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Architectette051: Ann Rolland: Architecture and Retirement: Reflecting on the Process, Designing the Next PhaseToday's guest is Ann (Annie) Rolland. Annie recently retired as a Partner from FXCollaborative where she was the Director of the firm’s Cultural and Educational practice. Annie’s work embraces the pragmatic and creative- cultivating new integrations of program and design. Her projects are practical, responsive, elegant, and enduring while respecting the essence of each client and place.
Annie is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, a registered architect in New York, and a Fellow of the AIA. She is active on the AIA New York Committee on Architecture for Education, Non-Traditional Employment for Wome...2025-01-2750 min
The Kitchen Sisters PresentCatherine Bauer Wurster, Housing Advocate: A Thoroughly Modern WomanA pioneer in her field, Catherine Bauer Wurster was advisor to five presidents on urban planning and housing and was one of the primary authors of the Housing Act of 1937. During the 1930s she wrote the influential book Modern Housing and was one of the leaders of the "housers" movement, advocating for affordable housing for low-income families. Catherine Bauer’s life divided into two names and two geographies: her urban east coast youth, and her later life in the Bay Area. She hobnobbed with the bohemian elite of the interwar years….brilliantly charming the big architect names of the...2024-12-0349 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentBeyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis BirkbyPushed to the side and rarely credited for her architectural work at Davis Brody, Phyllis Birkby became a significant figure in extending the lesbian women's movement to architecture during the 1970s. Her environmental fantasy workshops played a crucial role in galvanizing the community, providing a creative and empowering space within a male-dominated profession. Growing out of other consciousness raising techniques, freed up in her classes, Phyllis released the rigor of her conventional training to get down on the floor, and lead the group in sketching their fantasies however outlandish on giant rolls of butcher paper. She encouraged th...2024-11-1945 min
New Angle: VoiceCatherine Bauer Wurster: A Thoroughly Modern WomanWelcome to New Angle Voice: I’m your bi-coastal architect and host, Cynthia Phifer Kracauer. Catherine Bauer’s life divided into two names and two geographies: her urban east coast youth, and her Bay Area soft landing. She hobnobbed with the bohemian elite of the interwar years….brilliantly charming the pants off of the big architect names of the Weimar Republic, Paris cafe society, and the International Style: Gropius, Mies, Corb, Oud, May…with her lover, Lewis Mumford—culminating in the publication of her 1934 classic : Modern Housing. Her glamour and charismatic presence endeared her to trade unionis...2024-10-0846 min
FilkCastFilkCast Episode 265, September 4, 2024Send us a textMusicJu & Katie - Filkers Go A-Roving - VIbrationshttps://jukaty.bandcamp.comhttps://musicsales.filk.dePaul Atwood - The Maid All Alone on the Shore (Trad.) - A Breeze Through The CONduitBeverly & Holly Stuart - Bella Ciao (Trad.) - Bin There, Done ThatBeverly & Holly Stuart - Belly Chow (Stuart-Trad.) - Bin There, Done ThatCrystal Paul - Dairy Queen (Barbara Higgins/Shelia Willis) - Shoot The Moon - East Coast Filk IIMatthew...2024-09-0452 minNew Angle: VoiceBeyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis BirkbyWe continue our throw-back to the seventies, and take a deeper dive into the many facets of the women’s movement that impacted the practice of architecture. Pushed to the side and rarely credited for her architectural work at Davis Brody, Phyllis Birkby became a significant figure in extending the lesbian women's movement to architecture during the 1970s. Her environmental fantasy workshops played a crucial role in galvanizing the community, providing a creative and empowering space within a male-dominated profession. Growing out of other consciousness raising techniques, freed up in her classes, Phyllis released the rigor...2024-06-2745 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentLaying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977In 1977, a cavernous, rarely used sculpture gallery in the Brooklyn Museum was filled with drafting tables, their tops tilted to display collages of the work and under-told stories of women working in architecture in the United States.We revisit this first significant effort to publicly tell the little known stories of American women in architecture: “Women in American Architecture: A Historic and Contemporary Perspective.” On view at the Brooklyn Museum from February-April of 1977, the groundbreaking exhibition and simultaneous book, curated and edited by Susana Torre, clearly defined the state of play for women in the architecture profession. Alie...2024-06-1826 min
