USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love
402 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 23 hours ago - ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsListen 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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#36/LA's Schindler: Mary Schindler + Guillaume Schindler
October 02, 2017 07:00 - 57 minutes - 66 MBRudolph Michael Schindler, who went by Michael, was one of the most important Modernist architects of the 20th century, yet he is largely unknown to the public outside California. Frank Lloyd Wright hired him in 1918, and soon he was running Wright's studio in Oak Park the later in Los Angeles. Schindler and Wright argued frequently and eventually Schindler quit, becoming a huge success on his own. Schindler and his wife Pauline were dead center in the Los Angeles creative scene, hanging o...
#35/Scale: Thomas Bena + Mollie Doyle
September 18, 2017 07:00 - 35 minutes - 49 MBWhat makes a house too big? And is it really anyone’s business other than the owner? We talk with Thomas Bena and Mollie Doyle, stars and creators of the new documentary One Big Home, based in Martha's Vineyard MA. Like many wealthy coastal communities, new homes there are not the cottages which have dominated the area for centuries. 10,000 sf and 20,000sf and even larger McMansions started appearing during the 1990’s. One Big Home is a documentary about Thomas Bena's work to curb the d...
#34/Fire Island: Chris Rawlins + Harry Bates
September 04, 2017 07:00 - 56 minutes - 78 MBFire Island, just 50 miles from New York City, was one of the few gathering places in the 1950’s where gay people could feel safe in a world that certainly did not offer such a welcome. It was also a haven for the creative class from New York and LA who built houses by Andrew Geller, Harry Bates, and the unbelievably attractive Horace Gifford. Our guest is Chris Rawlins, architect and author of critically-acclaimed Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction. Ch...
#33/Urban Planning: Allison Arieff
August 21, 2017 07:00 - 40 minutes - 55.9 MBEver wondered how the famed children's book Knuffle Bunny intersects with thoughtful urban planning? Probably not. However, today's guest is well-versed in both! Allison Arieff is editorial director of SPUR, a San Francisco-based thinktank promoting urban planning in the Bay area. Allison writes about architecture, design, and cities for the New York Times, California Sunday, Wired, MIT Technology Review, and CityLab. She is a former editor-at-large for GOOD and Sunset magazines and was a f...
#32/ModMonuments: Joshua David and Matthew Silva
August 07, 2017 07:00 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBOne of the problems with preserving futuristic-looking Modernist buildings is that they just don’t look that old. They aren’t universally loved, in fact some of them weren’t that popular when they were built. The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is a private nonprofit organization to decelerate the destruction of important artistic treasures throughout the world. You might have heard of the Leaning Tower of Pisa? They helped fix it. Well, they helped stop the extra leaning. We'll talk with J...
#31/London: Alison Brooks
July 24, 2017 07:00 - 29 minutes - 40.4 MBHost George Smart reports from the USModernist trip to London last May. He visits architect Alison Brooks who has won the triple crown of the UK's most prestigious awards for architecture: the RIBA Stirling Prize, the Manser Medal and the Stephen Lawrence Prize. Do you know you've arrived as an architect when your building gets a nickname? And, for the first time, you'll hear the guys all sing!
#30/Modernism Week 5: Australia's Harry Seidler, featuring Penelope Seidler, Polly Seidler, and Daryl Dellora
July 10, 2017 07:00 - 26 minutes - 37.1 MBHost George Smart reports from February's Modernism Week in Palm Springs, the center for all things Mid-Century Modernist! He spoke poolside from the Hotel Skylark with keynote speakers from the amazing week of design, art, food, lectures, movies - a delightful week. George talks with Penelope Seidler, her daughter Polly Seidler, and documentary producer Daryl Dellora who created a compelling documentary about Australian architect Harry Seidler, Polly’s dad and Penelope’s husband. Harry...
