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. more

Do you live in a mid-century house? Are you curious about mid-century homes and wonder what it would take to renovate? Or are you just a fan of all things mid-century modern? Mid Mod Remodel is the podcast where you learn how to match a mid-century home to your modern life. I'm your host, Della Hansmann, an architect and the owner of Mid Mod Midwest. I help people remodel their mid-century homes and I'm a mid mod homeowner fixing up my 1952 ranch. Learn what makes mid-century homes great, the common elements of MCM homes that nearly always need updating, and how any homeowner can plan the mid-century renovation of their dreams. more

A podcast about architecture, buildings and cities, from the distant past to the present day. Plus detours into technology, film, fiction, comics, drawings, and the dimly imagined future. With Luke Jones and George Gingell. more

Everything you need to know about the world of design, from furniture to fashion and craft to architecture. Expect fresh stories, new finds and designers and all the latest news from the world's most exciting studios. more

Interviews with architects, artists and designers. Produced by the Architecture Foundation and hosted by Matthew Blunderfield. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. more

The story of the spiritual years of the Bauhaus in Weimar. How does it feel to witness your work slip from collective memory? Gertrud Grunow, the only female teacher during the early years of the Bauhaus in Weimar, worked with male colleagues who depended upon her research to underpin their own teachings. Bring Again the Now of Then finds Gertrud in her study as she collects piles of papers comprising a lifetime's work. As she files, reminiscing of her time at the Bauhaus, the story of the school's early years unfolds. It was an environment of artists, spiritualists, designers, philosophers and opinionated students in a society of revolutionaries, reactionaries, communists, conservatives, and nationalists. Sensing her time is near an end, Gertrud is eager to publish a manuscript of her works and avoid a fate worse than death: to be framed within a solitary photograph without due context. more

Whether you enjoy poetry or not, TS Eliot's The Wasteland is a work of literature that makes a rich, compelling, mystical and thought-provoking reading experience. It's one of those timeless works that seems to renew itself on each subsequent reading and you will find something new and unique every time.Some of the lines have become familiar to many of us: 'April is the cruellest month....' 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust' and many more. Written after the moral and social crisis that gripped much of the world after the end of WWI, this poem was considered experimental and path-breaking for that era. The deliberately fragmented form and unconventional line patterns make it unusual and interesting.The poem's main theme is the devastation that laid waste much of the West after the first terrible war. The bleak and depressing aftermath of destruction, the psychological impact on the survivors who cannot find their own moral compasses, the quest for peace and order are all portrayed through a series of vivid metaphors and allegories. Eliot himself deliberately creates obscure and convoluted literary formats but provides extensive foot-notes to explain them, since the text itself is loaded with cultural, literary and deep psychological references. He re-creates the panic of a world that sees old traditions disappearing while the new are yet to be born. The sterile, morally decadent modern world is contrasted with the dazzling tapestry of the ancient world. The loss of control by a predominantly white, patriarchal and economically 'superior' society is described through stunning imagery.Dubbed by literature buffs as 'one of the most important poems of the 20th century' it is a complex, multi-layered poem filled with classical allusions, literary references and a sweeping vision of many cultures and traditions, both Eastern and Western.Published in 1922 after several years of research and work, The Wasteland is even today capable of yielding fresh material for readers and research scholars alike. more

Published in 1919, and listed on the Modern Library roster of the 20th century's 100 greatest novels in English, Winesburg, Ohio presents a series of loosely related character studies of the inhabitants of a fictional Midwestern town that together form a novel of unusual unity and vision. The inarticulate and lonely citizens of Winesburg, each with his or her own secret tale to tell, frequently relate those tales to, or through their interactions with, the character of George Willard, a young Winesburg citizen on the cusp of manhood with dreams of becoming a writer. Thus Winesburg tells the story of the townspeople's loneliness and alienation in parallel with the tale of George's own coming of age. The citizens of Winesburg are described obliquely as 'grotesques,' but as the introductory chapter makes clear, 'The grotesques were not all horrible. Some were amusing, some almost beautiful . . .' (Description by Stewart Wills) more