Conservative Commandos Radio Show#CONSERVATIVE-COMMANDOS #ShawnCarney #PaulDriessen #Transgender-Proclamation #Moscow-Attack #Letitia-James #Duty-Honor-Country #C 5-7-245-7-24 Conservative Commandos: TOPIC: 10 WAYS TO STOP PROTESTERS BEFORE THEY START A HOLOCAUST!!Jeff Crouere is the new President and General manager of WGSO of 990-AM in New Orleans. And the host of, “Ringside Politics,” which airs weekdays on WGSO. He is a political columnist, the author of America's Last Chance and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and on www.JeffCrouere.NET. TOPIC: NO SATISFACTION WITH STONE AGE CELEBRITIES JAGGER AND DE NIRO!!!Carole Lieberman, M.D., M.P.H. is a board-certified Beverly Hills psychiatrist and an award-winning and bes...2024-05-082h 05
UNDRESSED WITH POL' AND PATRIKDerek Warburton Part 2: "Fashion Icons Unveiled: Cynthia Bailey Birthday, Jeff Bezos gives Eva Longoria a 5o Million Dollar Payday, Bruce Willis Dementia and is Richard Simmons Dying?In part 2 with Derek Warburton, we delve deeper into the captivating world of fashion and celebrity gossip. Opening with the aftermath of Cynthia Bailey’s lavish party, we indulge in nostalgic reminiscences and anecdotes about our encounters with the illustrious Cynthia. Derek reveals his intriguing journey of their friendship, meticulously tracing their respective evolution from humble beginnings in the Chico’s catalog to her meteoric rise on the “Real Housewives of Atlanta,” highlighting her unwavering resilience as a single mother in the cutthroat world of fashion.Derek, with his trademark charm and candor, regales the audience with captivat...2024-04-2456 min
DJ Kool Soulful VibesKool Keith soulful vibes show on Soul Music Radio Thursday 18th April 2024https://gofund.me/df7caaf0 | Take You Home (DjSoulBr Radio Remix) | Bobby Washington | I Found Her (1st Mix) | Will Gatlin | 4 The Night | Isabelle Eberdean | Heaven | Mnelia | The Parkway (feat. Michelle Willis) | Eric Legnini | Fire And Ice | Jessie Laine Powell | Here To Stay | Jalen Ngonda | Keepin' It Kool (Radio Edit) | Potatohead People, Kendra Dias | Love Is | Maze feat. Frankie Beverly | Somebody Else's Arms | Maze feat. Frankie Beverly | Fly | Cedric Brazle | Lovely | Michon Young | Pull | Michon Young | Something Amazing | Ariel, Relyae | All To You | Paul Williams | Don't Hide | Ale...2024-04-201h 56New Angle: VoiceLaying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977That was some party. Even though I didn’t make it to the splashy opening, I did attend the transformational exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, our subject in this episode. A rarely used sculpture gallery was filled with ranks and files of cheap drafting tables, their tops tilted to display what seemed to be pages out of the book, one spread to a table. It overwhelmed with information—but seemed void of the chatter of us working women. Welcome to New Angle Voice, I’m your host, Cynthia Kracauer. In this episode, we revisit the first significant effort t...2024-04-0925 min
Building Enclosure PodcastsThe New Leader of Beverly Willis Architecture FoundationThe Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF) has announced the appointment of Tizziana Baldenebro to be their new executive director, following an extensive national search. A noted architecture writer, critic, and curator as well an arts administrator and nonprofit leader, New York-based Tizziana brings perspectives from her upbringing in Los Angeles as well as her activism while living in Chicago, Detroit, and most recently in Cleveland as director of arts nonprofit SPACES.2024-04-0417 min
The Green Building Matters Podcast with Charlie CichettiWest Sustainability Services Leader at Arup and LEED Fellow Lynn Simon Lynn N. Simon, FAIA, LEED Fellow, Principal and West Sustainability Services Leader at Arup, is a Global Sustainability & ESG leader, with more than two decades of influencing behaviors, shifting mindsets, and co-creating to reach climate and equity goals across tech, real estate, and AEC sectors. She excels in developing and retaining client relationships, convening stakeholders to Board level, driving cross-functional programs in matrix organizations, and building multi-disciplinary global teams with a focus on carbon, waste, water, ecology, health, and DEI. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Led a global, cross-functional team at Google on KPI setting and 1-5 year goals for carbon, water and waste...2024-03-2734 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentBuildings Speak: Stories of Pioneering Women Architects hosted by Frances McDormand
Little known stories of pioneering architects — Julia Morgan, the first accredited female architect in California, who designed Hearst Castle and was nearly written out of the history books. Natalie de Blois, who helped imagine the first glass skyscrapers on Park Avenue by day and raised four children by night. Amaza Lee Meredith, a Black queer modernist architect from the 1930s South who helped establish Sag Harbor as a haven for Black intellectuals, artists and beachcombers.
