jim Saunders. So I named it Dr. Jim's Still Really Nice. That's the LLC of the building and it's a single asset, LLC. Dr. Jim doesn't know this building is named after him. I haven't I haven't talked to him in a while, probably should mention to him that I've given him props.   Eve: [00:12:31] Well, I think that's a great story behind the name. So what are you trying to like, they're all experiments, but I know I've been to some of these and I love your buildings.   Kevin: [00:12:43] Thank you.   Eve: [00:12:43] And I can see that they are, you know, experiments with a clear purpose. There's got to be more than just I'm going to experiment with this building.   Kevin: [00:12:52] Yeah. Yeah. So there's a couple different layers to that. When I first started, it was about left brain, right brain. Even before that, I think most buildings have too many cooks in the kitchen. I think buildings that we're all drawn to and we all see have one dominant voice, one dominant vision who is in charge. And and it's not a committee of designers or a community.   Eve: [00:13:18] Not a democracy, right.   Kevin: [00:13:19] It not a democracy. No. And I say that to my investors and I say that to other folks. I don't collaborate. I don't have any interest in collaborating. If you want to if you want to hop into my 15 passenger van, that's great. Just you got to sit in the back. I'm going to I'm driving this van. I'm not sharing the steering wheel with anybody. And you end up getting these hopefully iconic, singular, visionary buildings that I don't need to explain them to you. You as the observer or participant or tenant. You just get it. And you don't know how I got there. You don't care. You're just really happy to be in the building. That's the goal.   Eve: [00:13:52] Right.   Kevin: [00:13:52] When I started, the first layer was left brain, right brain. So a product always starts with the design. And then I instantly toggle over and do a pro forma. And if the numbers don't work, then I crumple up the paper and start with a new design. So it has to be design first and then the numbers. But the numbers can't be ignored because there's a lot of architects who become developers and just done one project and it's an ode to their ego and then they can't do it again because all of their money is sunk in the building. It's not really a successful financial deal in the bank. The bank says next time, like, nah, I'm not that interested in giving you the million dollars because that wasn't very pretty the first time. So the numbers have to work. But the vast majority of our peers, Eve, it's only the numbers. So I view those mocha colored vinyl windowed buildings. I call them either Greavy buildings or I call them pro formas with windows. And I look at them. I think I know exactly what the numbers look like in that, because it's just a pro forma that the developer is only tasking the architect to do the bare minimum to reach this ROI, to reach this return, to reach to reach this number.   Eve: [00:15:04] Right.   Kevin: [00:15:05] And the funny thing is. None of our buildings are maxed out. So if a developer says, hey, I know I can put 100 apartments on this site, so they hire the architect and the architect has no option of building designing 90 units. When a 90 unit building might be significantly better to the city skyline, to the  streetscape.   Eve: [00:15:23] Right.   Kevin: [00:15:23] There are no dog units with their 90 units, but if there's 100, there's going to be some dog units. But the developer doesn't care. He or she just wants the 100 units. So toggling back and forth between my left and right brain is all about making sure the design is always front and center and it just has to make enough money. And then I pull the trigger, then I go for it. The tricky thing is that the last layer to that equation, what makes a building compelling or not, is about social repair. So now it's more about head and heart instead of just staying left brain, right brain all on my head. Now I look around the city and I see homelessness or I'm doing a project that supports social workers. I'm doing a project that supports 18 year olds aging out of foster care, which have a higher proclivity to become homeless. I tried to do a reverse gentrification project, which isn't actually a thing, but in the office we call it gentlefication. So how do I how do I develop in a neighborhood that's turning without displacing anyone who's already there? So these are the more social repair elements that I'm trying to lean into, which is super fun, but hard.   Eve: [00:16:33] Very difficult. Yeah. Oh, that's really interesting. So these projects I mean, I've seen you do some pretty remarkable projects, which includes homeless housing and in neighborhoods that no one else have looked at really before. Are they making you money? Are they making your investors money?   Kevin: [00:16:53] They are. Jolene's First Cousin is my first attempt to tackle homelessness, and it's up and running. It opened last summer and we cut Q4 distribution checks last month.   Eve: [00:17:10] That's amazing.   Kevin: [00:17:10] And it made five percent from the crowdfunded equity. It made, I think seven percent for the long term tranche of investors. I raised three hundred grand of crowdfunding and three hundred grand of accredited investors. And there's not one dollar of public money in that project. And I'm super proud of that.   Eve: [00:17:29] Amazing. That's amazing.   Kevin: [00:17:31] It's fun.   Eve: [00:17:32] Congratulations.   Kevin: [00:17:33] Thanks. And the performance online, go ahead and take it. And I'm I'm breaking ground on Jolene's Second Cousin and I'm buying the land for Jolene's Third Cousin. So I'm just going to pepper, these nestle into neighborhoods. I don't like Pruitt-Igoe or Cabrini-Green. I don't like when thousands of poor folk are crammed into a building. That's a great way to not break the cycle of poverty from generation to generation. So each Jolene's Cousin only has like a roughly a 12 bed SRO plugged into it, like a 12 bedroom apartment, like a flophouse, and the tenants pay rent. It's just that it's super, super, super cheap rent. And there's usually a subsidy for that rent. That's not my, I'm not involved in that. I just provide the ...   Eve: [00:18:22] What's the what's the rest of the building. How do you make that pro forma work?   Kevin: [00:18:26] It's internally subsidized. So, Jolene's First Cousin has three retail spaces. It has a hair salon, a coffee shop and a bakery. It has two market rate apartments that are very expensive and it has the SRO, the homeless housing unit. So when all six rents are added together, it's enough to spin off a profit. And the other fun thing is, it's allowed by a right. So I didn't have to do any special entitlements to get it. In Portland, you have to go and present to the neighborhood association on any project. Because it's a law by  right, you don't have to do what they ask, but you just have to be a good neighbor and be transparent. This is the first neighborhood association I thought I was going to go in front of where I was going to get rotten tomatoes thrown at me. Because here I am, I'm bringing homeless in. I mean, there's a single family house right next door and I presented it and I kind of stood back and waited and there were no questions and there were no tomatoes. And then I asked a question, how do you guys, what's your take on this? Like, how do you feel about bringing homeless into your neighborhood? And then a woman in front said, well, once they lived there, they're not homeless anymore.   Eve: [00:19:34] And they're probably already in the neighborhood, so giving them a home...   Kevin: [00:19:38] Exactly. And then another neighbor said, with 11 bedrooms, like, we're going to know their names. It's going to be like Suzy and Jim and Frank. And if it was 100 units, we probably would be pushing back Kevin. But there's 11. So they were in total support. And they're it's been wonderful.   Eve: [00:19:56] That is wonderful. And, you know, I think it's vastly different than it might have been five years ago. I think homelessness and affordable housing is now on everyone's mind. And it's a real shift. But, you know, what about the two market rate units? How do they feel about the SRO unit right next to them?   Kevin: [00:20:13] That's a great question, because there was so much speculation in the papers, on blogs, like like Cavenaugh's an idiot. Like no one's going to rent those. Nobody's going to want to, like, be paying 1,800 bucks a month living like next to guys who used to be living in sleeping bags out in front on the sidewalk. And my response was like, well we'll see, you know, like all of my products are all experiments. It's a question. There's only two units. My guess is there are two people who will love being part of this. And lo and behold, they rented out in about 20 minutes.   Eve: [00:20:51] Oh, that's fantastic, Kevin.   Kevin: [00:20:52] There's a huge backup. Yeah. Backup for people who want them when they become vacant again.   Eve: [00:20:57] Are you sure you won't partner with anyone? Because I want to do a project with you.   Kevin: [00:21:03] Just take it...   Eve: [00:21:03] I would like to be in the passenger seat, not the back seat.    Kevin: [00:21:07] You're welcome to be in the passenger seat. I do. I do talk about that. I said it's not a pretty ride. It's usually scary, but I always arrives safely at the destination.   Eve: [00:21:17] Oh, it really sounds wonderful, sounds wonderful. Okay.   Kevin: [00:21:21] But you know exactly how to do this, Eve. You should just take my plans and my pro forma and build it in Pittsburgh.   Eve: [00:21:27] Yeah, I should. I've been thinking about it for a long time, actually. I have one in mind, but it's a lot of fun what you're doing and really impactful. So, you did mention crowdfunding. So, you know, I first became aware of your work when I started to build Small Change, my crowdfunding platform. And you had launched a Regulation A offering, which, if I'm remembering properly, may have been the first of its kind for one of your buildings in Portland.   Kevin: [00:21:53] Yes.   Eve: [00:21:53] The Fair-Haired Dumbbell. And what was that about? Why did you do that?   Kevin: [00:21:58] Good question. I don't, I didn't realize it was the first until we were done and then my lawyer, I chose this lawyer who was recommended to me because he was an expert in crowdfunding, all the hoops that he had to jump through. And when we were done, it took me a year and a half to to get through the SEC regulatory framework. He, on the phone is like, oh, my God, congratulations. We're so excited. This is our first one. Wait, what? Like you're the expert? What do you mean? Like this is your first one. He's like, no, this is everybody's first one. So,   Eve: [00:22:31] Wow.   Kevin: [00:22:32] It was a big deal. It was the the first new construction. I think there was one prior to me, construction that the Fundrise brothers put together.   Eve: [00:22:40] Yes. I remember seeing a photograph of the paperwork they had to submit, which was about three feet high.   Kevin: [00:22:47] Yeah. Yeah.   Eve: [00:22:48] And just, um, just for listeners who are not aware, Regulation A is an offering that lets anyone over the age of 18 invest. It requires really writing almost like a mini IPO and submitting it to the SEC and getting their approval before you can launch and raise money. Right?   Kevin: [00:23:05] Exactly right. Yeah. And it's it's a lot it's a it's a heavy lift.   Eve: [00:23:10] It's really not worth it for, you know, anything much under five or ten million dollar raise. It's too much work. Right?   Kevin: [00:23:16] I raised one and a half million dollars.   Eve: [00:23:18] Oh!   Kevin: [00:23:19] I don't know that I would do it again for that amount, but I want to do it again because the idea of it is so profound to me and I know to you too, Eve. So, I'm legally not allowed to talk to my mailman or my kid's teacher about a very lucrative development deal that I'm working on. They're not accredited investors. They're not already wealthy.   Eve: [00:23:44] Right.   Kevin: [00:23:45] And part of the social repair that I'm working on is the wealth gap in America. It's broken, it's distorted. It's not sustainable in the long term. It's not sustainable today. So when I decided to dip my toe into the crowd investing pool, it was purely to allow mechanics and school teachers and librarians to own a 17, 18, 20 percent, 10 year IRR building with me. Right. Internal rate of return, a really lucrative investment. Like my wife has a 401k and she puts her money in a mutual fund. And that's all she, the options to her are different than the options to somebody who's on the 17th fairway of a country club golf course talking to his buddy about deals.   Eve: [00:24:32] And many people don't have a 401K at all. They've just got the bank with less than zero percent interest.   Kevin: [00:24:38] Exactly. So it was important to me, just ethically and profoundly to do this, even though it was, it would have been so much easier to just tap some rich guy's shoulder and say, hey, I need 1.5 million, that's the gap to get this product off the ground. Instead, I took a year and a half and people for as little as 3,000 dollars now own the Dumbbell with me. And they've been getting paid from day one, eight percent.   Eve: [00:25:01] That's fantastic. So, yes, since then, regulation crowdfunding has come into play, which is, would be much easier for you. But I have yet to convince you, yet.   