A Lot You Got to Holler

Newcity Design Editor Ben Schulman and Zach Mortice
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Chicago architecture, urbanism, and design, brought to you by Newcity.

  1. 06/27/2017

    EP 15: The Night Chicago Died

    A Lot You Got to Holler is dead! For our last episode, we look ahead to Chicago architecture and urbanism to come: The Obama Library! 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial! Neoliberalism! Ben lets us in on how Uber but for architecture will work in the utopian future. (It's actually not terrible, we promise!). Zach looks back on his own checkered past as a naive proponent of not so great Postmodernism. Finally, we toast to the real A Lot You Got to Holler journey: the friends we made along the way. (That's you.) WE OUT. Special thanks to recording engineer Tim Joyce.

    33 min

  2. 05/16/2017

    EP 13: When Does the Present Become the Past? Talking Preservation with Lisa DiChiera of Landmarks Illinois

    It's a pretty wild time to be a historic preservationist, what with burgeoning preservation movements centered on building styles that few folks are sure they really like. (We're talking PoMo here.) As such, Lisa DiChiera takes us on a tour of all the Chicago buildings on Landmarks Illinois' 2017 list of most endangered places in the state before they're gone. Furthermore! Why we need to preserve buildings that aren't really even very old, the political fortunes of historic preservation in the Age of Trump, the sustainability ethos of preservation, and preservation's relationship to urban "authenticity" for the back-to-the-city gentrifiers. Special thanks to recording engineer Tim Joyce.

    1h 10m

  3. 03/15/2017

    Designing Urban Policy with Katherine Darnstadt

    Katherine Darnstadt's architecture firm Latent Design creates objects and urban systems, but it's biggest victories have come from pulling the upstream policy levers that set the context for what architecture can achieve. In her chat with Ben and Zach, Katherine comes out in favor of "extreme vetting" for architects, and how to structure your firm for equity and diversity. And hark! A new segment! A Lot You Got to Holler introduces "Qs for As," a series of rapid-fire questions that gets Katherine riffing on her favorite cities of the world and her least favorite architectural jargon. Special thanks to recording engineer Tim Joyce.

    56 min

  4. 02/23/2017

    EP 12: Who was Chicago's Edgar Miller?

    Edgar Miller is perhaps the most overlooked artist in the Chicago canon. Art was everywhere and everything to Miller, who used the city as his canvas through painting, woodworking, stained glass, sculpture, printmaking, iron working, industrial design and whatever materials fell his way. His expressionist, bespoke approach to design, art and architecture enlivens some of Chicago's (quietly) iconic spaces, from his Carl Street Studios to collaborations with Andrew Rebori on the Gold Coast's Frank Fisher Apartments. Miller's story embodies the movement of 20th century bohemia gliding across Chicago's landscape, from his early works in "Tower Town," adjacent to Bughouse Square, to his imprint on the nascent artistic enclave of Old Town, and to the rediscovery of his work - and his own personal artistic resurgence - in the 1980s and 1990s. For this episode of "A Lot You Got to Holler," co-hosts Ben Schulman and Zach Mortice look at the life and legacy of Edgar Miller with Zac Bleicher, the director of the Edgar Miller Legacy. You'll want to break out your phone as you listen and follow along with @edgarmillerart on Instagram. Special thanks to producer Tim Joyce.

    1h 5m

  5. 11/17/2016

    EP 10: A Trumpening for Urban Policy

    Now that a native New Yorker real estate agent is our president-elect, cities finally have the pro-urbanism voice in the White House they need! Right? NO EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE. How terrible? We ask Chicago urban policy ace Daniel Kay Hertz (@danielkayhertz) to explain how far the toilet we've flushed. Special thanks to recording engineer Tim Joyce.

    1h 9m

  6. 10/06/2016

    EP 9: Praise to the Squirrels! And Other Election Season Dystopian Fairy Tales

    For A Lot You Got to Holler's first election season special, co-hosts Zach Mortice and Newcity Design Editor Ben Schulman visit the totalitarian and poorly described world of Agenda 21, a book written by Glenn Beck, a conservative commentator known for his full heart, clear eyes, and tear-streaked cheeks; and Harriet Parke, a nurse of some literary renown. This dystopian artifact from 2012 describes a world in which an all-seeing authority uses clipboards and squirrel worship to manage every aspect of the population's life, forcing them to march on energy boards, recycle, ride around in pedicabs, and eat lots of soy. (It's basically a Silicon Valley spa retreat.) Zach and Ben are joined by returning guest and experienced discourser Bill Hogan to evaluate where this historical document of right wing anti-statism falls in the ascendent Age of Trump, how thousands of rural conspiracy theorists got really into obscure United Nations bylaws and non-binding resolutions, and how [solemn pause] a home-schooled girl is going to change the world. Special thanks to recording engineer Tim Joyce.

    58 min

  7. 09/07/2016

    EP 7: Cities, Where Data Lurks

    For A Lot You Got to Holler's first-ever live podcast, we shined a light on the most hidden and obscured element of urbanism that's changing how we interact with cities in every way: data. Invisible streams of 1's and 0's pour out of our transit systems, buildings, and utility infrastructure, and into our smartphones, giving us a more dynamic look at what's happening in our environment second-by-second. Hosts Zach Mortice and Newcity Design Editor Ben Schulman are joined by Chicago's own data czar, John Tolva, former City of Chicago Chief Technology Officer and President of Postive Energy Practice, on his last night in town before he moves to Denver with his family. With a crowd of design-lovers at The Chicago Design Museum, Tolva gives his pitch for why we need sensors clipped onto Divvy bikes, and why the snowplow tracker is the city's most popular website, all before he absconds to the Rockies in a U-Haul full of Chicago's data! Sponsored by The Chicago Design Museum and MAS Context. Special thanks to recording engineer Tim Joyce.

    49 min

  8. 08/31/2016

    EP 8: Landscape Redemption with Ernie Wong of Site Design Group

    The A Lot You Got to Holler Cavalcade of Firsts continues, when co-hosts Zach Mortice and Ben Schulman sit down with Ernie Wong of Site Design Group--the show's first ever landscape architect guest! On the agenda: shared streets in Uptown, Chicago's many, many basket-case ruins and slag pits, and an oft-overlooked question: Is shutting down the Dan Ryan and setting prairie grasses in its median on fire a good idea, or the greatest idea? The answer will shock you! Special thanks to recording engineer Tim Joyce.

    49 min
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Chicago architecture, urbanism, and design, brought to you by Newcity.

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  • Creator
    Newcity Design Editor Ben Schulman and Zach Mortice
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2017
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    A Lot You Got to Holler