A new special from The Kitchen Sisters, the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and PRX, hosted by Academy Award-winning actress Frances McDormand....2024-03-0550 minConservative Commandos Radio Show#CONSERVATIVE-COMMANDOS #Roger-Stonel #Judge-John-Wilson #FANI-WILLIS-HEARING #FANI-WILLIS #ISREAL #LiquifiedNationalGas #AmericanCi 2-21-242-21-24 Conservative Commandos: TOPIC: IS MICHELLE RUNNING?: “Get me Roger Stone” Beverly Hills psychiatrist: BIDEN NOT FIT!!!Roger Stone is a seasoned political operative, speaker, pundit, and New York Times Bestselling Author featured in the Netflix documentary “Get me Roger Stone”. A veteran of ten national presidential campaigns, he served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents: Nixon, Reagan and, to his regret, Bush. Stone gives insights on behind-the-scenes political agendas and is a very proud supporter of President Donald Trump. TOPIC: IS MICHELLE RUNNING?: “Get me Roger Stone”Carole Lieberman, M.D., . is a board-c...2024-02-221h 59
EZ WAYeZWay Network RBL 02-05 S:9 EP: 123 Beverly Zeimet/ Wanda Ray WillisEMAIL US ezwaypromotions@gmail.com Episode: Inspiration, motivation, ambition, can do attitude! JOIN OUR SOCIAL NETWORK EZWAYWALLOFFAME.COM HERE! Brought to you by BVC CHARITY Xspannsion K KOVIN Radio Boomers Live Like our FB Page Every Mon. 10 a.m. PST With Host: James Zuley Hot Topic: Boomer News Updates... Jim's Gem: Stay happy, healthy and Focused Guest/s: Seg 1 Beverly Zeimet -International Speaker, Author, Holistic Practitioner, Workshop and Retreat Facilitator, Event Coordinator, and co-owner of Elinxus Metaverse. Carmelita Pittman's Corner: Wanda Ray Willis - She is an exceptional singer-songwriter, actress (SAG-AFTRA) , writer, recording artist, musician, producer, dancer, humanitarian. Legendary H.B. Barnum known as...2024-02-051h 09
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E! NewsDemi Moore Opens Up About Bruce Willis' Health Battle - E! News 1/31/24On the latest E! News, Demi Moore opens up about how her children are coping with Bruce Willis' health battle. Travis and Jason Kelce officially welcome Taylor Swift to the team: breaking down their sweet message to the pop star! Plus, Lenny Kravitz speaks out on his daughter Zoe's engagement to Channing Tatum and Heidi Klum is spilling sexy new secrets in a shocking new interview. And 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' star Crystal Kung Minkoff join us live in studio!See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19...2024-02-0121 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentArchitecture, Family Style – Sarah Harkness & Jean FletcherSarah “Sally” Pillsbury and Jean B. Fletcher were both architects who married architects. The two women and their husbands were founding members of The Architects Collaborative (TAC), a visionary, idealistic architecture firm founded just after WWII.
The two women, who had 13 children between them, lived with their families and several other founding partners in Six Moon Hill, a residential community in Lexington, Massachusetts, designed by the group.
