At first we thought we could cram all of this week's amazing podcast content in under one hour. That dream was not to be, but we decided to give no f*cks, in honor of our guest Elizabeth Timme. The tenacious and game-changing Timme spoke with Donna and Amelia (with the appropriate amount of f*cks) about her work with LA Más, a non-profit design studio aimed at social justice issues in Los Angeles.
In other matters of justice, Paul sat down with Archinect Sessions's legal correspondent, Brian Newman, about a recent lawsuit against SOM that went all the way up to California's Supreme Court, and the far-reaching implications for architects.
We also talk with Aaron Willette about the Bigger Than A Breadbox / Smaller Than A Building competition, aimed at revitalizing the pavilion's role in architectural research (deadline is February 15!). Willette runs the FABLab at Taubman, and is a long-time Archinector.
Finally, we let out a collective sad sigh for Architecture for Humanity's closure.
And a reminder: send us your client horror stories! Also welcome are your architectural legal issues, comments or questions about the podcast, via twitter #archinectsessions, email or call us at (213) 784-7421.
Listen to episode thirteen of Archinect Sessions, "Elizabeth Timme Gives No F*cks":
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Shownotes:
California Gov. Jerry Brown defends cutting redevelopment agencies (Los Angeles Times)
María del Carmen Lamadrid’s Social Design Toolkit
LA Más' Watts Community Studio
BIG's Hot to Cold exhibition at the National Building Museum
Great Streets and People Streets in Los Angeles
Curbed LA's feature on Timme, one of 2014's Young Guns
Donald Shoup, parking wonk extraordinaire at UCLA
María del Carmen Lamadrid’s Social Design Toolkit
4 Comments
Elizabeth's sign:
so just to re-cap:
A supreme court that includes members who uphold their professional ethics at all times with little chance of losing their jobs or contracts by doing so, since they are at all times gainfully employed by taxpayers and must uphold the law in order to keep their jobs (in case that wasn't clear), have decided that architects who are mostly NOT gainfully employed by taxpayers to uphold their end of professional ethics at all times.
Architects work in a "free market".
Therefore, the architect must be forever responsible for policing the actions of developers and contractors who for the most part have no interest in building sustainable high-quality safe and healthy living environments, who rather intend on maximizing capital in the form of the built environment easily equated to dollar signs on a spreadsheet.....
These same developers and contractors who have no liability for not doing as directed by the architect and may "re-structure" at anytime when the shit hits the fan, who can then with their gained profits lobby politicians to ensure that this supreme court ensures that all liability is dumped back on the architects who after all are professionals and in place of a building department that acts more like a security guard than a police officer, the Architect must absorb the stupidity and ill-informed decision making resulting from blinder like vision caused by one track thinking guided by shit that inflates and has less value in 10 years than it did 10 years ago. Real Estate is more real than currency isn't it? But keep flippin' the real stuff into currency - inflated balloon frame construction. American's invented balloon framing!
A successful political Architecture organization goes under cryptically.
Patrick Schumacher was right, architecture is not political - he will get the Pritzker Prize this year.
Elizabeth is correct - say Fuck.
and in the words of Eminem "Role Model":
OK, I'm going to attempt to drown myself
You can try this at home
You can be just like me!
(a licensed architect)
Apologize for the late night ramble (working) but I think if you want an alternate to all this above by me - Elizabeth Timme is well worth the listen. I won't recap her interview, just listen to the podcast (which thematically intentionally or not was amazing)
Great episode!
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