#29/Eric Lloyd Wright
June 26, 2017 07:00 - 35 minutes - 49.9 MBJune is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Frank Lloyd Wright, the most famous architect in the world, still showing off 58 years after his death. Few architects have come close to Wright's arrogance, his brilliance, and his incredible output that's still with us plus buildings he designed that never got built. Today we talk with Eric Lloyd Wright, grandson of Frank, and son of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jr., aka Lloyd Wright. Although he aspired for another career, Eric eventually returned to...
#28/Modernism Week 4: Indiana! With Todd Zeiger / Jennifer Sandy / Marsh Davis
June 12, 2017 07:00 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBHost George Smart reports from February's Modernism Week in Palm Springs, ground zero for all things Mid-Century Modernist! He spoke poolside from the Hotel Skylark with keynote speakers from the week. And today is Indiana day! Todd Zeiger is the Northern Regional Director for Indiana Landmarks Director, a nonprofit saving significant and meaningful places. He's been particularly working saving and restoring Fred Keck's House of Tomorrow, a home that was ahead of it's time 80 years ago a...
#28/Modernism Week 4: Indiana! With Todd Zeiger / Jennifer Sandy / Marsh Davis
June 12, 2017 07:00 - 34.2 MBHost George Smart reports from February's Modernism Week in Palm Springs, ground zero for all things Mid-Century Modernist! He spoke poolside from the Hotel Skylark with keynote speakers from the week. And today is Indiana day! Todd Zeiger is the Northern Regional Director for Indiana Landmarks Director, a nonprofit saving significant and meaningful places. He's been particularly working saving and restoring Fred Keck's House of Tomorrow, a home that was ahead of it's time 80 years ago a...
#27/McMansions: Kate Wagner
May 29, 2017 07:00 - 43 minutes - 59.9 MBKate Wagner created the riotously popular blog McMansionhell.com where she tears into the impractically large, ridiculously constructed, and often hilariously furnished monuments to wealth misspent. As a writer for Curbed and other design publications, she has appeared on 99% Invisible and has her own TEDx talk. Like us, she's a fan of Modernist evil lairs, writing on buildings used in film to depict the evil corporation archetype in Robocop, Blade Runner, and The Matrix. She's got a huge...
#26/Modernism Week 3: Annalisa Capurro & Brooke Hodge / Mark Davis & Aluminaire
May 15, 2017 07:00 - 41 minutes - 57.3 MBHost George Smart reports from February's Modernism Week in Palm Springs, the Mecca for all things Mid-Century Modernist! He spoke poolside from the Hotel Skylark with keynote speakers from the week. Annalisa Capurro, aka Ms. Modernism, is a interior designer, design educator, architectural historian, speaker, writer, preservationist, MCM photographer, and mid-century design afficionado who lives in the 1956 Russell Jack House in Sydney, Australia. She is an educator at Design Centre Enm...
#25/HouseTrackers: Jan-Richard Kikkert & Paul Moore
May 01, 2017 07:00 - 36 minutes - 21.4 MBA lot of Modernist houses you love from the 1950's and 1960's are going the way of unfortunate "renovations" or the bulldozer, largely because few people are aware of their architectural significance. Although most houses by famous architects are on lists, it's difficult to find where they are actually located. We talk with two expert house trackers who have between them documented thousands of houses and flown tens of thousands of miles to visit them! Jan-Richard Kikkert is an Amsterdam-...
#24/Modernism Week 2: Bill Earls & Devon Chivvis / Bert Simonis
April 17, 2017 07:00 - 35 minutes - 41.5 MBHost George Smart reports from February's Modernism Week in Palm Springs, the Mecca for all things Mid-Century Modernist! He spoke poolside from the Hotel Skylark with keynote speakers from the amazing annual event. Bill Earls is the author of The Harvard Five in New Canaan, Modernist houses by Breuer, Gores, Johansen, Johnson, and Noyes. A virtual tour of thirty-five landmark houses, 1947-1966, that elicited strong reactions from nearly everyone who saw them and are still astonishing t...
