Engines Podcast
Engines of Our Ingenuity 2531: Reading Vienna
Posted on · Episode: 2531 Reading Vienna – A history through architecture. Today, we read Vienna.
Posted on · Episode: 2531 Reading Vienna – A history through architecture. Today, we read Vienna.
Posted on · Episode: 2344 Transco/Williams Tower, your perfect neighborhood skyscraper. Today, a lone skyscraper.
Posted on · Episode: 1940 In which Harriet Beecher Stowe and her sister build a model house to pay for a mansion. Today, architectural historian Margaret Culbertson tells us about a cabin, a mansion, and a model home.
Posted on · Episode: 2313 Herman Sörgel’s Atlantropa project: Lebensraum from a lowered Mediterranean. Today, we rewrite geography.
Posted on · On Tuesday's show: Five years after Hurricane Harvey we discuss what's been done to recover from the storm, how architecture and design could play a role in preventing flooding, and whether home buyouts after flood events truly work.
Posted on · Episode: 2289 The rise and demolition of New York’s first skyscraper. Today, the skyscraper arrives.
Posted on · On Thursday's show: The county's plans to sue the state over the latest audit of its elections, potential laws designed to stop abortion-related travel, the lack of air conditioning in Texas prisons, and the stories behind Houston's skyline.
Posted on · On Thursday's show: Local municipalities are taking action to prepare for more intense heat in the coming days. Then we learn why expiring corporate tax incentives will cost Texas taxpayers billions of dollars. Plus: Using architecture to prevent flooding, and Tiffany Derry of The Great American Recipe.
Posted on · On Friday's show: How Houston fared in international trade and business in 2021, plans to restore natural prairie around town, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of the week, and how bees have influenced human architecture.
Posted on · On Tuesday's show: Inside the latest allegations against the state's attorney general, a conversation with Congressional candidate Mike Siegel, journalist Peter Baker discusses the career of James Baker, and the concept of architectural activism.
Posted on · Houston Matters examines the task of renovating historic buildings and the process that goes into them.
Posted on · Chevron's decision to demolish the Shelor Motor Company Building, built in 1928, was met with resistance. But what place does preservation have in Houston?
Posted on · Photographer Bronson Dorsey tells Houston Matters about his book of photography called Lost, Texas.
Posted on · The sleek, natural-light-filled building blends institutional and domestic design.
Posted on · The city itself — skyscrapers, homes and factories — snagged the moist air of Hurricane Harvey and caused more rain to fall. Two new studies detail how humans are making hurricane flooding worse.