<p>Intro: “S.P.Q.R.” by This Heat</p><p>Discussed:</p><p><a href="https://paulgoldberger.com/">Paul Goldberger</a></p><p>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/culture/white-house-ballroom-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1">Trump Will Destroy Washington if It’s the Last Thing He Does</a>,” New York Times, March 13, 2026</p><p>More Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/29/upshot/white-house-ballroom.html"> analysis</a> on the White House ballroom plans</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law">Godwin’s Law</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer">Albert Speer</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Henry_Latrobe">Benjamin Latrobe</a></p><p>Alternate venues, that would not require a new ballroom at the White House:</p><ul><li><a href="https://nbm.org/">National Building Museum</a></li><li><a href="https://www.eventsatmellon.com/">Mellon Auditorium</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan_Train_Hall">Moynihan Train Hall</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_International_Airport">Saarinen's Dulles Airport design</a>&nbsp;</p><p>“<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-trump-demolish-rebuild-washington/">Fedlandia</a>” – a plan to rebuild 230 acres of Federal downtown Washington</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7046638/2026/02/14/lawsuit-trump-takeover-dc-golf-course/?searchResultPosition=2">East Potomac Golf Links</a> Trump takeover plan, and the resistance</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Garden_of_American_Heroes">National Garden of American Heroes</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Christopher_Columbus_%28Baltimore%29">Christopher Columbus statue, Baltimore</a></p><p>White House ballroom architects</p><ul><li><a href="https://mccreryarchitects.com/">James McCrery</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/politics/trump-ballroom-architect.html?searchResultPosition=1">Shalom Baranes</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-31/trump-says-triumphal-arch-construction-to-begin-in-two-months">Arc de Trump</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Shubow">Justin Shubow</a></p><p>Suit <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/nx-s1-5757505/kennedy-center-trump-lawsuit">against Kennedy Center renovations</a></p><p>Mamdani’s <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/mamdani-pitches-sunnyside-yards-housing-project-trump-queens/6470480/?utm_source=copilot.com">Trump-whispering</a> to get funding for the Sunnyside Yards overbuild</p><p><a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150521848/design-proposals-for-trump-s-dulles-international-airport-overhaul-include-zaha-hadid-architects-adjaye-associates-grimshaw">Dulles Airport overhaul proposals</a></p><p>Original Dulles Airport <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_lounge">mobile lounges</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Foster_Dulles">John Foster Dulles</a></p><p>Trump offer to release Gateway Tunnel funds <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-asked-dulles-penn-station-named-exchange-gateway-money-released-rcna257708">in exchange for naming Penn Station after him</a></p><p><a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/palm-beach-international-airport-rename-representative-brian-mast-bill-would-codify-president-donald-j-trump-international-airport-name-and-seek-code-djt">Renaming of Palm Beach airport</a>, after Trump</p><p><a href="https://www.weissmanfredi.com/projects/25-u-s-embassy-in-new-delhi-india">Renovation and expansion of the US Embassy in Delhi, India</a> (Edward Durell Stone &gt; Weiss Manfredi)</p><p>Penn Station reconstruction under Trump:</p><ul><li><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/trump-weighs-moving-madison-square-garden-for-penn-station-rebuild-sources-say">Move Madison Square Garden</a>?</li><li><a href="https://media.amtrak.com/2026/03/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-and-amtrak-announce-progress-on-new-york-penn-station-transformation/">AECOM joint venture to lead project management</a></li><li>ASTM + HOK + PAU Plan: <a href="https://www.6sqft.com/new-penn-station-overhaul-proposal-adds-vishaan-chakrabarti-to-design-team/">Keep MSG, remove Hulu Theater</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan_Train_Hall">Moynihan Train Hall</a></p><p><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ballpark-paul-goldberger/1129614867">Ballpark: Baseball in the American City</a></p><p>FIFA Sites include:</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillette_Stadium">Gillette Stadium</a>, Foxborough, MA</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Stadium">Arrowhead Stadium</a>, Kansas City, MO</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoFi_Stadium">SoFi Stadium</a>, Inglewood, CA</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Stadium">AT&amp;T Stadium</a>, Arlington, TX</li></ul><p>Chuck Klosterman: “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28book%29?utm_source=copilot.com">Football</a>” as a “hyperobject”</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Siro">Milan San Siro</a> (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Stadium">NY Jets plan for West Side stadium</a></p><p>Upcoming Goldberger book (11/17/2026): “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720345/the-imperfect-city-by-paul-goldberger/">The Imperfect City: Design, Serendipity, and the Real Life of Cities</a>”</p><p>--</p><p>Outro: “The Leopards Ate My Face,” by Franchesca Ramsey</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

<p>Intro/Outro: “America,” by Neil Diamond</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-burkham-05799417/">Jonathan Burkham</a></p><p><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/migrant-midwest-the-case-for-immigration-and-economic-growth-in-the-american-heartland-dr-jonathan-mann-burkham/6d3473bccb748f47?ean=9798216276098&amp;next=t&amp;next=t&amp;affiliate=94913&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">Migrant Midwest</a></p><p>Ed Glaeser – “<a href="https://nyti.ms/4lWnHrJ">Human Capital Follows the Thermometer</a>,” New York Times, April 19, 2011</p><p>Civic Federation’s report “<a href="https://www.civicfed.org/blog/chicagos-budget-growth-2019-2025?utm_source=copilot.com">Chicago's Budget Growth: 2019–2025</a>”</p><p>Minneapolis’ resilience and defense of its Somali community against ICE raids</p><p>Springfield, Ohio – myths and realities about its Haitian population</p><p><a href="https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityDCD/planning/plans/Citywide/plan/Data.pdf?utm_source=copilot.com">Milwaukee</a> – population trends 1960-2024</p><p>Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s 2014 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/michigan-us-give-immigrants-visas-help-bankrupt-detroit-flna2D11980300?utm_source=copilot.com">call for 50,000 visas</a></p><p><a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mcda/population/michigan-population-analysis/2026/01/27/vintage2025-estimates">Michigan’s population growth</a>, 2021-2025</p><p>Nick Reding, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methland">Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town</a>”</p><p><a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/provincial-nominee-program.html">Canadian Provincial Nominee Program</a></p><p><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-provincial-nominee-program-focusing-temporary-workers-9.7063307">Backlash to the CPNP</a> + no housing growth</p><p><a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=d1f235259799d092d7a3a21233a2f18a9b8ce8b565b7f3ab789fcc5a0a063bb0JmltdHM9MTc3NDY1NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=0dc8a875-56a9-618d-0c45-be1a57e460cc&amp;psq=Canada%e2%80%99s+population+decline&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JjLmNhL25ld3MvcG9saXRpY3MvY2FuYWRhLXBvcHVsYXRpb24tZGVjbGluZS1maXJzdC10aW1lLTkuNzEzMzY0Mw">Canada’s population decline</a> – 102,000 in 2025, the first since Confederation in 1867</p><p><a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/61-smaller-cities-in-a-shrinking-world">Allan Mallach – Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World – Unfrozen</a> 61&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/108-north">Jesse Keenan – North – Unfrozen 108</a></p><p>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/climate/climate-migration-duluth.html">Climate-proof Duluth</a>”&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/darylfairweather?utm_source=copilot.com">Daryl Fairweather,</a> Redfin chief economist, new resident of Williams Bay, WI</p><p><a href="https://cms.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/2024-11/2024-migration-trends-report-11-25-2024.pdf">National Association of Realtors migration trends 2024</a></p>

