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USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love
by USModernist Radio
Listen to one of America's top-rated architecture podcasts as the USModernist® Radio crew talks and laughs with fascinating people who own, create, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most controversial houses and buildings in the world.
Episodes
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#478/Day 1 with Jim Stevens + Architect Max Strang + Critic Philip Kennicott + Musical Guest Rick Maltese
Jim Stevens is the brand new dean of the University of Arkansas's Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design and we caught him on Day 1. Max Strang in Florida talks about his latest Modernist house. Philip Kennicott, the Pulitzer Prize-winning art and architecture critic of The Washington Post,...
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#477/Dimitry Vergun + Florida's Don Singer + Saarinen's Concordia Seminary + Musical Guest Jen Ash
Dimitry Vergun, who passed away last month, was an architect, earthquake expert, and structural engineer behind some of California's most audacious houses. Architect Don Singer, one of the last living midcentury Modernists in Florida has a huge legacy of houses you can see on USModernist. Then we...
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#476/John Lautner: Jan-Richard Kikkert + Tycho Saariste + David Mauer + Elizabeth Godley + ADFF's Kyle Bergman + Musical Guest Nicole Zuraitis
We're on today with two special guys from the Netherlands, Jan-Richard Kikkert and Tycho Saariste, the Lewis and Clark of architectural exploration, going to visit nearly all the John Lautner houses in the world. Next, David Mauer and Elizabeth Godley are bringing one of those Lautner houses back...
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#475/Lost Raleigh: Mary Ruffin Hanbury + Ian Dunn + Max Bond: Brian Goldstein + Jeweler Sarah Hill + Musical Guest Karen Myatt
Right here in Raleigh NC, like every town, there are buildings mostly lost to history. But not every town has a book, and today in the studio we'll talk with preservationists Mary Ruffin Hanbury and Ian Dunn about the Lost Moderns of Raleigh. Author Brian Goldstein tracks the work of architect…
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#474/Herb Greene with Lila Cohen + AIANY's Jesse Lazar + Futurama: Monica Penick + Musical Guest Harin W
Herb Greene is a giant in the field of organic architecture, and his great-niece Lila Cohen is making a long-awaited documentary about his life and work. Jesse Lazar is Executive Director of AIA New York, one of the largest and most active chapters in the country. Monica Penick talks about her…
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#473/New Canaan Modernism: Builder David Prutting + Architect Sacha Roubeni + Musical Guest Carrie Marshall
Let's visit one of our favorite Modernist cities, New Canaan CT. It's a town full of Modernist houses made famous by architects called The Harvard Five others - and today we'll talk with David Prutting, the New Canaan contractor who's built many Modernist houses over the last 50 years. Then we'll...
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#472/Steven Holl + Dimitra Tsachrelia + Authors Robert Ivy, Cathleen McGuigan, Peter MacKeith + Musical Guest Halie Loren
Today's episode brings together some big names in design: architects Steven Holl and Dimitra Tsachrelia, then authors Robert Ivy, Cathleen McGuigan, and Peter MacKeith discussing their new book Out There: Architecture Across America. And later, returning podcast guest, for whom we swoon, Halie...
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#471/Cameron Hassid + Darren Kelly + Patrick Cannon + Musical Guest Nicole Lvoff
Cameron Hassid bought a bankrupt, boarded-up Richard Neutra apartment building in Los Angeles and turned its restoration into a second career. Bay area architect Darren Kelly is an expert on Rush Creek Village, Ohio's little-known Usonian-inspired community, and the author of a new book. Author...
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#470/Authors Trig Thoreson + Owen Hopkins + Craig McDonald + Gusical Guest Lucy Woodward
It's author day on the show. Trig Thoreson wrote a biography of architects Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham. Owen Hopkins wrote a book on Brutalist buildings in London. Craig McDonald wrote Mid-Century Modern Midland, exploring the architectural history of Midland, Michigan. Later, returning...
