Latest Womeninarchitecture Podcast Episodes
Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby
New Angle: Voice - June 27, 2024 11:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsWe continue our throw-back to the seventies, and take a deeper dive into the many facets of the women’s movement that impacted the practice of architecture. Pushed to the side and rarely credited for her architectural work at Davis Brody, Phyllis Birkby became a significant figure in extendi...
Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977
New Angle: Voice - April 09, 2024 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsThat was some party. Even though I didn’t make it to the splashy opening, I did attend the transformational exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, our subject in this episode. A rarely used sculpture gallery was filled with ranks and files of cheap drafting tables, their tops tilted to display what ...
Architecture, Family Style – The Lives and Work of Sarah Harkness and Jean Fletcher
New Angle: Voice - December 20, 2023 15:34 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsSarah Pillsbury, or Sally as she was better known by her peers, and Jean Bodman were both architects who married architects. As an architect who also married an architect, my perspective may be more inside baseball on the professional side, but utter awe and fascination on the family end. I’m...
Anna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of Invention
New Angle: Voice - August 14, 2023 11:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratings1913 was the year of the grand march for suffrage in Washington DC, the 250,000 marchers and attendees eclipsed the coverage the following day of the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, population 4216, had its own march, on the fourth of July. Costumes were di rigeur, wit...
Amaza Lee Meredith: Love and Home
New Angle: Voice - May 31, 2023 08:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsI picked up a free glossy real estate magazine with an enticing photograph of summer leisure pursuits under the title Sag Harbor: A Whale of a Good Time. We traveled out there in early spring, collecting voices of preservation, community, celebrity, and long tenured summer families as we search...
The Art We Must Live With: Ada Louise Huxtable and Architecture Criticism
New Angle: Voice - April 19, 2023 08:00 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsAnyone who writes about American architecture of the mid twentieth and early 21 st century measures their critical achievement with the yardstick drawn by Ada Louise Huxtable. With countless articles for two great daily newspapers, this petite New Yorker had a gigantic influence on our under...
Ray Eames: Beauty in the Everyday
New Angle: Voice - March 08, 2023 09:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsNew Angle: Voice is back! We kick off Season Two with Ray Kaiser Eames. Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband. In this episode, we uncover the talented artist who saw the world full of color, the industrial designer bending plywood in the spare bedroom, ...
Florence Knoll: Total Design
New Angle: Voice - March 14, 2022 22:55 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsWith her legendary unerring taste and a total commitment to produce absolute perfection in her self, her work, her products, and how she would be remembered, Florence Knoll is generally recognized as the single most powerful figure in the field of modern design. As an architect, Florence was...
Episode 5: Florence Knoll: Total Design
New Angle: Voice - March 14, 2022 22:55 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsWith her legendary unerring taste and a total commitment to produce absolute perfection in her self, her work, her products, and how she would be remembered, Florence Knoll is generally recognized as the single most powerful figure in the field of modern design. As an architect, Florence...
Norma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold Hand
New Angle: Voice - March 14, 2022 19:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsNorma Sklarek had many “firsts”. She was often credited at the start of her career as the first Black Women architect to be licensed in the United States. That distinction actually goes to Beverly Greene – Norma was the 3rd. But it didn’t matter. Young black girls read her name in the like...
Episode 4: Norma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold Hand
New Angle: Voice - March 14, 2022 19:45 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsNorma Sklarek had many “firsts”. She was often credited at the start of her career as the first Black Women architect to be licensed in the United States. That distinction actually goes to Beverly Greene – Norma was the 3rd. But it didn’t matter. Young black girls read her name in the like...
Episode 3: Fast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee Shops
New Angle: Voice - March 14, 2022 19:35 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsWho hasn't had a burger and fries at a Denny's or Bob's Big Boy? There are thousands of them, not just in Los Angeles, where they were born, but across the country. These family restaurants are core to how America defined itself after World War II. Cars, families, space flight, modernism....th...
Fast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee Shops
New Angle: Voice - March 14, 2022 19:35 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsWho hasn't had a burger and fries at a Denny's or Bob's Big Boy? There are thousands of them, not just in Los Angeles, where they were born, but across the country. These family restaurants are core to how America defined itself after World War II. Cars, families, space flight, modernism....th...
Natalie de Blois – To Tell The Truth
New Angle: Voice - February 15, 2022 17:37 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsNatalie de Blois (1921–2013) contributed to some of the most iconic modernist works for corporate America, all while raising four children. After leaving this significant mark on post-war Park Avenue, she transferred to the SOM Chicago office, where she became actively involved in the architect...
Episode 2: Natalie de Blois – To Tell The Truth
New Angle: Voice - February 15, 2022 17:37 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsNatalie de Blois (1921–2013) contributed to some of the most iconic modernist works for corporate America, all while raising four children. After leaving this significant mark on post-war Park Avenue, she transferred to the SOM Chicago office, where she became actively involved in the architect...
Finding Julia Morgan
New Angle: Voice - October 06, 2021 16:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsWelcome to New Angle: Voice. Episode 1 takes us on an earthquaking tour from San Francisco to Paris and back, with Julia Morgan (1872-1957), the first woman to attend the architecture program at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal. Special thanks in this ...
Episode 1: Finding Julia Morgan
New Angle: Voice - October 06, 2021 16:56 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 151 ratingsWelcome to New Angle: Voice. Episode 1 takes us on an earthquaking tour from San Francisco to Paris and back, with Julia Morgan (1872-1957), the first woman to attend the architecture program at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and the first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal. Special thanks in this ...
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