USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

#252/Three Modernist Owners and One Lucky Houseguest: Ronnie Sassoon + Alfonso Cordon + Cord Struckmann + Josh Gorrell + Reading by Anthony Poon

13 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In our 5th show from Modernism Week 2022, George and Tom talk with owners of significant Modernist houses, plus one very lucky houseguest:  Ronnie Sa...

#251/Edith Farnsworth, The Real Story: Nora Wendl + Alice Friedman

06 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here's the story…of a lovely lady….who hired a world-famous architect to design a small but spectacular house in Plano, Illinois, along the Fox Ri...

#250/Dogs, Motels, and Tiki: Nancy Baron + Heather David + Sven Kirsten + Reading by Anthony Poon

30 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What could be more fun than Modernist dogs, tiki culture, and mid-century modern motels?  George and Tom talk with the author of Palm Springs Modern ...

#249/Architect Myron Goldfinger + Musical Guest Victoria Vox

23 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Auric Goldfinger was one of most memorable evil villains in the James Bond 007 series.  Played by Gert Frobe in the 1964 movie named for him, Goldfin...

#248/Modernism Week 2022: Angie Brooks + Larry Scarpa + Bruce Becker + Reading by Anthony Poon

16 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In our 3rd show from Modernism Week 2022, we chat with award-winning architects Angie Brooks and Larry Scarpa; learn from Bruce Becker about the newly...

#247/Designer Dakota Jackson + Musical Guest Krisanthi Pappas

09 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Some architects in the early days of Modernism designed their own furniture, among them Frank Lloyd Wright, Rudolph Schindler, and Richard Neutra.  T...

#246/Monterey + Bakersfield: Pierluigi Serraino + David Coffey + Anthony Poon

02 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In our 2nd show from Modernism Week 2022, we explore Modernism in Monterey CA with returning guest Pierluigi Serraino, Modernism in Bakersfield CA wit...

#245/The Legacy of Paul Rudolph: Kelvin Dickinson + Musical Guest Tierney Sutton

25 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Few architects have been as exciting or controversial as Paul Rudolph, whose early successes designing Modernist vacation homes in Sarasota FL led to ...

#244/Palm Springs Modernism Week 2022: Jeanne Gang + Jickie Torres + Rose Mallett

18 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Every year USModernist Radio goes to Palm Springs for Modernism Week, the Super Bowl of mid-century modernism.  This is no weekend tabletop show at t...

#243/Architecture Photographer Norman McGrath + Musical Guest Sherry Petta

11 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to USModernist Radio, where we talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture...

#242/YouTube Architecture Star Stewart Hicks Explains it All

04 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stewart Hicks makes architecture understandable and accessible through his wildly popular YouTube channel.  An assistant professor of architecture at...

#241/Children of Genius: Judith Lautner

28 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most admired mid-century architects is John Lautner, a student and employee of Frank Lloyd Wright. Before he died in 1994, Lautner created ...

#240/Bucky Fuller's Montreal Biosphere: Beverly Payeff Masey + Michele Picard

21 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In Montreal, Canada, there's an unusual modernist structure - on an island. Designed by Buckminster Fuller as the US pavilion for the 1967 World's Fai...

#239/Going Up? Elevators with Lee Gray

14 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Elevators are essential to any large Modernist building and these days even in massive Modernist houses being built in LA.  Joining us to discuss the...

#238/Gas and Glamour: Ashok Sinha + Musical Guests Tape Five with Henrik Wager

07 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Before there were interstates, which was a long long time ago, there were smaller federal highways, often two-lane, that connected the east and west c...

#237/Books About Architecture Books: John Hill + Musical Guest Marilyn Scott

28 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There have been movies about movies, like Get Shorty, plays about plays, like Midsummer Night's Dream, and now a book about architecture books. Narrow...

#236/The Perspecta: John O'Neill + DC Hillier + Musical Guest Eden Atwood

21 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Joining us today are John O'Neill and DC Hillier, hosts of the new mid-century modern podcast, The Perspecta.  Later, stick around for musical guest ...

