USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

George Smart
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USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

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.

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    #392/Architecture Books 1: Aaron Betsky + Sam Lubell and Darren Bradley + Carl D'Silva

    With so many good architecture books coming out, we can barely keep up scheduling interviews, but we are gonna try.  Joining the show are authors Aaron Betsky and Sam Lubell, architecture photographer Darren Bradley, and Danish Modern furniture savant, Carl D’Silva.  More books and authors next week!

    58 min

  2. 10 FEB

    #391/Architecture Movies: Valentina Ganeva + Ken Ogborn + Special Musical Guest Melora Hardin

    It’s architecture movie day, and with us is Valentina Ganeva, the producer/director of the latest doc on Rudolph Schindler, Schindler Space Architect.  Actor Ken Ogborn shares his role in a short film on photography and brutalism in the UK. Then it’s the actress and singer we’ve loved for decades in just about everything, like Monk and Friends and The Office, Melora Hardin.

    57 min

  3. 3 FEB

    #390/Children Of Genius: Jim Venturi + Peter Nowicki + Sue Ann Kahn

    It’s another exciting edition of our Children of Genius show, with guests Jim Venturi, son of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi; Peter Nowicki, son of Matthew and Siasia Nowicki; and Sue Ann Kahn, daughter of Lou Kahn.

    1h 3m

  4. 27 JAN

    #389/Subways with John McAslan + The Toast of Illinois, Champaign + Breakfast with Musical Guest Monika Ryan

    Today’s new mega-transportation centers are sweeping complexes for airports and subways to move millions of people.  They are huge canvasses for architects like today’s guest, Scottish architect John McAslan, who’s working on the hot mess that is Penn Station.  Later we’ll explore the Toast of Illinois, Champaign, with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, author of Mid-Continent Modern and one of Champaign's architects, Jeffrey Poss.  Then it’s off to New York for a fine dining breakfast in New York with returning podcast guest Monika Ryan.

    1h 10m

  5. 20 JAN

    #388/Kevin Keim on Charles Moore + Evan Dyer Rebuilds an Ellwood + Lou Grotta Preserves a Meier

    Charles Moore, the architect of California’s famous Sea Ranch, was one of the chief proponents of postmodernism. His work brought a return to more ornamental detail, steep roofs, and shingles, among other classical features, and we’ll learn more from Kevin Keim, Director of the Charles Moore Foundation.  Next, you’ve heard for a year about the destruction of Craig Ellwood’s Zimmerman house in Los Angeles, now you’ll hear attorney Evan Dyer’s plans to bring it back.  Then we talk with Lou Grotta on preserving a Richard Meier-designed house for the future.

    53 min

  6. 13 JAN

    #387/Rudolph at the Met: Abraham Thomas + June Goldfinger + Kelvin Dickenson + Musical guest Chelsee Hicks with Wholly Cats Swing Club

    Paul Rudolph's buildings, built and unbuilt, continue to inspire clients, annoy critics, and gain fame, even though he died in the mid-90’s.  These days, though, it’s almost all smiles and admiration, and there’s an important exhibition of Rudolph’s work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York through March.  Year round on certain days, however, you can visit Rudolph’s former office in New York, the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, or PRIMA.  And while you’re there, you can also see the late architect Myron Goldfinger’s traveling exhibition, Circle Square Triangle.  Today we’ll talk with the curator of that Met exhibition, Abraham thomas, the Executive Director of PRIMA, Kelvin Dickinson, and the curator of Goldfinger’s exhibition, his partner and wife June Goldfinger.  Later on, come out swinging with musical guests Chelsee Hicks and the Wholly Cats.

    1h 9m

  7. 6 JAN

    #386/BIG's Dominyka Voelkle + Justin Wood on Carter Sparks + Musical Guest Diana Panton

    The Bjarke Ingels Group completed the Spiral, a tower in Hudson Yards with tree-lined terraces going around the building, all the way up.  Today we’ll talk with project architect, Dominyka Voelkle.  Later, you’ll discover architect Carter Sparks through his number one fan and archivist, Justin Wood.  Then it’s returning musical guest, jazz superstar and high school teacher, the delightful Canadian Diana Panton.

    1h 12m

  8. 30/12/2024

    #385/Christina Lindal + Aris Georges + Lauren Rottet + Musical Guests Phat Cat Swinger

    For decades, we’ve been reading about Lindal Cedar Homes in design magazines.  Now, under the leadership of third-generation President Christina Lindal they’ve branched out into compelling designs inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.  And inside great houses like this, you’re probably going to need good decorating advice, so we go to Montauk New York to talk with author and interior designer Lauren Rottet.  Wrapping up, musical guests Marco Palos and American Idol’s Blake Lewis of Phat Cat Swinger.

    1h 15m
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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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  • Creator
    George Smart
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2025
  • Episodes
    409
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © (C) 2015-2024 Modernist Archive, inc., dba USModernist. All Rights Reserved.
  • Show Website
    USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

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