Latest Modernist Podcast Episodes
#334/The Legacy of Asian-American Architects: Mina Chow + Takashi Yanai
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 08, 2024 08:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsReturning podcast guest Takashi Yanai is a partner at Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects where he is director of both the Los Angeles and San Francisco residential studios. Returning podcast guest Mina Chow is and architect and Principal of mc2 Spaces, a multimedia company. She is also an arc...
#333/Children of Genius: Francesca Breuer Wallace + Heiki Aalto-Alanen
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 01, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsHappy 2024! We open up the new year with another great episode in our continuing series Children of Genius. Francesca Breuer Wallace gives her first interview - ever - on her father Marcel Breuer; and later it’s the grandson of Aino and Alvar Aalto, Heikki Aalto-Alanen, with a new book on his ...
#332/Holiday Show: Author Toby Witte + Musical Guest Michael Sinatra + Musical Guests Peter Lamb and the Wolves
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - December 25, 2023 08:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWhat better subject to talk about during the holidays than Modernist bliss? Joining us is Charlotte North Carolina architect and author Toby Witte. And later, not one but two holiday musical guests: from his new Christmas album, Michael Sinatra, and bringing holiday cheer from Raleigh NC, Pete...
#331/Pioneering Leaders Phyllis Lambert + Susan Maxman
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - December 18, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIn architecture up until the 1990’s, it was raining men, and the few women architects had to work twice as hard to get the same recognition and the same pay, if they got either at all. That's slowly changing, thanks to pioneering leaders like today's guests. Phyllis Bronfman Lambert is a Canadi...
#330/Tom Kundig's Client Lou Maxon Rides the Rails + Peter McMahon of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - December 11, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsBe careful about giving a coffee table book to your architecture-lovin’ spouse for Christmas, because one day, you might have a new Modernist house by a famous architect - plus a railroad - on your property. Joining us is Seattle brand designer Lou Maxon and his long strange journey to build a ...
#329/Martin Voelkle of BIG
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - December 04, 2023 08:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsAs our 23 loyal listeners know, we’re solid fans of Bjarke Ingels and his wildly successful design practice Bjarke Ingels Group spanning London, Copenhagen, New York, and China. With projects like the combination incinerator and ski slope in Copenhagen, and Via 57, One Hudson, the Spiral, and t...
#328/Mid-Century Architect Barbara Neski + Musical Guest Staci Griesbach
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - November 27, 2023 08:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThe architects of midcentury houses in the 1950’s and 1960’s are all retired now, some for many years. It’s a true privilege as fans from a later generation to sit down with these men and women and hear their stories. Joining us today is celebrated architect Barbara Neski of New York City, now...
#327/Christy MacLear
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - November 20, 2023 08:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsEvery now and then, we run into A-students who have become so accomplished in the multiple worlds of art, architecture, preservation, business, and common sense, that it’s a shame not to share those conversations. Joining us today is Christy MacLear, the founder of Artist Ventures. She’s been C...
#326/Children of Genius: John Barnes + Ainslie Gores Gilligan
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - November 13, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIn our ongoing series Children of Genius, we’ll talk to John Barnes, son of New York Modernist architect Edward Larrabee Barnes, and Ainsley Gores Gilligan, daughter of Connecticut architect and one of the Harvard Five, Landis Gores. They join our past interviews with family of well-known archi...
Special Event! Modapalooza in Palm Springs February 2024
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - November 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsGeorge sneaks into the studio to make a special announcement.
#325 A/Modapalooza in Pam Springs
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - November 09, 2023 08:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 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.
#325/Albert Frey, Inventive Modernist: Adam Lerner + Brad Dunning
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - November 06, 2023 08:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsFew large art museums in the world are dedicated to architecture as well as art, and joining us is Adam Lerner, the CEO of one of those, the Palm Springs Art Museum. A few blocks away, that museum owns another museum, the Palm Springs Architecture and Design Museum, location of an upcoming Janu...
#324/The Getty's Chandler McCoy + AI with Michael Gilbride
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - October 30, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsBack in the 1980’s, architect Richard Meier got a commission for a series of buildings in Los Angeles. The Getty Foundation, sourced from the prestigious family of oil fame, wanted a huge new complex on land they owned off the 405. This would turn out to be one of the largest private commissio...
#323/Organic Architecture: Michael Johnson + Bart Prince + Musical Guests Peter Lamb and the Wolves
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - October 23, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsThe Modernist architecture we love is exciting, edgy, sometime inexplicable, often brilliant. Modernism has been around a long time, yet there’s also been a movement beyond Neutra and Corbusier and Gropius and Breuer and Mies, that’s frequently misunderstood. We’re talking about organic archi...
#322/Stewart Hicks of YouTube's Architecture with Stewart
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - October 16, 2023 07:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsReturning podcast guest Stewart Hicks is best-known for his wildly popular YouTube video series Architecture with Stewart, and in his spare time, he’s Associate Dean at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Every few weeks, you’ll find a new YouTube release helpin...
#321/Andras Szanto: The Future of Museums
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - October 09, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWhat modernist architect doesn’t want a museum commission? Along with airports and hotels, or huge corporate campuses for tech bros, museums are the most lucrative and high-profile projects an architect can get. Budgets are big, backers are rich, publicity is guaranteed, and most of the time c...