#23/Reviving Modern: Michael Miner & Liz Waytkus
April 03, 2017 07:00 - 34 minutes - 20.6 MBToday we explore two different approaches to reviving Modernist buildings: preserving them or building them from scratch! Michael Miner is a documentary filmmaker who since 2002 has devoted his career entirely to the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, chronicling the master architect’s buildings in a series of films. Miner’s first Wright film, Sacred Spaces, was completed in 2005 followed by A Child of the Sun, the story of the West Campus of Florida Southern College in Lakeland and Romanza, whic...
#22/Modernism Week: Alan Hess & Janice Lyle
March 20, 2017 07:00 - 40 minutes - 46.7 MBHost George Smart reports from February's Modernism Week in Palm Springs, the Mecca for all things Modernist! He spoke poolside from the Hotel Skylark with keynote speakers from the week. Alan Hess is a journalist, historian, architect, and author with 19 books specifically addressing mid-century modernism and countless appearances in architecture documentaries. He's the Samuel L. Jackson of architecture movies! Janice Lyle is the Director of Operations for Sunnylands Center and Garden...
#21/Evil Lairs - Adele Cygelman & Christine Madrid French
March 06, 2017 08:00 - 31 minutes - 17.8 MBIf you’ve seen a thriller like North By Northwest or Diamonds are Forever (or many others since) you may have noticed that the bad guy has impeccable taste. The classic villain has custom-tailored suits (or dresses, let’s not be sexist), a high-end car you can’t even buy used at Carmax, a British or vaguely Russian accent, and a gorgeous Modernist house, preferably with a killer view as certainly there will be some killing going on. We're talking about Evil Lairs, the tricked-out Modoe...
#20.8/We're Back! Year Two!
February 13, 2017 08:00 - 4 minutes - 3.17 MBTom goes around the world! Frank is Shanghai'd! And George mumbles something about an evil lair! Learn more about what's coming up as USMR resumes March 6 with great guests.
#20.7/Sydney Opera House: Annalisa Capurro from Modernism Week
March 02, 2016 08:00 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBIn 1957, architect Jorn Utzon unexpectedly won the commission for the iconic Sydney Opera House. His submission was one of 233 designs from 32 countries, many of them from the most famous architects of the day. Saarinen described the design as "genius" and declared he could not endorse any other choice. Yet building the project was rife with politics, cost overruns, incompetent cost estimators in the Australian government, and years and years of wrangling. Utzon was eventually fired, th...
#20.6/Sean Khorsandi/Sarasota MOD/Paul Rudolph
February 24, 2016 08:00 - 22 minutes - 31.1 MBSean Knorsandi of the Paul Rudolph Foundation Every year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them ...
#20.5/Stephanie Grosskreutz/Sarasota Mod/Paul Rudolph
February 17, 2016 08:00 - 12 minutes - 18.2 MBStephanie Grosskreutz of Visit Sarasota Every year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them as col...
#20.4/Carl Abbott/Sarasota Mod/Paul Rudolph
February 09, 2016 07:00 - 17 minutes - 24.4 MBEvery year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them as cold and impractical. Carl Abbott is one o...
#20.4/Carl Abbott/Sarasota Mod/Paul Rudolph
February 09, 2016 07:00 - 24.4 MBEvery year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them as cold and impractical. Carl Abbott is one of...
#20.3/Christopher Wilson/Sarasota Mod/Paul Rudolph
February 02, 2016 08:00 - 9 minutes - 14.1 MBEvery year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them as cold and impractical. Dr. Christopher Wils...
#20.2/Larry Scarpa/Sarasota Mod/Paul Rudolph
January 25, 2016 08:00 - 11 minutes - 16.9 MBEvery year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them as cold and impractical. Larry Scarpa is a prin...
#20.2/Larry Scarpa/Sarasota Mod/Paul Rudolph
January 25, 2016 08:00 - 16.9 MBEvery year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them as cold and impractical. Larry Scarpa is a prin...
#20.1/Ernst Wagner/Sarasota Mod/Paul Rudolph
January 18, 2016 08:00 - 27 minutes - 37.7 MBEvery year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them as cold and impractical. Ernst Wagner was Rud...
