Best Elaine Nathaniel Podcasts (2024)

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#377/Christopher Wilson + Ken MacIntyre + Musical Guest Emilie-Claire Barlow 1:04:59

3h ago1:04:59

1:04:59

Talking architecture can be a little dense, wordy, and imponderable, especially for people who aren’t architects but just love talking about, visiting, and being inspired by cool buildings. Today we talk with two noted populists who make architecture understandable, architect and professor Christopher Wilson, and journalist and architourist Ken Mac…

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#377/Christopher Wilson + Ken MacIntyre + Musical Guest Emilie-Claire Barlow 1:04:59

4h ago1:04:59

1:04:59

Talking architecture can be a little dense, wordy, and imponderable, especially for people who aren’t architects but just love talking about, visiting, and being inspired by cool buildings. Today we talk with two noted populists who make architecture understandable, architect and professor Christopher Wilson, and journalist and architourist Ken Mac…

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#376/Landscape Architecture: Chris LaGuardia + Michael Van Valkenburgh + Musical Guest Timothy Nishimoto of Pink Martini 1:10:07

8d ago1:10:07

1:10:07

Landscape architects are the ninjas of the design world, silently orchestrating beauty around buildings while you’re too busy staring at your phone. They decide whether that park bench is in the sun or shade, the exact curve of a sidewalk, and how to make an average building look extraordinary. They’re the ones who make sure your city doesn’t feel …

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#376/Landscape Architecture: Chris LaGuardia + Michael Van Valkenburgh + Musical Guest Timothy Nishimoto of Pink Martini 1:10:07

2d ago1:10:07

1:10:07

Landscape architects are the ninjas of the design world, silently orchestrating beauty around buildings while you’re too busy staring at your phone. They decide whether that park bench is in the sun or shade, the exact curve of a sidewalk, and how to make an average building look extraordinary. They’re the ones who make sure your city doesn’t feel …

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#375/Housing The Nation: Alexander Gorlin + Victoria Newhouse + Musical Guest Nicole Lvoff 38:55

9d ago38:55

38:55

In nearly every major city, housing the homeless is a major problem. Since the defunding of residential mental health programs in Reagan era, the dramatic cost of housing, and other cutbacks in the welfare safety net, America created a huge population of people with problems who have nowhere to live except outside. Especially in California, which h…

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#375/Housing The Nation: Alexander Gorlin + Victoria Newhouse + Musical Guest Nicole Lvoff 38:55

9d ago38:55

38:55

In nearly every major city, housing the homeless is a major problem. Since the defunding of residential mental health programs in Reagan era, the dramatic cost of housing, and other cutbacks in the welfare safety net, America created a huge population of people with problems who have nowhere to live except outside. Especially in California, which h…

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#374/Boots On the Ground: Julianne Patterson + Benjamin Briggs + Ben Thomas + Musical Guest Helena Redman 1:11:23

16d ago1:11:23

1:11:23

Where does the real work get done in Modernist preservation? State and local preservation groups show up at long, boring, and ridiculously bureaucratic public meetings, week after week, sometimes for years. They get historic preservation tax credits passed in most states, and they monitor everything from development to the preservation easements we…

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#374/Boots On the Ground: Julianne Patterson + Benjamin Briggs + Ben Thomas + Musical Guest Helena Redman 1:11:23

16d ago1:11:23

1:11:23

Where does the real work get done in Modernist preservation? State and local preservation groups show up at long, boring, and ridiculously bureaucratic public meetings, week after week, sometimes for years. They get historic preservation tax credits passed in most states, and they monitor everything from development to the preservation easements we…

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#373/Chad Oppenheim + Alan Pullman + David Peterson + Special Musical Guest Halie Loren 1:16:17

23d ago1:16:17

1:16:17

Today you’ll hear from Miami architect and author Chad Oppenheim; from Long Beach architect Alan Pullman; from New Canaan author David Peterson, and later we swoon again with returning musical guest Halie Loren singing from her new album.By george smart

