" Come tour the future with General Motors! A transcontinental flight over America in 1960! What will we see? What changes will transpire? "Conclusion of a 2-part series on Streamline moderne, In this episode I'll discuss why it took particul

Episode 11 - Streamline moderne, Part 1

Apr 25th, 2023 36m 26s

“The airplane is the symbol of the new age . A new state of modern conscience. A new plastic vision. A new aesthetic. "Welcome back to the second season of Talking Modernism, and the first of a 2-part series on Streamline Moderne, the style t

Episode 10 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 3

Aug 21st, 2022 57m 19s

"I know it when I see it”Final in a 3-part series on the 1925 Paris exposition and the Art Deco style. In this episode I explore the origins of the Art Deco style, especially its roots in avant-garde art. Plus the role of the forgotten giant

Episode 9 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 2

Jul 23rd, 2022 30m 34s

"The first impression of the Exhibition is startling. Passing through the silver obelisk-like towers of the Port d’Honneur, one comes at once upon a cubist dream city, or the projection of a possible city in Mars, arisen overnight in the heart

Episode 8 - The 1925 Paris Exhibition, Part 1

Jun 26th, 2022 42m 25s

"Paris is the world, the rest of the earth nothing but its suburbs"First in a 3-part series on the 1925 Paris exposition, the "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Moderne", that sparked a world-wide explosion of the gla

Episode 7 - Tel Aviv's White City, Part 2

Apr 17th, 2022 26m 47s

Second in a 2-part series on Tel Aviv's "White City", the world's largest collection of modernist-style architecture. In this episode I discuss the growth, decline and rediscovery of the White City. I also discuss the contrasting work of Exp

Episode 6 - Tel Aviv's White City, Part 1

Apr 16th, 2022 25m 37s

"From the froth of a wave and a cloud I built myself a white city"Second in a 2-part series on Tel Aviv's "White City", the world's largest collection of modernist-style architecture. I discuss how in the 1930s a radical architecture style la

Episode 5 - The Rite of Spring, Part 3

Apr 10th, 2022 39m 48s

"On or about December 1910 human nature changed. All human relations shifted, and when human relations change there is at the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature.”Final of a 3-part series based on the book "Rites

Episode 4 - The Rite of Spring, Part 2

Apr 7th, 2022 30m 59s

"Now all roads lead to France; And heavy is the treadOf the living; but the dead; Returning lightly dance"Second of a 3-part series based on the book "Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age" by Modris Ekstiens, about

Episode 3 - The Rite of Spring, Part 1

Mar 11th, 2022 53m 49s

"The most discordant composition ever written. Never has the cult of the wrong note been applied with such industry, zeal, and ferocity"First of a 3-part series based on the book "Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Ag

Episode 2 - The Frankfurt kitchen

Dec 22nd, 2021 42m 13s

"If I had known they'd talk about nothing else I never would have designed that damn kitchen"In this episode we discuss the Frankfurt kitchen the first mass-produced fitted kitchen. Designed in 1926 by the amazing and brilliant Greta Schutte-

Episode 1 - The Villa Savoye

Dec 4th, 2021 21m 20s

"Attempting to stand outside of time, the house neither aged nor weathered: it merely cracked and deteriorated"Welcome to the first episode of the new series "Talking Modernism". In this episode we'll be exploring what exactly modernism is thr

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