USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

Dec 09 2024 399 ep. 50 mins 77

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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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#382/Bottoms Up: David & Jason Annecy + SHAG + Amy the Barware Lady!

Dec 09 2024 36 mins

The town of Lancaster OH is famous as the birthplace of David Graf, best known as Sgt. Eugene Tackleberry in the Police Academy series. Lancaster is also famous for … glassware, and their best-known creative rebel was Fran Taylor. From 1939 to 1962, Taylor ran GayFad Studios, and 60+ years after her business closed, partners Jason and David Annecy have revived the brand, opened a

Be Part of Show 400 - USModernist Radio's 10th Year!

We can't believe it, but USModernist Radio will be ten years old soon. We'll have a special show number 400 featuring past guests and - you! Are you a fan of the show? Learned something useful? Got a funny story? Please contact George Smart [email protected] or 919.740.8407

#381/Modernism from Australia/UK/China: Glen Murcutt + Rowan Moore + Nancy Steinhardt

Dec 02 2024 71 mins

From Australia, we talk with with architect and 2002 Pritkzer Prize winner Glenn Murcutt. From the UK, we’ve got architecture critic Rowan Moore, and wrapping up, the author of Modern Chinese Architecture: 180 Years, Nancy Steinhardt.

#380/Coastal Modernism: Ed Niles + Ralph Choeff + Musical Guest Chris Bennett

Nov 25 2024 69 mins

Rocking the California architecture scene for over 60 years, we’ll talk with Malibu architect Ed Niles. Then it’s over 3000 miles and down 500 to Florida with tropical architect Ralph Choeff. Later, one of the stars of the Purple Room in Palm Springs, musical guest Chris Bennett!

#379/Moving Matsumoto: Melinda and Andy Knowles + Author James Biber + Musical Guest Allegra Levy

Nov 18 2024 62 mins

In late 2023, new owners of a classic George Matsumoto Modernist house in Raleigh NC took out a demolition permit. Usually, that’s the end of the road for a Modernist house, but Melinda and Andy Knowles stepped up and persuaded those owners to delay demolition – so the couple could move the house seven miles across town, where it has been wonderfully restored on a new site next

#378/Texas and California Modernism: Katherine O'Rourke + Ben Koush + Michael Webb

Nov 11 2024 38 mins

We’ll talk today about Texas and California, two of our most populous states that could not be more different, with Kathryn O’Rourke and Ben Koush, authors of Home, Heat, Money, God: Texas and Modern Architecture; and Michael Webb, author of California Houses: Creativity in Context.

#377/Christopher Wilson + Ken MacIntyre + Musical Guest Emilie-Claire Barlow

Nov 04 2024 64 mins

Talking architecture can be a little dense, wordy, and imponderable, especially for people who aren’t architects but just love talking about, visiting, and being inspired by cool buildings. Today we talk with two noted populists who make architecture understandable, architect and professor Christopher Wilson, and journalist and architourist Ken MacIntyre of modtraveler.com. Later

#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