USModernist® Radio is underwritten by The Brent R. Harris Charitable Trust, restorer of several Modernist houses including Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs, and by Diane Bald and The Budman Family, restoring significant architecture in Toronto, Los Angeles, Malibu and Palm Springs.
Here are all our past shows! Or listen to them straight from our library.
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.
May 4 #455/Uruguay with David Coffey + Neutra with Cindy Olnick + Musical guests Lenore Raphael and Chris Hodgkins
Apr 27 #454/North Carolina Modernism with Phil Szostak and Ben Taylor + Musical Guests Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks
Apr 20 #453/Ukraine's Dmytro Soloviov + From the Miller House, Ben Wever + San Diego with Hallie Swenson + Palm Desert with Robert Stone
Apr 13 #452/USModernist Radio Retro: Bjarke Ingels + Musical Guest Halie Loren
We've dug into the podcast vault for show 300. Back then, George was ready to fly to Copenhagen at a moment’s notice, but luckily he only had to go as far as New York to talk with architect and owner of the world's coolest ferry boat, Bjarke Ingels. Later, we swoon over jazz vocalist Halie Loren.
Apr 6 #451/Industrial Musicals with Steve Young + WestEdge with Megan Reilly + Musical Guests Eric Stabnau and the Glenn Miller Orchestra
Ready for a dose of music, design, and spectacle? Steve Young digs
up wild, forgotten m
idcentury 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.
Mar 30 #450/American Versailles with Natalie Morath + Modernist
Renovations with Linda Brettler and Marcos Santa Ana + Musical
Guest John Pizzarelli
Archivist Natalie Morath is keeper 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. Mar 23 #449/Chris Roman +
Crosby Doe and Ed Dimendberg + Holland Murphy + Musical Guest Claudia Burson
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. Mar 16 #448/Joe Massaro's Wright Stuff + Corbett Jones + Glenn Kurtz's
New York
+ Musical Guest Jenna Esposito
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. 