<p>Imagine a New York City in the double python squeeze of political corruption and traffic congestion, where creative attempts to alleviate said congestion are thwarted at every turn by vested interests. This very contemporary-sounding condition was also very much in force in the late 1860s and early 1870s, when Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall ran the city, and an inventor named Alfred Beach built a short pneumatic-tube conveyance under Broadway, carrying dignitaries beneath the chaotic, horse-manured streets. This is the story of <a href="https://islandpress.org/books/new-yorks-secret-subway#desc"><i>New York’s Secret Subway: The Underground Genius of Alfred Beach and the Origins of Mass Transit</i></a>, as told by Matthew Algeo.</p><p>Intro/Outro:</p><p>“Sub-Rosa Subway," by Klaatu</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Ely_Beach">Alfred Ely Beach</a></li><li>Oscar Munn</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_American">The Scientific American</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_M._Tweed">“Boss” Willam Tweed</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall">Tammany Hall</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweed_Courthouse">The Tweed Courthouse</a></li><li><a href="https://www.historylink.org/File/8105">The Great Barbecue: Vernon L. Parrington</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Turney_Stewart">Alexander T. Stewart</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRT_Ninth_Avenue_Line">West Side and Yonkers Patent Railway &gt; IRT Ninth Avenue Line</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steinway_Tunnel">William Steinway Tunnel</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interborough_Rapid_Transit_Company">Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT) subway</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Pneumatic_Despatch_Company">London Pneumatic Despatch Railway</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Arriv%C3%A9e_d%27un_train_en_gare_de_La_Ciotat">L'arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat</a>, Louis Lumiere</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Avenue_Subway">Second Avenue Subway</a></li><li><a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324001522">Ghost Road, by Anthony Townsend</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_von_Siemens">Siemens dynamo</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperloop">Hyperloop</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_High-Speed_Rail">California High-Speed Rail</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staplehurst_rail_crash">The railway accident at Staplehurst, Kent, England</a>, 1865, that almost killed Charles Dickens</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1873">Panic of 1873</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Yale_Beach">Stanley Yale Beach</a></li><li><a href="https://arlohotels.com/williamsburg/eat-and-drink/water-tower/">Water tower speakeasy, Arlo Hotel, Williamsburg, Brooklyn</a></li><li><a href="https://www.cityrealty.com/nyc/tribeca/city-hall-tower-258-broadway/8168">258 Broadway</a></li></ul>

<p>Brutalism has had a rough time over the past decade. Can it be redeemed before it’s too late?</p> <p>Originally published in The Faster Times on October 8, 2012 and on <a href="https://arch-unfrozen-blog.tumblr.com/post/36271293355/too-late-modernism">Unfrozen 1.0</a> on November 22, 2012.</p> <p>- Intro: “Creep,” by Radiohead</p> <p>- A Teardown?</p> <p>o &nbsp;[“Alma Matters,” by Morrissey]</p> <p>- Truthiness be Told</p> <p>- Brutalism is the Prog-Rock of Architecture</p> <p>o [“2112 – Overture,” by Rush]</p> <p>o [“The Wives of Henry VIII,” by</p> <p>o [“Aqualung,” Jethro Tull]</p> <p>o [“Sailing,” by Christopher Cross]</p> <p>- NU-Wave</p> <p>o [“Atomic,” by Blondie]</p> <p>- Dedicated Followers of Fashion</p> <p>o [“Dedicated Followers of Fashion,” by The Kinks]</p> <p>o [“Government Center,” by The Modern Lovers]</p> <p>- …And When You Smile for the Camera…</p> <p>o [“Peg,” by Steely Dan]</p> <p>- Outro: “Aqualung,” by Jethro Tull</p>

<p>Silicon Valley prides itself on "innovation" and "disruption," and its products are meant to drive "sharing" and "collaboration," but the architecture it builds can be stunningly conservative and insular.</p> <p>From the <a href="https://arch-unfrozen-blog.tumblr.com/post/51615608029/the-spell-of-hot-desk" target="_blank">Unfrozen 1.0 post</a>, May 28, 2013</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4kqSSYwgoCNHWX7CG6pTQc?si=d3fe63bebc78462f">I Know Where the Summer Goes</a>,” by Belle and Sebastian</p> <p>Too Much, the Magic Bus</p> <p>[“<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/3hXfw2gP25VxNwESNVJjqV?si=c947ab72e04142e5">Magic Bus</a>,” by The Who]</p> <p>Casual Collisions</p> <p>[“<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4YBUZ9I5tW53S11o2F6FBz?si=ad45f85b30934fc5">Strangers When We Meet</a>,” by David Bowie]</p> <p>Will Code for Pizza</p> <p>[“<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1058yvPlMj1v7yZr3ZNZV9?si=40f4dc9e98f34f6b">Pizza Butt</a>,” by MC Chris]</p> <p>Let’s Hang Out / Don’t Look at Me</p> <p>Arrested Development</p> <p>[“<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/1coE1zDitXxB9qKHdzjI2a?si=3927040421484eea">Arrested Development</a>,” by David Schwartz]</p> <p>I Want The Best – Whatever That Is</p> <p>[“<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2W2ieVidLIx9TDvxu0ZT6F?si=5a83a9908ba543ad">The Best</a>,” by Tina Turner]</p> <p>He’s The Guru of the City / No One Told the Councilor</p> <p>[“<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4kqSSYwgoCNHWX7CG6pTQc?si=d3fe63bebc78462f">I Know Where the Summer Goes</a>,” by Belle and Sebastian]</p> <p>Stand In the Place Where You Are</p> <p>[“<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/22UhQSbYimuCnvI0Y07gFX?si=0552f7a06f8f48a4">Stand</a>,” by R.E.M.]</p> <p>I Liked It So Much, I Bought the City</p> <p>[“<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5Q7ayTarb9Tpmkik5cVMug?si=8bbe65d3431e40ef">Viva Las Vegas</a>,” by Elvis Presley]</p> <p>Outro: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6To7bOJKzFFMIsZopq3J0o?si=c99d20787c1a4e41">Back in the Box</a>,” by David Byrne</p>