TAC was a world class firm of eight architects, including famed architect Walter Gropius, working collectively as a team, stressing anonymity of design. The group won design awards and...2024-01-1644 minNew Angle: VoiceArchitecture, Family Style – The Lives and Work of Sarah Harkness and Jean FletcherSarah Pillsbury, or Sally as she was better known by her peers, and Jean Bodman were both architects who married architects. As an architect who also married an architect, my perspective may be more inside baseball on the professional side, but utter awe and fascination on the family end. I’m Cynthia Phifer Kracauer, architect, Executive Director of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, mother of only two, and your host. Welcome to our last episode of New Angle Voice 2023. It’s hard to look at the early days of TAC—the Architects Collaborative—for a time a worl...2023-12-2044 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentArchitect Anna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of InventionAnna Wagner Keichline (1889–1943) was the first registered woman architect in Pennsylvania and was among the first registered women architects in the United States. During her long career, she designed dozens of commercial and residential buildings, as well as numerous industrial products. She was awarded seven patents for her innovative residential and building designs, including one for The Building Block (1927), popularly known as the K-brick, which was a forerunner of today’s concrete block.
Not every architect has the opportunity to build skyscrapers. In Bellefonte, Anna used her talents to improve the lives of her neighbors, by designing thei...2023-11-0726 min
Double Reel Film Podcast42.2 The Features: The Guard, Down and Out in Beverly Hills, Bruce Willis In Broadway Brawler, Dolittle, Superman IIIThe latest issue of the monthly magazine podcast for the discerning film nerd continues with the Features, which this month all have a comedy theme. Our Classics and Recommended film is Irish buddy cop film The Guard; our Hidden Gem is the 1986 film Down and Out in Beverly Hills; The One That Got Away features Bruce Willis in the disastrous cancelled project Broadway Brawler; our Remake Hatewatch is Robert Downey and his odd accent in Dolittle and our Remake Restoration suggests major changes to Superman 3.
October's Double Reel Monthly and the Penalty Shootout Film Quiz a...2023-11-011h 32
Chillpak Hollywood HourSeason 3, Episode 89Original Air Date: Monday 16 October, 9 pm Eastern Description: Dean (in Detroit) and Phil (in Los Angeles) celebrate the lives of three amazing women: Performer-turned-novelist Echo Brown, Pilot-turned-architect Beverly Willis, and Detroit's very own screen legend Piper Laurie. The latest implosion in the negotiations between the actors and the studios gets discussed, analyzed, and what it means for TV and Film production gets predicted. Where television is concerned, your friends in podcasting and broadcasting offer up thoughts on the recent social media furor surrounding Martin Short, and the merits of "Only Murders in...2023-10-1755 min
Last WordKirsty Smitten, Kat Anderson, Beverly Willis, Tony WadeKirsty Lang onThe talented young scientist Kirsty Smitten who did pioneering work developing a new generation of antibiotics.
Singer Kat Anderson who made pop history with Motown’s first Number One hit: Please Mr Postman. The architect Beverly Willis who devoted much of her career to promoting her female peers.
Tony Wade who helped built Britain’s first black owned multi-million-pound business selling hair and beauty products to Afro Caribbean women. Producer: Ed Prendeville2023-10-1327 min
Breaking Money SilenceThe History of Women and Philanthropy | Episode 186
The History of Women and
Philanthropy
Episode 186
Believe it or not, women started participating in charitable giving well before they entered the workforce or typically had financial decision-making power in the family. In today’s episode, I interview Karen McNeill, PhD, Director of Human Capital at JFG Wealth Management, about the history of women and philanthropy and how women have used charitable endeavors to shape the world around us.
