#Interview #Podcast w/ Namita M. Modi, AIA of Modi Architecture and Design and THE BOOK REVIEW



Namita M. Modi, AIA


My latest Architect Podcast Guest on "I've never met a woman architect before..." podcast w/ Michele Grace Hottel, Architect

Namita M. Modi of Modi Architecture and Design

Podcast Interview w/ Namita M. Modi, AIA of Modi Architecture and Design, click here to listen

And she will be ringing in the New Year and one of the first people to be welcome in the NEW YEAR in Sydney, Australia!!!!!


Namita Modi, AIA LEED AP is the founder of Modi Architecture & Design, a full-

service architectural design practice focused on private home commissions, residential
development and urban design collaborations in the NYC region. In her career, she has
designed over one hundred projects, a body of work that includes private residences, rural conservation prototypes and sustainable compounds throughout the US.
Her speculative design projects include ecologically driven installations for Open Air Lab, a collaborative at New Inc, a museum-led cultural incubator in NYC. 

She is a co-chair for the AIANY CRAN knowledge committee since 2019 where she has curated over several dozen programs that explore innovation in practice, design and construction techniques emerging from custom residential design. She has served on several design juries nationally and has lectured at architecture conferences. She is also a mentor/educator to emerging architects in her community and within a network of
architecture schools in the Northeast. This year, Namita was appointed to the Dean’s
Council at Penn’s Weitzman School of Design. She holds a BA from Barnard College
and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania and is a registered
architect in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

Namita M. Modi, AIA, LEED AP
 
Principal
Modi Architecture & Design LLC
 
Contact Information: (office)
1133 Broadway, Suite 1524
New York, New York 10010
Tel: (212)983-1606
Mobile: (917)207-8802
Email: nmodi@modiarch.com

Namita's Three Classic Buildings:

                               Queen Hatshepsut’s Funerary Temple






                              
Queen Hatshepsut’s Funerary Temple


Her Mother's Aunt who had a very modern house that was a combination of the Villa Savoy and the Bauhaus in India where she lived and worked as a fashion designer.




 
It was designed by a
group of architects led by Wallace Harrison.







Arab World Institute by Jean Nouvel



My New Years Book List is Books by my Architect Podcast Guests:

So starting with the beginning....























Bill is in the process of writing two books and I think his podcast at the start of the pandemic is amazing, give it a listen til his book comes out!!!



Episode 18: Podcast w/ Vern Swaback, FAIA

Episode 53: Podcast w/ John E Sather, FAIA












Episode 51: Podcast w/ Marc Appleton


Publications from the Publishing Company:




Marc Appleton, Appleton & Associates, Inc. & Appleton Partners LLP – Architects, & Tailwater Press LLC


I. Books by Marc Appleton

• Academy Sant’ Antonio, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2018

• 40 Years - An Architectural Scrapbook, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016

• The Architect’s House, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016

• Ranches, Rizzoli International Publications, 2016

• New Classicists, Images Publishing, 2008  (Angela Brooks and I are in this one!!!)

• California Mediterranean, Rizzoli International Publications, 2007

• George Washington Smith: An Architect’s Scrapbook, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2001

II. Edited and/or Published by Marc Appleton / Tailwater Press LLC

• The Steedman Silver, Robert Sweeney, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2019

• ICAA Southern California Chapter 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Ed. Marc Appleton, 2014

• Myron Hunt at Occidental College, Robert Winter, Tailwater Press, Inc., 2012

• Africa, Joanna Kerns, The Hollard Foundation, 2011

• Classicist, No. 15, Ed. Marc Appleton, 2018

• Casa del Herrero: The Romance of Spanish Colonial, Rizzoli International Publications, 2009

• Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States, Rexford Newcomb. Ed. Marc Appleton, Acanthus Press, 1999

• Santa Barbara Architecture, Wayne McCall. Fifth Impression, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2019

• Gordon B. Kaufmann, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2016

• Roland E. Coate, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2018

• Wallace E. Neff, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2019

• Paul R. Williams, Master Architects of Southern California 1920-1940 Series, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2020

• Railroad Depots, A Southern Pacific Collection, Jean-Guy Dubé, Tailwater Press, LLC, 2017

III. Prefaces & Forewords by Marc Appleton

• Michael G. Imber Ranches, Villas and Houses, Elizabeth Meredith Dowling, Rizzoli Publications, 2013

• Creating a Home, Kathryn Ireland, Gibbs Smith, 2009

Tailwater Press publications are available at www.tailwaterpress.com






I have not interviewed these Architects.... YET...  
but they are friends and I like these books!!!!


























Happy New Year!!!!!!   

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