#320/Melodie Yashar of ICON + Jan Schmidt-Garre on BV Doshi + NY ADFF with Kyle Bergman
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - October 02, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsMelodie Yashar is VP for building design and performance at ICON, a firm devoted to developing 3D construction. Their neighborhood of attractive, affortable 3D-printed houses, designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group, went on sale in Austin TX this past June. Later on, we talk with German director J...
#319/Palm Springs Glamour: Will Friedwald + Courtney Newman + Susan Claassen
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - September 25, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsPalm Springs has seen its share of glamour, from the Hollywood celebrities who made the place their playground last century to the musicians and entertainers who kept the party going. Today we’ll hear from Will Friedwald on the jazz trio The Poll Winners; Courtney Newman on the classic entertain...
#318/Modernist Renovations: Nick Martin + Matt Loader + Iain King + Musical Guest Jen Ash
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - September 18, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsRenovations on Modernist buildings can be particularly tricky. Nick Martin's firm recently remodeled Charles Gwathmey’s Tolan House in the Hamptons. Matt Loader and Iain King of Loader Monteith lead Modernist preservation projects including the Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh Building, the Jen...
#317/More Than Architecture: Object Modernism
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - September 11, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsModernism isn't just architecture; it also highlights the artists and artisans whose textiles, ceramics, furniture, and other objects bring modern spaces to life. Recorded at Modernism Week 2023, we’ll hear from a gaggle of interesting guests: Susan Brown, Alexa Griffith Winton, Leigh Wishner a...
#317: More Than Architecture: Object Modernism
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - September 11, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsModernism isn't just architecture; it also highlights the artists and artisans whose textiles, ceramics, furniture, and other objects bring modern spaces to life. Recorded at Modernism Week 2023, we’ll hear from a gaggle of interesting guests: Susan Brown, Alexa Griffith Winton, Leigh Wishner a...
#316/Lustrons: Virginia Faust + Mark Siebel + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - September 04, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIn 1946, Carl Strandland asked for $15 million worth of emergency loans to build small houses for GIs returning from WWII. Strandland was not an architect, but his idea that metal neighborhoods could be prefabricated and swiftly built was persuasive, and Lustron prefab house was born. To manufac...
#315/Photography and Color: Ethan Wayne + Laurie Kratochvil + Amy Shepherd + Sara McClean + Musical Guest Ariel Pocock
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - August 28, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsAs more and more midcentury buildings get destroyed, we have to rely on midcentury photography collections as a window into the past and as inspiration for the future. Today we’ll talk to Ethan Wayne, son of actor John Wayne, Laurie Kratochvil, and Amy Shepherd about the John Hamilton Collection...
#314/Et Tu, Brutalism? Concrete Love with Owen Hopkins + Musical Guests Poinsettia
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - August 21, 2023 07:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsArchitectural historian Owen Hopkins has written or edited 16 books on architecture and his stories have appeared in Architectural Design, Dezeen, the Independent, and Blueprint, among many others. A graduate of the Courtauld Institute in London, Owen has served as architectural program curator ...
#313/Vishaan Chakrabarti + Missy Wood + Sharon Prince + A Few Minutes with Jody Brown
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - August 14, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsVishaan Chakrabarti is the Founder and Creative Director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism where he leads the firm’s growing global portfolio of cultural, institutional, and public projects. His latest book is A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America; his major argument is t...
#312/The WG Show: WG Clark + Wendy Goodman
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - August 07, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsWhat would happen if you threw the letters of the alphabet in a hat, drew out two at random, then asked people with those initials on a podcast? Today we find out, and just like Sesame Street, today’s show is brought to you by the letters W and G. We could have chosen from musician Woody Guthr...
#311/Leo Marmol + Stuart Graff + Jennifer Gray + Musical Guest Elaine Lucia
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 31, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsArchitects Albert Frey and Lawrence Kocher designed the Aluminaire House in 1931 for New York’s Allied Arts and Industries Exhibition. Tens of thousands of people went through this experimental house design. Now, over 90 years later, Aluminaire has been sitting in a tractor trailer, boxed up, at...
#310/Modernist Renovator Jeff Fink + Brick and Wonder's Drew Lang
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 24, 2023 07:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsIf you’re considering buying a midcentury Modern house, you’re surely going to need some repairs, maybe as much as a full renovation. Mostly likely you’re not in construction or architecture, so you’re gonna need help and you really don’t want to screw it up. The good news is that there are ex...
#309/Landscape Architecture: Roderick Wyllie + James Lord + Musical Guest Al Strong
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 17, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsYou know when you go to an impressive Modernist building, part of what’s impressive is more than just the structure. The landscape all around the building, from the sidewalks to the signage to the plants to how the sun hits everything just right – this is the stuff that the general public often...
#308/Designer/Builder Alicia Hylton Daniel + Of Houses: Daniel Munteanu
USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 10, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratingsJoining us here in the studio is designer and builder Alicia Hylton-Daniel, owner of the Durham North Carolina firm Hylton Daniel. Later on, from Romania, it’s the creator of the wildly popular “of houses” blog, architect Daniel Munteanu.
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