In addition to her role at JFG Wealth Management, Dr. McNeill is a trustee on the board of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. Her sc...2023-09-1827 minNew Angle: VoiceAnna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of Invention1913 was the year of the grand march for suffrage in Washington DC, the 250,000 marchers and attendees eclipsed the coverage the following day of the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, population 4216, had its own march, on the fourth of July. Costumes were di rigeur, with a goodly number of stately toga clad ladies and a few wild harridans on horseback, along with our intrepid girl in her Cornell cap and gown: Anna Wagner Keichline… a native Bellefutian. We had to see this for ourselves. So I saddled up my 2002 Honda Minivan, and made the five hour drive from N...2023-08-1426 min
Back2Basics: Reconnecting to the essence of YOUE219: Bolanle Williams-Olley - We are called to be BOLDBolanle Williams-Olley is the CFO and co-owner at Mancini Duffy, a national design firm with a 100+-year-old history and tech-forward approach based in New York City, where she oversees the firm's financial and operational performance. She has over 15 years of experience working in the AEC industry with a strong background in financial analysis and strategic initiatives. At her core, she thrives on building relationships between finance and management teams to ensure the overall financial success of projects and her firm. Her clients include American Airlines, Soho House, Brooklyn Nets, Boqueria, Verizon, and NBC Sports Group. She is a...2023-08-1450 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentAmaza Lee Meredith, African American Architect: Love & HomeBorn in 1895 in Lynchburg, VA, Amaza Lee Meredith was an African American architect, artist and educator who taught at Virginia State College where she founded the art department. Despite the fact she was never a registered architect, she was one of the few Black architects practicing at the time, and one of the country's very few Black women architects.
In 1939, Amaza designed Azurest South, a tidy white International Style house on the edge of the Virginia State University Campus, where she and her life-long partner Edna Meade Colson lived. Both women maintained significant teaching positions at the...2023-06-2043 minNew Angle: VoiceAmaza Lee Meredith: Love and Home I picked up a free glossy real estate magazine with an enticing photograph of summer leisure pursuits under the title Sag Harbor: A Whale of a Good Time. We traveled out there in early spring, collecting voices of preservation, community, celebrity, and long tenured summer families as we searched for Amaza Lee Meredith’s modern architecture. A short bike ride away from the summer haunts of Melville, Steinbeck, Betty Friedan, Spaulding Gray, lived the creator of Azurest North, the Black summer real estate enclave syndicated by Amaza Lee Meredith with her sister Maude Terry. But on the beach we fou...2023-05-3143 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentAda Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic: The Art We Must Live WithAda Louise Huxtable, who “invented” the profession of architecture critic, wrote countless articles for two great daily newspapers and had a gigantic influence on our understanding of the work of architects, real estate developers, city bureaucrats, and the city itself, over the course of six decades in print.
Beginning in 1963, Huxtable was the first full-time architecture critic at an American newspaper. In 1970, she won the first Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. With her impeccable civic values, cultivated aesthetic sensibility and lacerating accuracy, Ada Louise Huxtable, praised and razed.
Huxtable, who was born and lived her life...2023-05-0245 minNew Angle: VoiceThe Art We Must Live With: Ada Louise Huxtable and Architecture CriticismAnyone who writes about American architecture of the mid twentieth and early 21 st century measures their critical achievement with the yardstick drawn by Ada Louise Huxtable. With countless articles for two great daily newspapers, this petite New Yorker had a gigantic influence on our understanding of the work of architects, real estate developers, city bureaucrats, and the city itself, over the course of six decades in print. General readers are quite accustomed to having their choices in books, films, dance, opera, drama, TV, and music directed and influenced by2023-04-1945 min
Hot Headlines from OKmagazine.comHow Hollywood Costars & Nostalgic Old Movies Are Combining To Save Bruce WillisIn the wake of Bruce Willis' dementia battle, his wife, Emma Heming Willis, and his ex-wife, Demi Moore, are gathering the star's daughters and former costars each week to screen his old movies and TV shows at his Beverly Hills home, with hopes that he'll remember the past, an insider revealed. Listen here and learn more at OKmagazine.com. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy2023-03-2702 min
The Deal with Danny Brown#71: Rayni and Branden Williams - The Billion Dollar Real Estate BrokerRayni and Branden Williams are one of a handful of elite residential real estate brokers worldwide who close $1 Billion of transactions annually. This is rarified air even by real estate mogul standards. In 2020 this power couple launched their own high end luxury brokerage The Beverly Hills Estates after being super star producers at Hilton & Hyland in Beverly Hills for over a decade. They have repped several high profile clients such as Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, Dr. Dre, Jennifer Lopez, Markus Persson & Bruce Makowsky to name a few. Their keen sense of style and their passion for everything cool in t...2023-03-261h 12
The Deal with Danny Brown#71: Rayni and Branden Williams - The Billion Dollar Real Estate BrokerRayni and Branden Williams are one of a handful of elite residential real estate brokers worldwide who close $1 Billion of transactions annually. This is rarified air even by real estate mogul standards. In 2020 this power couple launched their own high end luxury brokerage The Beverly Hills Estates after being super star producers at Hilton & Hyland in Beverly Hills for over a decade. They have repped several high profile clients such as Angelina Jolie, Bruce Willis, Dr. Dre, Jennifer Lopez, Markus Persson & Bruce Makowsky to name a few. Their keen sense of style and their passion for everything cool in t...2023-03-251h 12The Kitchen Sisters PresentRay Eames—Industrial Designer & Artist: Beauty in the EverydayMany know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband, Charles Eames. But Ray was the industrial designer bending plywood in the spare bedroom, a talented artist who saw the world full of color, the visionary who treated folk art, cigarette wrappers, flowers, and toys as equally valuable and inspiring. Ray brought the sparkle and inspiration to the legendary Eames Office.
