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01:11:25

#457/The US Embassy in Dublin: Cormac Murray + Norman...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/05/18

On this special edition of USModernist taped live earlier this year at the Onera Foundation in New Canaan CT, we explore diplomacy through Modernist architecture with three guests: Dublin architect Cormac Murray gives a talk on John Johansen's US Embassy in Dublin; legendary photographer Norman McGrath, who shot that building soon after it opened, and architect Christen Johansen, son of John Johansen, discusses family legacy. Laurence Lafforgue of the Onera Foundation hosts.

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01:09:39

#456/Tom Gluck + Nick Ferrell + Mark Lamster +...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/05/11

New York architect Tom Gluck of GLUCKplus, son of architect Peter Gluck, takes us behind the scenes of projects from prefab high-rises in Manhattan to his Tower House in upstate New York. Nick Ferrell brings the history of Modernist lighting design in Modeline of California: Pioneer of Modern Lighting, with lamps that have inspired designers for decades. And freshly-minted Pulitzer prize winner Mark Lamster updates the endangered IM Pei-designed City Hall in Dallas. Later on, special musical guest,

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44:46

#455/Uruguay with David Coffey + Neutra with Cindy...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/05/04

In Bakersfield CA, David Coffey preserves two houses one by Neutra, and one by Wright, but today we talk about his passion, Modernism in Uruguay. In Los Angeles, Cindy Olnick stewards the Neutra Institute. Later on, jazz duo Lenore Raphael and Chris Hodgkins reunite for their joyful new album, Pennies From Heaven.

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01:01:17

#454/NCModernism with Phil Szostak and Ben Taylor +...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/04/27

We're talking about North Carolina, our home state. Architect Phil Szostak has shaped some of the state's most prominent cultural spaces and houses. Architect Ben Taylor's long career starting in the 1950's has left a lasting mark across North Carolina. Later, it's straight out of Birdland with musical guests Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks.

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58:03

#453/Modernism in Ukraine with Dmytro Soloviov + Ben...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/04/20

Imagine doing Modernist preservation – in a war zone. Dmytro Soloviov documents Ukraine's modernist architecture. Ben Wever cares for one of America's modernist treasures, the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana. Hallie Swenson uncovers the stories of San Diego Modernism, and architect Robert Stone brings new desert Modernism to life.

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56:31

#452/USModernist Retro: Bjarke Ingels + Musical Guest...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/04/13

We dug into the podcast vault for one of the most successful and admired architects in the world, Bjarke Ingels of BIG. Later, we swoon over jazz vocalist Halie Loren.

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51:37

#451/Steve Young + Megan Reilly + Musical Guests Eric...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/04/06

Ready for a dose of music, design, and spectacle? Steve Young digs up wild, forgotten midcentury industrial musicals and somehow makes them catchy again. Megan Reilly turns WestEdge LA into a playground of design, ideas, and inspiration. And Erik Stabnau keeps the venerable Glenn Miller Orchestra swinging, blowing the roof off of jazz clubs, arenas, coliseums, and amphitheaters after almost 100 years.

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01:22:56

#450/American Versailles with Natalie Morath +...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/03/30

Archivist Natalie Morath is keeper of Eero Saarinen's GM Technical Center history, bringing the amazing campus to life for yet another generation of fans. Linda Brettler renovated Raphael Soriano's 1964 Grossman House, and Marcos Santa Ana transformed the Wagoya House. Later, musical guest John Pizzarelli, with a sound that's both timeless and new.

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01:17:01

#449/Chris Roman + Ed Dimenberg and Crosby Doe +...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/03/23

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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01:06:18

#448/Joe Massaro's Wright Stuff + Corbett Jones +...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/03/16

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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01:09:04

#447/USModernist Radio Retro: Where No Furniture Has...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/03/09

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

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01:07:56

#446/Carin Carlson + Tim Mitchell + Author Anthony...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/03/02

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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01:14:05

#445/Two Gentlemen Admiring Architecture: ...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/02/23

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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01:07:16

#444/Lawrence Kocher with Ines Martin Robles and Luis...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/02/16

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,

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53:27

#443/Author Blake Gopnik + Holland Murphy +...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/02/09

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

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01:10:23

#442/Holland Taylor + Touring Palm Springs with Shann...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/02/02

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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57:29

#441/USModernist Radio Retro - The Lake House: Nathan...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/01/26

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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01:19:14

#440/New Architecture + Design Films: Allie Rood +...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/01/19

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

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01:14:54

#439/Saving a Lundy with Carol and Dan Price +...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/01/12

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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01:20:10

#438/Children of Genius: Llisa Demetrios + Sarah and...

USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love ·

2026/01/05

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

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