<p>Greg and Dan, back at it again, talking about Olympics architecture and urbanism, the Housing Crisis 2.0, and the greatest hits from the 60s, 70s and 80s, come back to life as Zombie Capitalism.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro: "Games Without Frontiers," by Peter Gabriel</p> <p>Outro: "Paper Money," by Montrose</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>· Beijing Olympics</p> <ul> <li>2008 and 2022 games <a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2022/02/02/beijing-2022-winter-olympics-venues-architecture-roundups/">looking very different architecturally</a> – no international superstarchitects</li> <li>The official attendees are largely debtor nations – and Russia</li> <li>China joins WTO 2001 &gt; Beijing 2008 games the manifestation of that</li> <li>Beijing 2008 = Crystal Palace 1851 or Columbian Expo 1893 or maybe NYC 1939</li> <li><a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2022/02/03/big-air-shougang-beijing-olympic-ski-jump-teamminus/">Shuoguang Big Air by Team Minus</a></li> <li>Koolhaas “Content 2004,” – pivot to China away from WTC rebuild competition</li> <li><a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2022/01/28/ice-ribbon-populous-beijing-2022-winter-olympics/">Skating oval by Populous</a></li> <li>Where’s Ma?</li> </ul> <p>· Other Olympic Riffs</p> <ul> <li>Montreal 1976 &gt; Quebec secession &gt; L.A. 1984</li> <li>The day Modernism died = <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Biosphere">Biosphere fire Montreal 1976</a></li> <li>Paris 2024 – Urban Air Mobility</li> <li>Los Angeles 2028 – The walkable games?</li> </ul> <p>· Safe as Houses?</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.buildersshow.com/?utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_source=google&amp;utm_campaign=IBS22&amp;utm_content=branded&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIm9fI07Pp9QIVYRtlCh0JRwh9EAAYASAAEgJ6h_D_BwE">NAHB IBS Show</a></li> <li>Single family rentals</li> <li>Inflation</li> <li>Rents up above core inflation</li> <li>CBRE: wildcard scenario – multifamily asset class going from $7T to $37T</li> <li>Rent to Own, or Rent Forever?</li> <li>Mass-producing neighborhoods with fleet-level management of housing</li> <li>Housing became CRE</li> <li>Is this the point where we see 3D printing takes off? <ul> <li><a href="https://www.iconbuild.com/">ICON homes inks deal with Lennar and BIG</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.3dprintingmedia.network/cobod-3d-prints-construction-applications-live-at-the-world-of-concrete-2022-in-las-vegas/">COBOD 3D live at World of Concrete</a></li> </ul> </li> <li>ETH Zurich &gt; Alien Rococo</li> <li>What is the future of the “starter home”?</li> <li>Rent control – <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-10-26/spain-acts-to-rein-in-housing-costs-surge-with-controls-on-rents">Spain</a> and <a href="https://www.twincities.com/2021/12/23/st-paul-city-council-anger-over-unanswered-rent-control-questions-overshadows-vote-on-mayoral-inauguration/">St. Paul</a> &gt; Capital strike</li> <li><a href="https://tiger21.com/about-us/">Tiger 21</a></li> </ul> <p>· Greg’s book reccs:</p> <ul> <li>“Adam Smith” – Peter Goodman:&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Money-Game-Adam-Smith/dp/0394721039">The Money Game</a>,&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Super-Money-Adam-Smith/dp/B0014IAY58/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1NWNG5FOR9Z4Y&amp;keywords=%EF%82%A7+Super+Money&amp;qid=1644093259&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=super+money%2Cstripbooks%2C86&amp;sr=1-2">Super Money</a>,&nbsp;</li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Paper-Money-Adam-Smith/dp/0671448250/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1BSX2I39VNI70&amp;keywords=paper+money+adam+smith&amp;qid=1644093290&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=%EF%82%A7+Paper+Money+Ada%2Cstripbooks%2C68&amp;sr=1-1">Paper Money</a></li> <li>Prefigured the 2008 financial crisis</li> <li>Averting Penn Central becoming the Lehman Brothers of the ‘70s</li> <li>OPEC and the oil crisis changed everything</li> <li>Beginning of the idea of housing as an inflation hedge</li> </ul> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>

<p>An interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Velas">Sara Velas</a>, founder, <a href="https://panoramaonview.org/">Velaslavasay Panorama</a>, Los Angeles.</p> <p>Intro / Outro: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6WPWEHhr1tdX2ZUAWBmksK?si=cb4a1638ea7b47ef">Heartaches</a>,” Al Bowlly, Sid Phillips &amp; His Melodians</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Barker_(painter)">Robert Barker</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.rubycarlsonstudio.com/contact">Ruby Carlson</a></p> <p><a href="https://panoramaonview.org/major-projects/mush-movies">Mush to the Movies with LAFF</a></p> <p>Magical Urbanism</p> <p>Unrestored Restoration</p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauntology">Hauntology</a></p> <p><a href="https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_t28ia247">The Union Square Florist Shop: A Case of Spectral Immersion</a></p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Barrag%C3%A1n">Luis Barragan</a></p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thom_Andersen">Thom Andersen</a></p> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher">Mark Fisher</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.heinoldsfirstandlastchance.com/history">Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon</a>, Oakland, CA</p> <p><a href="https://clarklibrary.ucla.edu/">William Andrews Clark Memorial Library</a>, UCLA</p> <p><a href="https://revolutionario.com/">Revolutionario Taco</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.ohioswallow.com/author/Charles+Hood">Charles Hood</a></p>

