Latest Modernist Podcast Episodes
#361/New Palm Springs Modernism: Michael Kiner + Mark Daniels
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 15, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWe’ve had many shows on the great midcentury architects of Palm Springs, people like Chambers, Clark, Cody, Frey, Krisel, Sackley, Wexler, White, Williams, and the last man standing, Hugh Kaptur. But that was the 20th century, and we’re in the 21st. In fact, we’re pretty near mid-century in th...
#360/New York Times Architecture Critic Michael Kimmelman + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 08, 2024 07:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsMichael Kimmelman is the architecture critic for the New York Times. He writes on design, housing and homelessness, neighborhood development, cities, the environment, and civil society. Then it's a delightful visit with returning musical guest Monika Ryan.
#359/Kirsten Reoch of the Glass House / Marina Coates on TV Houses / Musical Guest Andrea Carter
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 01, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsKirsten Reoch is the new executive director of Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Then, take a ride down memory lane with Marina Coates, creator of the YouTube series Behind the Scenes, featuring tours of your favorite TV and movie houses. Later on, musical guest Andrea Ca...
#359/Kirsten Roech of the Glass House / Marina Coates on TV Houses / Musical Guest Andrea Carter
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 01, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsKirsten Roech is the new executive director of Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. Then, take a ride down memory lane with Marina Coates, creator of the YouTube series Behind the Scenes, featuring tours of your favorite TV and movie houses. Later on, musical guest Andrea Ca...
#358/Richard Meier's Douglas House: Mike McCarthy + Marcia Myers + Musical Guest Darius Brubeck
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - June 24, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsDesigned by Richard Meier, with project architect Tod Williams, the 1973 Douglas House is a towering white residence built on a steep, conifer-covered slope overlooking Lake Michigan. In 2007, retired Proctor & Gamble executives Mike McCarthy and Marcia Myers became the fourth owners and embark...
#357/Exploring Palm Springs: John Stark + Trevor O'Donnell + J. R. Roberts
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - June 17, 2024 07:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsToday, we’ll talk to three people who live in Palm Springs: the folks who work to document, share, and safeguard Palm Springs’ heritage – and gladly share their stories. First, expert tour guides John Stark and Trevor O’Donnell. Later on, the President of the Palm Springs Plaza Theatre Foundatio...
#356/Scott Specht + Ste Murray + Bad Architecture's Sara Tietje-Mietz and Erin Kennealy
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - June 10, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIn the Modernist kitchen today, we’ve got a full course meal, starting with architect and author Scott Specht, architecture photographer Ste Murray, and wrapping up for dessert, the always delightful hosts of the podcast Bad Architecture, Sara Tietje-Mietz and Erin Kennealy.
#355/Modernist Art: Danny Heller + SHAG + Musical Guest Stacey Kent
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - June 03, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsLet’s talk art, maybe one of the paintings you could buy from today’s guests. The height of Modernist architecture was around 1962 but those butterfly roofs, dressing up for martini parties, sculpted tailfins, and even tiki décor have never been more popular. Artists Danny Heller and Josh Agle,...
#354/Where No Furniture Has Gone Before Part 2: Ray Tesi + Vic Mignogna + Musical Guest Amanda Carr
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 27, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIn 1966 the first episode of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek launched a franchise still going strong nearly 60 years later. Star Trek adapted midcentury Modern furniture for set design, from the Bridge to the Conference Room to buildings on the planets they landed on. In a follow up to Where No Fu...
#353/Lisa Ballinger on Aspen + Catskills with Isaac Jeffreys + Musical Guest David Weiss and The Cookers
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 20, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsAh, Aspen. The land of clean air, brisk skiing, pensive thinktanks, and enormous wealth. Nestled in the gorgeous mountains of Colorado, you might not know that Aspen was influenced by Modernism and has special connections to the Bauhaus in Germany. Today you’ll hear from Lissa Ballinger, act...
#352/New York Architects Peter Eisenman + Esther Sperber + Richard Olcott
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 13, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWelcome to USModernist Radio, where we talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world. It’s especially exciting in New York City, which punches way above its weight in arc...
#352/New York Architects Peter Eisenmann + Esther Sperber + Richard Olcutt
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 13, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWelcome to USModernist Radio, where we talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world. It’s especially exciting in New York City, which punches way above its weight in arc...
#352/New York Architects Peter Eisenmann + Esther Sperber + Richard Olcott
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 13, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWelcome to USModernist Radio, where we talk and laugh with people who enjoy, own, create, dream about, preserve, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most exciting and controversial buildings in the world. It’s especially exciting in New York City, which punches way above its weight in arc...
#351/Bakersfield with David Coffey + Palm Desert with Luke Leuschner + Cape Cod with Peter McMahon
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 06, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsPalm Springs and Los Angeles have thousands of Modernist houses, but there are many towns with their own midcentury architectural heritage. From Modernism Week 2024, we talk with David Coffey about Bakersfield CA; Palm Desert CA native and architectural researcher Luke Leuschner, then Peter McMa...
#350: Alastair Gordon + Barbara Gordon + Musical Guest Kate McGarry
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 29, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThere are lots of famous people named Gordon, people like chef Gordon Ramsay, actress Ruth Gordon, musician Gordon Lightfoot, and even Sting, whose real name is Gordon Sumner. Joining us are today are two Modernist Gordons, author Alistair Gordon and Chicago preservationist Barbara Gordon. Late...
#349/Aluminaire: Frances Campani + Michael Schwarting + Architecture Photographer Robin Hill
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 22, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWay back in 1987, New York Institute of Technology architects Michael Schwarting and Frances Campani saved the 1931 Aluminaire House from destruction, and rebuilt it. Then they had to take it apart. Now nearly 40 years later, Aluminaire House reached it’s final resting place at the Palm Spring...
