 welcome you back to this sort of show of things like Hawaii's human human architecture. And us as your host is Soto Brown and me Martin this bank. So we're going back to wrapping up. It's going to be power of compare of having found out why we are so influenced by Chicago architecture. But we do this under the umbrella of sadness because this program is going to transition is there is a nice way as Jay called it and think take transition but it what it means it leads to discontinuing the weekly rhythm. And if so there will be a hot one. So we have three more to go until the end of the month. So we thought amongst many other things that we have pretty easy we can do we have to we always be used to wrap this year. So doing that we see here we go back to Chicago our patron and advocate Dan Kubrick my best buddy from college back then Nebraska whoever sends a move to Chicago and works for Helmut John who passed away a few years ago being run over by two cars on his bicycle. Dan not trying to repeat that walk to work and you see him here he provided that picture at the beginning of the year going to work from where he was previously which is the historic building in the very back there which was the jeweler's building or still is over the bridge to the Wrigley building. And you see how freaking cold that is was at that time. And it even made it into our start at the Tizer to just remind us how comfortable we have it here. So next slide is about one last time about Helmut John here in memory and best memories and also best memories left is me on my promotion tour trying to get Joey and Lenny and their father to join me here when I went to back to the U.S. in 2006 as it says that we had Dan in the cupola in the jeweler's building having a big city model and all the black ones are their building is their building and the building is the jeweler's building. So in this cupola according to rumors there's a lot of dead bodies buried because this was the headquarters of El Capone and El Capone then used the building as to get in with the cars and then hide somewhere. You can certainly see at the bottom right that Helmut might have been in the tradition of that building of that person because he looks like El Capone at the turn of the century. He poses there however where I go through and I just came back to Munich Airport Center because he as a German wanted to also leave footprints back home and so in the middle is the Lufthansa magazine from way back when he sort of rebranded his image so he was quite the man and quite the gentleman. You see Dan and him up there with a red scarf and you also see something really green sticking out and what is this about the soda and what does it remind us of here who might have been the equivalent from our memory and this gets us back full circle. One of our first shows was called Varsity Vanity so what's that connection? Well what we were talking about is the term you like to use and others do too is just a stark attack meaning an architect who is a well promoted star and in this case we've got a bright green very sharp and very fast portion and other architects have already made themselves known in the same way. I think once you get a lot of money and you get a lot of name recognition you want to show off and so there are other architects who have done the same things and remind me again what was the car it was a what was the brand of the car that we were talking about that was. So that was the Lotus. Pete Wimbley was racing on racetracks with Steve McQueen and so there's the same but Pete was the easy breezy the short wearing guy which quite a way in Dan also easy breezy in Nebraska when we're into college where the weather can sort of flip you know like you know like 40 degrees Celsius over a day he was always wearing shorts no matter what so we went to school it was sort of warmish by the time we got out of the air conditioned buildings it had snow to foot and he was just like stubbornly now plowing through in a short but again climate you know that's Dan the tough one but otherwise you know that's not that easy so you know mobility and immobility and mobile is also another show that we have to discontinue unless we find a way to continue it next slide what's absolutely critical and the study we will dedicate an entire second to last show next week is the absolute importance of architectural criticism for a city that deserves you know to call it being a city this is a colleague of ours that now we're all self critical and thinking you know how could we prevent this to be discontinued soon this is a Stuart Hicks who is from Chicago or in Chicago teaches there and also has a YouTube channel that many of us have watched you have watched it and me separate from each other he's doing a great job way more professional than we I have to say and way more views and probably way more funding so keep it running here and he points out here in the show about his his town of Chicago that the skyline is carefully calibrated because it allows to break out of the stupid as we call it the 400 feet height limit and so our next slide and another thing is and maybe to give us a little bit more sort of you know credibility and maybe what we are maybe doing a little bit better than then and then Stuart is that he's very much on culture we're very much on climate so we look at things from the scientific point of view of course in balance with poetry but that kind of combination that only nature seems to do that well so the difference between the two water cities is that the skyline of Chicago as you see it there is being hit by the morning sun which is not nearly as hot as the one that ours get hit by the setting sun I'm holding up that hideous postcard that this picks downtown our field of operation for friescaping showing it glowing and that glowing next slide maybe ironically tragically might have been the inspiration for how it used here depicted by Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie as his reflecting glaring his sunglasses as for the glaring you know microwave towers that you see on the right go figure and next slide that's what we're wrapping up you know caca aca we found out is dominated by the Chicago firm of Solomon port will be wins they have built most of the high rises now they also come out of the bushes to tell us which project architects were behind it and this building is the victoria place that replaced our beloved board warehouse not in the same genetic code here you see kind of lame to begin with because you should have done the nice