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#336/Sal Flores + Damien Lipp + Stephanie Mauro + Goli Karimi + Musical Guest Nicole Zuratis Jan 22, 2024

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We gear up 2024 with conversations with Damien Lipp and Stephanie Mauro on tiny houses in Iceland; Long Beach Architecture Week's Sal Flores; a Modernist renovation in Altadena CA with Goli Karimi, and later a wonderful musical guest, Nicole Zuraitis.

#335/Getting Ready for Palm Springs: Frank Lopez + Rosemary Krieger + Christopher Georgesco + Karen Nepacena + Musical Guests Lizzy and the Triggermen. Jan 15, 2024

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In October, USModernist was at the Palm Springs Modernism Show and visited with hundreds of wonderful fans from around the country. We are going to be in Palm Springs again in February for Modernism Week, and in preparation, George spoke with today's guests, architectural archivist Frank Lopez of Sunnylands, the Palm Springs Modernism Show's Rosemary Krieger, artist Christopher Georgesco, Destination Eichler's Karen Nepacena, and musical guest Lizzy Shapiro of LA's hottest jazz and swing band, Lizzy and the Triggermen.

#334/The Legacy of Asian-American Architects: Mina Chow + Takashi Yanai Jan 08, 2024

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Returning podcast guest Takashi Yanai is a partner at Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects where he is director of both the Los Angeles and San Francisco residential studios. Returning podcast guest Mina Chow is and architect and Principal of mc2 Spaces, a multimedia company. She is also an architecture professor at USC. Mina and Takashi talk about the contributions of Asian-American architects, many of whom suffered through the forced relocation of internment camps during WWII.

#333/Children of Genius: Francesca Breuer Wallace + Heiki Aalto-Alanen Jan 01, 2024

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Happy 2024! We open up the new year with another great episode in our continuing series Children of Genius. Francesca Breuer Wallace gives her first interview - ever - on her father Marcel Breuer; and later it's the grandson of Aino and Alvar Aalto, Heikki Aalto-Alanen, with a new book on his grandparents.

#332/Holiday Show: Author Toby Witte + Musical Guest Michael Sinatra + Musical Guests Peter Lamb and the Wolves Dec 25, 2023

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What better subject to talk about during the holidays than Modernist bliss? Joining us is Charlotte North Carolina architect and author Toby Witte. And later, not one but two holiday musical guests: from his new Christmas album, Michael Sinatra, and bringing holiday cheer from Raleigh NC, Peter Lamb and the Wolves.

#331/Pioneering Leaders Phyllis Lambert + Susan Maxman Dec 18, 2023

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In architecture up until the 1990's, it was raining men, and the few women architects had to work twice as hard to get the same recognition and the same pay, if they got either at all. That's slowly changing, thanks to pioneering leaders like today's guests. Phyllis Bronfman Lambert is a Canadian architect, philanthropist, and member of the family that brought Seagrams spirits to fame in the 20th century. She created the Canadian Centre for Architecture, one of the world's leading architectural museums and research centers and 1954, she oversaw the design of the Seagram Building in New York City by Mies van der Rohe. Later on, it's the first woman president of the AIA, Susan Maxman, who in the 90's broke a century of male leadership in America's largest professional association for architects.

#330/Tom Kundig's Client Lou Maxon Rides the Rails + Peter McMahon of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust Dec 11, 2023

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Be careful about giving a coffee table book to your architecture-lovin' spouse for Christmas, because one day, you might have a new Modernist house by a famous architect - plus a railroad - on your property. Joining us is Seattle brand designer Lou Maxon and his long strange journey to build a Tom Kundig house with a unique Kundig gizmo on rails. Later on, returning podcast guest Peter McMahon of the Cape Cod Modern House Trust shares his group's wildly successful preservation of Modernist cottages, including their new campaign to buy and restore the Marcel Breuer house in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, largely untouched since Breuer died over 40 years ago. Learn more about the Maxon house at www.maxonhouse.com and www.maxonrailway.com. Learn more about the CCMHT at www.ccmht.org.

#329/Martin Voelkle of BIG Dec 04, 2023

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As our 23 loyal listeners know, we're solid fans of Bjarke Ingels and his wildly successful design practice Bjarke Ingels Group spanning London, Copenhagen, New York, and China. With projects like the combination incinerator and ski slope in Copenhagen, and Via 57, One Hudson, the Spiral, and the BIG U flood protection barrier wrapping around most of Manhattan, the firm continues to do amazing projects, even designing habitats for the moon and mars. George was back at the Bjarke Ingels Group offices recently to interview BIG partner Martin Voelkle, who has overseen the design, development, and completion of projects such as 2 World Trade Center in New York, the Smithsonian master plan in Washington D.C., and the King's Cross Google Headquarters in London. He's also manages BIG's few but high-profile house designs.

#328/Mid-Century Architect Barbara Neski + Musical Guest Staci Griesbach Nov 27, 2023

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The architects of midcentury houses in the 1950's and 1960's are all retired now, some for many years. It's a true privilege as fans from a later generation to sit down with these men and women and hear their stories. Joining us today is celebrated architect Barbara Neski of New York City, now in her 90's, famed for award-winning Modernist houses in the Hamptons. Later, music with the charming Staci Griesbach, who headlined at one of USModernist's Moon Over Modernism events. And she's got a new album out!

#327/Christy MacLear Nov 20, 2023

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Every now and then, we run into A-students who have become so accomplished in the multiple worlds of art, architecture, preservation, business, and common sense, that it's a shame not to share those conversations. Joining us today is Christy MacLear, the founder of Artist Ventures. She's been CEO for Superblue, a thrilling immersive experience in Miami, which you should put on your travel list; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and Philip Johnson's Glass House. She's been Vice Chairman at Sotheby's and consulted for the Cleveland Clinic, Disney, and the fabulously midcentury modern Noyes House in New Canaan Ct. She's a podcast producer, she's into web3 and NFT's and the blockchain and AI and anything cutting-edge. In her spare time, she's been on Stanford's Arts Council, Stanford's Cantor Museum, and she's Chair of New York City's Municipal Arts Society. George Smart, flagbearer for the B-students, engages this delightful guest.

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