Kevin: [00:25:11] Well, I've done two other crowdfunding vehicles on the homeless housing project. I did raise 300,000 dollars that way...   Eve: [00:25:19] Through a state vehicle, right?   Kevin: [00:25:21] Yeah. State only. And that was unaccredited. And then on my Tree Farm Building. I like that one for your listeners...   Eve: [00:25:29] What is a Tree Farm Building?   Kevin: [00:25:32] You got to go my website and see it, but it's like it's self-explanatory.   Eve: [00:25:36] Okay.   Kevin: [00:25:38] But I raised two million dollars that way, but they're more accredited and I don't want to holler from the rooftops about that. But it is legally, it's another form of crowdfunding.   Eve: [00:25:48] Well, we just had a breakthrough on our site. We raised almost 900,000 dollars through Reg CF.   Kevin: [00:25:54] Wow.   Eve: [00:25:55] For a project in the Berkshires. And the issuer was the most pleased when the local librarian made an investment.   Kevin: [00:26:04] Yeah.   Eve: [00:26:05] He was just delighted. And I mean, that's really the point, right? That's why I do it.   Kevin: [00:26:11] It democratizes real estate investing.   Eve: [00:26:13] Yeah.   Kevin: [00:26:14] I understand why there are fences up that keep the shitty developers from bilking Mrs. McGillicuddy from her retirement. Like there should be there should be rules and laws against that from happening. So so lowering the bar for me to talk to Mrs. McGillicuddy can be scary, but it's still a pretty damn high bar. I just like that I can jump through some hoops and you can jump through some hoops and Mrs. McGillicuddy can invest in a building.   Eve: [00:26:43] Well, you can actually, under Reg CF talk to her, but you can't tell her the terms of the offering. That's got to be on a registered funding platform. But you can say to her, we're doing a project and it's around the corner from you and you can invest. If you go to this funding portal, right?   Kevin: [00:27:00] Yeah, yeah, I love it.   Eve: [00:27:02] Yes, I love it, too. Okay, so so you've gone from getting your architecture degree, to joining the Peace Corps, to far out real estate developer. And told us a little bit about how you did that. And what's the biggest challenge you've had?   Kevin: [00:27:22] Mmm, well I lost everything in the 2008-10 recession. That was difficult, but, it I mean, on paper, that should be the most challenging. I lost everything. On a Thursday, I had a net worth of four million dollars. And then a month later on this day, on a Thursday, I was a million dollars underwater. And that should be bad. That should be difficult. My buddy claims that I have HSP, which stands for hyper serotonin production, which isn't a thing, but I didn't even know at the time that I was getting punched in the face by the economy. Every day I would wake up like, Okay, I guess this is the puzzle and I like puzzles and I know you like puzzles and just everything.   Eve: [00:28:14] Yes.   Kevin: [00:28:14] All of our products are puzzles and it's just another puzzle. And I got to figure this one out. So I should have probably been more devastated by it, but I was too dumb to know that I was, you know, in a hole.   Eve: [00:28:24] Oh, I don't know that that's forward looking, right?   Kevin: [00:28:28] Yeah, I think that my internal wiring is probably such that I, like my wife calls me dangerously optimistic. So there are probably things where I should have been more concerned or realized that I was on the ground, but I just didn't even realize it.   Eve: [00:28:45] Wow. So, you allowed to talk about your next project. What are you working on now?   Kevin: [00:28:50] Sure. This is a fun one, so I never want to sell anything.   Eve: [00:28:55] Why is that? Is it because you love your buildings too much?   Kevin: [00:28:58] Yeah, it's like selling my progeny. Like, I spent so many, like I lie in bed for I go to sleep and I'm like building. I close my eyes. I'm building the building in my head and by the time it's drawn, I've already built it 100 times in my head. It's my baby. Like in the 2008 recession, now a lawyer owns the Burnside Rocket. And I did, it's LEED Platinum. There's a geothermal open loop heat pump under the under the building, although all the water is, you know, I have tapped into a 10,000 year old aquifer for all the potable water. It's it's a crazy fun experiment. And now some like, you know, kind of a knuckleheaded lawyer who doesn't care about that, owns that. It's just an asset. And he views it differently than I view it. So I don't want to sell. Was it Monday, my most recent project? I'm buying a house on a big lot out in what's called The Numbers of Portland. It's a pretty trashy area. It's no sidewalks, deeper poverty, houses without foundations, double wide trailers. It's it's it's rough, but it's also where all the young families are moving because they can buy there. Because the house prices have just gone through the roof here. So we all understand that in five, 10, 20 years, it's going to be a place you want to be. It just not a place, now. You're on the bleeding edge of gentrification. So, I'm actually going to buy this house for 265,000 dollars. And on Zillow is worth 100,000 more than that. It wasn't on the market. Someone just called me up and I'm going to split the house off and probably give it to someone else to fix up and keep that. I don't need the profit from that. Someone else can go get the profit, but all they want is the land and the rest of the land, the, a guy named Eli Spevak is a developer in town. And he does forward thinking policy. And Portland has some wonderful density promoting policy and Eli's work to change all the zoning for every single family house you can now build fourplex on. You're allowed by right to build a fourplex on it, in the entire, everywhere in the city. And this lot is such that I could build 12 houses if I wanted to. I don't want to own rentals out in The Numbers. So what I'm going to do is I'll fit seven. There will be seven two bedroom cottages, two story, two bedroom. Little front porches, you'll walk down a path and they'll spin off to the left and right. And these will cost 200,000 dollars each but be worth 300,000 dollars each. And I will sell them off for two hundred thousand dollars to first time homebuyers who qualify. You have to be poor, whether it's a perfect partner with Habitat for Humanity or some agency to identify who the buyers are. But held against the deed of the house, if you buy this for 200 and that's worth 300, that's great, but has to always be owner occupied. And if and when you sell it, you have to sell it at two thirds of the appraised value. So it has to always be affordable. So if you sell it for, if it's worth 600,000 grand in a decade...   Eve: [00:32:03] How are you going to track them?   Kevin: [00:32:06] Just put a covenant against the deed on everything.   Eve: [00:32:08] Wow, and are you going to break even on this?   Kevin: [00:32:12] I'll probably make 10 grand per house, so I'll make 60 grand and it's not enough to, you know...  Yeah, I'll break even. It's it's a deep experiment. The other projects, I've got 21 other projects and since I keep them ,they all spin off a little bit of money to me. But you know, it's been a decade since the last recession and now I've got those 21 projects, 14 of them are spinning off money and I now make enough passably that I don't need each project to work.   Eve: [00:32:48] Yeah, yeah.   Kevin: [00:32:48] If it breaking even is is a fine. Not everyone do I want to do that with, but...   Eve: [00:32:54] Interesting.   Kevin: [00:32:55] This feels fun. I'm also this week I'm putting an offer in on Jolene's Third Cousin, so I'm keeping that going. So there's, there's no lack of fun stuff. I'm breaking ground on an apartment building where 20 percent of the lofts are being held aside at 60 percent of median family income for I mentioned before, 18 year old aging out of the foster care system in a really great neighborhood. Most see their options for living are way out in The Numbers, not near jobs, not in your transit, not near opportunities. So that'll be fun.   Eve: [00:33:30] It all sounds fun. And I'm really jealous.   Kevin: [00:33:33] I just I'm just I virtue signal like nobody else, you know, that's all I'm doing.   Eve: [00:33:39] So I'm going to ask you one wrap up question and that's what's your big, hairy, audacious goal?   Eve: [00:33:46] Oh, that's a that's a great question, because I just spent the month of January vacationing and usually the big, hairy, audacious goals happen when you're not in your 9:00 to 5:00. You have to step outside of your life to to have them kind of allow your your brain to accept them. So, my youngest of three is a junior in high school, and in a year and a half, I'll be an empty nester. And I have been courted by lots of other cities. Cincinnati, Honolulu, Denver. And I've always said no because I can't do what I do it unless I am embedded in that city. I do a lot of micro restaurants. I find that food is a great inroad into a neighborhood. It's a great, micro restaurants are like a a variation of the food cart. I understand the business model. I need to live in Pittsburgh to know who the sous chefs are, looking for a space that can afford 25 or 30 grand if they call their uncle and their neighbor and they can cobble together some money and open up a restaurant. I'll never know that person without living in Pittsburgh.   Eve: [00:34:54] Mm hmm.   Kevin: [00:34:55] So in a year and a half, I know that I'm start taking the show on the road. And to kind of continue the the virtue signaling theme. I am a fifty three year old white man. And the vast, you know, this Eve, good God, the vast majority of developers look like me. Maybe 10 years older, maybe 50 pounds fatter, and it's just it's a caricature.   Eve: [00:35:21] Mm hmm.   Kevin: [00:35:21] But it's true. And there's no license you need to be a developer. There's no special credentials or, you just need to have knowledge and you need to be invited into the room. You need to have access to the 17th fairway, the country club, and that's a broken system. So, as I go into cities like Honolulu or Tucson, I'm thinking of Detroit as well. And I create branches of Guerrilla, and I go and I drop myself in for three months at a time. I want everyone that I hire to eventually run the show. To be native Hawaiian or Latino or African-American, and when I leave, I'm gonna drop the keys off to the company, to the next generation, a developer that looks nothing like me because that doesn't happen to them. When I lost it all, it took me about a minute with my 505 credit score to get a loan for a million dollars for my next project.   Eve: [00:36:20] Mm hmm.   Kevin: [00:36:20] That's not OK. There are people who are much more deserving and I didn't question it at the time. I was just so happy that I can merge back into traffic and start developing again. Now, we all realize that there are people at that same bank getting rejections that were much more deserving of the money. They just didn't look like, I look like I'm good at tennis and golf. I look like, I have the gift of gab. That helped me get that million dollars and my face more than anything else. I had a 505 credit score. That's offensive. That's really, really bad. And only now am I realizing that other people need to just be handed opportunities and they need to have hutzpah and they need to have tenacity, the way that I know you have, Eve. I mean, it's more about personalities than skill. I can teach you skill. I can teach you how to do certain tasks, like just the way that Francesca Gambetti taught me.   Eve: [00:37:15] It's about sticktoitness, too, isn't it?   Kevin: [00:37:18] Oh, my God, yes. If you don't have a risk appetite and when I'm interviewing the next generation in Detroit, I want to know all about you as a person. I don't care about whether you know Excel. I don't care about where you went to school. I need to know what happens when you get punched in the face.   Eve: [00:37:32] Yeah.   Kevin: [00:37:34] And I can't wait ten years from now, to walk away from these branch companies and hand the keys off to the next generation and change the face of what development looks like.   Eve: [00:37:43] That's an amazing goal. And I really appreciate you taking the time to talk with me. I'm totally in love with what you do, Kevin, thank you so much.   Kevin: [00:37:54] Thank you. It's fun.   Eve: [00:38:10] That was Kevin Cavenaugh.   Eve: [00:38:13] Kevin is a rare developer. Left brain, right brain, head and heart all come to bear on his wildly creative buildings, his personal solutions to the physical world. Each building must make an occupant or visit a happy one. Each building must drown out the gray of Portland streets. Each building has a tantalizing name with a back story. And now each building needs to serve impact goals as well. Homeless or affordable housing for a start. All while making a return for investors. Wow.   Eve: [00:39:02] You can find out more about this episode on the show notes page at EvePicker.com, or you can find other episodes you might have missed. Or you can show your support at Patreon.com/rethinkrealestate, where you can learn about special opportunities for my friends and followers. A special thanks to David Allardice for his excellent editing of this podcast and original music. And thanks to you for spending your time with me today. We'll talk again soon. But for now, this is Eve Picker signing off to go make some change.