#235/Open House New York: Dee Dunn + Pamela Puchalski

14 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Many Modernist buildings are located in New York City, but not all of them are open to the public except for one special weekend in the fall. Joining ...

#234/Wright's Fallingwater / Builders / Funding / Darth Vader House

07 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today we are excited to introduce four really interesting design professionals who got on our radar over the last few months, including architectural ...

#233/Fabulous Prefab: Gordon Stott + Jared Levy + Greg Leung + Steve Glenn + Yves Béhar

31 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The promise and pursuit of successful prefab houses has been going on nearly 100 years. Frank Lloyd Wright tried and it didn't go so well.  Sears, th...

#232/Advice To Architects: Liz Kubany + Iva Kravitz + Mark LePage + Sara Kolata

24 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's not easy being an architect. Make a living running an architecture practice can be tough. Just getting through design school is grueling, and the...

#231/Modernist Libraries: Architects Louis Cherry + Siv Helene Stangeland

17 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Remember when libraries were dark stately places with only books and magazines?  Where if you talked at more than a whisper some stern librarian shus...

#230/Architecture Documentaries of 2021 + Special Musical Guest Storm Large

10 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is the fifth year USModernist Radio has covered the New York Architecture and Design Film Festival, if by festival you mean mostly online and by ...

#229/Deep Into Louis Kahn: Michael Merrill + Nathaniel Kahn + A Few Minutes with Frank Harmon

03 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Architect Louis Kahn has been gone almost 50 years, but his legacy and influence only grows as architects the public alike cherish his enduring import...

#228/The Architects Newspaper: Diana Darling + Aaron Seward + Louisa Whitmore + Musical Guest Kate Earl

27 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Oh, how times have changed for the newspaper world. From 2008-2020, about two-thirds of newsroom jobs went away. Then the pandemic hit and more than 9...

#227/Case Study Houses: Happy Holidays with Elizabeth A. T. Smith + Erin Sterling Lewis + Musical Guest Donna Loren

20 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Happy Holidays with George, Tom, Raleigh architect Erin Sterling Lewis, and author Elizabeth A. T. Smith, whose famous book on the Case Study Houses i...

#226/Columbus, Indiana: Richard McCoy + Mary Chandler + Musical Guest Judy Carmichael of Jazz Inspired

13 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Columbus, Indiana is a city of just over 47,000, yet the national AIA ranks it 6th in the nation for architectural innovation and design – behind Ch...

#225/Zoinks! The Gregory Ain / Museum of Modern Art House Mystery, Solved + Musical Guest Alice Peacock

06 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1950, a modest glass-walled Modernist house designed by Gregory Ain was on exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's garden, another in the Museum's se...

#224/Seattle's Paul Hayden Kirk: Dale Kutzera + Musical Guest Deana Martin

29 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Remember our show a while back on Seattle Modernism with Jim Olson of Olson Kundig?  Well before Jim Olson and Tom Kundig came along, the Pacific Nor...

#223/Research Triangle Park: Scott Levitan + Suzanne Somers

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Research Triangle Park in North Carolina is the largest planned research center in the United States, and it's getting bigger - much bigger, at least ...

#222/New Palm Springs Modernism: Architect Sean Lockyer + Comedian Aaron Kominos-Smith

15 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Architects like Chambers, Clark, Cody, Frey, Kaptur, Krisel, Wexler, and Williams put the Modernist architecture of Palm Springs on the map from the 1...

#221/Palm Springs' Desert Maverick, William Cody: Cathy Cody + Raice McLeod + Music by Eva Cassidy

08 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

One of the great architects of midcentury Palm Springs was William F. Cody, featured in the Leo Zahn documentary Desert Maverick. Joining us is the au...

#220/When No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Ross Johnston + Mike and Nina Marco + Musical Guest Susannah Clifford Blachly

01 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When we hear about a Modernist house by an important architect being bought and destroyed, there's widespread outrage from preservationists. Why didn...

#219/Where the Bodies are Buried: Henry Kuehn + Christine Madrid French + Peter Lamb and the Wolves

25 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Just when you thought it was another safe architecture chat, it's our Halloween midnight madness Mod-tacular, and joining us is someone who knows wher...