they do these uh Romeo and Juliet windows and what's the point to go through the extra effort and money to make a sliding glass to start you know doors to then put very criticized of us if there's anything that you learn from our 300 and a quarter a hundred uh you know shows is down to glass guard rail and they did it so what puzzles does it because where is this project architect from oh you're asking me oh you're asking me well who is this one this one this is this is the man from england and we're gonna be talking about we're gonna be talking about people coming from where they come from and what perhaps what influences those are but what we're seeing in this Howard Hughes the landscape that now exists is a bunch of different people in some cases possibly just hired because they were well known who are coming here to Honolulu to try to build inhabited buildings and how appropriate are they and in many cases unfortunately they're not appropriate yeah and next slide the the next project partner is happening to come from Italy and we see what Jay and Scott Wilson have used as a backdrop for a show about seven years ago is the Bosco Veriti Collet the vertical forest building tower that is temperate climate so we found this hideous well it's not hideous it is what it is but given the circumstances it gets snowed in we don't have that snow here but you know so he doesn't take advantage of you know one of the most famous buildings that he hadn't designed but that he should be aware of because it's where he comes from so next slide instead he designs things like that which we talked about never mind next slide and now Howard Hughes is rushing it somehow their window is closing so they have to pop out the last four this is one they're not ashamed to kind of brand it and this this gets strange because they talk about what you talked about the last two shows which are archived in the docomomo playlist which is the capital somehow the columns at the bottle but otherwise this has nothing to do with a capital but what you see here is what's most in your face is next slide which seems to be the underlying theme which goes back to the building by there by Ricardo Bofill when they have been doing the gradient barrel store on Michigan Avenue on the other side of the river this building was going up in which kind of the downfall of a great architect who ended up tragic in neoclassicism with that theme of so many floors making like a ribbon bellow straight around it a rapid which is pure decoration and that seems to be the theme that goes through many if not to say most of the buildings as we line them up behind a row next slide talking neoclassicism they go there too this is going to replace the last sort of local piece which is called Ward Center which is where the last shop are you know run by local people for a little money you know for little tourists cut the big high end ones that's going to go down and be replaced by this one here and you know this gets memories like the Ali place is a postmodern piece of pig or these you know timeshare towers that curt ripped apart rightly so this has nothing to do with our mid-century modern masters run lint ban show called top ride cultivated classicism and you know the the other most important show that shame on us we were you know shying away from comparing you know skins of the human skin and the one we wrap around clothing and the third skin facade our working title address code addressing codes for that it is like this tory reached our coffee code with a tropical pattern on which is rather silly as they both are this kind of second and the third skin next slide trying to you know still have maybe something we can draw from chicago which is you know leaving buildings naked which they can't do we can do or a pretty naked at building is marina tower or on the right which is interesting because next to genie gangs who we gave the most credit and the most shown with her coola that was she she tried the most but she didn't try hard enough and this one here the scent regions which is the tall tower that has no lanais although her aqua tower before that had but that neighboring building to the right is together with his associated firm that they started the aqua tower and that has one nice wrapped around it's very similar to my new place that I moved in yesterday which has to do with a shore and the sea and has one nice wrapped around and it's from 1967 these good days glorious days that we need to bring back next slide an architect that Neil Abercrombie or former governor was calling out and saying hey he should have done a tower that was breaking the height limit that's rental piano rental is known talking star architect he's probably maybe the most promising if not the best among the star architects because he's not a formalist but a performatist and environmentally friendly he has done the shard high rise at the bottom left but she can stay as a reinterpretation of the uh trans amp building that is currently also shame I would have done we would have done the show because we sent me back to Germany via san francisco so the trans amp building in san francisco top left is currently under revamping and reanimation by norman foster who we talked about a lot who used to be his partner initially with the stontre pompe do that we see at the top he has also done the new york timespilling at the turn of the uh millennium and century in the center of the column at the bottom and also he was on the patsama plant as the horizontal image at the at the right column in the middle he is a helmet that's a very right one the glass one in the middle is hands color and in the left is rental piano but more importantly although near honolulu north chicago has one by renzo piano but they have a museum by him which is the art institute which you see down there which we on on me on behalf of us was happened to be seen under construction uh in 2009 at his test there and doesn't it look like we could have that here because it's an umbrella right it's a big shading roof with shading louvers that blocks out the sun but left through the light so we're jealous of chicago because they already have a little renzo going to tropical renzo next slide uh this photo is um one in the fellow tropics that we call because of mainly political reasons the trouble tropics which is miami there is a recently uh completed a renzo piano residential tower and while it they have one eyes all the way around it's good but also it's a little deficient because we see this rendering with a with a sun going