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#307/Don't Worry Darling, It's The Kaufmann House: Adele Cygelman + Cathy Whitlock + Chris Baugh + Musical Guest Noel Paul Stookey of Peter Paul + Mary

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - July 03, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
One of the most famous homes in Palm Springs is the Kaufmann House, designed by Richard Neutra.  It was recently the star of Don't Worry Darling, filmed right before it sold, and there's a rich history there.  Even Barry Manilow owned it at one point!  Adele Cygelman is the author of Palm Spri...

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#306/Professor Barry Bergdoll + Musical Guest Joanne Brackeen

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - June 26, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Welcome 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.  Joining us today is one of foremost architectural historians in the world, professo...

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#305/Today's Modernism In Palm Springs: Sean Gaston + Brett Woods + Joe Dangaran + Anthony Poon

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - June 19, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
We all love midcentury Modernism, but what about new Modernist houses? How much do you follow the past versus innovating for the future? After all, we are not the same culture and technology and building materials we were in the 1950's. And what about renovations? Today's show features homeowner...

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#304/Robert Rubin + Musical Guest Libby York

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - June 12, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Joining us is Robert Rubin, no not the guy who was secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, although people do get them confused.  This Robert Rubin built one of the world's only Modernist golf clubhouses and will be transforming that golf course into a Modernist enclave. He also saved and ...

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#303/Modernism Week Places Part 2: Elvis Honeymoon House + Rancho Mirage + United Arab Emirates + Isokon

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - June 05, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
More fun Modernist places most people don't know - explored from conversations at Modernism Week 2023  between George Smart, Tom Guild, and:  Simcha Schtull on the Elvis Honeymoon House, Melissa Riche and Dan Allen on Rancho Mirage, Dana Al-Marashi and TK Harvey on the United Arab Emirages; an...

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#302/Architecture Critics Alexandra Lange + Paul Goldberger

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 29, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
We're thrilled to talk with two of America's foremost architecture critics, recorded in New York City. Alexandra Lange is an award-winning architectural critic for Curbed.com and the author of several books on architecture and America’s built environment. A graduate of NYU’s Institute of Fine ...

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#301/Modernist Places Part 1: Southridge + Marfa + Rocky Mountains + Musical Guest Laura Windley

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 22, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Today’s show, recorded at Modernism Week 2023, is places.  With some great guests, we will explore Southridge in Palm Springs with architect Susan Secoy Jensen; Marfa, Texas with Dean Upe Peter Flueckiger; and the Rocky Mountains with author John Gendall. After that, music with returning podcast...

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#300/The BIG One: Bjarke Ingels + Musical Guest Halie Loren

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 15, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
USModernist Radio started in 2015, one dark and stormy afternoon, and we celebrate episode 300 with a special guest architect. Devoted listeners know exactly who we’re talking about, because in past shows, every time we say his name you hear a sound.  Today we welcome one of the most successful ...

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#299/The Hamptons: David Sokol + Tim Godbold + Musical Guest Robin McKelle

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 08, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Starting in the late 50’s, the Hamptons was largely farmland, and people built small, intricate Modernist houses to get away from city life.  Today, with a new wave of huge houses and immense wealth controlling real estate, preservationists are focusing on both creating new modest Modernist hous...

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#298/John Winberry + Hairpin Homes' Michelle Rembolt + Angel Kwiatkowski

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - May 01, 2023 07:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Architect John Patrick Winberry is the founding principal of the Queens-based UP Studio, recently longlisted for Dezeen’s architecture studio of the year award, and one of the firm’s latest projects is featured on CBS’s America: By Design. Later on, we meet a dynamic duo of moms and longtime fri...

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Torrey Dawley - Solopreneur

Obsessed Show - April 24, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 102 ratings
SOLOPRENEUR OG Today on Obsessed Show I’m chatting in person with one of my best friends of all time, Torrey Dawley. This is my second in-person interview in a row, as well as another amazing creative professional from Indianapolis. Torrey started his own brand and design business back in 2006...

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#297/From Modernism Week 2023: Midcentury Architects + Designers

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 24, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
We’ve got a full roster of guests from Modernism Week 2023 in Palm Springs. Speaking on famous midcentury architects and designers, you'll hear from Jacques Caussin on Raymond Loewy, Lila Cohen on Herb Greene, Alan Hess on Googie architecture, and Michelangelo Sabatino and Maristella Casciato on...

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#296/From NYC: Cathleen McGuigan + Bilyana Dimitrova + Adam Beaulieu + Martin Pedersen

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 17, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Today, our world is New York City, where you’ll hear conversations between George and former editor-in-chief of Architectural Record Cathleen McGuigan, architecture photographer and documentary filmmaker Bilyana Dimitrova, architect Adam Beaulieu of COOKFOX, and Common Edge editor Martin Pedersen.

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#295/Modernism Week 2023: Critic Blair Kamin + Musical Guest Cheryl Bentyne

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 10, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Nowhere in the world celebrates Modernism better than Modernism Week in Palm Springs, California. Every February, they have a weeklong architecture and design festival, which actually lasts 11 days,  and USModernist Radio was there interviewing keynote speakers plus special guests at the USModer...

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#294/Modernist Office: Ryan Anderson of MillerKnoll + Musical Guest Tony Desare

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - April 03, 2023 07:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
You just can’t underestimate the satisfaction of a great office chair.  We spend most of our waking lives at work, often sitting, so comfort is important.  And for many, the location of work has changed.  Accelerated by the pandemic, your workplace is as likely to be a kitchen or den as it is a ...

