Aug 17, 2026

It’s author day on the show. Trig Thoreson wrote a biography of architects Louis Sullivan and Daniel Burnham. Owen Hopkins wrote a book on Brutalist buildings in London. Craig McDonald wrote Mid-Century Modern Midland, exploring the architectural history of Midland, Michigan. Later, returning musical guest Lucy...

Aug 10, 2026

Christopher Hawthorne spent fourteen years as the L.A. Times’ architecture critic before becoming Los Angeles’s first-ever Chief Design Officer. Chris Freeland runs Library Services at the Internet Archive, leading the charge to keep our digital past from fading away, and later, musical guest Kitty Kallen, via her...

Aug 3, 2026

It’s our Children of Genius edition – part of a long-running series interviewing the kids of famous architects. First up, not falling far from the tree, architect Christen Johansen, son of Harvard Five member John Johansen in Connecticut’s epicenter of Modernism, New Canaan. Next, Ben Colburn — a Massachusetts...