#402/National Notables: National Trust's Carol Quillen + AIA's Evelyn Lee + Tucson's Demion Clinco + HGTV's Elizabeth Finkelstein
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Release Date: 04/28/2025
#431/A Fistful of Modernism: Prolific Authors Alan Hess + Dominic Bradbury + Sam Lubell + AAHA Harper and Aaron Leshtz + Musical Guest Steve Rosenbloom Big Band
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First up, three prolific architecture authors: Alan Hess, Dominic Bradbury, and Sam Lubell. Then we meet Harper Halprin and Aaron Leshtz of AAHA Studio — a marriage proving that design collaboration isn’t just for coworkers. And later, Montreal-born jazz master Steve Rosenbloom, who leads a 16-piece ensemble by night and is a psychologist by day.
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#430/Local Project's Aidan Anderson + Rattan Man Harvey Schwartz + UK's Hugh Martin
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Aidan Anderson is a former carpenter in Sydney Australia who turned a local furniture business into the Local Project, a worldwide media company for architecture and design. Trading a career a NASA for furniture, you will meet The Rattan Man Harvey G. Schwartz. And later, Hugh Martin, one of the founders of the UK Modern House Index, a huge digital archive documenting British modernist homes from the 1920s to today.
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#429/USModernist Radio Retro: The Ferris Buehler House
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We've dug into the podcast vault to bring back a show from the first year of USModernist Radio. One of the best 80s films is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Here's the plot: near the end of the school year, high school senior Ferris Bueller (played by Matthew Broderick) fakes being sick to stay home. His parents believe him, though his sister Jeanie (played by Jennifer Grey, the baby you don’t back into a corner) is not convinced. Ferris persuades his best friend Cameron (Alan Ruck) to help lure Ferris' girlfriend (Mia Sara) out of school and let them use his father's prized 1961 Ferrari....
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#428/The Complete Tom Kundig: Tom Kundig + Jim Dow + Musical Guests Veronneau
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Tom Kundig of Seattle’s Olson Kundig is a superstar in residential architecture, and he’s got a new book, Complete Houses. But you can’t have a world-class architect without a world-class builder, and we’ll talk with Kundig’s close friend and frequent collaborator, Jim Dow of Dowbuilt. Later, you'll hear Veronneau, a husband-and-wife duo whose tunes go around the world.
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#427/YouTube's Stewart Hicks + Pinball with Brian Horowitz + Willis Wonderland with Hillary Carlip
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Back on the show is one of our favorite guests, YouTube architecture star Professor Stewart Hicks; Brian Horowitz revives the joy and nostalgia of pinball, that midcentury pastime that was going to rot our midcentury minds; and author Hillary Carlip shares the wonderful world of Willis Wonderland, a new popup book for all ages.
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#426/E. Fay Jones with Jonathan Formanek + Andy Whitmore + Bad Design with Maggie Weber
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E. Fay Jones is a name most architects know but the public does not. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Jones blurred the line between indoors and outdoors with careful use of wood, stone, and glass. It’s like these buildings just emerge from the woods. Today, we’ve got three people dedicated to preserving Jones legacy. David McKee worked for Jones and is the go-to guy for restoring houses. We’ll talk with Jonathan Formanek, who created the E. Fay Jones Conservancy, along with his partner, Andy Whitmore, who live in the Faubus house in Arkansas. And back in the...
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#425/Michigan's Peter Forguson + UK's Michael Diamant + Musical Guest Brent Jensen
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We've got author and architect Peter Forguson celebrating Michigan’s extraordinary collection of bold, Modernist houses with the new book Contemporary Michigan, from the UK, Michael Diamant rants against Modernism, and later on, musical guest Brent Jensen serves classic tunes made famous by Paul Desmond.
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#424/Kata Walters + Allison C. Meier + Kyle Bergman + Musical Guest Klas Lindquist
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Kata Walters went from the catwalk to the construction site, changing from an international career in modeling to building Modernist houses. Allison C. Meier shares her map of New York, uncovering hidden histories in architecture and culture from cemeteries to the streets. Kyle Bergman of the New York Architecture and Design Film Festival shares this year’s highlights, and from Sweden, musical guest Klas Lindquist.
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#423/Children of Genius: Toby Rapson + Ron Kappe + Musical Guest Holly Cole
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We’re back with one of our most popular segments, Children of Genius. Them apples don’t fall too far from the tree, and today we’ll hear from two that dropped nearby, Toby Rapson and Ron Kappe. They grew up immersed in Modernist design with some of the most influential architecture of the 20th century, thanks to their fathers Ralph Rapson and Ray Kappe, tradition they continue today. Later, Modernist homeowner and musical guest Holly Cole.
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#422/New Palm Springs with Jill Lewis and John Hreno + SOCOMCM's Edward Peck + Musical Guest Jaimee Paul
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You all know we love midcentury modern houses in Palm Springs, but what about new ones? These will be the houses we will tour and sip martinis at and give lectures about 40 years from now. Today we’ll talk with one of those architects, Jill Lewis, about a new house in the Desert Palisades area of Palm Springs, along with the landscape architect for that project, John Hreno. Then we’ll meet the leader of SOCOMCM, architect Edward Peck, plus returning jazz vocalist Jaimee Paul.
info_outlineToday we’ll visit with the CEO of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Carol Quillen; the 2025 President of the AIA, Evelyn Lee; the founder of Tucson Modern, Demion Clinco, and the co-host of HGTV’s Who's Afraid of a Cheap Old House, Elizabeth Finkelstein.