New Angle: Voice

The Old Girls' Network: Eleanor Raymond and the Modern House

When we embarked on research for this episode on Eleanor Raymond, we thought we were honoring her pioneering collaborative work on the first solar house in America, the D

Lutah Maria Riggs Designs the American Riviera

Today Montecito and Santa Barbara are associated with a number of women identifiable by a single name, from Gwyneth to Oprah to Meghan. But the look of the houses in thos

Not Only Survive, but Flourish: The Story of WSPA

Hello, this is New Angle: Voice, the podcast about Pioneering Women in American Architecture brought to you by the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation. I'm your new ho

Catherine Bauer Wurster: A Thoroughly Modern Woman

Welcome to New Angle Voice: I'm your bi-coastal architect and host, Cynthia Phifer Kracauer. Catherine Bauer's life divided into two names and two geographies:  her ur

Beyond Architecture: The Fantasy Worlds of Phyllis Birkby

We continue our throw-back to the seventies, and take a deeper dive into the many facets of the women's movement that impacted the practice of architecture.  Pushed to

Laying the Groundwork: Women in American Architecture, Spring 1977

That was some party. Even though I didn't make it to the splashy opening, I did attend the transformational exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, our subject in this episode

Architecture, Family Style – The Lives and Work of Sarah Harkness and Jean Fletcher

Sarah Pillsbury, or Sally as she was better known by her peers, and Jean Bodman were both architects who married architects.  As an architect who also married an architec

Anna Wagner Keichline: The Legacy of Invention

1913 was the year of the grand march for suffrage in Washington DC, the 250,000 marchers and attendees eclipsed the coverage the following day of the inauguration of Wood

Amaza Lee Meredith: Love and Home

I picked up a free glossy real estate magazine with an enticing photograph of summer leisure pursuits under the title Sag Harbor: A Whale of a Good Time. We traveled out

The Art We Must Live With: Ada Louise Huxtable and Architecture Criticism

Anyone who writes about American architecture of the mid twentieth and early 21 st century measures their critical achievement with the yardstick drawn by Ada Louise Hu

Ray Eames: Beauty in the Everyday

New Angle: Voice is back! We kick off Season Two with Ray Kaiser Eames. Many know Ray Eames as the small, dirndled woman behind her more famous husband. In this episode,

Florence Knoll: Total Design

With her legendary unerring taste and a total commitment to produce absolute perfection in her self, her work, her products, and how she would be remembered, Florence Kno

Norma Sklarek: An Extremely Bold Hand

Norma Sklarek had many "firsts".  She was often credited at the start of her career as the first Black Women architect to be licensed in the United States.  That distinct

Fast Food and Radical Rooflines: Helen Fong Shapes Los Angeles Coffee Shops

Who hasn't had a burger and fries at a Denny's or Bob's Big Boy?  There are thousands of them, not just in Los Angeles, where they were born, but across the country.  The

Natalie de Blois – To Tell The Truth

Natalie de Blois (1921–2013) contributed to some of the most iconic modernist works for corporate America, all while raising four children.  After leaving this significan

Finding Julia Morgan

Welcome to New Angle: Voice. Episode 1 takes us on an earthquaking tour from San Francisco to Paris and back, with Julia Morgan (1872-1957), the first woman to attend the