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#373/Chad Oppenheim + Alan Pullman + David Peterson + Special Musical Guest Halie Loren 1:16:17

23d ago1:16:17

1:16:17

Today you’ll hear from Miami architect and author Chad Oppenheim; from Long Beach architect Alan Pullman; from New Canaan author David Peterson, and later we swoon again with returning musical guest Halie Loren singing from her new album.By george smart

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#372/Children Of Genius: Nathaniel Kahn + Elaine Dart Hanan + Musical Guest Lori Lieberman 1:14:55

1M ago1:14:55

1:14:55

Interviewing the children of mid-century architects has been one the best parts of producing USModernist Radio. We’ve had the pleasure of talking to Hicks Stone, son of Edward Durell Stone; John Barnes, son of Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ainsley Gores Gilligan, daughter of Landis; Fred Noyes, son of Eliot; Eric and Susan Saarinen, children of Eero; Ray…

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#372/Children Of Genius: Nathaniel Kahn + Elaine Dart Hanan + Musical Guest Lori Lieberman 1:14:55

1M ago1:14:55

1:14:55

Interviewing the children of mid-century architects has been one the best parts of producing USModernist Radio. We’ve had the pleasure of talking to Hicks Stone, son of Edward Durell Stone; John Barnes, son of Edward Larrabee Barnes, Ainsley Gores Gilligan, daughter of Landis; Fred Noyes, son of Eliot; Eric and Susan Saarinen, children of Eero; Ray…

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#371/Conserving Black Modernism: Charles McAfee + Brent Leggs + Musical Guest Jaimee Paul 1:08:29

1M ago1:08:29

1:08:29

Being a Black architect in the white-male-dominated 20th century was tough. You were paid less, worked harder, and rarely got any credit. That is, if you could get hired at all. For example, by 1950 there were only two Black architects registered in North Carolina, both male. By 1980 the number was only 65 out of 1909. Even by 1993, Black architect…

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#371/Conserving Black Modernism: Charles McAfee + Brent Leggs + Musical Guest Jaimee Paul 1:08:29

1M ago1:08:29

1:08:29

Being a Black architect in the white-male-dominated 20th century was tough. You were paid less, worked harder, and rarely got any credit. That is, if you could get hired at all. For example, by 1950 there were only two Black architects registered in North Carolina, both male. By 1980 the number was only 65 out of 1909. Even by 1993, Black architect…

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#370/Architecture Films: Sabine Gisger + Beatrice Minger + Mario Novas + Kyle Bergman + Special Musical Guest Lucie Arnaz 1:24:59

1M ago1:24:59

1:24:59

The 2024 Architecture and Design Film Festival, or ADFF, starts up next week in New York. This long-running series is led by returning podcast guest Kyle Bergman, who founded the ADFF in New York in 2008 and hosts versions all over the world. ADFF seeks out films with impassioned, human stories that appeal to both architects and the general design-…

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#370/Architecture Films: Sabine Gisger + Beatrice Minger + Mario Novas + Kyle Bergman + Special Musical Guest Lucie Arnaz 1:24:59

1M ago1:24:59

1:24:59

The 2024 Architecture and Design Film Festival, or ADFF, starts up next week in New York. This long-running series is led by returning podcast guest Kyle Bergman, who founded the ADFF in New York in 2008 and hosts versions all over the world. ADFF seeks out films with impassioned, human stories that appeal to both architects and the general design-…

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#369/Never Built Modernism: Sam Lubell + Greg Goldin + Musical Guest Paul Giallorenzo 1:00:42

2M ago1:00:42

1:00:42

For every 3 or 4 Modernist buildings out there, there is likely one amazing unbuilt building with plans sitting in a drawer or a hard drive somewhere. Exploring the wonderful world of the imagined but not realized, joining us are the authors of Never Built Los Angeles, Never Built New York, and the new book, the Atlas of Never Built Architecture, S…

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#369/Never Built Modernism: Sam Lubell + Greg Goldin + Musical Guest Paul Giallorenzo 1:00:42