#218/Escape to New York: Gisue Hariri + Theo Prudon + Fred Bernstein

18 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This has been a tough time for travel, but in between COVID surges last summer, host George Smart managed to get to New York City for a series of conv...

#217/Connecticut! Ken Sena + Craig Bassam + Scott Fellows

11 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Connecticut is famous for the first hamburger (1895), Polaroid camera (1934), helicopter (1939), and color television (1948). It's the home of PEZ, W...

#216/The New EU Bauhaus Commission: Michela Magas + Musical Guest Monika Ryan

04 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The European Union has some of the same problems we do: damaging climate change, a flood of immigrants, and a population frequently in disagreement. ...

#215/The Stahl House: Shari Stahl Gronwald + Bruce Stahl + Kim Cross + Kyle Bergman + Musical Guest Fallow Ground

27 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Stahl House in Los Angeles is among the most famous houses in the world. Designed by Pierre Koenig and engineered by William Porush, the Stahl Hou...

#214/The Peter Principles: Peter Bohlin + Peter Gluck

20 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Bohlin and Peter Gluck are two of most innovative and successful architects in residential Modernist design.  In careers spanning over 14 decad...

#213/Prefab: Authors Avi Friedman + Allison Arieff + Special Musical Guest Maria Maldaur

13 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Like the Holy Grail or Colonel Sanders special 11 herbs and spices, people have been searching for the secret to successful prefabricated houses for n...

#212/Seattle Modernism: Jim Olson + Musical Guest Erin Boheme

06 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The bluest skies you've ever seen?  The hills the greenest green?  It's Seattle, Washington, backdrop for TV shows such as Grey's Anatomy, Frasier, ...

#211/Los Angeles: Adrian Scott Fine + Ken Bernstein + Musical Guest Hetty Loxston

30 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

There's a lively city on the West Coast, a sprawling California metropolis that many consider the epicenter of Modernist architecture. Sorry, Bakersf...

#210/Marcel Breuer's Bohemia: James Crump

23 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Marcel Breuer was one of several architects who brought European Modernism to the US. He was known for hundreds of projects including the Atlanta Publ...

#209/Albert Frey in Palm Springs: Co-Host Jake Gorst + Craig Hartzman + Brad Dunning + Marc Koller / Musical Guest Rebecca Kilgore with Dave Frishberg

16 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, architect Albert Frey was the first American to work for Le Corbusier, working on the famous Villa Savoye project among ...

#208/Modernist Escapes: Stefi Orazi + Joan Gand + Musical Guests The Gand Band

09 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Many of our Modernist listeners are planning long-delayed holidays.  Oh where shall you go?  Roman ruins?  Cape Cod Villages?  Colonial Williamsbu...

#207/Sarasota FL: Architect Guy Peterson + Musical Guest Heather Rigdon + Frank Harmon

02 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In Sarasota, Florida, one of the east coast's finest centers for Modernism, names like Paul Rudolph, Gene Leedy, Victor Lundy, Tim Siebert, and Jack W...

#206/Built Beautiful: Don Ruggles + Lisa Heschong + Louisa Whitmore

26 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

What is a beautiful building?  What is an ugly building?  People have very different reactions looking at say Biltmore versus Fallingwater, and not ...

#205/Serial Modernist: Mark Haddawy + Musical Guest Anders Holst

19 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Let's say you collect stamps.  If you go to the stamp club, you're gonna find people who collect more stamps than you.  Then if you go to the stamp ...

#204/Modernist Chairs We Love: Herman Miller's Amy Auscherman + NC State's Gwen Emery + A Few Minutes with Frank Harmon

12 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's almost a certainty that before anyone owns a Modernist house, they own a piece of Modernist furniture, the gateway drug of great architecture.  ...

#203/Grandpa Frank Lloyd Wright: Tom Wright + Steven Reiss + Music from Carol Sloane

05 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tom Wright studies volcanoes.  If that's not exciting enough right there, and it certainly was for us, he's also the grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright a...