#20.1/Ernst Wagner/Sarasota Mod/Paul Rudolph
January 18, 2016 08:00 - 37.7 MBEvery year, Sarasota Mod in Sarasota FL throws a great conference on mid-century modern and this year was focused on Paul Rudolph, an architect who made his name in exciting coastal architecture before moving on to become Dean of Architecture at Yale. Rudolph's work is recognized around the world for bold, progressive masses. People are polarized around his work. Modernists praise his visionary designs of concrete and steel, others see them as cold and impractical. Ernst Wagner was Rudo...
#19/Best Clips of 2015
December 29, 2015 08:00 - 4 minutes - 7.17 MBHi folks, here's a few minutes of fun, our "best of" clips from 2015. Happy New Year! George, Frank, and Tom
#18.5/Archivist: NC State University's Todd Kosmerick at Harrelson Hall
December 07, 2015 08:00 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBTodd Kosmerick is University Archivist for NC State University's Archives. He and his staff collect, preserve, and make accessible vast physical and online resources that document the growth and development of the university and its continued service to the people of North Carolina. It provides a resource for study and scholarship while ensuring that future generations will have resources available to understand and interpret the history and achievements of North Carolinians. Designed by...
#18/Harwell Hamilton Harris: Frank Harmon & Lisa Germany Ziegler
November 30, 2015 08:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MBArchitect Harwell Hamilton Harris FAIA never reached the celebrity status of his peers such as Richard Neutra and Frank Lloyd Wright, yet his quieter career work stands as some of the most brilliant of the 20th century. Practicing primarily in California, Texas, and North Carolina, his achievements in residential, commercial, and academic settings earned national admiration and awards including the Richard Neutra Medal and an honorary doctorate from North Carolina State University. Archi...
#17.5/Wisconsin Gem
November 23, 2015 08:00 - 10 minutes - 116 MB application/octet-streamIn the deep woods of Wisconsin, about an hour outside of Madison, sits one incredible house. If you didn't know otherwise, you'd be sure it was a Frank Lloyd Wright design. And you'd be close. It was designed by his son-in-law, William Wesley Peters. The place has been immaculately maintained and restored by a loving couple who are looking to downsize. You'll hear from those owners, their realtor Aaron Weber, and the challenges of selling one of the state's architecture masterpieces. I...
#17/UK Modern: Michael Hammond & Brian Shawcroft
November 16, 2015 08:00 - 43 minutes - 30.4 MBMichael Hammond is co-founder and Editor in Chief of World Architecture News (WAN). He chairs the WAN AWARDS jury panel and produces the topical series of podcasts, Shop Talk which has featured many of the world’s leading architects over its 100+ programmes to date. Prior to WAN, Michael spent 25 years in construction project management before taking up writing; he authored Performing Architecture published by Merrell in 2006. He has also contributed many other architectural features to med...
#16/Snøhetta: Craig Dykers & Greg Raschke
November 02, 2015 08:00 - 43 minutes - 30.3 MBCraig Dykers, at just 28 years old, received international acclaim after winning the $350 million commission for the Library of Alexandria in Egypt. He is founder of the design firm Snøhetta, with offices in Oslo Norway and New York, architect for some of the most amazing modern buildings in the world. Snøhetta is the design architect for the James B. Hunt Jr. Library at NC State University. Greg Raschke is the Associate Director for Collections & Scholarly Communication at NC State Univ...
#15.5/Aidan Buehler, Georg Buehler, & architect Lucy Carol Davis
October 26, 2015 07:00 - 10 minutes - 9.72 MBAidan Buehler is 14 years old. He's an eighth grader in Chapel Hill NC with an interest in drafting. What he did next is remarkable. Instead of just piddling around on his computer like most kids, he contacted Chapel hill architect Lucy Carol Davis to be his mentor on a school-wide design competition. Aidan's house was one of the most elaborate projects. According to his interview with the News and Observer, "Basically, I designed a house from start to finish,” he said, although it ende...
