#445/Two Gentlemen Admiring Architecture: Australia's Tim Ross + UK's Kevin McCloud + Musical Guest Leigh Pilzer
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Release Date: 02/23/2026
#449/Chris Roman + Ed Dimenberg and Crosby Doe + Holland Murphy + Musical Guest Claudia Burson
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Chris Roman designs a Modernist fire station in Richmond VA. Authors Edward Dimendberg and Crosby Doe share the story of the breakout project for Richard Neutra, the Lovell Health house in Los Angeles. Holland Murphy investigates an architectural mystery in Dallas, and from northwest Arkansas, musical guest Claudia Burson.
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#448/Joe Massaro's Wright Stuff + Corbett Jones + Glenn Kurtz's New York + Musical Guest Jenna Esposito
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Joe Massaro brought an unbuilt Frank Lloyd Wright design to life and weathered 20 years of criticism from Wright purists; Corbett Jones share his new documentary on Arts and architecture magazine and the Case Study Houses; Glenn Kurtz gracked down the men in Lewis Hine’s iconic Empire State Building photographs, turning symbols into real people; and musical guest Jenna Esposito keeps the 60’s alive.
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#447/USModernist Radio Retro: Where No Furniture Has Gone Before + Special Musical Guest Jennifer Warnes
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
We've dug into the podcast vault for the story of Star Trek's furniture. Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek launched a franchise in 1966 and is still going strong 60 years later. Sequels, movies, toys, fan films - there's just no end to Star Trek's bright, progressive, optimistic future where Earth has transcended national and international politics. Something architecture fans may have missed, and we certainly did, is that Star Trek adapted midcentury Modern furniture for the set design, from the Bridge to the Conference Room, to the alien buildings on the planets they landed on. ...
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#446/Carin Carlson + Tim Mitchell + Author Anthony Alofsin + Nevada's Paige Figanbaum + Musical Guests Naomi and her Handsome Devils
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Architects Carin Carlson and Tim Mitchell from Hennebery Eddy Architects restore mid-century and Mission 66–era architecture. Anthony Alofsin, one of the world’s leading authorities on Frank Lloyd Wright, joins us to talk about his new book, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Bogk House and reveals his new, famous cousin. Paige Figenbaum, Executive Director of the Nevada Preservation Foundation, tells us about Vegas modernism and later, musical guests Naomi & Her Handsome Devils.
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#445/Two Gentlemen Admiring Architecture: Australia's Tim Ross + UK's Kevin McCloud + Musical Guest Leigh Pilzer
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
Kevin McCloud and Tim Ross are hosts of Tim and Kev's Big Design Adventure, a globe-trotting podcast centered on people, places, architecture, and design. Later, baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer, whose powerful sound has anchored ensembles from the DIVA Jazz Orchestra to the immortal Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
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#444/Lawrence Kocher with Ines Martin Robles and Luis Pancorbo + Steven Hurtt on Colin Rowe + Jo Franzen on Ulrich + Musical Guest Kim Kashiw
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The venerable magazine Architectural Record is one of the most influential design publications in the world, clocking in 135 years of extraordinary coverage. You can see all their issues at usmodernist.org/index-ar. Today we’ll explore one of their editors, Lawrence Kocher, with Luis Pancorbo and Ines Martin Robles. We’ll talk with Steven Hurtt on The Urban Design Legacy of famed critic Colin Rowe, and we’ll hear about celebrated architect Ulrich Franzen from Josephine Franzen. Wrapping up, musical guest Kim Kaskiw.
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#443/Author Blake Gopnik + Holland Murphy + Saarinen's Arch with Pam Sanfilippo + Musical Guests Jeff Bush + The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
US Modernist Radio - Architecture You Love
First up, for our concrete fans, art critic and author Blake Gopnik looks inside modernism through his book, Brutalist Interiors. Holland Murphy solves the mystery of a house in Dallas. From there, we head to St. Louis, where Pam Sanfilippo of the Eero Saarinen-designed Gateway Arch National Park shares how Saarinen’s soaring 630-foot monument endures for millions of visitors. And we wrap up with the Rolling Stones of swing, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, carrying forward one of the greatest big bands with leader Jeff Bush.
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#442/Holland Taylor + Touring Palm Springs with Shann Carr and JD Cargill + Adele Cygelman on Arthur Elrod + Musical Guest Lenore Raphael
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Starting with Los Angeles, we’ll talk with Rudolph Schindler homeowner, and star of Two and a Half Men, Holland Taylor. Then we move to Palm Springs, the center of the Universe for midcentury Modernism. Everybody who’s a fan of Modernism needs to plan a trip, and today we’ll talk with Palm Springs tour guides Shann Carr and JD Cargill, author Adele Cygelman and her new documentary Arthur Elrod: Modern Cool, Later music from jazz pianist Lenore Raphael.
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#441/USModernist Radio Retro - The Lake House: Nathan Crowley + Fritz Hengge + Musical Guest Heather Rigdon
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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
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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...
info_outlineKevin McCloud and Tim Ross are hosts of Tim and Kev's Big Design Adventure, a globe-trotting podcast centered on people, places, architecture, and design. Later, baritone saxophonist Leigh Pilzer, whose powerful sound has anchored ensembles from the DIVA Jazz Orchestra to the immortal Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.