#202/Six of Five: James Evans + Musical Guest Janis Siegel

28 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Architect Jim Evans moved to the Modernist mecca of New Canaan CT in 1957. By then the town had many Modernist houses, not only by the Harvard Five of...

#201/Grace Farms: Sharon Prince + Musical Guest Lily Frost

21 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Every town hopes that someone will come along, and at no expense to the town, create something beautiful. We're not talking a new mall. We're talking ...

#200/Return to Bertie County: Emily Piloton-Lam + Ron Wesson + Musical Guest Linda Eder

14 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Bertie County, North Carolina, has only about 19,000 people, about 62% Black. That's fewer than in most city zip codes. It's one of the poorest count...

#199/Architecture Teen Style: Danielle Willkens + Louisa Whitmore + Musical Guest Sophie Milman

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Tomorrow's architects and their architecture critics are today's teenagers. Joining us are Danielle Willkens, author of the new book, Architecture for...

#198/Yolanda's Little Black Book: James McClain + Special Music by Dave and Darius Brubeck

31 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Every industry has insiders, and no city other than perhaps New York attracts more attention from residential architecture than Los Angeles.  Joining...

#197/Children of Genius: Gary Wexler + Erik Williams + Peter Exley + Musical Guest Connie Evingson

24 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In our ongoing series Children of Genius, we've spoken with Raymond and Dion Neutra, sons of Richard Neutra; Guilliame Schindler, great-grandson of Ru...

#196/Gabriella the Billionaire: Andi Schmied + Musical Guest Bobbie Eakes

17 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wondered what's it's like to live in a $5M apartment in the New York skyline?  What about a $10 million coop?  A $25 million penthouse...

#195/Adam Štěch + Victor Lundy + Donna Kacmar + Musical Guest Diana Panton

10 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

From an author who's created a worldwide book of mostly Modernist buildings to a master Modernist who created beautiful buildings across the world, we...

#194/Architectural Record at 130: Alex Bachrach + Aaron Prinz + Phoebus Panigyrakis + Musical Guest Bria Skonberg

03 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Way before there was an internet, the way people learned about buildings outside of their city was in architecture magazines. Initially in black and w...

#193/Photographing the Late Modern: Wayne Thom + Emily Bills

26 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We love visiting great architecture and Modernist architecture does get visited – a lot – but nothing compares to the number of people who enjoy i...

#192/Researching Modernism: Alan Hess + Bill Storrer + A Few Minutes with Frank Harmon

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Researching Modernist architecture hasn't always been easy, particularly before the internet, if anyone remembers back that far. Before our phones wer...

#191/Bjarke Ingels Makes a Mountain: Kaspar Astrup Schröder + Rikke Selin Fokdal + Special Musical Guest Nneena Freelon

12 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

2020 was the fourth year USModernist Radio has been part of the New York Architecture and Design Film Festival, if by festival you mean online and by ...

#190/Mod Betty + Howard and Gaby Morris + Musical Guest Melissa Morgan

05 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Everybody's got some niche they are into, right?  There are cat people, NASCAR people, golfing people, escape room people, and even after 55 years, S...

#189/Eastern Bloc Modernism: Marie Kordovská + Haruna Honcoop, plus Musical Guest Hailey Tuck

29 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Whenever our friends the Classicists want to troll Modernism, they claim it's Communist-inspired and therefore no good. Since we have never known any ...

#188/Loving Louis Kahn: Harriet Pattison + Richard Saul Wurman + Reyhan Larimer + Steve Kroeter

22 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Harriet Pattison met renowned architect Louis Kahn in 1953 at Yale, but the real sparks flew years later in Philadelphia where she and Lou Kahn had a ...

#187/Design for Homelessness: Andrea Urton + Michael Lehrer + Musical Guest Rosana Eckert

15 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It's one thing when neighbors don't like that butterfly mother in law shed in your backyard.  It's another when thousands of people in a city are wit...

#186/Architecture Photographer Julius Shulman: Eric Bricker + Keith Isaacs plus Musical Guest Stacey Kent

08 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Well-known Modernist architects came to fame in a time before computers, a time where getting published in magazines was the mid-century equivalent of...