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#293/New Architecture Movies: Adrian Dorschner + Thomas Beyer + Jan Louter

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 27, 2023 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
The Architecture and Design Film Festival, or ADFF, brings the stars, producers, and creators to premiere their latest documentaries. ADFF Executive Director Kyle Bergman curates visually wonderful, thought-provoking, and faithfully documented films that capture the brilliance of architects, art...

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Samuel E Vázquez, Part II

Obsessed Show - March 20, 2023 11:05 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 102 ratings
Today on Obsessed Show we have a long-overdue part II episode with my friend, Sam Vázquez. You may remember Sam from Episode 15 of the show. Seven years later, we’re catching up with Sam about his work in graphic design, fine art, music, and now, teaching. So without further ado, please enjoy ...

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#292/Architectural Photographer GE Kidder Smith: Michelangelo Sabatino and Hoppy Smith + Detroit Architect Michael Poris + Musical Guest Diana Panton

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 20, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
G. E. Kidder Smith was a trained architect, an architectural historian, and an architectural A prolific scholar, teacher, and author, he is the subject of a new book by Angelo Maggi.  Joining us today from Switzerland is Kidder’s son, internationally acclaimed lutist, or is it lutenist, Hoppy Sm...

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Moon Over Modernism - April 22-23, 2023

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 15, 2023 07:00 - 40 seconds ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
One Weekend - Two John Lautner Houses! The Kelly Lynch and Mitch Glazer Cocktail Party at the Harvey House, Saturday, April 22, 5-8pm. Explore one of the most envied houses in America! You'll share a beautiful evening overlooking downtown Los Angeles, the Griffith Observatory, and the Hollywoo...

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#291/Serial Modernists: Susan Orlean + John Gillespie

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 13, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Los Angeles is the epicenter of Modernist houses.  There are so many in the TMZ that it would take years to see even half of them. Because of sheer numbers, LA is also the epicenter for serial Modernists – those who have owned more than one Modernist house.  And we owe that group huge thanks, be...

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#290/Dylan Turk of Crystal Bridges + NABR's Kate Scott + Vess Ruhtenberg

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - March 06, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
We’re going all over the place today, from Bentonville Arkansas to New York City to Indianapolis Indiana with guests Dylan Turk of the Crystal Bridges Museum, Kate Scott of NABR, a development firm doing interesting things with Bjarke Ingels, and Vess Ruchtenberg, grandson of Jan Ruhtenberg, one...

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Brett Andersen - Focus Lighting

Obsessed Show - February 27, 2023 12:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 102 ratings
Today on Obsessed Show, I’m excited to chat with the Principal Designer of Focus Lighting, Brett Andersen. Focus Lighting is an award-winning professional architectural lighting design firm located in New York City. The Focus Lighting team’s creative process is informed by a combined experienc...

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#289/The Life and Death of Norman Jaffe: Miles Jaffe

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - February 27, 2023 08:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
As New Yorkers grew more prosperous in the 1960’s, they wanted to escape to the Hamptons of Long Island, a place at the time of mostly farmland – and where summer is a verb.  After working briefly for Philip Johnson, architect Norman Jaffe set up his own practice and within a few years everybody...

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#288/Common Ground: Building Community in LA with Frances Anderton

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - February 20, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Returning guest Frances Anderton has been telling stories and distilling ideas about design, architecture, and the cityscape of Los Angeles in print and broadcast media and at public events since 1991. Born and raised in Bath, England, Frances earned a degree in architecture at the University Co...

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#287/Valentine's Day: Our Love and Modernism Show

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - February 13, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
It’s our Valentine's Day show, and what could be better than being in love?  Oh man, your brain is on a euphoric, crazy, often stupid, out of your mind focus on someone or some building that lights you up.  You can’t stop checking messages, you can’t stop googling.  Your heart is racing, and you...

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#286/Topeka Modern: Saving the Docking Building with Michael Grogan + Paul Post

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - February 06, 2023 08:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Topeka Kansas is the home of the famous Supreme Court case Brown vs. Board of Education that ruled against segregation, it’s where Annette Bening and Katrina of Katrina and the Waves grew up.  It’s where Wil Wheaton of Star Trek used to party with Penn Gillette.   It’s where Dr. Phil started … a...

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#285/Hangin' with Mr. Jerald Cooper of HoodCentury

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 30, 2023 08:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Architecture is a tough field, one of the most demanding in terms of academic work.  Once you graduate, a Masters Degree in something else is usually needed.  Then entry level pay is seldom great, and everyone, we mean everyone – is a critic.  Back in the 20th century, when Modernism had it’s he...

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#284/SCI-ARC: Shelly Kappe + Finn Kappe + Musical Guest Claire Martin

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 23, 2023 08:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Los Angeles architect Ray Kappe went on his own in 1954, completing dozens of Modernist houses and teaching. After serving as Founding Chairman of the Department of Architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, Kappe resigned in 1972 and started the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC) whi...

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#283/She Had To Have It: Mia Reed Buys a Frank Lloyd Wright in Iowa

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 16, 2023 08:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
If your Mom or Dad is an architect, architecture gets into your DNA whether you like it or not, and one day, it’s gonna come out.  For one amazing renaissance woman, an artist, writer, investment banker, film producer, tattoo artist agent, and economic development consultant, she had to go all t...

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#282/Architect Stephen Ehrlich + Musical Guest Laura Fygi

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love - January 09, 2023 08:00 - 52 minutes ★★★★★ - 74 ratings
Joining us today is Los Angeles architect Steven Ehrlich of Ehrlich Yahai Rhee Chaney.  Just like we preserve Wright and Neutra and Schindler and Lautner now, in the future we’ll be working to save Modernist houses by this 40-person firm, honored with over 150 awards including the AIA National F...

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