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#469/Christopher Hawthorne + Internet Archive's Chris Freeland + Kitty Kallen via Jonathan Granoff
Christopher Hawthorne spent fourteen years as the L.A. Times' architecture critic before becoming Los Angeles's first-ever Chief Design Officer. Chris Freeland runs Library Services at the Internet Archive, leading the charge to keep our digital past from fading away, and later, musical guest…
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#468/Children of Genius: Christen Johansen + Ben Colburn + Musical Guest Veronica Swift
It's our Children of Genius edition – part of a long-running series interviewing the kids of famous architects. First up, not falling far from the tree, architect Christen Johansen, son of Harvard Five member John Johansen in Connecticut's epicenter of Modernism, New Canaan. Next, Ben Colburn — a...
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#467/Anne Fougeron + Laurinda Spear + Musical Guest Aviana Gedler
On today's episode, architect Anne Fougeron spent thirty years proving that architecture can be both beautiful and socially responsible — and the New York Times named her Suspension House one of the thirteen best modern homes in the world. Laurinda Spear co-founded Arquitectonica in a...
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#466/AIA's Carole Wedge + Julia Jamrozik / Coryn Kempster + Darcy Frank MacKay
There's no business like the architecture business, and the AIA chose out first guest Carole Wedge as CEO to lead their 98,000 members. Architects Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster make cool swing sets and pipe installations - and they wrote a book about kids who grew up in Modernist houses.…
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#465/Richard Saul Wurman + Kim Hoagland Fights for the White House + Musical Guest Quinn Lemley
We talk with the brilliant author and architect Richard Saul Wurman, who wrote more than ninety books, founded TED talks, and pretty much created the field of information architecture. Architectural historian Kim Hoagland sues Donald Trump over the East Wing demolition, and musical guest, the...
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#464/Ellen Mirro + Howard Miller + Dominic Bradbury + Andy Cohen + Musical Guest Steve Holt
On this episode, Ellen Mirro and Howard Miller of Studio TJP; then Dominic Bradbury, author of a new book on the style we all love to love, Nordic modernism. Next Andy Cohen: a magician, business strategist, and NYU professor who argues that architects and illusionists are in exactly the same...
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#463/Will Bruder + Alex Josephson + Greg Case + Off Grid with Suzy Cash
Will Bruder is a celebrated architect that never went to architecture school, but he became one of the most respected architects in America through apprenticing to Paolo Soleri and Gunnar Birkerts. Alex Josephson quit London's most prestigious architecture program mid-degree and struck out on his...
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#462/Patrik Schumacher + Elias Tabache + Musical Guest Karrin Alyson
On today's episode, international architect Patrik Schumacher, CEO of Zaha Hadid Architects; Elias Tabache shares beautifully shot house videos of his Open Space platform, and later, musical guest Karrin Allyson.
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#461/USModernist Retro: Ernst Wagner + Eric Lloyd Wright
We're revisiting conversations with two special guests who have passed away since these interviews were recorded — architect Paul Rudolph's partner Ernst Wagner and Frank Lloyd Wright's grandson, architect Eric Lloyd Wright. Ernst Wagner died in 2024 at 81. A Swiss exchange student who came to…
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#460/Children of Genius: Jennifer Lapidus + Jenny Jacks Shreve + Musical Guest Stacey Kent
In another of our wildly popular series, Children of Genius, we talk with family of famous architects, starting with Jennifer Lapidus, granddaughter of Morris Lapidus who reshaped Miami with hotels like the Fontainebleau. Next, Jenny Jacks Shreve, daughter of Arkansas architect Ernie Jacks, who...
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#459/Architect Tom Phifer + Author Alastair Gordon + Musical Guest Jeanie Bryson
Acclaimed architect Tom Phifer builds around light, with three decades designing buildings that make walls feel invisible. Author Alastair Gordon has written more than 28 books and knows all the midcentury Modern houses in the Hamptons that shaped American architecture. Jeanie Bryson spent…
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#458/Elizabeth Gordon's 1953 Bombshell with Monica Penick + Goff with Alison Fisher + Musical Guest Naema Gheber
Elizabeth Gordon was editor-in-chief of House Beautiful. In April 1953 she published an influential and controversial editorial that rocked the architecture world, presenting Modernism as uncomfortable, impractical, and like communism a threat to American cultural values. We'll talk with author...