The Kitchen Sisters Present Ray Eames from the New Angle Voice a podcast of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, produced by Brandi Howell.
Editorial advising from Alexandra Lange. Thanks also...2023-03-2139 minNew Angle: VoiceRay Eames: Beauty in the EverydayNew Angle: Voice is back! We kick off Season Two with Ray Kaiser Eames. Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband. In this episode, we uncover the talented artist who saw the world full of color, the industrial designer bending plywood in the spare bedroom, and the visionary who treated folk art, cigarette wrappers, flowers, and toys as equally valuable and inspiring. Ray brought the sparkle to the legendary Eames Office, as you’ll discover in this episode “Beauty in the Everyday: The Life and Work of Ray Eames.” Special thanks...2023-03-0839 min
Building Enclosure PodcastsForgotten Women in ArchitectureCynthia Phifer Kracauer, Executive Director for The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation joins us to talk about the podcast series, New Angle: Voice, dedicated to preserving and sharing the impactful lives of the most influential women in the history of architecture and design.2023-02-2832 min
Architectette003: Cynthia Kracauer: Speaking Up, Leading, and Connecting in ArchitectureOn today’s Architectette podcast we welcome Cynthia Kracauer. Cynthia is the Executive Director of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. She is also an architect and has had a fascinating career working for a starchitect, leading architecture firms as a partner, and serving as the managing director of AIA NY. She is at the forefront of advocacy for women in architecture.
Please note a potential #triggerwarning. During the podcast, we discuss themes of sexual harassment.
We talk about:
- How childhood crafting led Cynthia to architecture school.
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Mr. G from French Riviéracannes VIA Beverly Hills la P@rtyTRACKLIST
2:00 Brooklyn Dreams - Music, Harmony And Rhythm
8:00 Larry Wu - Let Me Show You
12:00 Horse Meat Disco - Sanctuary (Ray Mang Extended Remix)
15:00 The Temptations - Law Of The Land
24:00 T-Coy - Carino (Greg Wilson Re-edit)
39:30 The Reddings - Remote Control (Short Version)
44:30 The Reddings - Remote Control
45:30 Louie Vega - I Hear Music In The Streets (Touch Mix)
57:00 Soulphiction - U'll Like It (Original Mix)
1:08:30 Angelo Ferreri - Good Times (Original Mix)
1:25:30 AC Soul Symphony - Manhattan Skyline (JN Spirit of '77 Mix)
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Southern Soul - Live StreamGetting Started in Grant Writing & Franchising with Dr. Beverly A. Browning, The Grant Doctor and Brittany Willis, MBA“When I think about the impact that I can make in the community, there are very few things that have impacted me more than a little Black girl coming up to my counter and saying, ‘She's the owner? Mommy, Daddy, I want to own a business one day!’, That is what I do it for. It shows that representation is possible,” shares Brittany Willis, MBA. Brittany is an accomplished franchise entrepreneur and franchise owner of PJ’s Coffee in Dallas, TX with over a decade of business development experience. In the first half of today’s episode host D-Rich talks with B...2022-12-031h 28
Remarkable RetailThe Mall is Dead (Long Live the Mall) with best-selling author Alexandra LangeOur guest this week is Alexandra Lange, famed architecture and design critic, and author of the brand new best-seller Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall. In a wide-ranging interview we get Alexandra's perspectives on the history and cultural significant of shopping malls. We dig into the fascinating story of Victor Gruen and how his design ideas shaped the evolution of regional malls for decades. Then we explore how malls began to lose their relevance, particularly as department stores increasingly found themselves stuck in the boring middle. Lastly wonder what's next for malls and what...2022-08-1638 min
