Building Minnesota
Summary: An engaging look at Minnesota architecture. Many of these fully-produced radio features aired on KFAI Radio in Minneapolis. These podcasts include the original stories, plus extended interviews with local architects.
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An interview with Andrew Blauvelt, Walker Art Center design director, about the exhibition "Some Assembly Required: Contemporary Prefabricated Housing." The show features the weeHouse and FlatPak house, by Minnesota architects Geoffrey Warner and Charlie Lazor.
Andrew Blauveldt and Julie Snow are friends. He's a design curator at the Walker Art Center. She's an architect. After designing Julie's modernist book, Andrew is having Julie design his modernist house. But they're both worried about the outcome. The south facing exterior wall is concrete and concrete is tricky to get perfect. Listen to their conversation about the house, which hasn't been built yet.
David Salmela is a self-trained architect practicing in Duluth, Minnesota. Since 1985 his projects have won fourteen Minnesota AIA Honor Awards and sixteen national awards, including a National AIA Honor Award for Architecture. In this report, Todd Melby interviews Salmela and visits his new house, currently under construction, in Duluth.
It's like sticking a 14-story building out the window. That's how structural engineer "Bud" Ericksen describes the cantilever bridge on the new Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The blue-tinted landmark doesn't open until June 2006, but Todd Melby has already ventured out on the edge of the 178-foot cantilever. The new theater was designed by French architect Jean Nouvel.
Joan Soranno is the architect behind the curving white Barbara Barker Center for Dance on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota campus. In this Building Minnesota architecture radio story, reporter Todd Melby explores a new Soranno structure: Bigelow Chapel in New Brighton. It also defies 90-degree angles in an unusual way.
