#413/Daughters Of Design Saarinen Bertoia Eames + Phillip Cox and Niall Cronin + Special Musical Guest Ari Shapiro
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Release Date: 07/14/2025
#441/USModernist Radio Retro - The Lake House: Nathan Crowley + Fritz Hengge + Musical Guest Heather Rigdon
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
We've dug into the podcast vault to one of our favorite shows: the story of the awesome Modernist house in the 2006 movie, The Lake House, starring Keanu Reaves and Sandra Bullock. The house stole the show, and we'll talk to the architect Nathan Crowley and the engineer, Fritz Hengge.
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#440/New Architecture + Design Films: Allie Rood + Beck Carpenter + Danny Berish and Ryan Mah + Musical Guest Brandi Disterheft
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Today we’ll talk with producers of architecture and design documentaries featured in Kyle Bergman’s Architecture and Design Film Festival which opened last fall and continues around the world. Filmmaker Allie Rood’s Prickly Mountain captures Vermont’s countercultural design/build movement. Beck Carpenter’s Space Architect tells the story of NASA architect Constance Adams, whose pioneering designs for off planet habitats inspire solutions for our own climate challenges. Danny Berish and Ryan Mah’s Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines traces the life and work of one of...
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#439/Saving a Lundy with Carol and Dan Price + Sarasota's Erin DiFazio + Celanese House with Joel Disend and Inger Stringfellow + Special Musical Guest Pat Boone
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Carol and Dan Price stepped in to save architect Victor Lundy’s Bellaire, Texas, home just weeks before demolition. Erin DiFazio champions Sarasota’s architectural heritage, and owner Joel Disend shares his 1959 Edward Durell Stone house in New Canaan, Connecticut. Then from teen idol to chart-topper to movie star to pro basketball team owner (and Debbie's dad), we’ve got the great Pat Boone, with a career spanning seven decades.
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#438/Children of Genius: Llisa Demetrios + Sarah and Cameron Nims + Gabriela Liebert + Musical Guest Susan Tobocman
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
In our continuing series, Children of Genius, we’ll talk with the children of extraordinary architects. First, Llisa Demetrios, Curator of the Eames Institute and youngest granddaughter of design legends Ray and Charles Eames. Next, Sarah and Cameron Nims, children of Florida architect Rufus Nims, and later, we’ll talk with Gabriela Liebert, the architect reviving Nim's iconic “Jetsons House” in Miami. Then, it’s the daughter of architect Irving Tobocman, and also our musical guest, jazz singer Susan Tobocman.
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#437/USModernist Radio Retro: Harwell Hamilton Harris with Lisa Germany + Frank Harmon
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
We've dug into the USModernist Radio vault to bring back a special interview on early 20th century Modernist Harwell Hamilton Harris, with author Lisa Germany and Harris' friend and executor, Frank Harmon.
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#436/Libraries with Margaret Sullivan and Jim Richard + Architects Glenda Flaim and Federico Engel + Musical Guest Matt Belsante
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Today on the show, George writes a song in 30 seconds. Architects Margaret Sullivan and Jim Richärd turn libraries into vibrant hubs. Glenda Flaim and Federico Engel restore a William Wurster house in San Francisco, and later we’ll croon with musical guest Matt Belsante.
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#435/Archispeak's Evan Troxel + Developer Ken Reiter + Architect Jason Langkammerer + Musical Guest Julianna Raye
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Today we welcome podcast host Evan Troxel of Archispeak; developer Ken Reiter, who answers the question, what do you do with a old Modernist school? Jason Langkammerer, founder of AT6 Architecture + Design Build, on renovating his own house; and returning podcast guest, the enchanting Julianna Raye, singer-songwriter and CEO of Unified Mindfulness, blending soulful music with meditation practice.
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#434/Author Volker Welter + Cranbrook's Andrew Blauvelt + Musical Guests Kathy and Gregg Gelb
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Our first guest Volker Welter uncovers how architect Leopold Fischer fled Europe to shape Modernism in the US. We have Cranbrook Museum’s Chief Curator Andrew Blauvelt, and later, musical guests Gregg and Kathy Gelb in a tribute to Paul Montgomery.
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#433/USModernist Radio Retro: Daniel Libeskind + Moshe Safdie
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
We've dug into the podcast vault to bring back two interviews with internationally respected architects Moshe Safdie and Danlel Libeskind.
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#432/Tulsa's Shane Hood + Iowa's Peter Maunu + Architect Emily Almloff + Musical Guests Danger Hall
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Shane Hood safeguards Tulsa’s architectural gems. Peter Maunu lovingly restored Frank Lloyd Wright’s Lamberson House in Iowa. Emily Almloff, the youngest licensed architect in the US, is transforming hospitals across the Midwest. Later, musical guests Danger Hall, with Peter Lamb and Daniel Hall.
info_outlineRecorded poolside at the swanky USModernist compound during Modernism Week 2025, this week we’re hanging with the Daughters of Design: Susan Saarinen, Celia Bertoia, and Carla Hartman. Back in the studio, authors Phillip Cox and Niall Cronin on architect Evans Woollen, and later, a well-known NPR host who’s toured with Pink Martini, special musical guest Ari Shapiro.