Kurt Kohlstedt

A Tiny Radio Show About Design with Roman Mars

Bermuda has a reputation for being a luxurious tourist destination, but visitors to the island’s posh hotels might miss out on a key resource restraint that drives local architectural design: a lack of water. 99% Invisible listener Amy Daniels wrote in to explain how the absence of freshwater lakes and streams coupled with annual hurricanes

A Tiny Radio Show About Design with Roman Mars

A Tiny Radio Show About Design with Roman Mars

A Tiny Radio Show About Design with Roman Mars

When you own a home, water is your greatest enemy. So much work is put into keeping water from coming in– and so much engineering is built into getting whatever water that inevitably seeps in, back out again before it pools and causes rot. 99% Invisible 99% Vernacular: Volume 1 Episode 500 99% Vernacular: Volume

The story starts with the mayor of a Prussian city, who wrote to the famous mathematician Leonhard Euler with a question: how could one walk through Königsberg without crossing any of its bridges twice? At first, Euler thought this question trivial, but the “Seven Bridges of Königsberg Problem” and its (lack of) solution helped pave

A Tiny Radio Show About Design with Roman Mars

Funiculars are great, which is why the main image from our previous train episode featured one — except we didn’t actually talk about that one during the show. It’s a cable car from Wellington, and as it turns out it’s one of hundreds of funiculars in this city. Roman and Kurt are back with another

A Tiny Radio Show About Design with Roman Mars