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#457/The US Embassy in Dublin: Cormac Murray + Norman McGrath + Christen Johansen + Laurence Lafforgue
On this special edition of USModernist taped live earlier this year at the Onera Foundation in New Canaan CT, we explore diplomacy through Modernist architecture with three guests: Dublin architect Cormac Murray gives a talk on John Johansen's US Embassy in Dublin; legendary photographer Norman...
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#456/Tom Gluck + Nick Ferrell + Mark Lamster + Special Musical Guest Jon Secada
New York architect Tom Gluck of GLUCKplus, son of architect Peter Gluck, takes us behind the scenes of projects from prefab high-rises in Manhattan to his Tower House in upstate New York. Nick Ferrell brings the history of Modernist lighting design in Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern...
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#455/Uruguay with David Coffey + Neutra with Cindy Olnick + Musical Guests Lenore Raphael and Chris Hodgkins
In Bakersfield CA, David Coffey preserves two houses one by Neutra, and one by Wright, but today we talk about his passion, Modernism in Uruguay. In Los Angeles, Cindy Olnick stewards the Neutra Institute. Later on, jazz duo Lenore Raphael and Chris Hodgkins reunite for their joyful new album,...
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#454/NCModernism with Phil Szostak and Ben Taylor + Musical Guests Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
We're talking about North Carolina, our home state. Architect Phil Szostak has shaped some of the state's most prominent cultural spaces and houses. Architect Ben Taylor's long career starting in the 1950's has left a lasting mark across North Carolina. Later, it's straight out of Birdland with...
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#453/Modernism in Ukraine with Dmytro Soloviov + Ben Wever + Hallie Swensen + Robert Stone
Imagine doing Modernist preservation – in a war zone. Dmytro Soloviov documents Ukraine's modernist architecture. Ben Wever cares for one of America's modernist treasures, the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana. Hallie Swenson uncovers the stories of San Diego Modernism, and architect Robert Stone...
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#452/USModernist Retro: Bjarke Ingels + Musical Guest Halie Loren
We dug into the podcast vault for one of the most successful and admired architects in the world, Bjarke Ingels of BIG. Later, we swoon over jazz vocalist Halie Loren.
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#451/Steve Young + Megan Reilly + Musical Guests Eric Stabnau and the Glenn Miller Orchestra
Ready for a dose of music, design, and spectacle? Steve Young digs up wild, forgotten midcentury industrial musicals and somehow makes them catchy again. Megan Reilly turns WestEdge LA into a playground of design, ideas, and inspiration. And Erik Stabnau keeps the venerable Glenn Miller Orchestra...
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#450/American Versailles with Natalie Morath + Modernist Renovations with Linda Brettler and Marcos Santa Ana + Musical Guest John Pizzarelli
Archivist Natalie Morath is keeper of Eero Saarinen's GM Technical Center history, bringing the amazing campus to life for yet another generation of fans. Linda Brettler renovated Raphael Soriano's 1964 Grossman House, and Marcos Santa Ana transformed the Wagoya House. Later, musical guest John...
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#449/Chris Roman + Ed Dimenberg and Crosby Doe + Holland Murphy + Musical Guest Claudia Burson
Chris Roman designs a Modernist fire station in Richmond VA. Authors Edward Dimendberg and Crosby Doe share the story of the breakout project for Richard Neutra, the Lovell Health house in Los Angeles. Holland Murphy investigates an architectural mystery in Dallas, and from northwest Arkansas,...
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#448/Joe Massaro's Wright Stuff + Corbett Jones + Glenn Kurtz's New York + Musical Guest Jenna Esposito
Joe Massaro brought an unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright design to life and weathered 20 years of criticism from Wright purists; Corbett Jones share his new documentary on Arts and architecture magazine and the Case Study Houses; Glenn Kurtz gracked down the men in Lewis Hine's iconic Empire State...