#15/Kahn! Nathaniel Kahn & Alexandra Lange
October 19, 2015 07:00 - 48 minutes - 34.2 MBNathanial Kahn is a director and producer. He is also the son of architect Louis Kahn, one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. In 2003, he produced the Oscar-nominated film My Architect about the life and work of his dad, interviewing people who knew Kahn including Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, and I.M. Pei. Kahn created modern buildings with the feel and presence of ancient ruins using concrete. His brilliant projects include the Four Freedoms Park, the Phillips Exete...
#14/The Eames: Eames Demetrios & Jerry Nowell
October 05, 2015 07:00 - 43 minutes - 30.7 MBEames Demetrios is the grandson (and namesake) of Charles and Ray Eames and leads the Eames brand which has roared back into the public eye. His mission is communicating, preserving and extending the brilliant work of designers Charles and Ray Eames who were best known by the public for their furniture and for their 125 short films, including the much-heralded-and-still-relevant Powers of Ten. Their Eames Lounge chair for Herman Miller is one of the most popular furniture designs in the wo...
#13/House Trek: Brad Dunning & Leon Meyers
September 21, 2015 07:00 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBCalifornia interior designer Brad Dunning grew up in Memphis and LA. He has early, wilder roots in the LA punk rock scene as part of the original Gun Club, a seminal noisy punk/blues band. Widely praised as designer to the stars such as Tom Ford, Sofia Coppola, and Demi Moore, Brad has been featured in Architectural Digest and created a look the magazine calls Cocktail Modern. Plus, he helped restore Neutra's famous Kaufmann House by Neutra in Palm Springs, where he’s been active for 20 ye...
#12/Lustrons: Tom Fetters & Virginia Faust
September 07, 2015 07:00 - 47 minutes - 33.4 MBThe world's largest erector set: the Lustron was a house you put together with a screwdriver. It was metal, yet would never rust. It was ingeniously heated and insulated. It came on a truck ready for assembly. A brilliant design produced only a few years after WWII, the Lustron now has a cult following to repair and preserve them -- or assemble ones long in storage. Author Tom Fetters is King of Lustrons, the go-to guy for anything about these unique houses. He also has interests in ...
#11/Children of Genius: Susan Saarinen & Raymond Neutra with Marvin Malecha
August 24, 2015 07:00 - 48 minutes - 34.1 MBLandscape architect Susan Saarinen, daughter of architect Eero Saarinen, granddaughter of architect Eliel Saarinen (pronounced sahrr-uh-nen), andRaymond Neutra, retired physician and epidemiologist in California, son of architect Richard Neutra (pronounced noy-tra). In the 1950's when the general public really didn’t pay much attention to architects, Richard Neutra and Eero Saarinen were rockstars, creating buildings like the TWA Terminal at JFK and the Kaufmann house. They were each on...
#10/Eisenhower: Justin Shubow & 2015 Matsumoto Prize Winners
August 10, 2015 14:19 - 51 minutes - 36.1 MBJustin Shubow is President of the National Civic Art Society, a Washington DC educational non-profit for the classical and humanistic tradition in public art and architecture. With a background in law, philosophy, comedy, and physics, his sharp wit informs and entertains through articles in Forbes and appearances before Congress and various Washington committees. We talk about Frank Gehry's design for the Eisenhower Memorial in Washington DC, a project estimated to cost $150M that has dr...
#9/Paul Rudolph: Gene Kaufman & Joe King
July 27, 2015 07:00 - 45 minutes - 31.8 MBPaul Rudolph was not as well-known as Frank Lloyd Wright but he designed some of the most fascinating and creative Modernist buildings in America. While inspiring a generation of architects, the public generally does not warm to his large brutalist designs, finding the intense use of concrete and steel to be ugly and oppressive. But hey, we love 'em, and today we welcome two passionate and willing-to-do-something-about-it architects who fight for Rudolph’s brilliant buildings from different...
#8/Smaller: Sarah Susanka & Monique Lombardelli
July 13, 2015 07:00 - 47 minutes - 33.2 MBSarah Susanka is an internationally-known architect and author of the best-selling "Not So Big" series of books, which kicked off with The Not So Big House in 1997. Over the years, she has been featured on Oprah, Charlie Rose, and many architecture and design publications. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Monique Lombardelli is a San Francisco filmmaker, CEO, Realtor, and developer. She produced three documentary films, including Little Boxes and People in Glass Houses: The Legacy ...