What makes a city a 'happy city'? Is there a correlation between the wealth of a city and its happiness? According to Charles Montgomery, author of Happy City, happiness is about having meaningful connections with the people who are proximate to us. People often think that things like houses, cars, and toys will make us happy. But whatever happiness we gain from those things is usually short term. Montgomery makes the case that since lasting happiness comes from meaningful human connections, we will tend to be more happy when we live and work in settings that encourage and allow that kind of interaction. A happy city, then is a city that encourages meaningful connections between people. In this episode Eric interviews Sara Joy about Happy City and we consider Montgomery's thesis through a lens of faith.Access more Show Notes with pictures and resources related to this episode.More information about this podcast and helpful church and urbanism resources can be found on The Embedded Church website.Related ResourcesHappy City by Charles MontgomeryEudomainia a Greek word for happiness.Ebenezer Howard is a British urban planner to came up with the concept of Garden Cities which allowed people to live in a natural setting close to the city which was influential on the development of the American suburb.Le Corbusier is the Swiss architect and founder of the International Style of architecture and creator of the Plan Voisin.Plan Voisin is Le Corbusier's plan to replace all the buildings of central Paris with a uniform set of highrise buildings with green space between them. This became a template for low income housing in the United States.Pruitt-Igoe is a low income housing project built in St. Louis in 1954 that was inspired by the Plan Voisin. It was a complete disaster that became internationally famous for its poverty, crime, and racial segregation. It was torn down in mid-1970s.The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces by William Holly WhyteDocumentary: Social Life of Small Urban SpacesJeremiah 29:7 “But seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare.”Zechariah 8:4-5 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.”Find these Key Terms on The Embedded Church website:- Density- Proximity- SprawlShow CreditsHosted and Produced by Eric O. Jacobsen and Sara Joy ProppeEdited by Adam Higgins | Odd Dad Out Voice ProductionsTheme Music by Jacob ShafferArtwork by Lance Kagey | Rotator Creative