<p>A tour of the abandoned Pacific Electric Subway Terminal in downtown Los Angeles. From Unfrozen 1.0, originally <a href="https://arch-unfrozen-blog.tumblr.com/post/22828558566/notes-from-underground" target="_blank">posted </a>May 11, 2012.</p> <p>Intro/Outro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4uhM9VQqb4ZNZDex9UjzRp?si=b09e9e45c8674f92" target="_blank">Do Not Feed the Oyster,</a>" by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks</p> <p>Midsection: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4lBdn1pjyfsOWI1ptWyoOf?si=6957cae0e0f74edb">Judge Doom</a>," by Alan Silvestri and the London Symphony Orchestra</p>

<p>Unfrozen interviews <a href="https://twitter.com/mcmansionhell" target="_blank">Kate Wagner,</a> creator and curator of <a href="https://mcmansionhell.com/" target="_blank">McMansion Hell</a>.</p> <p>Intro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4fZEunCCLG9cr2IQAsZj83?si=9e9db92b21ee471f" target="_blank">Suburbia</a>," by Pet Shop Boys</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>- The special McMansion Hell that is <a href="https://mcmansionhell.com/post/672504597059911680/suburban-chicago-mcmansions-follow-a-dark-logic">Barrington, IL</a></p> <p>- Why surprise-visiting teachers in their suburban homes is a bad idea</p> <p>- The best the Metaverse can do is take us <a href="https://www.gawker.com/tech/i-do-not-want-to-go-to-walmart-in-the-metaverse">shopping at Wal-Mart</a> and just browsing at H&amp;M?</p> <p>- Best places to see a McMansion in the Wild</p> <p>- What it's like to be a critic during the media meltdown of the early 2020s</p> <p>- I'd rather be biking</p> <p>Outro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5rQKjP9forn7JVuiZBj6eZ?si=e902130fbf2f469e" target="_blank">Bicycle Race</a>," by Queen</p> <p><br></p>

<p>The sordid tale of a totally avoidable fire in the Hollywood Hills: a McMansion used as a set for a reality TV show goes up in smoke.<br> From the <a href="https://arch-unfrozen-blog.tumblr.com/post/18000117153/for-sale-kindling-109-million-obo" target="_blank">Unfrozen 1.0 blog</a>, Feb. 21, 2012</p> <p>Intro/Outro: "On Fire," by Van Halen<br> </p>

<p>Interview with Daniel Meyers and Traci Sym of <a href="https://www.plusandgreaterthan.com/" target="_blank">+&amp;&gt; (Plus and Greater Than),</a> an exhibition design firm in Portland, Oregon.</p> <p>Intro / Outro: "Are You Experienced?" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience</p> <p>Cover Art: "Tubes" by <a href="https://www.plusandgreaterthan.com/" target="_blank">+&amp;&gt; (Plus and Greater Than)</a></p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>- Cambridge Seven</p> <p>- High Museology versus Themed Entertainment</p> <p>- Exhibition design is really “schmoopy”</p> <p>- Encountering conflict is part of the training of performing artists, so it's good to have a theater person on your design team</p> <p>- Starting with a narrative rather than a site</p> <p>- Experiencing things that are not algorithmically selected for you</p> <p>- ABOTI - Always Be on Team Insurgent</p> <p>- The<a href="https://twitter.com/dick_nixon" target="_blank"> Real Dick Nixon</a>, the Decemberists and <a href="https://twitter.com/stephen_malkmus?lang=en">Malkmus</a> are all getting together on a Revolutionary War Memorial in South Carolina</p>

<p>A certain subset of architects and futurists have long obsessed with mass-marketing domes, foam houses, spheres, and combinations thereof. Could their time be nigh? From <a href="https://arch-unfrozen-blog.tumblr.com/post/30812686099/can-the-dome-home-finally-find-a-mass-audience" target="_blank">a story</a> originally posted on Unfrozen 1.0, Sept. 3, 2012.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5q7KiSN7znIONR76LAqm7k?si=f9e87e9ae7fa44b2">Xanadu</a>," by Rush</p> <p>1. All Yesterday's Tomorrows</p> <p>2. An Architect to the Stars Dreams of Domed Domesticity</p> <p>3. Sprung From the Foam [Musical interlude: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4zdspHPxpExPiU8RolxBUH?si=25b29aacfb664bfe">Xanadu</a>," by ELO and Olivia Newton-John]</p> <p>4. Domes as Doom Defense</p> <p>Outro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0SkmxNE5ydxiEN0hzJbMac?si=8f3e25a2dc5443f3">Ridin' the Storm Out</a>," by REO Speedwagon</p>