#185/The Future of Palm Springs: Richard and Debra Hovel + Sidney Willams + Dick Burkett, plus Frank Harmon

01 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you're a longtime listener, you know we have a special place in our hearts for Palm Springs, the mecca of Modernism, the home of the international ...

#184/2020's Architecture Documentaries: Royal Kennedy Rogers + Meredith Zielke + Yoni Goldstein + Ned Daly plus Musical Guest Pat Kirtley

22 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This is the fourth year USModernist Radio has been part of the New York Architecture and Design Film Festival, if by festival you mean online and by N...

#183/On Charles Dubois with Leonora Mahle / Lady Carnavon of Downton Abbey / Musical Guest Jane Monheit

15 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Architect Charles Dubois was famous for designing houses in California which earned the nickname Swiss Miss.  Designer Leonora Mahle takes us inside....

#182/Daughters of Design: Susan Saarinen + Celia Bertoia + Carla Hartman

08 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Like the Supremes, or Destiny's Child, today's guests have been rocking with the greatest hits of Modernist design for decades as the daughters or gra...

#181/Greene + Greene + Harwell Hamilton Harris: Ted Bosley + Frank Harmon plus Musical Guest Elaine Elias

01 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Before Bjarke Ingels, before Tom Kundig, before Charlie Gwathmey, even before Richard Neutra, two brothers rocked the architecture scene in southern C...

#180/Phoenix's David Wright House: Victor Sidy + Amanda Hu

25 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1959, the US had 48 states and a population of 177 million, Frank Sinatra won his first Grammy for Come Dance with Me, DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterly...

#179/Canberra's Parliament House: Architect Hal Guida + Secret City's Felicity Abbott

18 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 1978, Australia decided to replace their old Congress, or Parliament House, in the capitol of Canberra. The competition drew 329 entries from 29 co...

#178/No More Federal Modernism: Classicist Catesby Leigh + Musical Guest Lucy Woodward

11 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Some Classicists are so passionate about Modernist architecture they create a well-financed, highly effective organization to point out the flaws of M...

#177/Mies, Edith, and the Farnsworth House: Alex Beam + Scott Mehaffey + A Few Minutes with Frank Harmon

04 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Architect Maria Ludwig Michael Mies changed his name.  He added his mother's maiden name Rohe and the Dutch "van der" to become, drum roll please, M...

#176/Where No Furniture Has Gone Before: Dan Chavkin + Brian McGuire plus Special Musical Guest Jennifer Warnes

28 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In 1966 the first episode of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek launched a franchise still going strong over fifty years later.  Sequels, movies, toys, fa...

#175/Festivus and Gene Leedy: Celebrating with Saffie Leedy Farris + Max Strang + Co-host Erin Sterling Lewis plus Musical Guest Laura Ridgeway

21 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Ho Ho Ho, get out the Festivus Pole, it's our holiday show spectacular celebrating with returning guest co-host Erin Sterling Lewis.  If your world i...

#174/New Modernist Developers + Holiday Gifts + Frank Harmon

14 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Mack Paul is a Raleigh real estate attorney who focuses on land use and public policy. He owns a sweet Modernist house designed by Brian Shawcroft, an...

#173/Triangle Modern Architecture: Victoria Ballard Bell

07 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Victoria Ballard Bell's new book, Triangle Modern Architecture, documents the rich history and unique cultural significance of the Triangle region in...

#172/Grandpa Walter Gropius: Erika Pfammatter + Music by Tom Lehrer

30 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Along with Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies van der Rohe, LeCorbusier, and Marcel Breuer, architect Walter Gropius was one of the most influential Modernist a...

#171/Sumptuous Modernist Buffet: Jane King Hession

23 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

For your audible dining pleasure, today is a sumptuous Modernist buffet featuring Ralph Rapson, Elizabeth Schue Close, Frank Lloyd Wright, John Howe, ...

#170/Battling Wichita City Hall: Preservationist Celeste Racette + ADFF's Kyle Bergman

16 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

If your world is Wichita, Kansas, the birthplace of Pizza Hut, White Castle and Kirstie Alley, there's no more controversial building right now than C...