Hosts Stefene Russell and Liz Wolfson visit in this special episode with Rev. Hubert Schwartzentruber and Mary Rittenhouse Schwartzentruber. Rev. Schwartzentruber was one of the three co-founders of the community organization JeffVanderLou Inc, which sought to retake the neighborhood from the clutches of blight and work through grassroots efforts and rehabilitation, block by block. Schwarztentruber shares his story of moving to St. Louis in the late 1950s from a rural upbringing in Zurich, Ontario, and starting a Mennonite Mission in the midst of Pruitt Igoe. Topics include Schwartzentruber's embrace of a social justice ministry not simply in St. Louis but across his career which would take him from St. Louis to Germantown PA, where he oversaw a shocking schism which pitted a diverse, LGBTQ friendly congregation versus a socially conservative Mennonite Church. Integral however in the development of Schwartzentruber's impassionned embrace for social justice issues was his work in St. Louis, which stretched from 1957 to 1972 and involved his participation not simply in mission building but community building with the help of legendary neighborhood organizers like Florence Aritha Spotts and Macler Shepard, co-founders with Schwartzentruber of the JeffVanderLou community organization. Guiding the conversation between Stef, Liz and the Schwartzentrubers is a memoir published by Rev. Schwartzentruber, "Jesus in Back Alleys," which is available for purchase from amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Back-Alleys-Hubert-Schwartzentruber/dp/1931038074

