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USModernist Radio
Modernist Architecture
Architecture
Modernism
Modernism Week
Palm Springs
Jazz Music
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Mid-Century Modern Architecture
Modern Architecture
Richard Neutra
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Craig Ellwood
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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.

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From the USModernist Radio Vault: Princeton architectural historian Beatriz Colomina on how Hugh Hefner and Playboy magazine popularlized Modernist furniture to America, plus Playboy bunny-turned-designer Sandra Costa, who creates bachelor pads all o... more

Gunny Harboe is the architect behind decades of Frank Lloyd Wright restorations. Then, the winner of one of the smallest architecture competitions ever, the Bauhaus Bathroom, Isabel Strauss, with Historic New England's CEO Vin Cipolla. Mark Römisch s... more

Vishaan Chakrabarti is the architect leading the $7 billion redesign of Penn Station. Christiano Sampaio is the Los Angeles broker who built a boutique brokerage around lofts, but we're talking to him about a different kind of property: houses in mov... more

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Most architecture fans love the Hitchcock film North By Northwest. Guests John Boccardo, Derek Esplin, and Christine Madrid French turned Hitchcock's fictional Vandamm House from that film into a $45 million Modernist marvel in Utah. Mark Lamster, th... more

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Recent Guests

Vishaan Chakrabarti
Architect and founder of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism
Practice for Architecture and Urbanism
Episode: #480/Vishaan Chakrabarti + Christiano Sampaio + Musical Guest Carmen Bradford
Christiano Sampaio
Los Angeles real estate broker and author of Real Estate on the Screen
Loftway
Episode: #480/Vishaan Chakrabarti + Christiano Sampaio + Musical Guest Carmen Bradford
Carmen Bradford
Jazz vocalist who performed with the Count Basie Orchestra and won a Grammy for Basie Swings the Blues
Count Basie Orchestra
Episode: #480/Vishaan Chakrabarti + Christiano Sampaio + Musical Guest Carmen Bradford
John Boccardo
Architect who conceived and built a home inspired by Hitchcock's Vandamm House
Episode: #479/The North by Northwest House with John Boccardo and Derek Esplin and Christine Madrid French + Mark Lamster + Eyal Einik + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
Derek Esplin
Partner in the project to build a Utah home inspired by Hitchcock's Vandamm House
Episode: #479/The North by Northwest House with John Boccardo and Derek Esplin and Christine Madrid French + Mark Lamster + Eyal Einik + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
Christine Madrid French
Architectural historian and author of The Architecture of Suspense
Episode: #479/The North by Northwest House with John Boccardo and Derek Esplin and Christine Madrid French + Mark Lamster + Eyal Einik + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
Mark Lamster
Architecture critic at The Dallas Morning News and author of Welcome to Paradox City
The Dallas Morning News
Episode: #479/The North by Northwest House with John Boccardo and Derek Esplin and Christine Madrid French + Mark Lamster + Eyal Einik + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
Eyal Einik
Architect by training and principal at Title Real Estate Partners
Title Real Estate Partners
Episode: #479/The North by Northwest House with John Boccardo and Derek Esplin and Christine Madrid French + Mark Lamster + Eyal Einik + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
Monika Ryan
Independent jazz singer, songwriter and teacher
Episode: #479/The North by Northwest House with John Boccardo and Derek Esplin and Christine Madrid French + Mark Lamster + Eyal Einik + Musical Guest Monika Ryan

Hosts

George Smart
Founder of an educational archive documenting and preserving modernist residential design
Tom Guiled
Architecture podcast presenter

Reviews

4.7 out of 5 stars from 117 ratings
  • New listener.

    Great guests and eclectic reviews!!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    janetweiss
    United States2 years ago
  • Magic of Mid Century Modernism

    Thank you for the wonderful podcast, the interviews are so good and provide so much information. I’ve read many books and toured many projects over the last 30 + years but this podcast has provided such a full and evocative picture on the People, context of so many great known and lesser known projects.

