USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

Oct 28 2024 392 ep. 50 mins 75
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Listen 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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#376/Landscape Architecture: Chris LaGuardia + Michael Van Valkenburgh + Musical Guest Timothy Nishimoto of Pink Martini

Oct 28 2024 70 mins  
Landscape architects are the ninjas of the design world, silently orchestrating beauty around buildings while you’re too busy staring at your phone. They decide whether that park bench is in the sun or shade, the exact curve of a sidewalk, and how to make an average building look extraordinary. They’re the ones who make sure your city doesn’t feel like a concrete jungle and t

#375/Housing The Nation: Alexander Gorlin + Victoria Newhouse + Musical Guest Nicole Lvoff

Oct 21 2024 38 mins  
In nearly every major city, housing the homeless is a major problem. Since the defunding of residential mental health programs in Reagan era, the dramatic cost of housing, and other cutbacks in the welfare safety net, America created a huge population of people with problems who have nowhere to live except outside. Especially in California, which has the most homeless citizens in A

#374/Boots On the Ground: Julianne Patterson + Benjamin Briggs + Ben Thomas + Musical Guest Helena Redman

Oct 14 2024 71 mins  
Where does the real work get done in Modernist preservation? State and local preservation groups show up at long, boring, and ridiculously bureaucratic public meetings, week after week, sometimes for years. They get historic preservation tax credits passed in most states, and they monitor everything from development to the preservation easements we talk about frequently. Joining us

#373/Chad Oppenheim + Alan Pullman + David Peterson + Special Musical Guest Halie Loren

Oct 07 2024 76 mins  
Today you’ll hear from Miami architect and author Chad Oppenheim; from Long Beach architect Alan Pullman; from New Canaan author David Peterson, and later we swoon again with returning musical guest Halie Loren singing from her new album.

#372/Children Of Genius: Nathaniel Kahn + Elaine Dart Hanan + Musical Guest Lori Lieberman

Sep 30 2024 74 mins  
Interviewing the children of mid-century architects has been one the best parts of producing USModernist Radio. We’ve had the pleasure of talking to Hicks Stone, son of Edward Durell Stone; John Barnes, son of Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ainsley Gores Gilligan, daughter of Landis; Fred Noyes, son of Eliot; Eric and Susan Saarinen, children of Eero; Raymond and Dion Neutra, children o

#371/Conserving Black Modernism: Charles McAfee + Brent Leggs + Musical Guest Jaimee Paul

Sep 23 2024 68 mins  
Being a Black architect in the white-male-dominated 20th century was tough. You were paid less, worked harder, and rarely got any credit. That is, if you could get hired at all. For example, by 1950 there were only two Black architects registered in North Carolina, both male. By 1980 the number was only 65 out of 1909. Even by 1993, Black architects made up only 7.5% nationally. To

#370/Architecture Films: Sabine Gisger + Beatrice Minger + Mario Novas + Kyle Bergman + Special Musical Guest Lucie Arnaz

Sep 16 2024 84 mins  
The 2024 Architecture and Design Film Festival, or ADFF, starts up next week in New York. This long-running series is led by returning podcast guest Kyle Bergman, who founded the ADFF in New York in 2008 and hosts versions all over the world. ADFF seeks out films with impassioned, human stories that appeal to both architects and the general design-loving public. Today we’ll talk

#369/Never Built Modernism: Sam Lubell + Greg Goldin + Musical Guest Paul Giallorenzo

Sep 09 2024 60 mins  
For every 3 or 4 Modernist buildings out there, there is likely one amazing unbuilt building with plans sitting in a drawer or a hard drive somewhere. Exploring the wonderful world of the imagined but not realized, joining us are the authors of Never Built Los Angeles, Never Built New York, and the new book, the Atlas of Never Built Architecture, Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin. Later,

#368/San Diego + La Jolla Modernism: Joan Gand + Lauren Lockhart + Keith York + Musical Guests Lisa Veronica Wood and Sidecar Social Club

Sep 02 2024 59 mins  
Today we’re talking about Modernist havens San Diego and La Jolla with midcentury author and historian Keith York; plus Joan Gand and Lauren Lockhart of the La Jolla Historical Society on their upcoming Modernist tour, of which USModernist is a sponsor. Later on, jazz with Lisa Veronica Wood and the Sidecar Social Club.

#367/Charles Phoenix on World's Fairs + Iconic Houses Founder Natascha Drabbe + Martini Whisperer Philip Jones + Lautner Owner Andrew Vottero

Aug 26 2024 91 mins  
It’s a sad day in the studio, because this is the last Modernism Week show of 2024. We’ve brought you 11 wonderful episodes from our annual pilgrimage, and today wraps up the series with returning guests mid-century historian Charles Phoenix; Natascha Drabbe of iconichouses.org; traveling all the way from Canberra, Australia, Phillip Jones the Martini Whisperer; and Lautner hom