A special Platform presenting the 2019 Ethical Society of St. Louis Ethics in Action Award to Joyce Best, lifelong activist for peace, justice, and racial equality. Joyce and her husband, Steve Best, worked together for many years on various social causes, and they raised their children at the Ethical Society of St. Louis. Joyce was an active member of the Committee on Racial Equality and was featured in the recent Missouri History Museum’s exhibit on the civil rights movement in St. Louis. She participated in sit-ins and other interracial actions, including helping to form the Freedom of Residence group in St. Louis. Joyce was active in Mothers and Children Together, which sponsored visits of children with mothers in prison, and in her profession as a librarian, she helped establish a library at Pruitt-Igoe. She is a longtime active member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and with that group she helped establish a children’s peace camp in University City, planning and administrating the camp and working there each day as a volunteer for several summers. She also locally coordinates the national Jane Addams Children’s Book Award, which recognizes children’s books that promote interracial harmony and world peace. Joyce’s Ethical Society work includes serving on the Board of Trustees, and years of active participation in the Sunday School, including as volunteer director; in many committees, notably the Ethical Action Committee, and single-handedly administering the Gilpin Fund utility assistance program; and serving in multiple roles in the Tuesday Women’s Association. She continues to be a strong and persuasive voice of conscience at the Society.

Ask the mayor of any financially-beleaguered midwestern city about the one thing their city could really use to get back on track, and they’ll likely tell you some version of the same thing: a big investment from a big job creator, right in their downtown core. And if they could have two things, they might add this: a little money to clear some of the derelict buildings that have been blighting those same downtown neighborhoods, and create a space for even more investment. St. Louis, MO, just got both of those wishes granted—and by the same fairy godmother. Tech giant Square had committed to create a massive tax-incentive-funded expansion campus in the center of the Gateway City, and co-founder Jack Dorsey’s private partnership, the St. Louis Blight Authority, has committing to $500,000 demolishing 18 vacant structures in the immediate vicinity, in addition to 12 buildings slated for demolition by the city itself. If you’re screaming “What?! Didn’t St. Louis already do this during the era of Pruitt Igoe?” at your screen right now, you’re not alone. And today, we’re bringing in a guest for a very special in-depth episode of Upzoned. Architectural historian, preservationist and essayist Michael Allen recently wrote a viral article for CityLab that dives deep into the complex story behind the new square headquarters, and he continued the conversation with fellow St. Louisan and Upzoned host Kea. Why is St. Louis making the same big tax-incentive gambles in the name of growth that they’ve been doing for generations? How did the North side get so fragile in the first place? And how can the city use policy and creative thinking to turn vacant buildings into homes for St. Louisans who want to be able to buy, instead of knocking them down?

