Chicago’s Wrigley Building, constructed in 1921, is the “whited sepulcher” of Michigan Avenue, gleaming in terra cotta like the rows of teeth ostensibly cleansed by Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, the company that built the Beaux-Arts edifice. But its extravagant looks are only part of the story. Unfrozen hosts Robert Sharoff and William Zbaren, who wrote and photographed the new book from Rizzoli, The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, to hear the rest.
The Unfrozen crew hit the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale with all the furious energy our 100th episode deserved. A rollicking roundup of robots, pans, picks, porches and pavilions, with special guest interviews: Michele Champagne, Kate Wagner, Marisa Moran Jahn, Bekim Ramku, Rafi Segal, Jeanne Gang, and Mark Cavagnero. And finally, while Rome picked a pontiff, we had our own mini-conclave in Venice and humbly offered up our picks for the 20th Biennale curator. Join us for this extra special centenary episode.
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Intro/Outro: “Bounder of Adventure,” by The Cooper Vane
Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform,” by The Cooper Vane
83. The City in the City
Saison 4 · Épisode 83
dimanche 20 avril 2025 • Durée 48:39
In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offersthe first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, from the period of rebuilding after World War II to the explosive climax of financial deregulation in the 1980s and its long aftermath. From the Big Tie to the Big Bang, it’s a heavy-hitting episode of Unfrozen.
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Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
Marco te Brömmelstroet, a.k.a. “The Cycling Professor,” is the chair of Urban Mobility Futures at the University of Amsterdam. His book Movement, with Thalia Verkade, takes a stance against myths and received wisdoms that surround popular thinking about the rights and place of cyclists and pedestrians, urban design, and traffic engineering. Parallel to the critique, he presents new ways of thinking about how, and why we move through the world, and at what speed.
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Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
Today’s uncanny AI renderings are just the tip of theiceberg. Architects are banding together to clean up their digital houses, master data literacy, collectively bargain for their needs with software monopolies, and ultimately, prevent technology rendering them irrelevant. Enter the Innovation Design Consortium, an elite corps of leaders and technologists of America’s 40 largest architecturefirms, who have banded together to battle the bots. Unfrozen interviews its Chair, Peter Devereaux, Founding Principal of HED.Among many other things, he says, “We have to get out of the business of selling our time by the hour for the production of two-dimensional construction documents.”
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Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
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Discussed:
The Road to IDC: Writing guidelines for the use ofgenerative AI via the AIA Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT)
Salty Urbanism is a design manual to address sea level rise and climate change for urban areas in coastal zones. It is a concept that refers to the ways in which cities and urban areas will respond and adapt to rising sea levels and the accompanying increase in salinity of coastal and near-coastal land. This phenomenon is caused by a combination of factors, including global warming, sea-level rise, and human development along coastlines. Unfrozen interviews Jeffrey Huber, Principal, Brooks + Scarpa and Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Florida Atlantic University, about how the concept is applied in South Florida.
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Intro/Outro: "I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
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87. Glass Houses
Saison 4 · Épisode 87
dimanche 20 avril 2025 • Durée 45:00
Madeline Ashby is a freelance futurist and author of Glass Houses, a near-future sci-fi thriller about creepy tech, creepier tech bros, and the woman who dares challenge both. The first Unfrozen interview with a novelist takes us on a journey to desert islands, bland design-hotel furniture, evil architecture tropes, and much more.
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Intro/Outro: "I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
Vishaan Chakrabarti is the founder and creative director of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), and the author of "The Architecture of Urbanity." He has worn many hats - in development, architecture, government and academia, and brings this experience to bear in his public advocacy work.
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Intro/Outro: "I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
Show Notes:
- The "Joy" Thing with Tim Walz
- Obama > Biden Infrastructure Bill
- Is it really Rural vs Urban, or Suburban vs Everyone Else? Is it Rurbanity?
- UC Berkeley analysis of carbon footprints of cities vs rural vs suburban
- The mortgage interest tax deduction
- The Federal gas tax
- Out-migration from expensive to affordable cities - not the suburbs
- Railroad suburbs: Montclair and Maplewood NJ
- Carbon pricing
- Jane Jacobs' idea that cities formed around trade
- James C. Scott
- The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber & David Wengrow
- Alternate civilizational origin stories at the Venice Biennale
- The places we go on vacation all have lousy parking
- The energy source powering cars is not really the issue - it's the degree to which we design our cities around cars - or not
95. Cities4Forests
Saison 5 · Épisode 95
samedi 19 avril 2025 • Durée 48:26
Scott Francisco is the founder and director of Pilot Projects, a systems thinking and design consultancy that co-creates sustainable solutions to complex challenges in global systems, cities and the natural environment. On this episode of Unfrozen, we discuss the Cities4Forests initiative, which aims to more closely align the environmental and economic goals of cities and the forested lands on which they depend.
- Copenhagen - the urban planning Mecca - but where are the immigrants?
- InterOculus, PAU, Columbus, Indiana
- "Because they've been told their definition of excellence is to design spaceships to be built by slaves in the sand, that's what architects are off doing. And so of course they're not at the adult table influencing policy. We can't relegate ourselves to the kiddie table by talking about irrelevant things and then complain about the chicken nuggets."
- "We don't help everyday people visualize the power of policy change as well as we could."
- "I think we are at a moment where it is really, important for people who understand the physical world to sit down and be able to speak the language of government."
- "Designing policy is a form of design."
- New York Times collaboration with PAU = NYC = Not Your Car
- Gov. Kathy Hochul's cancellation of congestion pricing
- Robert Caro, The Power Broker - "The city's permanent government" - the "deep state" might actually be OK
- "New York, New York, New York," by Tom Dyja
- Accepting imperfection as a necessary democratic outcome - instead of going Roark on imperfection and blowing it up
- Uber's hiring of Bradley Tusk, Bloomberg's third mayoral campaign manager
- Alejandro Aravena - an architect literally being the architect of the new Chilean constitution
- Norman Foster - adviser to the United Nations on rebuilding Ukraine
- Book design by Michael Beirut and Britt Cobb at Pentagram
Alec Fitala, DOM, rainforest products > Hearts of Palmpasta
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