We grapple with the recent “Post-Libertarian” vs. “Lolbert” schism in the broader liberty movement.
Are libertarian principles antithetical to achieving a libertarian society?
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View full show notes at http://anarchitecturepodcast.com/ana036.
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Visit the Anarchitecture Lounge at Porcfest! Tim Brochu, co-host of Anarchitecture Podcast, will host a Lounge activity hub (ANA) on site RV L42, where he will give a series of conversational talks over the weekend:
Thu 6/23 4:00 PM (Note the time change from the Porcfest Schedule)
Public Space: Not All Land Should Be Private
Fri 6/24 5:00 PM
Building a House: Land, Budget, Design, and Construction
Fri 6/24 6:00 PM
House-Hacking: Income, Energy, Function, & Form
(Plus a special presentation by co-host Joe Brochu (live from Australia) on self-hosted open-source home automation!)
Sat 6/25 10:00 AM
The State of Cities in 2022
Sat 6/25 11:00 AM
Private Cities and Intentional Communities
Can’t make it to a talk? Stop by the Anarchitecture Lounge anytime to say hi!
See below for full descriptions of each talk.
Continue readingWant to design a libertarian micronation?
Daniela Ghertovici, Founder and Director of ArchAgenda LLC, joins us to discuss the Liberland Design Competition 2020, which she is curating. https://designliberland2020.splashthat.com/
Daniela is also curating the Free Private Cities Architecture Symposium on July 18, 2020. It’s a free online event with no less than three former Anarchitecture guests: Patrik Schumacher, Titus Gebel, and Scott Beyer. Register now at https://freeprivatecitiesarchitecture.splashthat.com/
We can’t mention Patrik Schumacher without talking about parametricism, which ArchAgenda LLC was established to promote. Patrik is Daniela’s PhD advisor, and together with Lars Van Vianen they are launching Parametricism.com
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Continue readingIt is a regrettable coincidence that we released an Anarchitecture Podcast episode lightheartedly mocking certain “fears” about short-term rentals just hours before a shooting at an Airbnb unit in Orinda, California took the lives of five people on October 31, 2019. Our hearts are heavy for the families of Tiyon Farley, Omar Taylor, Ramon Hill Jr., Javin County, Oshiana Tompkins, and others who were injured.
However, some of the arguments we made in our episode can help to shed light on what was done wrong, by whom, and some possible approaches to reducing these kinds of risks in the future. In our Halloween episode #27 of Anarchitecture Podcast, titled “#ana027: 11 Spooky Fears About Short-Term Rentals – ASSUAGED!!!” I talked about my experience as an Airbnb host, and we addressed a list of concerns about short-term home rentals that have motivated bans and other legal restrictions on short-term rentals across the country. These “fears” ranged from effects on housing affordability to fire safety concerns to licensure requirements to noise and other nuisances. We concluded that there are generally building code and licensure requirements that place some reasonable limits on the number of occupants in a single-family home rental, and proposed a “home rental mediation” service to mediate nuisance complaints between hosts and neighbors.
Let’s start with some facts of the case as they have been reported:
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Tim and Joe review Anarchitecture’s interview with Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects (Episode #ana011), to clarify and highlight key points. We elaborate on topics including historical architectural styles, computer-generated design, parametric urbanism, and the challenges of promoting radical ideas.
Tim interviews Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, at the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery in London. Topics include:
The second of four episodes in our series about Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects. Tim and Joe review and critique the media responses to Patrik’s controversial presentation about housing at the World Architecture Festival in November 2016.
Two of these articles, by the Guardian’s Oliver Wainwright and architectural writer Phineas Harper, are presented for extended criticism.
We had a little too much fun with this one.
Topics include:
This is the first in a series of four episodes about Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, one of the world’s premier architecture firms. Patrik is also an author, professor, lecturer, and architectural theorist.
In November 2016, Patrik gave a presentation at the World Architecture Festival promoting libertarian and even anarcho-capitalist solutions to London’s housing crisis. In the midst of the media maelstrom that followed, Tim wrote a blog post, presented in this episode, that defined anarcho-capitalism and defended Patrik’s proposals.
Then things got interesting…
Saturday, November 15, 2008, 1:34 PM
Hi Dad,
After we talked a little about the economy on my birthday, I thought it would be helpful for me to write down my understanding of what has been going on for you. I also wanted to do this for myself to help organize my own thoughts. I was hoping to just do a quick write-up, but it turned into a 20-page essay that gets into a lot more detail. I tried to keep it non-technical without dumbing it down. I was also hoping to get into some predictions and investment advice, but I think 20 pages is long enough. I’d be happy to share my advice with you after you read this essay. Feel free to pass it on if you think anyone else would like to read it.
See you tomorrow!
Tim
November 15, 2008 (Dow 8,497)
In order to understand what is happening in the economy right now, it is important to have an understanding of economic principles and history. Far from being a “natural,” emotional market cycle, this crisis is the direct and inevitable result of a fraudulent monetary system forced upon the world by their governments and banks. This broad manipulation of economic activity has been further aggravated by more specific governmental interventions in many markets, most notably the housing market. This essay is divided into four sections: Economic Principles, History, The Housing Bubble, and End Game. The first two sections explain the general causes of the current downturn, and the second two sections chronicle the specific events that have resulted from those causes to lead to the present situation.
“When were you last in Hyde Park? How much are you actually using it? We need to know what it costs us!”
Patrik Schumacher might as well have suggested blowing up the moon when he proposed that Hyde Park in London should be privatized for development.
In a presentation at the World Architecture Festival 2016 in Berlin, Schumacher argued that London’s housing crisis is due to constraints imposed by government policies. In his “Urban Policy Manifesto,” he outlined eight “demands” for radical reductions of regulation and subsidies, and even private ownership of infrastructure and public spaces.
This polemic has predictably catapulted him into controversy, with some applauding his courage while others condemn his callousness, dubbing him “the Trump of architecture.”
But Schumacher is not some alt-right Twitter troll living in his parents basement. He is the Director of Zaha Hadid Architects, a 400-person international design firm that has produced some of the world’s most remarkable buildings of the last three decades, including the Heydar Aliyev Center in Azerbaijan and the London Aquatics Center for the 2012 Olympics. Schumacher was named Director after the untimely death in March 2016 of Dame Zaha Hadid, the groundbreaking Pritzker Prize winner whom Schumacher has worked alongside since 1988.
While he has clearly stated that his political views are his own and do not represent the firm (and the firm’s trustees have emphatically agreed), his position adds gravitas to what might otherwise be easily dismissed by the traditionally left-leaning architectural profession as irrelevant blasphemy.
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