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Davis architect Maria Ogrydziak, whose designs include the Davis Food Co-op building (pictured) on G Street downtown, was born in Stockholm to Estonian parents, lived in Taiwan for two years while growing up, and began to make her mark as an architect when she recreated a gray classroom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — her alma mater — “to be more exciting, more inspiring.” Architectural faculty supported her, she says, MIT planners were apprehensive, and the outcome helped her win election as student body president the next year.

Today on Davisville we talk about housing, architecture, designing in Davis, and the influence of California's Central Valley on her work. It's no accident that a big tomato sculpture sits in front of the Co-op.

Ogrydziak is also part of Yolo Community Builders, and last appeared on Davisville in June 2025 with YCB Executive Director Bill Pride.

On tonight's show:

• Cab Calloway, Minne The Moocher
• Jimmie Lunceford, My Blue Heaven
• Dizzy Gillespie with Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Red Norvo, Hank Jones: Diga Diga Doo
• Gene Krupa, Mulligan Stew
• Count Basie and His Orchestra, Splanky
• The Vinnie Burke Quartet, Time Out
• Stan Getz Quartet & Mose Allison, Down Beat
• Sonny Criss, Memories Of You
• Zoot Sims, On the Alamo
• Dinah Washington, Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye (feat. Quincy Jones and His Orchestra)
• Grant Green, Born to Be Blue
• Sarah Vaughan, Till the End of Time
• Ella Fitzgerald, Midnight Sun (1964 Version)
• Yusef Lateef, Slippin' And Slidin'