# #458/Elizabeth Gordon's 1953 Bombshell with Monica Penick + Goff with Alison Fisher + Musical Guest Naema Gheber

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Podcast: [USModernist Radio - Architecture You Love](https://stenobird.com/podcast/usmodernist-radio-architecture-you-love-742455)
Published: 2026-05-25T07:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://usmodernistradio.org/458monica-penick-and-alison-fisher-musical-guest-naema-gheber
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## Resource

Elizabeth Gordon was editor-in-chief of House Beautiful. In April 1953 she published an influential and controversial editorial that rocked the architecture world, presenting Modernism as uncomfortable, impractical, and like communism a threat to American cultural values. We'll talk with author Monica Penick, author of the definitive book on Gordon, 2001's Tastemaker. Next up, Alison Fisher just closed a wildly successful exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago on Bruce Goff, an architect who made Frank Lloyd Wright look restrained. Wrapping up, Naama Gheber is a jazz vocalist with four albums and a voice critics have compared to Peggy Lee.

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