pretty deeply into it and on the previous slide if you would go back and the show wants to sort of upload it um you see oh thank you yeah at the bottom in the center in the middle there's a there's a there's a there's a web quote to who uh Kurt sandburn our last professional or real architectural critic calls his friend uh who is Fred Bernstein and Fred Bernstein uh charges his fellow architectural critics and saying don't just look at how much energy a building consumes in operation but also be honest about how much energy it consumed uh through a building process which he called the the gray energy right that's what you call the embodied energy and so we should look into that too and you know he calls out some projects by renzo piano one agrees around the acropolis that doesn't look so good on that one so everyone has to learn that even the star architects and so much more the emerging generation next slide of course in terms of you know the legacy of architectural or the next one after that one michael please this is that yeah this is the one that we could associate us the most with this is a new caledonia around the turn of the century millennium this is a cultural center so this evokes memories of oh this would be cool if renzo would bless us with something like that and next slide this is what history has blessed us with multitude of buildings there's the reliance building that always mesmerized me ever since i saw it first in the early 90s when i was when i went to school with dan and our first field trip to one my first city ever in america west chicago the reliance building is a steel skeleton and opens up you have more glass than than anything else right so then that was the precursor for the bow house that we see below it right and you know the the noisewanstein cancels that was built around the same time as your helis uh this photo that you reported on in the last two shows was missing out on that and probably the most is actually my castle back in an over which is a neogothic building at the bottom right and again your castle at the top right because mine is doing a thermal mass which is appropriate and tempered yours is a little night all the way around so it's always it's shading itself so as one of the utmost challenges which is climate change it does a real good job but what's the second most if not more i mean equally uh relevant next slide what is that what's that affordability well this is this is the problem that many people are facing and of course it's acute here in honolulu but amazingly in some other cities in the united states this is also true so the question is how do we deal with i mean we talk about architecture as being livable and uh suns and sun and shade and things like that but most crucially is how people afford it and it isn't purely just looks it isn't just performance it's how do you make it so that people can afford to find places to live and that is something that we're just addressing right here yeah and while you know we can't remind you of that on a weekly basis anymore but what comes in around the same time that we used to be on the show is stanley chang with his newsletter so he's going to continue so listen to stanley because he's going to call this out okay so how it's how are you doing that next slide we already know there was the kei kilohana that didn't go so well so now make sure there's the quota not just of basically you know affordable housing but also local architect here comes architect hawaii so once again a glass box a same old warehousing the workforce and the only kind of fancy stuff is what looks like teardrops and it made us cry and next slide because what's also important that you open your yourself to peer reviewers from somewhere else so who do we had with us and who taught us his opinion about that well this is your friend or my new friend uh also from germany who came to visit and uh we got to get we got together at bishop museum uh thomas and we got to uh i got to show him around and one of the things i got to show him was the traditional hawaiian holly which is the only surviving one in the world which is located in hawaiian hall and bishop museum and we've got to talk about how livable it is how it's constructed what it is what what materials it's made of things like that which are traditional to hawaii culture and again that's a response on the behalf on the part of the indigenous people on how to live using the the material you have in your environment and also to survive but be comfortable so these are again the types of things that we always talk about in terms of where do our building materials come from how affordable are they all of these other things which again are not purely architecture but are based on what humans need yeah yeah and so as you can tell from the look of his face he was not convinced that that affordable high rise is in the tradition of the holly that you show them from your ancestors and this is one of the biggest conflicts of interest we have here we don't talk sorry and we don't do a real talk we are hiding things and we're kind of hiptoeing around and we have that in the school of architecture as well there's our interim dean who has to give out award village foundation award to the students which is great but is then the donor of this award which is how are you willing to take back and to be given back as the emerging generation telling them how maybe to do it better this is not happening and this is actually what also was the nail in the coffin for Kurt Sandburne because addressing that thing was the last article he ever wrote for civil beef because before he got pulled and someone must have gone to Omegar and said this guy is you know too critical so maybe shut him up you know this is this is tragic and next slide you know Howard Hughes not being ashamed to kind of brand their their microwaves with your culture's names and some weird stories here it's about some weaving and we think this building by Edwin Bauer who was a holly back in the 60s has way more weaving going on this is the lagoon tower than that Howard Hughes high rise there so go back to real so next slide repping up is you know maybe we need to pull us out of our disciplines to do other ones so do it in the world of movies while Chicago is related to Batman actually the batman begin movie was shot at the cupola of you know I'll Capone's and Helmut yon's you know Wrigley building sorry Juro's building of course and then you know the Guardian here is peer reviewing him as the sign of hope as the flash Gordon