DESIGN NOW: Cultural Collisions

Words & Creation

7 AM, Saturday, October 3, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Words and design are part of our humanity: Poetry is to Prose what Beauty is to Building. Architects like me aspire

The New Mobocracy of Design

7 AM, Saturday, September 5, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Our mirrors have changed. We are living the reversal of two centuries of criticism and journalism. It is a time o

The Terrifying Necessity of the Hand

7 AM, Saturday, August 1, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Artificial Intelligence is the latest Kill Shot to our Analog Humanity. We let the electrons do the walking (and thi

A Terrible Time For History

7 AM, Saturday, July 4, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Urbanist & Thought Leader Andres Duany, Historian & Architect Mark Alan Hewitt and Critic & Editor Martin Pedersen in

Why We Build

7 AM, Saturday, June 6, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org What are aesthetics without profit, transaction and personality? We create buildings to accommodate our desires. They

“Style” In Architecture: Cultural Cosplay?

7 AM, Saturday, May 2, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Since Profit tore down McKim Mead & White’s Pennsylvania Station in New York City more than 60 years ago, the “Historic

Are There “Manifestoes” Anymore?

7 AM, Saturday, April 4, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org What is a “Manifesto”? The Declaration of Independence is one. Martin Luther’s 95 Theses another, but in art and arch

QUA CLADDING?

7 AM, Saturday, March 7, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org We live with the outsides of everyone else’s buildings. The bulk and size is often what we notice most, but what mate

FINDING THE SACRED

7 AM, Saturday, February 7, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Everyone of us are directly confronted the fact of sacred space – it’s encounter, appreciation, even creation. Som

DESIGN: VISIONING COMMUNITY

7 AM, Saturday, January 3, 2026 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org There is political urgency in the Housing Crisis: There is academic fascination with Urban Design: There is popular

FINDING GOLD IN THE WHITE HOUSE

7 AM, Saturday, December 6, 2025 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Every President leaves a mark on the White House. Truman’s Balcony. Jackie’s Rose Garden. FDR’s East Wing. Design

DESIGN & THE HOUSE

7 AM, Saturday, November 1, 2025 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org The house is the “Ur” building – the most essential architecture: it is the one place that every human has, and kn

DESIGN: CHANGE

FIRST SHOW! 7AM, Saturday, October 4, 2025 WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.org Time is as undeniable as gravity. Design is as human as history. Creators are as idiosyncratic as any as