Brute Force

This week on the podcast, Donna, Ken and Amelia discuss the uncertain future of downtown Atlanta's brutalist Public Library (the last building Marcel Breuer designed), how Shigeru Ban's relief efforts in Ecuador relate to his celebrity, and the emergence of a heavy-hitting lobbyist group for driverless cars in the US.

Shownotes:

News pieces discussed in this show:

• Google, Uber, Lyft, Ford and Volvo join forces to lobby for autonomous vehicles
• Shigeru Ban arrives in Ecuador to train locals in relief architecture
• Breuer's Brutalist library in downtown Atlanta faces demolition

The campaign to save Marcel Breuer's Grosse Central Pointe Library, started on Archinect

Venice Biennale director Alejandro Aravena: "Our challenge must be to go beyond architecture."