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#461/USModernist Retro: Ernst Wagner + Eric Lloyd Wright

June 15, 2026

We're revisiting conversations with two special guests who have passed away since these interviews were recorded — architect Paul Rudolph's partner Ernst Wagner and Frank Lloyd Wright's grandson, architect Eric Lloyd Wright.  Ernst Wagner died in 2024 at 81. A Swiss exchange student who came to New York in 1970, he met architect Paul Rudolph and the two became lifelong partners both in architecture and in business, co-founding the Modulightor lighting company and building the landmark Modulig...

#460/Children of Genius: Jennifer Lapidus + Jenny Jacks Shreve + Musical Guest Stacey Kent

June 08, 2026

In another of our wildly popular series, Children of Genius, we talk with family of famous architects, starting with Jennifer Lapidus, granddaughter of Morris Lapidus who reshaped Miami with hotels like the Fontainebleau. Next, Jenny Jacks Shreve, daughter of Arkansas architect Ernie Jacks, who worked on the Kennedy Center with Edward Durell Stone and the Case Study Houses with Craig Ellwood.  Later, returning musical guest, Stacey Kent, one of the most noted jazz vocalists in the world. 

#459/Architect Tom Phifer + Author Alastair Gordon + Musical Guest Jeanie Bryson

June 01, 2026

Acclaimed architect Tom Phifer builds around light, with three decades designing buildings that make walls feel invisible.  Author Alastair Gordon has written more than 28 books and knows all the midcentury Modern houses in the Hamptons that shaped American architecture.  Jeanie Bryson spent decades as a jazz vocalist, sharing stages with Grover Washington Jr., Kenny Burrell, and Etta Jones.  Having a famous but also secret father helped, yet losing her husband and musical partner had her ste...