2M ago1:00:42

1:00:42

For every 3 or 4 Modernist buildings out there, there is likely one amazing unbuilt building with plans sitting in a drawer or a hard drive somewhere. Exploring the wonderful world of the imagined but not realized, joining us are the authors of Never Built Los Angeles, Never Built New York, and the new book, the Atlas of Never Built Architecture, S…

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#368/San Diego + La Jolla Modernism: Joan Gand + Lauren Lockhart + Keith York + Musical Guests Lisa Veronica Wood and Sidecar Social Club 59:01

2M ago59:01

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Today we’re talking about Modernist havens San Diego and La Jolla with midcentury author and historian Keith York; plus Joan Gand and Lauren Lockhart of the La Jolla Historical Society on their upcoming Modernist tour, of which USModernist is a sponsor. Later on, jazz with Lisa Veronica Wood and the Sidecar Social Club.…

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#368/San Diego + La Jolla Modernism: Joan Gand + Lauren Lockhart + Keith York + Musical Guests Lisa Veronica Wood and Sidecar Social Club 59:01

2M ago59:01

59:01

Today we’re talking about Modernist havens San Diego and La Jolla with midcentury author and historian Keith York; plus Joan Gand and Lauren Lockhart of the La Jolla Historical Society on their upcoming Modernist tour, of which USModernist is a sponsor. Later on, jazz with Lisa Veronica Wood and the Sidecar Social Club.…

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#367/Charles Phoenix on World's Fairs + Iconic Houses Founder Natascha Drabbe + Martini Whisperer Philip Jones + Lautner Owner Andrew Vottero 1:31:28

2M ago1:31:28

1:31:28

It’s a sad day in the studio, because this is the last Modernism Week show of 2024. We’ve brought you 11 wonderful episodes from our annual pilgrimage, and today wraps up the series with returning guests mid-century historian Charles Phoenix; Natascha Drabbe of iconichouses.org; traveling all the way from Canberra, Australia, Phillip Jones the Mart…

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#367/Charles Phoenix on World's Fairs + Iconic Houses Founder Natascha Drabbe + Martini Whisperer Philip Jones + Lautner Owner Andrew Vottero 1:31:28

2M ago1:31:28

1:31:28

It’s a sad day in the studio, because this is the last Modernism Week show of 2024. We’ve brought you 11 wonderful episodes from our annual pilgrimage, and today wraps up the series with returning guests mid-century historian Charles Phoenix; Natascha Drabbe of iconichouses.org; traveling all the way from Canberra, Australia, Phillip Jones the Mart…

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#366/By Design's Mike Chapman + IBM Archivist Jamie Martin + Musical Guest Paget Moren 1:00:24

2M ago1:00:24

1:00:24

Today we’re talking about an architecture TV series spanning the globe and a new design documentary. Joining us is ByDesign’s Mike Chapman and IBM archivist Jamie Martin, who is featured in the new documentary Modernism Inc. Later, musical guest Paget Moren.By george smart

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#366/By Design's Mike Chapman + IBM Archivist Jamie Martin + Musical Guest Paget Moren 1:00:24

2M ago1:00:24

1:00:24

Today we’re talking about an architecture TV series spanning the globe and a new design documentary. Joining us is ByDesign’s Mike Chapman and IBM archivist Jamie Martin, who is featured in the new documentary Modernism Inc. Later, musical guest Paget Moren.By george smart

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#365/Fu Tung Cheng + Remembering Jimmy Van Heusen 42:22

3M ago42:22

42:22

In this our next to last show from Modernism Week 2024, George talks with San Francisco concrete designer and architect Fu Tung Cheng, and later Marisa Mulder + Jim Burns + Brooke Babcock on composer and arranger Jimmy Van Huesen, who with Frank Sinatra as his muse carried the great American songbook to new heights in the 1950’s and 1960’s.…

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#365/Fu Tung Cheng + Remembering Jimmy Van Heusen 42:22

