#463/Will Bruder, Alex Josephson, Greg Case, Suzy Cash

June 29, 2026 2:00am 1:23

#462/Patrik Schumacher + Elias Tabache + Musical Guest Karrin Alyson

June 22, 2026 2:00am 1:01

On today's episode, international architect Patrik Schumacher, CEO of Zaha Hadid Architects;  Elias Tabache shares beautifully shot house videos of his Open Space platform, and later, musical guest Karrin Allyson.  

#461/USModernist Retro: Ernst Wagner + Eric Lloyd Wright

June 15, 2026 2:00am 1:00

We're revisiting conversations with two special guests who have passed away since these interviews were recorded — architect Paul Rudolph's partner Ernst Wagner and Frank Lloyd Wright's grandson, architect Eric Lloyd Wri...

#460/Children of Genius: Jennifer Lapidus + Jenny Jacks Shreve + Musical Guest Stacey Kent

June 08, 2026 2:00am 1:11

In another of our wildly popular series, Children of Genius, we talk with family of famous architects, starting with Jennifer Lapidus, granddaughter of Morris Lapidus who reshaped Miami with hotels like the Fontainebleau...

#459/Architect Tom Phifer + Author Alastair Gordon + Musical Guest Jeanie Bryson

June 01, 2026 2:00am 1:13

Acclaimed architect Tom Phifer builds around light, with three decades designing buildings that make walls feel invisible.  Author Alastair Gordon has written more than 28 books and knows all the midcentury Modern houses...

#458/Elizabeth Gordon's 1953 Bombshell with Monica Penick + Goff with Alison Fisher + Musical Guest Naema Gheber

May 25, 2026 2:00am 54 min

Elizabeth Gordon was editor-in-chief of House Beautiful.  In April 1953 she published an influential and controversial editorial that rocked the architecture world, presenting Modernism as uncomfortable, impractical, and...

#457/The US Embassy in Dublin: Cormac Murray + Norman McGrath + Christen Johansen + Laurence Laforgue

May 18, 2026 2:00am 1:11

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...

#456/Tom Gluck + Nick Ferrell + Mark Lamster + Special Musical Guest Jon Secada

May 11, 2026 2:00am 1:09

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 ...

architecture, art, design, modernism, uruguay

May 04, 2026 2:00am 44 min

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, jaz...

#454/NCModernism with Phil Szostak and Ben Taylor + Musical Guests Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks

April 27, 2026 2:00am 1:01

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 ...

#453/Modernism in Ukraine with Dmytro Soloviov + Ben Wever + Hallie Swensen + Robert Stone

April 20, 2026 2:00am 58 min

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 ...

#452/USModernist Retro: Bjarke Ingels + Musical Guest Halie Loren

April 13, 2026 3:00am 56 min

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.

#451/Steve Young, Megan Reilly plus Eric Stabnau + the Glenn Miller Orchestra

April 06, 2026 2:00am 51 min

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,...

#450/American Versailles with Natalie Morath + Modernist Renovations with Linda Brettler and Marcos Santa Ana + Musical Guest John Pizzarelli

March 30, 2026 3:00am 1:22

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, ...

#449/Chris Roman + Ed Dimenberg and Crosby Doe + Holland Murphy + Musical Guest Claudia Burson

March 23, 2026 3:00am 1:17

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 i...

#448/Joe Massaro's Wright Stuff + Corbett Jones + Glenn Kurtz's New York + Musical Guest Jenna Esposito

March 16, 2026 3:00am 1:06

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 House...

#447/USModernist Radio Retro: Where No Furniture Has Gone Before + Special Musical Guest Jennifer Warnes

March 09, 2026 3:00am 1:09

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 jus...

#446/Carin Carlson + Tim Mitchell + Author Anthony Alofsin + Nevada's Paige Figanbaum + Musical Guests Naomi and her Handsome Devils

March 02, 2026 2:00am 1:07

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 tal...

#445/Two Gentlemen Admiring Architecture: Australia's Tim Ross + UK's Kevin McCloud + Musical Guest Leigh Pilzer

February 23, 2026 2:00am 1:14

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 ha...

#444/Lawrence Kocher with Ines Martin Robles and Luis Pancorbo + Steven Hurtt on Colin Rowe + Jo Franzen on Ulrich + Musical Guest Kim Kashiw

February 16, 2026 2:00am 1:07

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. Tod...