hiaCynthia P. Kracauer on the legacy of women architectsENR Editors Aileen Cho and Jeff Yoders talked to the leader of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation on International Women in Engineering Day.2022-08-0836 min
ENR Critical Path PodcastCynthia P. Kracauer on the legacy of women architectsENR Editors Aileen Cho and Jeff Yoders talked to the leader of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation on International Women in Engineering Day.2022-08-0836 min
LongformEpisode 492: Alexandra LangeAlexandra Lange is a design critic whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many other publications. Her new book is Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall.“I really like to write about things that I can hold and experience. I'm not that interested in biography, but I am very interested in the biography of an object. ... Like I feel about the objects, I think, how most people feel about people. So what I'm always trying to do is communicate that enthusiasm and that understanding to my reade...2022-06-2240 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentFlorence Knoll: Total DesignAs an architect, Florence Knoll was the force behind the seamless integration of furniture, space, textile, art, graphic design into a perfect brand concept: Total Design. She revolutionized office design and bringing modernist design to office interiors. She defined the modern corporate interiors of post-war America. Take a listen to this little known story of an amazing, little known architect and designer. Her influence transcends the specific disciplines, she was the force integrating them, and in her work at the Knoll Planning Unit, she promulgated the values that still motivate architects and designers today: solve the program with scale...2022-05-1737 min
Sociologipodden10. Det nya klassamhälletI detta avsnitt intervjuas Johan Alfonsson, doktor i sociologi, om sin nya bok Det otrygga arbetslivet i Sverige – dess framväxt och konsekvenser. Därefter diskuterar Håkan Thörn och Åsa Wettergren Beverly Skeggs bok Att bli respektabel: konstruktioner av klass och kön. Litteratur:Johan Alfonsson: Det otrygga arbetslivet i Sverige – dess framväxt och konsekvenser (Studentlitteratur, 2022).Stuart Hall m. fl.: Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order (Red Globe Press, 2013).Beverly Skeggs: Att bli respektabel: konstruktioner av klass och kön (Daidalos, 2000).Anders Teglund: Cyk...2022-05-171h 09
WhatCulture10 Actors Who Hate ONE Movie In Their Franchise - Bruce Willis! Will Smith! Eddie Murphy! Daniel Radcliffe HATES Harry Potter?!Eddie Murphy hates Beverly Hills Cop III as much as you do. Jules Gill presents 10 Actors Who Hate ONE Movie In Their Franchise... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2022-05-1309 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentFast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee ShopsHelen Fong, one of the few women practicing architecture in the US in the 1950s, is best known for her “Googie” California coffee shop architectural style. Pann’s Coffee Shop, Denny's, Bob's Big Boy— those bold, iconic, futuristic restaurants of the 1950s and 60s— there are thousands of them, not just in Los Angeles, where they were born, but across the country. These family restaurants are core to how America defined itself after World War II. Cars, families, space flight, modernism....the new world order. Pioneering architect Helen Fong helped define that futuristic look.
Helen Fong was born in Lo...2022-04-1930 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentNorma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold HandNorma Sklarek (1926-2012) had many “firsts”. She was often credited at the start of her career as the first Black Women architect to be licensed in the United States. That distinction actually goes to Beverly Greene – Norma was the 3rd. But it didn’t matter. Young Black girls read her name in the likes of Ebony Magazine – a staple publication in Black households at the time – when she was included in their 1958 article on “Successful Young Architects.” As more and more discovered her career, she became their role model.