3M ago42:22

42:22

In this our next to last show from Modernism Week 2024, George talks with San Francisco concrete designer and architect Fu Tung Cheng, and later Marisa Mulder + Jim Burns + Brooke Babcock on composer and arranger Jimmy Van Huesen, who with Frank Sinatra as his muse carried the great American songbook to new heights in the 1950’s and 1960’s.…

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#364/Modernist Auctions with Luke Newbold + Federal Preservation with Sara Bronin + Musical Guest Roslyn Kind 1:04:00

3M ago1:04:00

1:04:00

When the internet came along, many industries changed forever, and one of them was the auction business. Remember how exciting eBay was when everything was up for bid? Traditional auction houses had to move quickly to adapt, and the opportunities of moving from a local to a regional or national or international market through the internet were imme…

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#364/Modernist Auctions with Luke Newbold + Federal Preservation with Sara Bronin + Musical Guest Roslyn Kind 1:04:00

3M ago1:04:00

1:04:00

When the internet came along, many industries changed forever, and one of them was the auction business. Remember how exciting eBay was when everything was up for bid? Traditional auction houses had to move quickly to adapt, and the opportunities of moving from a local to a regional or national or international market through the internet were imme…

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#363/Architecture Documentaries: Jake Gorst + Kirk Brown + Musical Guest Laura Pursell 51:11

3M ago51:11

51:11

If there’s one thing architecture fans love as much as tours and parties, it’s architecture documentaries, and we’ve been covering dozens of those over the years. Recorded at Modernism Week 2024, George talks with author and Emmy-winning filmmaker Jake Gorst on his new film New England Modernism. Following that, a chat with Kirk Brown of DesignOnSc…

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#363/Architecture Documentaries: Jake Gorst + Kirk Brown + Musical Guest Laura Pursell 51:11

3M ago51:11

51:11

If there’s one thing architecture fans love as much as tours and parties, it’s architecture documentaries, and we’ve been covering dozens of those over the years. Recorded at Modernism Week 2024, George talks with author and Emmy-winning filmmaker Jake Gorst on his new film New England Modernism. Following that, a chat with Kirk Brown of DesignOnSc…

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#362/California Modernism: Leo Marmol + Wally Cunningham + Monika Haefelfinger + Drew Pedrick 1:23:50

3M ago1:23:50

1:23:50

Oh California, where the sun is warm. Where the winds from Santa Ana make you feel like you belong. California, wherever you may roam. California keeps calling you home. Those words from the 1978 movie If Ever I see You Again, a tribute to California. Are you pining to live in the Golden State? Joining us are today are well-known California archite…

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#362/California Modernism: Leo Marmol + Wally Cunningham + Monika Haefelfinger + Drew Pedrick 1:23:50

3M ago1:23:50

1:23:50

Oh California, where the sun is warm. Where the winds from Santa Ana make you feel like you belong. California, wherever you may roam. California keeps calling you home. Those words from the 1978 movie If Ever I see You Again, a tribute to California. Are you pining to live in the Golden State? Joining us are today are well-known California archite…

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#361/New Palm Springs Modernism: Michael Kiner + Mark Daniels 44:44

4M ago44:44

44:44

We’ve had many shows on the great midcentury architects of Palm Springs, people like Chambers, Clark, Cody, Frey, Krisel, Sackley, Wexler, White, Williams, and the last man standing, Hugh Kaptur. But that was the 20th century, and we’re in the 21st. In fact, we’re pretty near mid-century in the 21st, so today, you’ll hear from two of today’s Palm S…

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#361/New Palm Springs Modernism: Michael Kiner + Mark Daniels 44:44

4M ago44:44

44:44

We’ve had many shows on the great midcentury architects of Palm Springs, people like Chambers, Clark, Cody, Frey, Krisel, Sackley, Wexler, White, Williams, and the last man standing, Hugh Kaptur. But that was the 20th century, and we’re in the 21st. In fact, we’re pretty near mid-century in the 21st, so today, you’ll hear from two of today’s Palm S…

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