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#447/USModernist Radio Retro: Where No Furniture Has Gone Before + Special Musical Guest Jennifer Warnes
We've dug into the podcast vault for the story of Star Trek's furniture. Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek launched a franchise in 1966 and is still going strong 60 years later. Sequels, movies, toys, fan films - there's just no end to Star Trek's bright, progressive, optimistic future where Earth has...
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#446/Carin Carlson + Tim Mitchell + Author Anthony Alofsin + Nevada's Paige Figanbaum + Musical Guests Naomi and her Handsome Devils
Architects Carin Carlson and Tim Mitchell from Hennebery Eddy Architects restore mid-century and Mission 66–era architecture. Anthony Alofsin, one of the world's leading authorities on Frank Lloyd Wright, joins us to talk about his new book, Frank Lloyd Wright's Bogk House and reveals his new,...
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#445/Two Gentlemen Admiring Architecture: Australia's Tim Ross + UK's Kevin McCloud + Musical Guest Leigh Pilzer
Kevin McCloud and Tim Ross are hosts of Tim and Kev's Big Design Adventure, a globe-trotting podcast centered on people, places, architecture, and design. Later, baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer, whose powerful sound has anchored ensembles from the DIVA Jazz Orchestra to the immortal Tommy…
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#444/Lawrence Kocher with Ines Martin Robles and Luis Pancorbo + Steven Hurtt on Colin Rowe + Jo Franzen on Ulrich + Musical Guest Kim Kashiw
The venerable magazine Architectural Record is one of the most influential design publications in the world, clocking in 135 years of extraordinary coverage. You can see all their issues at usmodernist.org/index-ar. Today we'll explore one of their editors, Lawrence Kocher, with Luis Pancorbo and...
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#443/Author Blake Gopnik + Holland Murphy + Saarinen's Arch with Pam Sanfilippo + Musical Guests Jeff Bush + The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
First up, for our concrete fans, art critic and author Blake Gopnik looks inside modernism through his book, Brutalist Interiors. Holland Murphy solves the mystery of a house in Dallas. From there, we head to St. Louis, where Pam Sanfilippo of the Eero Saarinen-designed Gateway Arch National Park...
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#442/Holland Taylor + Touring Palm Springs with Shann Carr and JD Cargill + Adele Cygelman on Arthur Elrod + Musical Guest Lenore Raphael
Starting with Los Angeles, we'll talk with Rudolph Schindler homeowner, and star of Two and a Half Men, Holland Taylor. Then we move to Palm Springs, the center of the Universe for midcentury Modernism. Everybody who's a fan of Modernism needs to plan a trip, and today we'll talk with Palm…
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#441/USModernist Radio Retro - The Lake House: Nathan Crowley + Fritz Hengge + Musical Guest Heather Rigdon
We've dug into the podcast vault to one of our favorite shows: the story of the awesome Modernist house in the 2006 movie, The Lake House, starring Keanu Reaves and Sandra Bullock. The house stole the show, and we'll talk to the architect Nathan Crowley and the engineer, Fritz Hengge.
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#440/New Architecture + Design Films: Allie Rood + Beck Carpenter + Danny Berish and Ryan Mah + Musical Guest Brandi Disterheft
Today we'll talk with producers of architecture and design documentaries featured in Kyle Bergman's Architecture and Design Film Festival which opened last fall and continues around the world. Filmmaker Allie Rood's Prickly Mountain captures Vermont's countercultural design/build movement. Beck...
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#439/Saving a Lundy with Carol and Dan Price + Sarasota's Erin DiFazio + Celanese House with Joel Disend and Inger Stringfellow + Special Musical Guest Pat Boone
Carol and Dan Price stepped in to save architect Victor Lundy's Bellaire, Texas, home just weeks before demolition. Erin DiFazio champions Sarasota's architectural heritage, and owner Joel Disend shares his 1959 Edward Durell Stone house in New Canaan, Connecticut. Then from teen idol to...