<p><a href='https://www.keenanclimate.com/'>Jesse M. Keenan</a> is the Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at Tulane University. In his upcoming book <em><a href='https://global.oup.com/academic/product/north-9780197641613?lang=en&amp;cc=us'>North: The Future of Post-Climate America</a></em>, he outlines the complexities of America’s handling of climate change and its effects on not only migration, mitigation, and real estate, but also our institutions and societal fabric. Simultaneous conclusions: There are no climate havens, but adapt we will. Join us for the fascinating Unfrozen interview.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “System Error,” by The Cooper Vane</p> <p>--</p> <p> </p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p><a href='https://www.frbsf.org/research-and-insights/publications/working-papers/2024/07/snow-belt-to-sun-belt-migration-end-of-an-era/'>San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank report</a> on reversal of the migration to the Sun Belt</p> <p>“<a href='https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/12/trump-climate-change-acceleration/684632/'>What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century</a>” - The Atlantic</p> <p><a href='https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aabb32'>Climate gentrification: from theory to empiricism in Miami-Dade County, Florida</a></p> <p>Sean Becketti, Freddie Mac, April 2016: <a href='https://www.housingwire.com/articles/36891-freddie-mac-climate-change-threatens-the-future-of-housing/'>Will Markets Absorb Climate Change</a>?</p> <p>A Climate <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minsky_moment'>Minsky Moment</a>?</p> <p>Mitigation vs adaptation vs resilience</p> <p><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/rachel-minnery-faia/'>Rachel Minnery’s</a> <a href='https://www.architectmagazine.com/technology/the-next-files-rachel-minnery_o'>efforts at the AIA</a> to include climate adaptation as part of architects’ standards and duty of care</p> <p><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/climate/climate-migration-duluth.html'>“Climate-proof Duluth” in the New York Times</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/there-are-no-climate-havens'>There were never any climate havens</a>: The Guardian</p> <p>The lesson of Asheville: The flooding was the beginning of its role as a “receiving zone,” not the end</p> <p>“Climate havens” = media clickbait</p> <p><a href='https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240628-us-climate-havens-cities-claim-extreme-weather-protection'>Marketing of Buffalo as a “climate haven” by Mayor Byron R. Brown</a></p> <p>Alan Mallach’s <a href='https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/smaller-cities-in-a-shrinking-world-941'>Unfrozen take</a> on reviving legacy cities</p> <p>“This is about growth management and urban planning 101 at the regional and local level”</p> <p>For many “climate havens” rhetoric is not about recruiting new residents; climate mobility is a rhetorical arm for the existing residents for core sustainability development.</p> <p>“The Midwest will ultimately grow for the exact same reason the Sun Belt grew”</p> <p><a href='https://www.amazon.com/Storming-Wall-Migration-Homeland-Security/dp/0872867153'>Storming the Wall</a> by Todd Miller</p> <p>The Climate Credit Score</p> <p><a href='https://mapcarta.com/20664572'>Hurricane Pass, Pinellas County, Florida</a></p> <p>“Sodom &amp; Gorlando”</p> <p>Climate intelligence arms race, e.g., <a href='https://alphageo.ai/'>AlphaGeo</a></p> <p><a href='https://probablefutures.org/about/team/spencer-glendon/'>Spencer Glendon</a> – “The money is slow and dumb”</p>

<p><br></p> <p>Unfrozen interviews Lev Kushner, Partner, <a href="https://www.deptofhere.com/">Department of Here</a>, co-author of “<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-12-07/what-instant-delivery-services-could-do-to-cities">The Dark Side of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery</a>,” Bloomberg CityLab, Dec. 7, 2021, with Greg Lindsay</p> <p><br></p> <p><br> </p> <p><br></p>

<p>Greg and Dan host Eva Hagberg, author of “<a href="https://www.monacellipress.com/book/dark-nostalgia/">Dark Nostalgia</a>,” “<a href="https://www.evahagberg.com/book">How to be Loved</a>,” and the upcoming “When Eero Met His Match”.</p> <p>Intro: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6RJK553YhstRzyKA4mug09?si=cfcb368de9da44ef">The Letter</a>,” by The Box Tops</p> <p>Topics:</p> <p>· Eero and Aline: “They met and immediately started banging”… and launched the modern world of Architecture PR</p> <p>· “Publicists make their jobs look a lot harder than they are”</p> <p>· Don’t piss off OTTO and ESTO</p> <p>· “I blew my entire advance on seven Iwaan Baan photos”</p> <p>· <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/21/business/architects-white-collar-union.html">A Union SHoP</a>?</p> <p>o <a href="https://twitter.com/tywygo">Tyler Goss</a> cut the cord</p> <p>· Architecture Twitter vs Instagram</p> <p>o <a href="https://twitter.com/guestcrit">Guest crit</a></p> <p>o <a href="https://twitter.com/kvnrogan">Kevin Rogan</a></p> <p>o <a href="https://twitter.com/freecondo">Michael “Freecondo”</a></p> <p>o “They were all talking about Henri Lefebvre, which makes me feel like a Boomer”</p> <p>o <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dank.lloyd.wright/">Dank Lloyd Wright</a></p> <p>o Zoolander’s <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiZ_MSlyvr0AhWbXc0KHfmpApAQwqsBegQIERAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D7ffj8SHrbk0&amp;usg=AOvVaw1PxoRvtcwpJXoEvm1B4lok">Center for Ants</a></p> <p>o <a href="https://www.instagram.com/b0ysfirm/">Boy’s Firm</a></p> <p>o <a href="https://twitter.com/Arch_Lobby">The Architecture Lobby</a></p> <p>· The New Sincerity goes mainstream: Lesley Lokko curates Venice 2023</p> <p>· Casting the “When Eero Met His Match” movie</p> <p>· “Letters are sexting through the centuries.”</p> <p>· Undoing the primacy of the image</p> <p>Outro: “<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/37EmPMVwdBaKs7UhJOkHUU?si=a1726fe3f01a4286">We Used to Wait</a>,” by The Arcade Fire</p>

<p>The complex (abridged) history of Eero Saarinen.</p> <p>From the Unfrozen 1.0 blog, an audio version of an article that originally ran on October 20, 2012 in The Faster Times, and on November 22, 2012 on <a href="https://arch-unfrozen-blog.tumblr.com/post/36272016378/architect-designer-lover-spy-the-eero-you" target="_blank">Unfrozen</a>.</p> <p>Music:</p> <p>"<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4D40ZlFAWsvX7lua1Kablh?si=4c44ee2e422f4309" target="_blank">Jet</a>," by Wings<br> "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7kdtUA19OnSpmQEOtelaC9?si=42f8b64494404d1a">Rescue</a>," by Echo and the Bunnymen<br> "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/7MDGp4UEjsMxCnASVy8J7O?si=060f568a21034d54" target="_blank">Futurama</a>," by Christopher Tyng<br> "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6YTBfxkdGce9pLEy9jG9Jo?si=88ea64190f904528" target="_blank">Mais que Nada</a>," by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66<br> "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/0TFsDA5fKYxNMMdJT2hdEt?si=677e110232ce4504" target="_blank">Mork and Mindy</a>," by Perry Botkin Jr.<br> "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5CBe28J8qHaBclf9YeBhHU?si=5a17903d81ac4868">Do the Whirlwind</a>," by Architecture in Helsinki<br> </p> <p><br></p>

