USModernist® Radio is underwritten by Diane Bald and The Budman Family, restoring significant architecture in Toronto, Los Angeles, Malibu and Palm Springs.
Listen to one of America's top-rated architecture podcasts as the USModernist® Radio crew talks and laughs with fascinating people who own, create, love, and hate Modernist architecture, the most controversial houses and buildings in the world. DWELL rated USModernist Radio as the number 2 architecture podcast!
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Past architecture guests include Jeanne Gang, Bjarke Ingels, Daniel Libeskind, Helena Arahuete, Barbara Bestor, Moshe Safdie, Tom Kundig, Harry Bates, Peter Bohlin, Alan Hess, Peter Gluck, Robert Rubin, Blair Kamin, Barry Bergdoll, Myron Goldfinger, Kenneth Frampton, Katie Swenson, Bob Ivy, Jen Masengarb, Angie Brooks + Larry Scarpa, Gisue Hariri, Sekou Cooke, Alexandra Lange, Paul Goldberger, Inga Saffron, Jim Olson, Sarah Susanka, Raymond and Dion Neutra, Eric and Susan Saarinen, and many more.
Past musical guests include Pink Martini, Ari Shapiro, China Forbes, Madeleine Peyroux, Judy Carmichael, Toni Tennille, Stacey Kent, Jane Monheit, Nneena Freelon, Diane Schuur, Noel Paul Stookey, Brenda Lee, Jennifer Warnes, Ann Hampton Callaway, Lucy Wijnands, Monika Ryan, Lenore Raphael and Howard Alden, Eliane Elias, Halie Loren, Marilyn Scott, Cheryl Bentyne, Janis Siegel, Storm Large, Kate Earl, Darius Brubeck, Maria Maldaur, Claire Martin, Robin McKelle, Bria Skonberg, Sophie Milman, Lucy Woodward, Heather Rigdon, Tierney Sutton, Diana Panton, Don Most, Judy Carmichael, Linda Eder, and Peter Lamb and the Wolves.
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Host and Executive Producer George Smart, one dark and stormy night in 2007, started what has become USModernist®, the largest open digital nonprofit educational archive for Modernist residential design in the world. George and his intrepid team of wildly dedicated volunteers and woefully underpaid staff have won 20 local, state, and national awards, He appears in the architecture documentaries Frey II and New England Modernism by acclaimed filmmaker Jake Gorst.
Announcer, co-host, and engineer
Tom Guild, legendary Raleigh FM DJ, grew up in a Durham Modernist house. He was on WRDU and WQDR back when humans actually played vinyl records over the airwaves using something called radio. Over the years, Tom recorded and mixed hours of top-notch audio including Porsche By Design for the NC Museum of Art. He met Mick Jagger. He has not met Frank Gehry. The security code for the show's recording studio, SoundTrax, is 8675309. The podcast began in 2015, based in Raleigh NC, and has done remotes from Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Sarasota, London, New York, and New Canaan CT.
Guest Prep Tips
Jan 26 #441/Two Gentlemen of Architecture: Australia's Tim Ross + UK's Kevin McCloud + Musical Guest Leigh Pilzer
Jan 19 #440/New Architecture Movies: Allie Rood + Beck Carpenter + Ryan Mah + Danny Berish + Musical Guest Brandi Disterheft
Jan 12 #439/Saving a Lundy with Carol and Dan Price + Sarasota's Erin DiFazio + The Celanese House with Joel Disend and Inger Stringfellow + Special Musical Guest Pat Boone
Jan 5 #438/Children of Genius: Rufus Nims with Sally and Cameron Nims + Gabriela Liebert + Musical Guest Susan Tobocman
No one remembers Rufus Nims, but anyone born in the 1970's or earlier remembers the orange Howard Johnsons he designed all across America. We'll visit with his children, Cameron and Sally Nims, and talk with the owner of a recently renovated Nims house in Miami. Later, it's musical guest Susan Tobocman, the daughter of architect Irving Tobocman of Michigan.
Dec 29 #437/USModernist Radio Rewind: Harwell Hamilton Harris with Lisa Germany + Frank Harmon
We've dug into the podcast vault to bring back a show all about Harwell Hamilton Harris, with his biographer Lisa Germany, and his close friend and colleague, Frank Harmon.
Dec 22 #436/Libraries with Margaret Sullivan and Jim Richärd + Architects Glenda Flaim and Federico Engel + Musical Guest Matt Belsante
Today on the show, George writes a song in 30 seconds. Architects Margaret Sullivan and Jim Richärd turn libraries into vibrant hubs. Glenda Flaim and Federico Engel restore a William Wurster house in San Francisco, and later we’ll croon with musical guest Matt Belsante.
Dec 15 #435/Archispeak's Evan Troxel + Adaptive Reuse with Ken Reiter + Jason Langkammerer + Musical Guest Julianna Raye
Today we welcome podcast host Evan Troxel of Archispeak; developer Ken Reiter, who answers the question, what do you do with a Modernist school? Jason Langkammerer, founder of AT6 Architecture, on renovating his own house; and returning podcast guest, the enchanting Julianna Raye, singer-songwriter and CEO of Unified Mindfulness, blending soulful music with meditation practice.