At Strong Towns, we’re proud to be building a movement that brings together people from across political divides to make their cities more financially resilient. But we also know that we’re kind of… well, we’re a weird bunch. Look: we know that when you look beyond the computer screen (or when your Strong Towns local conversation meet up winds down for the night), most of us find ourselves in a world that very rarely allows people of different political beliefs to work together peaceably, even when our values are fundamentally the same. The harshest tones of our partisan political debates threaten to seep into everything, even when the conversation turns to the most seemingly politically neutral topics in city building. Want to see your city make some serious street design changes to #SlowTheCars? Don’t mention it around your ultra-conservative aunt; she might start a fight about the “nanny state.” Want to see your town build a strong, feedback-responsive affordable housing market instead of plunking down another Pruitt Igoe-style public housing tower? Be careful about posting that on Facebook; your capital-L Liberal uncle will call you out for wanting to deprive the public assistance that your poorest neighbors need right now. It’s all enough to make you want to pick a team, move somewhere where everyone agrees with you, and live out your life in unchallenged peace. But in a recent column for the New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman argues that we don’t just need to think outside the political boxes we put ourselves in. We need to recognize that those boxes are toolboxes—and if we’re smart, we’ll start borrowing tools from our neighbors a whole lot more. On this episode of Upzoned, Kea Wilson and John Reuter dig into what it really means to work across partisan lines to build a Strong Town, from what it takes for a politically diverse council to bring rural broadband to an Idaho town to using liberal- and conservative-coded strategies to fix Seattle’s housing crisis. Then in the Downzone, they talk over the (very different) things they’re doing to beat the summer heat: eating artisan frozen desserts (John) and…reading depressing-yet-wonderful novels about Mennonite women (Kea).

Despite enormous success, architect Minoru Yamasaki’s reputation declined in the 1970's with the negative public reception of the World Trade Center in New York and the spectacular failure of St. Louis’s Pruitt-Igoe public housing project. Author Dale Gyure is associate chair and professor of Architecture at Lawrence Technological University. His most recent book, Minoru Yamasaki: Humanist Architecture for a Modernist World, is the first to closely examine Yamasaki's work and life.