#348/Architecture Documentaries: Louise Lemoine + Denise Zmekhol + Simon Mark Brown
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 15, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJoining the show are three documentary filmmakers bravely capturing architects and architecture on film. Making these movies is an incredible labor of love; it takes a tremendous amount of work and time, often years, you’re fundraising continually, production is expensive, even when done on the...
#347/Maritime Modernism: Peter Knego + Brian Biggott + Musical Guest Chris Brubeck
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 08, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsFrom the great postwar transatlantic liners to the sleek Scandinavian cruise ships of the 1970s, to Captain Stuebing and the Love Boat, ships and private yachts are also design showcases that featured edgy, trendsetting architecture. Maritime historian and art dealer Peter Knego and yacht owner ...
#346/He Saw Frank Lloyd Wright in 1950: Architect Truman Newberry + Musical Guest Julianna Raye
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 01, 2024 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIn May of 1950, a young man attended a packed lecture by Frank Lloyd Wright in the then-new Reynolds Coliseum at NC State in Raleigh NC. It was the largest architecture lecture ever in North Carolina. He was also witness to the construction of the 1954 Catalano House, sadly destroyed in 2001. ...
#345/Modernism Week 2024: Alan Hess on Irving Gill + Erin Ellwood on Craig Ellwood + Musical Guest Lucy Woodward
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 25, 2024 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsRecorded poolside at the Hotel Skylark during Modernism Week in Palm Springs, prolific architect and architectural historian Alan Hess talks about California architect Irving Gill, who was doing Modernism way back in 1905; plus Erin Ellwood, daughter of Craig Ellwood, on her father’s singular le...
#344/Children Of Genius: Mira Nakashima + Peggy Risom Bull
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 18, 2024 07:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIn another of our wildly popular Children of Genius shows, we’re honored to talk with furniture designer Mira Nakashima, who carries on the tradition of her father, George Nakashima, and Peg Risom Bull, daughter of Danish furniture designer Jens Risom.
#343/Almost Live from New Canaan: The Myron Goldfinger Panel + Musical Guest Lucy Wijnands
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 11, 2024 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsAn exhibition last fall on the late architect Myron Goldfinger opened and USModernist was there moderating the panel’s remembrances. Circle Square Triangle: The Architecture of Myron Goldfinger, closed at the end of 2023 but will be touring other locations in 2024. Myron Goldfinger’s signature M...
#342/Architects Michelle Kaufmann + Roger Ferris + Podcasters Ron Melk + Kevin Kennedy
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 04, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsCreating affordable, transportable, innovative prefab houses has been the holy grail of architecture for 100 years, and if you were reading DWELL in the early 2000’s, you couldn’t miss their coverage of the latest adventurers on that quest. Joining us today is one of the most successful, Michel...
#341/Architects Dan Duckham + Randy Henning + Musical Guest Ann Hampton Callaway
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - February 26, 2024 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsOhio native Dan Duckham moved to Fort Lauderdale in 1956 after graduating in architecture from Miami University of Ohio. Three years later in 1962 he formed his own firm and over the last seven decades, Dan Duckham completed more than 500 projects, including many Modernist houses. Dan Duckham i...
#340/NY Architecture and Design Film Festival: Jason Cohn + Fred Noyes + Hans Christian Post + Musical Guest Jim Ketch
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - February 19, 2024 08:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsRecorded at New York's Architecture and Design Film Festival, George talks with Jason Cohn and returning podcast guest Fred Noyes talking Modernism Inc, a documentary about Eliot Noyes. We’ll also visit with another filmmaker from the festival, Hans Christian Post, who has a few problems with id...
#339/Photographer Michael Biondo + FORT-LA's Russell Brown + Musical Guests Lenore Raphael + Howard Alden
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - February 12, 2024 08:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThere’s a new edition out of the popular book Midcentury Houses Today, and we’ll have on co-author and architectural photographer Michael Biondo. Next up, someone we admire for keeping Modernist houses on the radar in Los Angeles, filmmaker Russell Brown, founder of FORT LA, aka Friends of Res...
#338/Authors Todd Cronan + Andrew Heid + Musical Guest Claudia Acuna
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - February 05, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsTwo authors of new books: Todd Cronan, with the book Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California; and, don’t throw any stones, it’s Andrew Heid, with the book Glass Houses. Later on, George and Tom welcome musical guest Claudia Acuna.
#337/Poolside Gossip: Shawn Waldron + Nelda Linsk + Musical Guest China Forbes of Pink Martini
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 29, 2024 08:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsHave you seen that photo of the two gorgeous glamourous blondes, sitting in loungers, sipping drinks by the pool of a Richard Neutra house in Palm springs? That iconic photo, called Poolside Gossip, was taken over 50 years ago by Slim Aarons. Joining us Shawn Waldron, author of a new book on S...
#336/Sal Flores + Damien Lipp + Stephanie Mauro + Goli Karimi + Musical Guest Nicole Zuratis
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 22, 2024 08:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWe gear up 2024 with conversations with Damien Lipp and Stephanie Mauro on tiny houses in Iceland; Long Beach Architecture Week’s Sal Flores; a Modernist renovation in Altadena CA with Goli Karimi, and later a wonderful musical guest, Nicole Zuraitis.
#335/Getting Ready for Palm Springs: Frank Lopez + Rosemary Krieger + Christopher Georgesco + Karen Nepacena + Musical Guests Lizzy and the Triggermen.
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 15, 2024 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIn October, USModernist was at the Palm Springs Modernism Show and visited with hundreds of wonderful fans from around the country. We are going to be in Palm Springs again in February for Modernism Week, and in preparation, George spoke with today’s guests, architectural archivist Frank Lopez o...
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