Archinect - News2024-11-23T07:39:48-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150053542/mitch-mcewen-and-marc-miller-steal-the-mic-archinect-sessions-118
Mitch McEwen and Marc Miller Steal the Mic; Archinect Sessions #118 Paul Petrunia2018-03-08T20:26:00-05:00>2021-10-12T01:42:58-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/r0/r0hk5r0vqqq5hay2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>On this week's show we are trying out something new by inviting on guest hosts to take over the mics. Our guest hosts today, <a href="https://twitter.com/mitchmcewen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitch McEwen</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/lscapeisaverb" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marc Miller</a>, are familiar figures to regular listeners of this podcast and readers of Archinect. </p>
<p><a href="https://archinect.com/mcewen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mitch</a> is the principal of <a href="http://mcewenstudio.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">McEwen Studio</a>, co-founder of the studio collective, <a href="http://anoffice.us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A(n) Office</a>, and an Assistant Professor at <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/309/princeton-university" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Princeton University’s School of Architecture</a>. Mitch's writing can be found on her Archinect blog <a href="https://archinect.com/another" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Another Architecture</a>. She has also been a guest on previous episodes of Archinect Sessions <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150037943/equity-secrets-and-relevancy-of-aia-1-year-after-notmyaia" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Equity, Secrets and Relevancy of AIA; 1 Year After #NotMyAIA</a>, <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/149964024/twilight-zoning-what-100-years-of-zoning-hath-wrought-ft-special-guest-mitch-mcewen-on-archinect-sessions-77" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twilight Zoning: What 100 years of zoning hath wrought</a>, and <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/117886154/archinect-sessions-is-back-with-episode-11-another-year-another-architecture-with-the-multi-talented-mitch-mcewen" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Another year, Another Architecture</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://archinect.com/people/cover/118068376/marc-miller" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marc</a> is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/17185/the-pennsylvania-state-university-penn-state" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Penn State University</a>, in addition to being a regular voice of reason and intelligence in our discussion forum and comments section. Marc previously joined us on the podcast to discuss HUD and Zaha Hadid Archit...</p>
https://archinect.com/news/article/149981007/hud-winked-ben-carson-takes-on-housing-for-trump-and-zha-distances-itself-from-patrik-schumacher-on-archinect-sessions-90-ft-special-guest-marc-miller
HUD-winked: Ben Carson takes on housing for Trump and ZHA distances itself from Patrik Schumacher on Archinect Sessions #90, ft. special guest Marc Miller Amelia Taylor-Hochberg2016-12-01T15:46:00-05:00>2020-06-29T22:01:04-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ce/cenxbs3zt5x2bjak.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>When president-elect Donald Trump nominated Ben Carson to lead the department of Housing and Urban Development, the response was resoundingly: huh?</p><p>The neurosurgeon came onto the national political scene in 2015, during his run for the Republican nomination, but after Trump took the presidency and started throwing around the idea of <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149980007/president-elect-trump-offers-hud-post-to-ben-carson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">offering a Cabinet position to Carson</a>, a spokesperson said "Dr. Carson feels he has no government experience, he's never run a federal agency. The last thing he would want to do was take a position that could cripple the presidency." Despite all that, <a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/149980875/what-ben-carson-s-federal-inexperience-means-for-hud" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Carson is now (almost definitely officially) secretary of HUD</a> (which he knows just enough about to seriously backtrack the agency's work as pushed by Obama). So here we are.</p><p>Special guest <a href="http://archinect.com/people/cover/118068376/marc-miller" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Marc Miller</a> joins us on the podcast to discuss the implications of Carson's inexperience for HUD, as well as chew on the latest Schumacher-induced controversy: when the architect promoted the privatization of public space an...</p>