#8/Smaller: Sarah Susanka & Monique Lombardelli
July 13, 2015 07:00 - 33.2 MBSarah Susanka is an internationally-known architect and author of the best-selling "Not So Big" series of books, which kicked off with The Not So Big House in 1997. Over the years, she has been featured on Oprah, Charlie Rose, and many architecture and design publications. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. Monique Lombardelli is a San Francisco filmmaker, CEO, Realtor, and developer. She produced three documentary films, including Little Boxes and People in Glass Houses: The Legacy o...
#7/Renewal: Joe Kwon, Robby Johnston & Craig Kerins
June 29, 2015 07:00 - 33 minutes - 23.9 MBJoe Kwon is the cellist for the internationally acclaimed band The Avett Brothers. He's the client of Robby Johnston and Craig Kerins, principals in the design/build firm Raleigh Architecture & Raleigh Construction. Block by block, they are developing a stretch of Raleigh's downtown into small, sustainable, walkable Modernist houses. Joe's recently built house is the third in what will be about a dozen completed within a three year timeframe. Robby and Craig drink their way through Belg...
#6/Special Agents: Crosby Doe & Emilie Huin
June 15, 2015 07:00 - 43 minutes - 30.6 MBEver since Modernist houses hit the mainstream market in the 1950’s, the real estate community has largely stayed away. Unaware of history, contemptuous of design style, and overreacting to certain flaws, realtors can do more to scare buyers away than to close the deal. Two Modernist realtors keep it real about these livable works of art. Crosby Doe is one of the leading Modernist realtors in America. Since 1983 he has sold houses by internationally prominent architects including Richard...
#5/Lawsuit: Paul Goldberger, Louis Cherry, & Marsha Gordon
June 01, 2015 10:00 - 44 minutes - 31 MBImagine buying a lot, designing a house, getting all the neighborhood and city approvals, starting construction, then - boom - your neighbor sues to stop construction. Here's the background. You'll hear one couple's incredible story - and how it attracted worldwide coverage. Louis Cherry has been an architect since 1983 and is principal of a design/build practice focusing on modern residential, commercial and institutional design. He is the husband of Marsha Gordon, associate professo...
#4/Small World: John Morris and G. Milton Small III
May 19, 2015 05:00 - 30.8 MBJohn Morris is a Usability Engineer by day but by night he's the Batman of downtown architecture documenting buildings in Chicago and Raleigh. He's also a superfan of Modernist architect Milton Small Jr., student of Mies Van der Rohe. Although Small died in 1992, his firm lived on through Small’s son Milton Small III of Small Kane Architects. We'll talk with John and Milton about the man they both admire. Frank relives his Modernist childhood! Water heaters over the sink! Mt. Olive...
#4/Small World: John Morris and G. Milton Small III
May 19, 2015 05:00 - 43 minutes - 30.8 MBJohn Morris is a Usability Engineer by day but by night he's the Batman of downtown architecture documenting buildings in Chicago and Raleigh. He's also a superfan of Modernist architect Milton Small Jr., student of Mies Van der Rohe. Although Small died in 1992, his firm lived on through Small’s son Milton Small III of Small Kane Architects. We'll talk with John and Milton about the man they both admire. Frank relives his Modernist childhood! Water heaters over the sink! Mt. Ol...
#3/Drawing: Mike Welton & Jim Cutler
May 06, 2015 00:15 - 46 minutes - 32.5 MBAuthor J. Michael Welton writes about architecture, art, and design for national and regional publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, Dwell, and Architectural Record. His new book is "Drawing from Practice: Architects and the Meaning of Freehand." One of the architects featured in the book is Jim Cutler, Seattle-area architect well-known for his work in sustainability. He also designed a little $66M house for Microsoft's Bill and Melinda Gates in...