#169/Black Architects Matter: Danita Brown + Janna Ireland

09 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Architecture in America has been a white-dominated profession and that has been changing slowly. Very slowly. Guess what year the first Black woman go...

#168/Calling Dr. Downtown: Classicist David Brussat + Musical Guests Peter Lamb and the Wolves

02 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Like the Dos Equis commercials, we don't always feature Classicists, but when we do, we go for the best.  Today we welcome one of America's foremost ...

#167/Modernism Week Wrapup: Architect Takashi Yanai + Car Culture Expert Gabrielle Esperdy

26 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Sniff, sniff!  Where's the Kleenex?  It is such a day of mourning, because from our wonderful trip to 2020's Modernism Week, today we share the last...

#166/Architecture Podcast Hosts Della Hansmann + Catherine Meng

19 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

In our ongoing quest to seek out and visit other architecture podcasts, we've had wonderful conversations with hosts Frances Anderton, Donna Sink, Ste...

#165/Making it Happen at Modernism Week: Board Members Maureen Erbe + Anne Rowe + Alan Hess, plus Sunnyland's Janice Lyle

12 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Modernism Week in Palm Springs is no weekend tabletop show at the Elks lodge. It takes a huge village, a rather attractive Modernist village with perf...

#164/Birth of the Cool: Elizabeth Armstrong + Michael Boyd + Brad Dunning + Trevor O'Donnell + Hilary Lewis

05 Oct 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most popular lectures at Modernism Week 2020 was Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, looking at what infl...

#163/The Architect's Daughter: Elizabeth Garber, Author of Implosion

28 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Woodward "Woodie" Garber was a Modernist architect whose name you would know if you lived in Cincinnati. Garber was called "a controversial visionary ...

#162/Modernist Fun: Charles Phoenix + Martin Knowles

21 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Charles Phoenix is the ambassador of mid-century Americana. From his wildly popular slideshows and lectures on life in the 1950's to his sold-out doub...

#161/Modernism Media: Melissa Daniels + Elizabeth Daniels + Pauline O'Connor

14 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Modernism Week attracts reporters and photographers from all over the world. They make the flight or the drive into Palm Springs to cover the architec...

#160/Richard Neutra: Raymond Neutra + Catherine Meyler + Ken Topper

07 Sep 2020

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most revered names in Modernist architecture is Richard Neutra.  From coast to coast, but mostly in California, Neutra's many Modernist ho...

#159/Streaming Architecture: Dustin Clare + Camille Keenan

31 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

From Robin Boyd to Harry Seidler to Glenn Murcutt, there's a lot to love in Australian architecture, and today we talk with Dustin Clare and Camille K...

#158/The Great John Lautner: Helena Arahuete + Tracy Beckmann + Ryan Trowbridge + Trina Turk

24 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nowhere in the world celebrates Modernism better than Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California.  Every February, they have a huge architecture and ...

#157/Interior Modernism 2: Sarah Archer + Laura Ackerman-Shaw

17 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Nowhere in the world celebrates Modernism better than Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California.  Every February, they have a huge architecture and ...

#156/The Lake House: Nathan Crowley + Fritz Hengge, plus Musical Guest Heather Rigdon

10 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

You all remember the 1994 movie Speed, the huge hit with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock?  Ten years later, with the public clamoring for more Keanu ...

#155/The Australia Show: Rachel Jackson + Annie Price + Jamie Paterson + Annalisa Capurro

03 Aug 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Most Americans have not been to Australia, although a surprising number of Australians have traveled to America.  From Sydney to Melbourne to their s...

#154/Modernism Week Movies 2: Valentina Geneva + Jeannine Oppewall + Paula Benson

27 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today in our second Modernism Week show on architecture movies, George Smart talks with three film industry professionals with connections to architec...

#153/Miami Modern: Kobi Karp

20 Jul 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Today, we dial into Miami, Florida, home of sun, fun, and some of the most over-the-top new Modernism on Earth.  In the foodchain of Miami culture, a...