On whether we can salvage anything from postmodernism. Have we left postmodernity - and if so, can can we be properly dialectical about it: see it as progress and catastrophe all at once? Is there a moment of truth to postmodernism amidst all the falsity? We discuss the left intelligentsia's abandonment of materialism; phoney cultural populism; the demolition of Pruitt-Igoe; Knausgaard's six volume 'Min Kamp'; and the end of cultural rebellion. Readings: The Apprentice in Theory: Fan, Student, Star, Catherine Liu & Devan Bailey on Avital Ronell, LA Review of Books Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Frederic Jameson, NLR  Itemised, review of Knausgaard by Jameson, LRB The Myth of Pruitt-Igoe, documentary If you like what we do, please support us. Go to Patreon.com/BungaCast

In 1994 Bob Hansman began City Faces for children in Clinton-Peabody Public Housing, then something of a hotbed of Bloods (and Crips) activity. In 1996 he opened a studio there, which has by now been populated by two generations of kids in the projects as well as hundreds of Washington University volunteers. In 2002 he adopted his son Jovan; the two of them have been the subject of national television and magazine coverage and the recipients of numerous awards. In 2017 Bob and Jovan illustrated a book of poems about immigration—Traveling the Blue Road: Poems of the Sea, which has won recognition from the National Associations of Teachers of English and Social Studies. Bob Hansman is a child of the sixties. He got to meet Coretta Scott King and Julian Bond, and was sitting just yards from Bobby Kennedy when he announced his run for the presidency. He also got beat up (and his lawyer’s office got pipe-bombed) by the Ku Klux Klan. Years later he began teaching at both Washington University and the Clinton-Peabody housing projects. Those two threads have been weaving in and out ever since. In 2017 he published a book about Pruitt-Igoe. Locally, Bob has received a Rosa Parks Award and a Dred Scott Freedom Award from Dred and Harriet Scott’s great-great-granddaughter.

Nesta quinzena, Adilson (@adilsonlamaral) e Rapha (@_rapha) conversam com Gustavo Novaes (@gooogla) sobre um dos projetos mais emblemáticos e desastrosos da história da arquitetura mundial: Pruitt-Igoe. O conjunto habitacional de…Leia maisArquicast 060 – Pruitt-Igoe

The specter of Pruitt-Igoe still looms over St. Louis. The massive 1950s era public housing complex suffered under disinvestment and bad public policy. Ultimately, officials literally blew the whole thing up. Since then, the focus of public housing has shifted to the Section 8 voucher program and smaller developments. Yet, the model of large public housing complexes is still very much alive today. From mice to mold, the problems facing St. Louis’ aging public housing complexes is long. And there’s not much funding to fix a backlog of issues. On this episode, we tell you what life is like for our neighbors living in two of the last remaining vestiges of St. Louis’ public housing past.

This Must Be The Place In this installment of This Must Be the Place Elizabeth and David give a post-film review, along with Rebecca Clements (and also a bit of help from Trent and Casper), of the Jane Jacobs documentary “Citizen Jane: Battle for the City”. As is discussed, the film features a fantastic variety of archival footage and also has very high production values. It tells the iconic mid-20th century story of battles over freeways, slum clearances, high rise housing towers, the ‘cancer’ analogy that propelled urban renewal projects, and the frontlines between grassroots activism and top-down planning orthodoxy more broadly. Perhaps for planners there isn’t so much to learn from the film – Elizabeth and David to this end use the word “undergraduate” in the same sniffy way that chilled Elizabeth long ago (hearing Virigina Woolf describing James Joyce’s Ulysses, and wondering how hard someone would have to work to be so far up themselves). But there are several interesting insights into Jacobs’ background as a journalist, and it’s also worth revisiting her ideas afresh rather than tending to rely on what these ideas have been distilled into over the ensuing decades. The film celebrates – sometimes with a heavy, sappy hand – the inherent value of people and community, and makes a strong case for political engagement. To quote Jacobs, “I think it’s wicked, in a way, to be a victim” Also discussed in the review: pre-war Robert Moses as ‘bully for the people’; issues with looking at public and high-rise houses only from the outside; OTT choices of music; the Pruitt Igoe myth; gentrification (not, notably, discussed in the film); differences between preservation and life; Jacob’s glasses (I think – well we should have); and the challenge of accommodating nuance in a film while still making it compelling. Also some other stuff – part of which is set to the slightly distracting “ears on the street” soundtrack of Federation Square of a Friday evening. “Citizen Jane” was shown at Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne. It’s great to watch and also an excellent curiosity builder for a general audience. And if you’re a planner, you’ll no doubt see several people you know in the audience.