<p>It's a rambler, folks, but full of nuggets:</p> <p>Intro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/4N9bjwrStcRSg6NZeM6o35?si=b01b7034255d4a60" target="_blank">Tunnel of Love</a>" by Dire Straits</p> <p>- Can BIG Transcend Bjarke?<br> - Angry Foursomes, Unwieldy Threesomes in Rock and Architecture<br> - Sole proprietors aspiring to be corporate<br> - The Holland Tunnel aspiring to be the Lincoln Tunnel<br> - <a href="https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/76142/a-section-of-now-social-norms-and-rituals-as-sites-for-architectural-intervention" target="_blank">A Section of Now at the CCA</a><br> - Department of Care is a thing<br> - Walton in Buffalo, Wu in Boston, call it a draw?<br> - George Floyd died in a bike lane, or, infrastructure ain't shit without access<br> - Clearing the block in Baltimore<br> - Child care = infrastructure<br> - Ballooning costs of built and social infrastructure - <a href="https://www.economist.com/briefing/2021/11/20/governments-are-not-going-to-stop-getting-bigger" target="_blank">The Economist </a>(subscription required)<br> - California Dreaming &gt; I want my TGV<br> - Gateway Tunnel<br> - <a href="https://www.gojek.com/en-id/">GoJek</a>, the Gateway Drug of Mobility Apps<br> - <a href="//IBC says no to green at NAHB's bequest">IBC says no to green at NAHB's bequest</a>?<br> - Get in the <a href="https://www.gpitransportation.org/announcement">GPIT</a><br> - Ghost Kitchens in Dark Cities<br> - <a href="https://comotionla.com/">CoMotion</a> report card<br> - Lindsay's Law<br> - <a href="http://wolfandcranebar.com/">Wolf &amp; Crane</a></p> <p>Outro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6LgG7yvuD791JlfCMaioPS?si=7bc16792019946c0" target="_blank">Walking in LA</a>" by Missing Persons<br> </p>

<p>In which Greg and Dan discuss: CoMotion LA 2021, Conveyor-Belt Sushi, Sidewalk Labs' Mass Timber Factory, Carehaus at the CCA, Cold-Fusion Affordable Housing in the Great White North, the Benediction of St. Jane.</p> <p>Intro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/236pPQUEDapfH7Jn6rbhBa?si=d4778c57132f4788" target="_blank">Going Mobile</a>," by The Who</p> <p>Outro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/5gomLh6o19dfPV8HevT85y?si=27c6d19a27844c50" target="_blank">I Am a Tree</a>," by Guided by Voices</p> <p>Links:</p> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/magazine/real-estate-pandemic.html?searchResultPosition=3">Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again?</a> - New York Times Magazine</p>

<p>Considering: the Munger Nightmare Dorm at UCSB, the Metaverse, Pokemon Go, how BIM, CAD and CATIA can play the god game too, Planetary Computation, Really Feeling the Room, Snow and Stars as Fungible Tokens, Climbing Up the Walls.</p> <p>Intro/Outro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/2PDQReEXBViVwkrbQ34vd7?si=5595a0b8834b4e5c" target="_blank">Climbing Up the Walls</a>" by Radiohead</p> <p>Show notes/Links:</p> <p><a href="https://slate.com/business/2021/11/charles-munger-uc-santa-barbara-dorm-nightmare.html"><u>Maybe the Munger Nightmare Dorm is the best we can do</u></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/88g9vv/zuckerbergs-meta-endgame-is-monetizing-all-human-behavior"><u>Zuckerberg’s endgame is monetizing everything</u></a></p> <p><a href="http://the-intersection.io/"><u>The Intersection</u></a> by Superflux</p> <p><a href="https://vitalik.ca/general/2021/10/31/cities.html"><u>Crypto Cities</u></a> =&gt; <a href="https://www.citydao.io/"><u>CityDAO</u></a></p> <p><a href="https://www.danieldavis.com/cads-boring-future/"><u>CAD’s Boring Future —&nbsp;And Why That’s Exciting</u></a></p> <p><a href="https://twitter.com/mnolangray/status/1453027903982096385"><u>The 2021 Gray Invitational City Bracket</u></a></p>

<p>Greg, Dan and special guest Alexandra Siebenthal, host of the Design in the City Podcast by RESITE, convene in Turin, Italy, to discuss their "redpill" moments that got them hooked on architecture and urbanism, and what they're looking forward to seeing at Utopian Hours, the urban design festival held 8-10 October, 2021.</p> <p>Intro/Outro: "<a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/6vEKiYK1tbh11dVxDs3D7A?si=e0dd1b1f4f564e21" target="_blank">Euro-Trash Girl</a>" by Cracker</p>

<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scuola_Grande_di_San_Rocco">Scuola Grande di San Rocco</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2014/fundamentals">2014 Venice Biennale - Elements of Architecture</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.evahagberg.com/">Eva Hagberg</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Mark%27s_Basilica">Basilica San Marco</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.mosevenezia.eu/project/?lang=en">MOSE</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://archenvironment.uoregon.edu/">University of Oregon School of Architecture &amp; Environment</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rem_Koolhaas">Rem Koolhaas</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjF7PKwvs30AhVMa80KHWSvDP4QFnoECAMQAQ&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.oma.com%2Fprojects%2Fil-fondaco-dei-tedeschi&amp;usg=AOvVaw0xl-4weckKI3f4qAJPsF-z">Fondaco dei Tedeschi</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.palazzograssi.it/en/about/sites/palazzo-grassi/">Palazzo Grassi</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_San_Giorgio_Maggiore,_Venice">San Giorgio Maggiore</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-09/flares-chevron-refinery-light-up-the-sky-el-segundo">El Segundo refinery</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Rock_(disambiguation)">School of Rock</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Anger">St. Anger</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Puppets">Master of Puppets</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintoretto">Tintoretto</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Abramovich">Roman Abramovich</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Faena">Alan Faena</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Len_Blavatnik">Len Blavatnik</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/01/20/the-billionaires-playlist">The Billionaire’s Playlist</a>, Connie Bruck, The New Yorker</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ng/podcast/venice-biennale-how-will-we-live-together-part-2/id1497033617?i=1000527637553">ReSite interview with Hashim Sarkis</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2021/stations/rafi-segal-sarah-williams">Open Collectives: Architecture for an Equitable Digital Economy</a> in</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/">Chicago Architecture Biennial</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.oma.com/projects/fondazione-prada">Prada Foundation</a>, Milan</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://exhibitcolumbus.org/2021-exhibition">Exhibit Columbus</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starchitect#The_Bilbao_Effect">Bilbao Effect</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guggenheim_Museum_Bilbao">Guggenheim Bilbao</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Pratt">Emmanuel Pratt</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda_Williams_(artist)">Amanda Williams</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.theastergates.com/">Theaster Gates</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.obama.org/the-center/">Obama Presidential Center</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.sweetwaterfoundation.com/">Sweet Water Foundation</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://rafisegal.com/">Rafi Segal</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.space.com/dyson-sphere.html">Dyson Sphere</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://disco.coop/disconauts/irene-lopez-de-vallejo/">Irene Lopez de Vallejo</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://disco.coop/">DiSCOs</a></p><p>--</p><p>Produced by: Melissa Junttila</p><p>Engineered by: Robert Horvath</p>

