USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love
USModernist Radio
Weekly interviews with Modernist architects, historians, and homeowners paired with live studio jazz.
Why we picked this
We picked USModernist Radio for its patient, expert-led conversations on the most polarizing buildings in the world. Instead of treating architecture as an exclusive discipline for professionals, the show treats it as a part of everyday life, exploring how design intersects with politics, history, and personal memory. The back catalog offers a durable, opinionated archive for any listener curious about the built environment.
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.
Recent episodes
#479/The North by Northwest House with John Boccardo and Derek Esplin and Christine Madrid French + Mark Lamster + Eyal Einik + Musical Guest Monika Ryan
Oct 19, 20261h 11m
#478/Day 1 with Jim Stevens + Architect Max Strang + Critic Philip Kennicott + Musical Guest Rick Maltese
Oct 12, 20261h 20m
#477/Dimitry Vergun + Florida's Don Singer + Saarinen's Concordia Seminary + Musical Guest Jen Ash
Oct 5, 20261h 11m
#476/John Lautner: Jan-Richard Kikkert + Tycho Saariste + David Mauer + Elizabeth Godley + ADFF's Kyle Bergman + Musical Guest Nicole Zuraitis
Sep 28, 20261h 17m
#475/Lost Raleigh: Mary Ruffin Hanbury + Ian Dunn + Max Bond: Brian Goldstein + Jeweler Sarah Hill + Musical Guest Karen Myatt
Sep 21, 20261h 12m
#474/Herb Greene with Lila Cohen + AIANY's Jesse Lazar + Futurama: Monica Penick + Musical Guest Harin W
Sep 14, 20261h 18m
#473/New Canaan Modernism: Builder David Prutting + Architect Sacha Roubeni + Musical Guest Carrie Marshall
Sep 7, 20261h 3m
#472/Steven Holl + Dimitra Tsachrelia + Authors Robert Ivy, Cathleen McGuigan, Peter MacKeith + Musical Guest Halie Loren
Aug 31, 20261h 6m
#471/Cameron Hassid + Darren Kelly + Patrick Cannon + Musical Guest Nicole Lvoff
Aug 24, 20261h 8m
#470/Authors Trig Thoreson + Owen Hopkins + Craig McDonald + Gusical Guest Lucy Woodward
Aug 17, 20261h 30m
#469/Christopher Hawthorne + Internet Archive's Chris Freeland + Kitty Kallen via Jonathan Granoff
Aug 10, 20261h 27m
#468/Children of Genius: Christen Johansen + Ben Colburn + Musical Guest Veronica Swift
Aug 3, 20261h 10m
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