USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love

Mar 17 2025 413 ep. 51 mins 80
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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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#396/Architecture Research Office + Kevin Alter + Musical Guest Carrie Marshall

Mar 17 2025 55 mins  
You’ll hear from the principal architects of Architecture Research Office (ARO), Adam Yarinsky, Stephen Cassell, and Kim Yao. We’ll explore a 12,000 sf Modernist house in Dallas with architect Kevin Alter, and wrapping up, musical guest Carrie Marshall.

#395/Architecture Books 3: Dan Chavkin + Jeffrey Head + Jo Lauria + Penny Craswell + Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel

Mar 10 2025 64 mins  
With so many good architecture books coming out, we can barely keep up. Today we’ll explore Architectural Pottery with Dan Chavkin, Jeffrey Head, and Jo Lauria; sustainable houses with Penny Craswell, and the Queen of architecture interviews, journalist and historian Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, who has a new book out on New York.

#394/Preservation Chicago's Ward Miller + Justin Davidson + Musical Guest Eddie Mugavero of Bada Bing Bada Boom

Mar 03 2025 79 mins  
We visit with Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago; design critic and New York Magazine writer Justin Davidson; and musical guest Eddie Mugavero of the beloved Nashville swing band Bada Bing Bada Boom.

#393/Architecture Books 2: DJ Waldie + Dominic Bradbury + Pierluigi Serriano

Feb 24 2025 60 mins  
Following up on last week, three more authors with exciting books on architecture and design. DJ Waldie is the bard of Lakewood California with a new book, Becoming Los Angeles. Past podcast guest, the prolific Dominic Bradbury, has a new Atlas of modernist icons. And returning podcast guest Pierluigi Serraino shares in the new book Modern Garden how often-underappreciated landscap

#392/Architecture Books 1: Aaron Betsky + Sam Lubell and Darren Bradley + Carl D'Silva

Feb 17 2025 57 mins  
With so many good architecture books coming out, we can barely keep up scheduling interviews, but we are gonna try. Joining the show are authors Aaron Betsky and Sam Lubell, architecture photographer Darren Bradley, and Danish Modern furniture savant, Carl D’Silva. More books and authors next week!

#391/Architecture Movies: Valentina Ganeva + Ken Ogborn + Special Musical Guest Melora Hardin

Feb 10 2025 56 mins  
It’s architecture movie day, and with us is Valentina Ganeva, the producer/director of the latest doc on Rudolph Schindler, Schindler Space Architect. Actor Ken Ogborn shares his role in a short film on photography and brutalism in the UK. Then it’s the actress and singer we’ve loved for decades in just about everything, like Monk and Friends and The Office, Melora Hardin.

#390/Children Of Genius: Jim Venturi + Peter Nowicki + Sue Ann Kahn

Feb 03 2025 62 mins  
It’s another exciting edition of our Children of Genius show, with guests Jim Venturi, son of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi; Peter Nowicki, son of Matthew and Siasia Nowicki; and Sue Ann Kahn, daughter of Lou Kahn.

#389/Subways with John McAslan + The Toast of Illinois, Champaign + Breakfast with Musical Guest Monika Ryan

Jan 27 2025 70 mins  
Today’s new mega-transportation centers are sweeping complexes for airports and subways to move millions of people. They are huge canvasses for architects like today’s guest, Scottish architect John McAslan, who’s working on the hot mess that is Penn Station. Later we’ll explore the Toast of Illinois, Champaign, with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, author of Mid-Continent Modern an

#388/Kevin Keim on Charles Moore + Evan Dyer Rebuilds an Ellwood + Lou Grotta Preserves a Meier

Jan 20 2025 52 mins  
Charles Moore, the architect of California’s famous Sea Ranch, was one of the chief proponents of postmodernism. His work brought a return to more ornamental detail, steep roofs, and shingles, among other classical features, and we’ll learn more from Kevin Keim, Director of the Charles Moore Foundation. Next, you’ve heard for a year about the destruction of Craig Ellwood’s

#387/Rudolph at the Met: Abraham Thomas + June Goldfinger + Kelvin Dickinson + Musical Guest Chelsee Hicks with Wholly Cats Swing Club

Jan 13 2025 69 mins  
Paul Rudolph's buildings, built and unbuilt, continue to inspire clients, annoy critics, and gain fame, even though he died in the mid-90’s. These days, though, it’s almost all smiles and admiration, and there’s an important exhibition of Rudolph’s work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York through March. Year round on certain days, however, you can visit Rudolph’s forme