Born in 1926, in Harlem, Sklarek was the only child of Walter...2022-04-0538 min
Design Voice PodcastProductive Collisions with Latoya Nelson Kamdang, Director of NY Operations, Moody NolanLatoya Nelson Kamdang is the Director of New York Operations for Moody Nolan. She is also a U.S. Fulbright Senior Scholar, Registered Architect, Certified Interior Designer, and LEED AP BD+C. Her experience spans architecture, planning, exhibit design, industrial and interior design. She has experience in hospitality, retail, museums, workplace, education, and institutional. Latoya was on the design team for the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African American History and Culture. While practicing, Latoya has been simultaneously working as a Visiting Associate Professor at Pratt Institute. She educates students on interdisciplinary design and material theory. She has a research...2022-03-3041 minNew Angle: VoiceFlorence Knoll: Total DesignWith her legendary unerring taste and a total commitment to produce absolute perfection in her self, her work, her products, and how she would be remembered, Florence Knoll is generally recognized as the single most powerful figure in the field of modern design. As an architect, Florence was the force behind the seamless integration of furniture, space, textile, art, graphic design into a perfect brand concept: Total Design. Her influence transcends the specific disciplines, she was the force integrating them, and in her work at the Knoll Planning Unit, she promulgated the values that still motivate architects and...2022-03-1437 minNew Angle: VoiceNorma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold HandNorma Sklarek had many “firsts”. She was often credited at the start of her career as the first Black Women architect to be licensed in the United States. That distinction actually goes to Beverly Greene – Norma was the 3rd. But it didn’t matter. Young black girls read her name in the likes of Ebony Magazine – a staple publication in every black household at the time – when she was included in their 1958 article on “Successful Young Architects”. As more and more discovered her career, she became their role model. Like so many women, then and now, she chose a management path. Achi...2022-03-1438 minNew Angle: VoiceFast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee ShopsWho hasn't had a burger and fries at a Denny's or Bob's Big Boy? There are thousands of them, not just in Los Angeles, where they were born, but across the country. These family restaurants are core to how America defined itself after World War II. Cars, families, space flight, modernism....the new world order.... And who defined that fun and futuristic look? Our pioneering LA woman architect: Helen Fong. She was born in 1927 in Los Angeles Chinatown where her immigrant parents ran a laundry that she often worked at as a child. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 18...2022-03-1430 minThe Kitchen Sisters PresentNatalie de Blois — To Tell the TruthNatalie de Blois loved systems – understanding how things worked. For her, it wasn’t just pretty buildings, she challenged the code and questioned the status quo. And like the buildings she designed, there was a certain complexity to Natalie herself. She was a woman of resilient beauty, inspiring yet distant, ahead of her time.
Natalie de Blois (1921–2013), a pioneering woman architect, contributed to some of the most iconic modernist works for corporate America, all while raising four children. After leaving a significant mark on post-war NYC Park Avenue, she transferred to the Skidmore Owings and Merrill Chicago office, w...2022-03-0148 minNew Angle: VoiceNatalie de Blois – To Tell The TruthNatalie de Blois (1921–2013) contributed to some of the most iconic modernist works for corporate America, all while raising four children. After leaving this significant mark on post-war Park Avenue, she transferred to the SOM Chicago office, where she became actively involved in the architecture feminist movement and was one of the leaders in the newly formed Chicago Women in Architecture advocacy group. Later, she finished her career as a professor at UT Austin, where she trained a future generation of architects. As an architect, Natalie loved systems – understanding how things worked. For her, it wasn’t just pretty buil...2022-02-1548 min
"I’ve never met a woman architect before..." podcast with Michele Grace Hottel, ArchitectEpisode 28: Interview with Danei Cesario, AIA, RIBA, NOMA of SOM #WFH #FashionThis is the sixth of the #WFH interviews and blogs that were started during the 2020 pandemic.Danei Cesario AIA, RIBA, NCARB, NOMA is the 333rd black female architect in American history. Hailing from Manchester, England, she is an internationally licensed architect, project manager, + public speaker. She is currently part of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), managing dynamic mixed-use development, healthcare + wellness projects. With over a decade of experience, her leadership has been a significant factor in repeat partnerships.Beyond the office, Danei’s passion for architecture + advocacy has led her to become a ch...2022-02-151h 32