    Keep up the great interviews, have passed on many to my architect, developer and friends who enjoy mid modern!

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    M Woodstock
    Canada3 years ago
  • Still a waste of time.

    Thought I’d give this podcast a second chance, but nothing has changed. The hosts are smug, the music is annoying, and while the guests are great, too much time is spent on tangents. Do I really care what a British architect thinks about American football? No. I care what the British architect thinks about midcentury modernist architecture.

    Apple Podcasts
    1
    eclectic7
    United States3 years ago
  • Interesting but…

    Brewers daughter doesn’t seem to be that interested or cares much about her father and it is very transparent there is A LOT OF UNDERLYING TRAUMA AND……Not said

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    LesterM14
    United States3 years ago
  • Love the talk

    Hate the music. Would raise rating to five if the music was gone.

    Apple Podcasts
    3
    eclectic7
    United States4 years ago

Listeners Say

Key themes from listener reviews, highlighting what works and what could be improved about the show.

Listeners praise the interviews for their depth, expertise, and vivid context around well-known and lesser-known modernist buildings.
Several listeners value the breadth of coverage, including regional architecture, preservation, personal histories, and cultural context.
Some listeners dislike the recurring music and say conversational detours can distract from the architecture discussion.
The blend of humor and education makes architecture approachable and enjoyable for enthusiasts and professionals alike.

Chart Rankings

How this podcast ranks in the Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube charts.

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#27
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#124
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#138
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#111
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#196
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#202
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Talking Points

Recent interactions between the hosts and their guests.

#480/Vishaan Chakrabarti + Christiano Sampaio + Musical Guest Carmen Bradford
Q: So how do you do that in this tiny area underground with nine-foot ceilings?
Chakrabarti says the team will keep the station operating by phasing construction vertically, limiting track outages, maintaining accessibility, and coordinating public communications.
#480/Vishaan Chakrabarti + Christiano Sampaio + Musical Guest Carmen Bradford
Q: Approximately, when is this Penn Station project going to be ready?
Vishaan Chakrabarti estimates the project will take six years.
#477/Dimitry Vergun + Florida's Don Singer + Saarinen's Concordia Seminary + Musical Guest Jen Ash
Q: What is the average person that is not an engineer need to know about earthquakes?
Vergun says earthquakes can affect places many miles away and explains that soil movement, water content, and local ground conditions matter when assessing risks to buildings and bridges.
#477/Dimitry Vergun + Florida's Don Singer + Saarinen's Concordia Seminary + Musical Guest Jen Ash
Q: How do you protect a building from those shifting plates?
Vergun describes designing for movement between soil layers, using brackets that let a building shift with the ground rather than simply resisting all movement.
#479/The North by Northwest House with John Boccardo and Derek Esplin and Christine Madrid French + Mark Lamster + Eyal Einik + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
Q: How bad a shape is Dallas City Hall in?
Lamster describes it as an aging building that has been neglected and is difficult but feasible to repair. He argues that staged, thoughtful fixes would be preferable to an expensive and environmentally damaging replacement.

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Frequently Asked Questions About USModernist Radio

What is USModernist Radio about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Interviews and stories explore modernist architecture through the buildings, people, and communities that shape it. Architects, critics, historians, preservationists, builders, owners, and authors discuss landmark homes and civic projects, regional design histories, restoration, architecture education, and the debates surrounding preservation and demolition. Host George Smart brings a preservation advocate's perspective, while recurring host Tom Guiled also appears in the interview lineup. Episodes typically combine several conversations with a musical guest, creating an informal, wide-ranging format that connects architecture with film, music, urban life, and cultural history.

The mix of celebrated architects and lesser-known regional fig... more

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1. Vishaan Chakrabarti
2. Christiano Sampaio
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4. John Boccardo
5. Derek Esplin
6. Christine Madrid French
7. Mark Lamster
8. Eyal Einik

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