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#395/Architecture Books 3: Dan Chavkin + Jeffrey Head + Jo Lauria + Penny Craswell + Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Mar 10, 2025

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With so many good architecture books coming out, we can barely keep up. Today we'll explore Architectural Pottery with Dan Chavkin, Jeffrey Head, and Jo Lauria; sustainable houses with Penny Craswell, and the Queen of architecture interviews, journalist and historian Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, who has a new book out on New York.

#394/Preservation Chicago's Ward Miller + Justin Davidson + Musical Guest Eddie Mugavero of Bada Bing Bada Boom Mar 03, 2025

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We visit with Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago; design critic and New York Magazine writer Justin Davidson; and musical guest Eddie Mugavero of the beloved Nashville swing band Bada Bing Bada Boom.

#393/Architecture Books 2: DJ Waldie + Dominic Bradbury + Pierluigi Serraino Feb 24, 2025

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Following up on last week, three more authors with exciting books on architecture and design. DJ Waldie is the bard of Lakewood California with a new book, Becoming Los Angeles. Past podcast guest, the prolific Dominic Bradbury, has a new Atlas of modernist icons. And returning podcast guest Pierluigi Serraino shares in the new book Modern Garden how often-underappreciated landscape design was the secret sauce for midcentury modern.

#392/Architecture Books 1: Aaron Betsky + Sam Lubell and Darren Bradley + Carl D'Silva Feb 17, 2025

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With so many good architecture books coming out, we can barely keep up scheduling interviews, but we are gonna try. Joining the show are authors Aaron Betsky and Sam Lubell, architecture photographer Darren Bradley, and Danish Modern furniture savant, Carl D'Silva. More books and authors next week!

#391/Architecture Movies: Valentina Ganeva + Ken Ogborn + Special Musical Guest Melora Hardin Feb 10, 2025

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It's architecture movie day, and with us is Valentina Ganeva, the producer/director of the latest doc on Rudolph Schindler, Schindler Space Architect. Actor Ken Ogborn shares his role in a short film on photography and brutalism in the UK. Then it's the actress and singer we've loved for decades in just about everything, like Monk and Friends and The Office, Melora Hardin.

#390/Children Of Genius: Jim Venturi + Peter Nowicki + Sue Ann Kahn Feb 03, 2025

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It's another exciting edition of our Children of Genius show, with guests Jim Venturi, son of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi; Peter Nowicki, son of Matthew and Siasia Nowicki; and Sue Ann Kahn, daughter of Lou Kahn.

#389/Subways with John McAslan + The Toast of Illinois, Champaign + Breakfast with Musical Guest Monika Ryan Jan 27, 2025

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Today's new mega-transportation centers are sweeping complexes for airports and subways to move millions of people. They are huge canvasses for architects like today's guest, Scottish architect John McAslan, who's working on the hot mess that is Penn Station. Later we'll explore the Toast of Illinois, Champaign, with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, author of Mid-Continent Modern and one of Champaign's architects, Jeffrey Poss. Then it's off to New York for a fine dining breakfast in New York with returning podcast guest Monika Ryan.

#388/Kevin Keim on Charles Moore + Evan Dyer Rebuilds an Ellwood + Lou Grotta Preserves a Meier Jan 20, 2025

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Charles Moore, the architect of California's famous Sea Ranch, was one of the chief proponents of postmodernism. His work brought a return to more ornamental detail, steep roofs, and shingles, among other classical features, and we'll learn more from Kevin Keim, Director of the Charles Moore Foundation. Next, you've heard for a year about the destruction of Craig Ellwood's Zimmerman house in Los Angeles, now you'll hear attorney Evan Dyer's plans to bring it back. Then we talk with Lou Grotta on preserving a Richard Meier-designed house for the future.

#387/Rudolph at the Met: Abraham Thomas + June Goldfinger + Kelvin Dickinson + Musical Guest Chelsee Hicks with Wholly Cats Swing Club Jan 13, 2025

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Paul Rudolph's buildings, built and unbuilt, continue to inspire clients, annoy critics, and gain fame, even though he died in the mid-90's. These days, though, it's almost all smiles and admiration, and there's an important exhibition of Rudolph's work at the Metropolitan Museum in New York through March. Year round on certain days, however, you can visit Rudolph's former office in New York, the Paul Rudolph Institute for Modern Architecture, or PRIMA. And while you're there, you can also see the late architect Myron Goldfinger's traveling exhibition, Circle Square Triangle. Today we'll talk with the curator of that Met exhibition, Abraham thomas, the Executive Director of PRIMA, Kelvin Dickinson, and the curator of Goldfinger's exhibition, his partner and wife June Goldfinger. Later on, come out swinging with musical guests Chelsee Hicks and the Wholly Cats.

#386/BIG's Dominyka Voelkle + Justin Wood on Carter Sparks + Musical Guest Diana Panton Jan 06, 2025

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The Bjarke Ingels Group completed the Spiral, a tower in Hudson Yards with tree-lined terraces going around the building, all the way up. Today we'll talk with project architect, Dominyka Voelkle. Later, you'll discover architect Carter Sparks through his number one fan and archivist, Justin Wood. Then it's returning musical guest, jazz superstar and high school teacher, the delightful Canadian Diana Panton.

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