architecture so what's the equivalent of of darkness for us in Hawaii next slide and we you know many things we continue to have to do we have to call up James Cameron and ask him if we're right that when he was sending his crew to Kauai to immerse themselves in the jungle for the avatar world if he went through Honolulu and drove through kakaako and depicted as the bridgehead city in his so these are all thoughts from a year ago the spring semester last year we kicked off in Germany and watch avatar our team did it here and then solidate slide oh yeah your your dog is cheerleading that so the next one is like okay here in the in the commercial in the mercantile realm there is this thing you can buy this silhouette on Etsy that in a very simplified you know purified way shows well we got that sort of you know artificial built environment in the center but then when it's sort of disintegrates to the side it gets more gentle with your palace and your capital again and then it shows hammocks between palm trees it shows swing palm trees and turf for it so it implies right build the city as the beach next slide and you know being critical about your culture is something that are in verge colleague Martin Ancelini that we did many shows about his brilliant proposal for rebuilding La Hina he puts himself out there as being Oscar nominated right he's so here's the guardian again he's reviewing that because he was a consultant in the Encanto movie that he wanted his culture to be depicted in not how people already know it through the media through drugs and war and crime and all this misery but for his twin daughters they're here with him he wanted to give them hope and saying no our culture has more and yeah on the right in the in the middle on the right I found some criticism that is questioning that it's being culturally appropriate but again if you make it into at the bottom right your consultancy being sold like in Target there's a dollhouse by Encanto I think you picked off the right discussion next slide as you know Cameron was criticized as having misappropriated Polynesian cultures and he said well at least I started a discussion so what can we pull from this architecturally maybe that tectonics and gravity are over as you know kakaako shows and because it has to do with compression so there's pressure while how can you release that through basically you know tense integrity through tensile systems that you pull and it's way lighter and it goes to the degree that our you know emerging generation then you know makes martin martin and avatar and martin and martin martins and martins or avatars here and we will do that actually now in the remaining weeks of think deck and the remaining weeks of this school we have the unique opportunity thanks to john cross thanks john to merge the travel industry students with the architectural students to fully go in parallel our grad students next slide as kandell lennard was here taking on the cake hello hannah that failed so tragically and basically revamp it with bringing back the hawaiian culture of you know fish ponds and he wraps them around the building with etf efoils this is the stuff you know as from bottom up basically grassroots like just like kelly akina you know one of the you know inaugural hosts of think deck hawaii his grassroots institutes it needs to come from the bottom up but it also needs to come from top down and that's the last slide and where are we going with that solo we are going towards oh we're going towards a whole bunch of different things and we're we're paying homage to joint johnson the rock and he's one of our favorite guys because not only did he live here and he lived in a small easy breezy apartment from which he and his parents had to be evicted unfortunately but he's one of our he's one of our people that we like one of the people also from here who's very famous of course is barack obama and he has just recently completed his home uh in uh along the coast in why manalo which is unfortunately not of the type that we would like to see and one of the ironic things of course is that along that coastline where his new expensive home is there are a number of homeless people living in shelters and living in their own crude structures that they have built along with tents and things like that so we've got those two types of we've got those two personalities here that we look to as not only is for leadership but also what their attitudes are and we have a fantasy that joint johnson must someday may be president but that's not for us to say well or at least he will be the patron for friescaping here as we call this sort of intervention and he has you know additional qualification as upright the skyscraper movie so he's not only familiar through as he told us i mean as everyone on his youtube that he did himself and posted where he is sitting in front of the leona apartments by the kashi anbi that again because of the tragic you know happening of having been evicted you know he looks back in a in a sort of mixed feelings but again he he talks about the high rise he wanted to live in which is across the door which wasn't quite as which he couldn't see as a kid so now we try to talk to him and saying hey high rises yeah an easy breezy high rises that you know so hopefully so we have to call him up we have to call up james tamron uh everyone before we call barric because again as you pointed out so that's going to be the top down strategy in addition to the bottom up so that being said thank you for having been with us today for that again next week we're going to dive deeply into uh you know the remaining time we have over the weekend to prepare and make more the case why architectural criticism and an architectural critic who doesn't you know need to be uh you know us because we've been there done it and kurt has been done there so he's going to step up to the table and beg over because every city that deserves to be a city needs an architectural critic okay see you for that next week and until then stay healthy and happy bye bye aloha we want to announce that think tech hawaii is moving into a new phase and will not be producing regular talk shows after april 30th we will retain our website and youtube channel and will accept new content on an ad hoc basis we are also developing a legacy archive program to provide continuing public access to our content if you can help us cover the costs of the transition and the development of our legacy archive program please make a donation on think tech away.com thanks so much aloha