New Angle: Voice
Episodes
Lutah Maria Riggs Designs the American Riviera
27 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Today Montecito and Santa Barbara are associated with a number of women identifiable by a single name, from Gwyneth to Oprah to Meghan. But the look o...
Not Only Survive, but Flourish: The Story of WSPA
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Hello, this is New Angle: Voice, the podcast about Pioneering Women in American Architecture brought to you by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundat...
Catherine Bauer Wurster: A Thoroughly Modern Woman
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to New Angle Voice: I'm your bi-coastal architect and host, Cynthia Phifer Kracauer. Catherine Bauer's life divided into two names and two geo...
Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We continue our throw-back to the seventies, and take a deeper dive into the many facets of the women's movement that impacted the practice of archite...
Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
That was some party. Even though I didn't make it to the splashy opening, I did attend the transformational exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, our sub...
Architecture, Family Style – The Lives and Work of Sarah Harkness and Jean Fletcher
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Sarah Pillsbury, or Sally as she was better known by her peers, and Jean Bodman were both architects who married architects. As an architect who als...
Anna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of Invention
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
1913 was the year of the grand march for suffrage in Washington DC, the 250,000 marchers and attendees eclipsed the coverage the following day of the ...
Amaza Lee Meredith: Love and Home
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I picked up a free glossy real estate magazine with an enticing photograph of summer leisure pursuits under the title Sag Harbor: A Whale of a Good ...
The Art We Must Live With: Ada Louise Huxtable and Architecture Criticism
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who writes about American architecture of the mid twentieth and early 21 st century measures their critical achievement with the yardstick draw...
Ray Eames: Beauty in the Everyday
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
New Angle: Voice is back! We kick off Season Two with Ray Kaiser Eames. Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husban...
Florence Knoll: Total Design
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With her legendary unerring taste and a total commitment to produce absolute perfection in her self, her work, her products, and how she would be reme...
Norma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold Hand
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Norma Sklarek had many "firsts". She was often credited at the start of her career as the first Black Women architect to be licensed in the United S...
Fast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee Shops
14 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Who hasn't had a burger and fries at a Denny's or Bob's Big Boy? There are thousands of them, not just in Los Angeles, where they were born, but acr...
Natalie de Blois – To Tell The Truth
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie de Blois (1921–2013) contributed to some of the most iconic modernist works for corporate America, all while raising four children. After ...
Finding Julia Morgan
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to New Angle: Voice. Episode 1 takes us on an earthquaking tour from San Francisco to Paris and back, with Julia Morgan (1872-1957), the first...