<p>Just in time for Halloween comes a spooky story of speculation and specters in the world of real estate. Joshua Comaroff, a professor at National University of Singapore, is the author of <a href='https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919344/spectropolis/'>Spectropolis: The Enchantment of Capital in Singapore</a>. He tells Unfrozen that, despite being one of the most assertively modern nations in the world, mysticism and geomancy are very much part of the design and construction process in the island nation-state. Woe be to the development (and its occupants) that does not undertake elaborate rituals and pay the requisite respect (and sometimes burnt “hell money” offerings) to ghosts that may be resident on the site. We hope you enjoy this tale of spirits and the material world…</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “Beancounter,” by the Cooper Vane</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_money'>Hell money</a>, in sextillion-dollar denominations</p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_shui'>Feng shui</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Action_Party'>People’s Action Party</a></p> <p>Ghost Month (<a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Festival'>Ghost Festival</a>)</p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomoh'>Bomoh</a> (Malay spirit doctor)</p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Mystery_House'>Winchester Mystery House</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ION_Orchard'>ION Orchard</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateway_(Singapore)'>Gateway, by I.M. Pei</a></p> <p>AI Ghosts</p> <p>John Calvin’s hatred of speculation</p> <p>The Clayford Sisters</p> <p><a href='https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/14614448251366173'>Thanatechnology</a></p>

<p>Depending on how you look at it, it is either a great or rough time out there for speculative fiction, as reality continues to bite at the heels of even the most dystopian visions. <a href='https://www.jasontester.com/'>Jason Tester</a> is a futurist with a knack for telling prescient stories about our imminent urban realities, in a startlingly graphic way. The visually compelling <a href='https://insurrectionactfuture.org/'>Insurrection: an American Future</a> predicted troop deployments in San Francisco in early January 2025; by June, a real-life version of that story began unfolding in Los Angeles, then Washington, Chicago, and Portland. Tester gazes into the abyss with Unfrozen, in another episode a bit too close for comfort.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro:<br> “System Error,” by The Cooper Vane</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p><a href='https://www.iftf.org/'>Institute for the Future</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2025/10/09/will-trump-invoke-insurrection-act-heres-what-he-can-and-cant-do-if-he-does/'>What Is The Insurrection Act? Here’s What Happens If Trump Invokes Law</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.thesisters.org/'>Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/us/politics/portland-protests.html'>Frogs of Portland</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.ilanalipsett.com/'>Ilana Lipsett</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.ray-ban.com/usa/ray-ban-meta-ai-glasses?cid=PM-SBI_080622-1.US-RayBanStories-EN-B-NA-Core-Exact-Prs-NA-Ecom-NA_RayBan_Stories_Polar_polar+ray-ban+meta&amp;gclid=801ad8ac37181ab73b5bb042df18ffea&amp;gclsrc=3p.ds&amp;msclkid=801ad8ac37181ab73b5bb042df18ffea&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=1.US-RayBanStories-EN-B-NA-Core-Exact-Prs-NA-Ecom-NA&amp;utm_term=polar%20ray-ban%20meta&amp;utm_content=RayBan_Stories_Polar'>Meta Ray-Bans</a></p> <p><a href='https://web.frend.ai/'>Frend.AI</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.wired.com/story/ice-palantir-immigrationos/'>ImmigrationOS</a></p> <p>San Francisco Proposition E - <a href='https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/your-sfpd/explore-department/drones'>Police drone authorization</a></p> <p><a href='https://sfstandard.com/2023/04/10/downtown-san-francisco-whole-foods-market-closing/'>The beleaguered Whole Foods on Market</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/federal-agents-shoot-woman-broadview-ice-facility/'>ICE Ramming in Chicago</a></p> <p>Grand juries say no to <a href='https://www.advocate.com/news/grand-jury-rejects-sandwich-indictment'>sandwich crimes</a></p> <p><a href='https://tech.yahoo.com/transportation/articles/san-francisco-tech-prankster-causes-200300729.html'>DDS Waymo Jam</a></p> <p>Barbara Walter at UC San Diego: <a href='https://www.barbarafwalter.com/how-civil-wars-start'>How Civil Wars Start</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/b1x52w/what_does_nietzsche_mean_by_if_you_gaze_long_into/'>Abyss gazing</a></p> <p><a href='https://site.urbanistai.com/'>UrbanistAI</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1'>One Big Beautiful Bill</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.bigbeautifulaftermath.org/'>One Big Beautiful Aftermath</a></p>

<p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rem_Koolhaas'>Rem Koolhaas</a> is nothing if not enigmatic, which makes him and his first major built work, the Villa dal’Alva, Paris (1990), an ideal first subject of the “Gumshoe” series of architectural mysteries. Cutting through the conventions of academic jargon and trade press, The House of Dr. Koolhaas reopens the “cold case” of Koolhaas and examines evidence in a pulp-detective novel format. Unfrozen turns the lamp back on writer/editor team <a href='https://arch.rice.edu/people/faculty/francoise-fromonot'>Francoise Fromonot</a> and Thomas Weaver.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “Beancounter,” by the Cooper Vane</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p><a href='https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/H/bo246016377.html#:~:text=Investigates%20the%20history%20of%20the%20Villa%20dall%E2%80%99Ava%20in,original%20approach%20to%20the%20writing%20of%20architectural%20history.'>Gumshoe Architectural Mystery Series</a></p> <p>Thomas Weaver (<a href='https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publications/catalogue'>AA Files</a>)</p> <p><a href='https://www.whatwedoissecret.org/madebyblog/2007/01/villa-dallava/'>Villa d’Alva</a>, OMA</p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%2CM%2CL%2CXL'>S, M, L, XL</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Bu%C3%B1uel'>Luis Bunuel</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Trilogy'>City of Glass</a> by <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Auster'>Paul Auster</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ways_of_Seeing'>Ways of Seeing</a> by John Berger</p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramis,_or_the_Love_of_Technology'>Aramis, or the Love of Technology</a> by <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Latour'>Bruno Latour</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purloined_Letter'>The Purloined Letter</a> by Edgar Allen Poe</p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannerism'>Mannerism</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madelon_Vriesendorp'>Madelon Vreisendorp</a> with Teri Wehn-Damisch: The Film of <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delirious_New_York'>Delirious New York</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.oma.com/projects/countryside-the-future'>Countryside, The Future</a></p> <p>Dali’s <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoiac-critical_method'>paranoiac-critical method</a></p> <p>Le Corbusier’s <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_Savoye'>Villa Savoye</a></p> <p>Next up: Oscar Neimayer’s <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headquarters_of_the_French_Communist_Party'>Communist Party Headquarters, Paris</a>, by Littell Shaw</p> <p>Then: The Parthenon</p> <p>Then: Case Study House by <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Ellwood'>Craig Ellwood</a></p> <p>Poelzig’s <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IG_Farben_Building'>I.G. Farben Building</a>, Frankfurt</p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Chandler'>Raymond Chandler</a></p> <p><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ellroy'>James Ellroy</a></p> <p> </p>