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#438/Children of Genius: Llisa Demetrios + Sarah and Cameron Nims + Gabriela Liebert + Musical Guest Susan Tobocman
In our continuing series, Children of Genius, we'll talk with the children of extraordinary architects. First, Llisa Demetrios, Curator of the Eames Institute and youngest granddaughter of design legends Ray and Charles Eames. Next, Sarah and Cameron Nims, children of Florida architect Rufus…
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#437/USModernist Radio Retro: Harwell Hamilton Harris with Lisa Germany + Frank Harmon
We've dug into the USModernist Radio vault to bring back a special interview on early 20th century Modernist Harwell Hamilton Harris, with author Lisa Germany and Harris' friend and executor, Frank Harmon.
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#436/Libraries with Margaret Sullivan and Jim Richard + Architects Glenda Flaim and Federico Engel + Musical Guest Matt Belsante
Today on the show, George writes a song in 30 seconds. Architects Margaret Sullivan and Jim Richärd turn libraries into vibrant hubs. Glenda Flaim and Federico Engel restore a William Wurster house in San Francisco, and later we'll croon with musical guest Matt Belsante.
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#435/Archispeak's Evan Troxel + Developer Ken Reiter + Architect Jason Langkammerer + Musical Guest Julianna Raye
Today we welcome podcast host Evan Troxel of Archispeak; developer Ken Reiter, who answers the question, what do you do with a old Modernist school? Jason Langkammerer, founder of AT6 Architecture + Design Build, on renovating his own house; and returning podcast guest, the enchanting Julianna...
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#434/Author Volker Welter + Cranbrook's Andrew Blauvelt + Musical Guests Kathy and Gregg Gelb
Our first guest Volker Welter uncovers how architect Leopold Fischer fled Europe to shape Modernism in the US. We have Cranbrook Museum's Chief Curator Andrew Blauvelt, and later, musical guests Gregg and Kathy Gelb in a tribute to Paul Montgomery.
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#433/USModernist Radio Retro: Daniel Libeskind + Moshe Safdie
We've dug into the podcast vault to bring back two interviews with internationally respected architects Moshe Safdie and Danlel Libeskind.
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#432/Tulsa's Shane Hood + Iowa's Peter Maunu + Architect Emily Almloff + Musical Guests Danger Hall
Shane Hood safeguards Tulsa's architectural gems. Peter Maunu lovingly restored Frank Lloyd Wright's Lamberson House in Iowa. Emily Almloff, the youngest licensed architect in the US, is transforming hospitals across the Midwest. Later, musical guests Danger Hall, with Peter Lamb and Daniel Hall.
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#431/A Fistful of Modernism: Prolific Authors Alan Hess + Dominic Bradbury + Sam Lubell + Architects Harper Halprin and Aaron Leshtz + Musical Guest Steve Rosenbloom Big Band
First up, three prolific architecture authors: Alan Hess, Dominic Bradbury, and Sam Lubell. Then we meet Harper Halprin and Aaron Leshtz of AAHA Studio — a marriage proving that design collaboration isn't just for coworkers. And later, Montreal-born jazz master Steve Rosenbloom, who leads a...
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#430/Local Project's Aidan Anderson + Rattan Man Harvey Schwartz + UK's Hugh Martin
Aidan Anderson is a former carpenter in Sydney Australia who turned a local furniture business into the Local Project, a worldwide media company for architecture and design. Trading a career a NASA for furniture, you will meet The Rattan Man Harvey G. Schwartz. And later, Hugh Martin, one of the...
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#429/USModernist Radio Retro: The Ferris Buehler House
We've dug into the podcast vault to bring back a show from the first year of USModernist Radio. One of the best 80s films is Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Here's the plot: near the end of the school year, high school senior Ferris Bueller (played by Matthew Broderick) fakes being sick to stay home.…
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Listen to one of America's top-rated architecture podcasts as the USModernist® Radio crew talks and laughs with fascinating people who own, create, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most controversial houses and buildings in the world.
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