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LIVE! NOON! WEDNESDAY APRIL 16: WPKN 89.5fm Streaming wpkn.orgIn a strange housing market, the zeitgeist of the moment is depression. High interest rates, low supply, insane prices make anywhere around a city bizarrely inaccessible. This means building is harder, too. But some persist: Why?Why would you have the courage to risk so much time and money in such a market? Well, the hom

LIVE! NOON! Wednesday, March 19 WPKN 89.5fm STREAMING wpkn.orgWe all live somewhere. Our homes are as fundamental as our clothing, our food, just living. In the cultural shake-out of the 21st century, organized religion in America has taken a hit in membership, attendance, and relevance – but that change has been accompanied by the statistical revelation that over 80% of us are �

Wednesday, February 19, 2025 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.orgCensorship comes in many forms. We censor ourselves at family gatherings on politics. We cannot say prohibited words on WPKN radio shows. We even try to limit what can be taught, read at a library, or spoken about in public forums.For the second time in four years, the Federal Government will try to censor what it builds. Th

Wednesday, January 15, 2025 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.orgWe are in a time of change: climate, society, politics, technology: and buildings always adapt: but in the instant exposure of the Internet, is there anything “new” in how we conceive of buildings and architecture? Rather than performance (resilience, sustainability, energy efficiency) is there a different way building de

Wednesday, December 18, 2024 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.orgThe year is about to end. We are past COVID and the election. We are way beyond the awe of seeing our first Smart Phone, let alone the thrill of posting meaningless internet fodder. The advent of the 21st Century is old news.It is not yet the new year, new presidency, or anywhere near knowing how our culture will connect pos

Wednesday November 20, 2024 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM wpkn.orgEveryone has a place to live, but here in Connecticut and Long Island the costs of our places to live are extreme – so extreme that the culture around us is inundated with Real Estate Media: House sales and market rate rentals are now part of our daily media diet. What about the huge number of us who simply cannot afford th

Wednesday October 16, 2024, 12 Noon WPKN 89.5 FM www.wpkn.orgA century of top-down architectural determination is over. Regimes of conferring worth via station and prestige have been replaced with the number of “likes” and “followers” accruing as if the entire world is one polling station. We have reached intellectual democratization, where popularity trumps insights (good