You probably love it when you get a flash of insight that makes a lightbulb appear above your head. But, what about a flash of confusion that shatters your lightbulb into a crystalline dust cloud?In this episode, Jordan explores the health benefits of chaos. Just as a body requires physical struggle to grow stronger, a mind requires a certain amount of disruption to expand. Many philosophies and theories of mind realize there is a healthy balance to be struck between order and chaos. However, we live in a society increasingly made of order. We want things to be predictable, chartable, and manageable. By all means, Life, please don’t be scary!This is poppycock. Chaos needs to be embraced for the simple fact that it is real. The alternative is to increasingly live in denial with ever narrower minds and ever harder hearts. It’s time to be comfortable being uncomfortable. Along with new acquaintance Brandon Messmer, Jordan weaves in and out of chaos and order, exposing how we learn new things and the import of doing so. If we all start having more Nuh-Uh moments, we just might become the change we wish to see in the world.Find all things Brandon Messmer at: http://onyxedgestudios.com/the-rent-is-due/This episode is chock full of Wisdom Nuggets from the following extraordinary people:John KouniosNicholas ChristakisJoe RoganDavid AxelrodVan JonesAmy WaxJordan B. PetersonQuoted material regarding Pruitt-Igoe can be found in Public Housing Policy: Convention Versus Reality (1975) by Eugene Meehan.Aggregated Internet Audio: https://youtu.be/HIcIIBTJA6ohttps://youtu.be/uTKzQp4pCKYhttps://youtu.be/1aFX_ypji88https://youtu.be/0yHQ_yz64SQhttps://youtu.be/MkCS9ePWuLUhttps://youtu.be/7uyw5y_tHEMhttps://youtu.be/J1IWm8tJroohttps://youtu.be/0cI4X8WjcTQhttps://youtu.be/kl0Iy6EMnk4https://youtu.be/hg-V9lrZCwEhttps://youtu.be/VTHeQM7Uc0khttps://youtu.be/DoWjrF3GdK0https://youtu.be/XF2ayWcJfxohttps://youtu.be/vXZ-s5ASHnwhttps://youtu.be/yo3gOoOSdhYhttp://podcasts.cnn.net/epvs/v2/11/5/2690/axe.e104585e2fcaf7aa.1-1.mp3?mtp=a&dvc=fhttps://www.samharris.org/podcast/item/facing-the-crowdSpecial thanks to Mad Dog Daffronian for recording sessions at Mikey Mike Slum Studios and to Mallory Willson for making the word “nuh-uh” stick in mind these many years.The High Files is part of the ONYXedge Studios Podcast Network. Visit onyxedgestudios.com for more of this podcast and many others. Subscribe to the ONYXedge Studios YouTube Channel and “Like” us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

It's Idea Festival time in Louisville, and that means cool people who do cool things descend on our city to talk about the things they're doing! We chatted with one of those folks, Juan Williams Chàvez, this week about his work, and what it means to do social activist through art. One of Chàvez's big projects, the Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary, takes place on land that was once home to one of the country's most notoriously awful housing developments. Built in the mid-1950s, the 33-building, high-rise complex fell into almost immediate disrepair, and was described in a Missouri History book as "something out of a Charles Dickens novel." It was eventually demolished in the mid 1970s. Today, thanks to Chàvez, it is home to a bee sanctuary, where members of the community learn about urban agriculture. The decision on how to use the land wasn't incidental. "Bees function as a community," Chàvez explains. "Pruitt-Igoe was designed for community. I wanted it to kind of go back to community." In our Juicy Fruit segment this week, we talk about the "angry black woman" stereotype that reared its head in a New York Times feature this week, pointed at television producer Shonda Rhimes. The backlash was righteous and overwhelming, and the Times ended up issuing an apology. We break down the stereotype and how it does and doesn't play out in pop culture. "And speaking of things that are hard for a lot of folks to understand," Jaison says, "it's Bisexual Awareness Week." We go dispell some of the most common misconceptions about our bi brothers and sisters.

Megaman II, Skate or Die, Pruitt Igoe, Astro Zwo, Paul Hares, Maharadja Sweets, Hostage Pageant + Skin Graft + Plague Mother collaboration, Daniel Higgs, Mr. Matthews, Cadaver in Drag, Shapednoise, Justin Meyers, Rake Kash, PLKZFX, Aaron Dilloway, Robert A.A. Lowe, and Moulttriger and Hal McGee

Megaman II, Skate or Die, Pruitt Igoe, Astro Zwo, Paul Hares, Maharadja Sweets, Hostage Pageant + Skin Graft + Plague Mother collaboration, Daniel Higgs, Mr. Matthews, Cadaver in Drag, Shapednoise, Justin Meyers, Rake Kash, PLKZFX, Aaron Dilloway, Robert A.A. Lowe, and Moulttriger and Hal McGee

At its construction in St. Louis in 1951, Pruitt-Igoe was hailed as a model for future public housing efforts, but within two decades the area had decayed into an impoverished, crime-ridden neighborhood. By 1976, the entire complex was demolished. What caused this housing project to fail so spectacularly, and how can contemporary architects avoid the same mistakes? Susanne Cowan, a post-doctoral fellow in architecture and history at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses the legacy of these buildings and the evolution of social design. Cowan, with Ayda Melika, co-produced the forthcoming documentary film Design as a Social Act.

The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis became most famous at the moment of its demise. The thirty-three high-rise towers built in the 1950's were supposed to solve the impending population crisis in inner city St. Louis. It was supposed … Continue reading →

The Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis became most famous at the moment of its demise. The thirty-three high-rise towers built in the 1950’s were supposed to solve the impending population crisis in inner city St. Louis. It was supposed … Continue reading →

Ted Galambos, Ph. D., P.E.-Ted tells me how he made it all the way from Budapest to North Dakota, about his dangerous research on the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis, and find out if he'll be writing his LRFD memoirs anytime soon.