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About Tricia Keffer
NBN Episodes hosted by Tricia:
Architecture
September 8, 2020
Primer of Ecological Restoration
Karen Holl
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
The pace, intensity, and scale at which humans have altered our planet in recent decades is unprecedented. We have dramatically transformed landscapes and waterways through agriculture, logging, mining, and fire …
Architecture
September 1, 2020
Motor City Green
A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit
Joseph S. Cialdella
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Joseph S. Cialdella's Motor City Green: A Century of Landscapes and Environmentalism in Detroit (University of Pittsburg Press, 2020) is a history of green spaces in metropolitan Detroit from the …
Architecture
August 25, 2020
DIY City
The Collective Power of Small Actions
Hank Dittmar
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Some utopian plans have shaped our cities —from England’s New Towns and Garden Cities to the Haussmann plan for Paris and the L’Enfant plan for Washington, DC. But these grand …
Architecture
July 22, 2020
Be Seated
Laurie Olin
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Today I talked to Laurie Olin about his book Be Seated (ORO Editions, 2017). Olin’s interest in public outdoor seating in parks and civic spaces revolves around two poles: the …
Architecture
July 17, 2020
Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value
R. Sroufe and S. Melnyk
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Robert Sroufe and Steven Melnyk's Developing Sustainable Supply Chains to Drive Value (Business Expert Press) provides a multi-perspective approach to sustainability and value chains to allow understanding from a variety …
Architecture
July 16, 2020
River Cities, City Rivers
Thaisa Way
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Today I talked to Thaisa Way, editor of River Cities, City Rivers (Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2018). Cities have been built alongside rivers throughout history. These rivers can …
Architecture
July 15, 2020
France Sketchbook
Laurie Olin
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
For centuries artists and designers have recorded places, people, and life in travel sketchbooks. Over a period of fifty years, Laurie Olin, one of America’s most distinguished landscape architects, has …
Architecture
July 10, 2020
Integrated Management
How Sustainability Creates Value for Any Business
Robert Sroufe
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Integration has been a key theme across the general management, organizational behavior, supply chain management, strategy, information systems and the environmental management literature for decades. Sustainability continues to be, at …
Architecture
June 5, 2020
Active Landscape Photography
Theoretical Groundwork for Landscape Architecture
Anne Godfrey
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
Photographs play a hugely influential but largely unexamined role in the practice of landscape architecture and design. Through a diverse set of essays and case studies, this seminal text unpacks …
Architecture
June 3, 2020
Unexpected Affinities
The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp
Pablo Meninato
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
While the concept of "type" has been present in architectural discourse since its formal introduction at the end of the eighteenth century, its role in the development of architectural projects …
Architecture
June 1, 2020
Reciprocal Landscapes
Stories of Material Movements
Jane Hutton
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible, urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces …
Music
May 18, 2020
Beyond Broadway
The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America
Stacy Wolf
Hosted by Tricia Keffer
On this episode, Lee Pierce (she/they) interviews Stacy Wolf of Princeton University about her book Beyond Broadway: The Pleasure and Promise of Musical Theatre Across America (Oxford University Press, 2019) …
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