Home Page with Duo Dickinson – Whether it is in our homes or on our streets, humans experience what we make. Today we are all compelled to listen to our health in a time of threatened well-being – but what impacts us every day, impacting how we feel in the world we make for ourselves?
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Design is just one way humanity manifests itself. Our buildings simply express where our culture is. Architects often talk to other architects about architecture, in this time of explosive change, our evolving values are revealed when we understand design. Using the generous grant from The Connecticut Architecture Foundation, WPKN Radio and The Common Edge Collaborative launched the production and recording of the podcast “Our Buildings, Our Selves.” Co-Hosted by architect Duo Dickinson FAIA ...
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12 NOON, Wednesday, July 16, 2025 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org It is extremely expensive to have a place to live near New York City – even in southern New England and Long Island. In the first half of the 20th century, the single family home basis of freestanding homes simply sprouted out of fallow farm lands – each on their own plot of land. After World …
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12 NOON, Wednesday, June 18, 2025 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Its getting warm. Soon HOT. As the world warms, now (and more in the future) we can either add to that heat by creating more carbon to generate electricity to create the air conditioning we need to be comfortable in our homes, or we can use less AC. Changing buildings can be technological, but…
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12 NOON, Wednesday May 21, 2025 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org We are used to thinking that homes are just buildings: but are they different in the way we design them? Gaston Bachelard, in the 1958 book The Poetics of Space, wrote, “If I were asked to name the chief benefits of the house. I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the…
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Our Buildings, Our Selves, with guests Paul Goldberger and Zach Mortice
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The State of Design Journalism in the Internet Age Hosted by Duo Dickinson and Martin C. Pedersen Welcome to Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a monthly podcast produced by Common Edge, the Connecticut Architecture Foundation, the Connecticut AIA, and Bridgeport community radio station WPKN 89.5 FM. In many ways, design journalis…
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LIVE! NOON! WEDNESDAY APRIL 16: WPKN 89.5fm Streaming wpkn.org In a strange housing market, the zeitgeist of the moment is depression. High interest rates, low supply, insane prices make anywhere around a city bizarrely inaccessible. This means building is harder, too. But some persist: Why? Why would you have the courage to risk so much time and m…
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LIVE! NOON! Wednesday, March 19 WPKN 89.5fm STREAMING wpkn.org We all live somewhere. Our homes are as fundamental as our clothing, our food, just living. In the cultural shake-out of the 21st century, organized religion in America has taken a hit in membership, attendance, and relevance – but that change has been accompanied by the statistical rev…
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The Age of the Starchitect is Over, What’s Next?
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Join our guests New York Times architecture critic, Michael Kimmelman, and critic and creator of McMansion Hell, Kate Wagner. All specializations create their own language, rules, and personalities that reinforce the values of those engaged in it. Architecture is no different. For a century "Modernism" was the base clef of frozen music, defining wh…
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Censorship comes in many forms. We censor ourselves at family gatherings on politics. We cannot say prohibited words on WPKN radio shows. We even try to limit what can be taught, read at a library, or spoken about in public forums. For the second time in four years, the Federal Government w…
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Wednesday, January 15, 2025 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org We are in a time of change: climate, society, politics, technology: and buildings always adapt: but in the instant exposure of the Internet, is there anything “new” in how we conceive of buildings and architecture? Rather than performance (resilience, sustainability, energy efficiency) is th…
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org The year is about to end. We are past COVID and the election. We are way beyond the awe of seeing our first Smart Phone, let alone the thrill of posting meaningless internet fodder. The advent of the 21st Century is old news. It is not yet the new year, new presidency, or anywhere near know…
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Wednesday November 20, 2024 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Everyone has a place to live, but here in Connecticut and Long Island the costs of our places to live are extreme – so extreme that the culture around us is inundated with Real Estate Media: House sales and market rate rentals are now part of our daily media diet. What about the huge number …
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"What Is Ugly?" Author, architect and educator Witold Rybczynski, and writer and founder of Studio 360, Kurt Andersen, address the exquisite diversity in our universality without the obsession with "style."By WPKN, Duo Dickinson
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Wednesday October 16, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.org A century of top-down architectural determination is over. Regimes of conferring worth via station and prestige have been replaced with the number of “likes” and “followers” accruing as if the entire world is one polling station. We have reached intellectual democratization, where popula…
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