Modernist architecture makes special use of light and color, and with us today, architect Wid Chapman, color expert Sara McLean, and musical guest and expert skater, Laura Pursell. 

Today from Palm Springs during Modernism Week we explore architect Richard Neutra with guests Raymond Neutra of the Neutra Institute and Catherine Meyler, owner of a celebrated Neutra house. Back in the studio, we’ll hear about Neutra’s VDL house in Los Angeles from Executive Director Noam Saragosti; Neutra’s sadly destroyed Maslon House from filmmaker Scott Goldstein; and special musical guests Louis Prima Jr. and the Witnesses. 

You’ll hear from the principal architects of Architecture Research Office (ARO), Adam Yarinsky, Stephen Cassell, and Kim Yao. We’ll explore a 12,000 sf Modernist house in Dallas with architect Kevin Alter, and wrapping up, musical guest Carrie Marshall.

With so many good architecture books coming out, we can barely keep up.  Today we’ll explore Architectural Pottery with Dan Chavkin, Jeffrey Head, and Jo Lauria;  sustainable houses with Penny Craswell, and the Queen of architecture interviews, journalist and historian Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, who has a new book out on New York.

We visit with Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago; design critic and New York Magazine writer Justin Davidson; and musical guest Eddie Mugavero of the beloved Nashville swing band Bada Bing Bada Boom. 

Following up on last week, three more authors with exciting books on architecture and design.  DJ Waldie is the bard of Lakewood California with a new book, Becoming Los Angeles. Past podcast guest, the prolific Dominic Bradbury, has a new Atlas of modernist icons.  And returning podcast guest Pierluigi Serraino shares in the new book Modern Garden how often-underappreciated landscape design was the secret sauce for midcentury modern.  

With so many good architecture books coming out, we can barely keep up scheduling interviews, but we are gonna try.  Joining the show are authors Aaron Betsky and Sam Lubell, architecture photographer Darren Bradley, and Danish Modern furniture savant, Carl D’Silva.  More books and authors next week!

It’s architecture movie day, and with us is Valentina Ganeva, the producer/director of the latest doc on Rudolph Schindler, Schindler Space Architect.  Actor Ken Ogborn shares his role in a short film on photography and brutalism in the UK. Then it’s the actress and singer we’ve loved for decades in just about everything, like Monk and Friends and The Office, Melora Hardin.  

It’s another exciting edition of our Children of Genius show, with guests Jim Venturi, son of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi; Peter Nowicki, son of Matthew and Siasia Nowicki; and Sue Ann Kahn, daughter of Lou Kahn. 

Today’s new mega-transportation centers are sweeping complexes for airports and subways to move millions of people.  They are huge canvasses for architects like today’s guest, Scottish architect John McAslan, who’s working on the hot mess that is Penn Station.  Later we’ll explore the Toast of Illinois, Champaign, with Phillip Kalantzis-Cope, author of Mid-Continent Modern and one of Champaign's architects, Jeffrey Poss.  Then it’s off to New York for a fine dining breakfast in New York with returning podcast guest Monika Ryan.