<p>Dismayed by the destruction and death in Gaza? Fear not, the wizards at Boston Consulting Group have a plan – a 38-slide deck that will Make Gaza GREAT Again. It’s a molten nugget of consultant-speak, SimCity planning moves, weirdly proportioned AI slop renderings, and tokenized real estate transactions that place a thin veil of “solutioneering” over what looks an awful lot like ethnic cleansing. Don’t worry – it will all be covered by private investment and all kinds of familiar corporations in the tech, design, construction and security businesses are invited, whether they know it or not. Our hot take on this hottest of messes.</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p><a href='https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/08/31/trump-gaza-plan-riviera-relocation/'>Washington Post article</a><br> <a href='https://www.wsj.com/business/bcg-gaza-humanitarian-aid-project-cd066b87?st=KjjWJz'>Wall Street Journal article</a><br> <a href='https://www.ft.com/content/0b1bc761-c572-4b61-882a-fb4467259dcd'>Financial Times article</a><br> <a href='https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/GAZA-Great-Trust-Plan.pdf'>GREAT Trust deck</a><br> Pre-GREAT Trust Hebrew version of the deck<br> <a href='https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=Gaza+Riviera+TikTok+video&amp;mid=2F5808D867F92DB92D742F5808D867F92DB92D74&amp;mmscn=stvo&amp;FORM=VIRE'>Gaza Riviera TikTok video</a><br> Scarlett Johansson on SNL: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7o4oMKbStE'>Complicit</a><br> <a href='https://www.bcg.com/'>Boston Consulting Group</a><br> <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Humanitarian_Foundation'>Gaza Humanitarian Foundation</a><br> <a href='https://institute.global/'>Tony Blair Institute</a><br> <a href='https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ebenezer-Howard'>Ebenezer Howard</a><br> <a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Eug%C3%A8ne_Haussmann'>Baron von Haussmann</a><br> SimCity<br> <a href='https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer_why_the_world_needs_charter_cities'>Paul Romer’s Charter Cities</a><br> Shout back to <a href='https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/92-the-hidden-globe'>Episode 92, The Hidden Globe</a><br> <a href='https://aecom.com/'>AECOM</a><br> <a href='https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/en/'>Studio Boeri Architetti</a><br> <a href='https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/the-india-middle-east-europe-economic-corridor-connectivity-in-an-era-of-geopolitical-uncertainty/'>IMEC = India-Middle East Corridor</a><br> <a href='https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/country-reports/ahrc5923-economy-occupation-economy-genocide-report-special-rapporteur'>UN rapporteur communique on Gaza report: Economy of Occupation to an Economy of Genocide</a></p>

<p>A former president of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), <a href='https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-elefante-78b57118/'>Carl Elefante</a> has led the field in finding common ground between two things seemingly in conflict: sustainable design and historic preservation. He is a Principal Emeritus with <a href='https://www.quinnevans.com/'>Quinn Evans</a> and a charter member of the <a href='https://www.climateheritage.org/'>Climate Heritage Network</a>. In addition to his work on the intersection of historic preservation and sustainability, he has spent decades focusing on building-sector decarbonization, community vitality, and urbanism. His new book is <em><a href='https://islandpress.org/books/going-zero#desc'>Going for Zero: Decarbonizing the Built Environment on the Path to Our Urban Future</a></em>.</p> <p>Intro/Outro:</p> <p>“24 Hour Limes,” by The Cooper Vane</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p><a href='https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/247/article/494514/summary'>The Greenest Building is the One That is Already Built</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.amazon.com/Work-City-Futures-Frank-Duffy/dp/1906155127'>Work and the City</a>, by Frank Duffy</p> <p><a href='https://massdesigngroup.org/'>MASS Design Group</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.kerearchitecture.com/'>Kéré Architecture</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.juliawatson.com/lo-tek-design-by-radical-indigenism'>Lo-TEK Design by Radical Indigenism</a>, by Julia Watson</p> <p><a href='https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/empire-state-building-carbon-emissions-1.6427893'>Empire State Building retrofit</a> vs One World Trade Center: Both LEED Gold</p> <p><a href='https://passivehouse.com/'>Passive House</a></p> <p><a href='https://passivelogic.com/'>PassiveLogic</a></p> <p><a href='https://wufi.de/en/software/what-is-wufi/'>WUFI Modeling</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.roth-hughto.com/blog/susan-roth-ken-noland-the-door-wide-open'>Susan Roth</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-ductless-mini-split-air-conditioner/'>Mini-splits</a></p> <p> </p>

<p><a href='https://hillary-brown-uf0q.squarespace.com/about/'>Hillary Brown</a>, Professor Emerita of Architecture at the City College of New York, joins <em>Unfrozen</em> to discuss her book <em><a href='https://bookshop.org/p/books/revitalizeresettle-how-main-street-usa-can-offer-new-beginnings-for-america-s-climate-displaced-hillary-brown/22415096?ean=9798822968448&amp;next=t&amp;'>Revitalize | Resettle</a></em>, which explores how climate migration and rural revitalization can solve interlinked crises. Brown emphasizes that large U.S. cities alone cannot absorb climate-displaced populations due to infrastructural limits and rising costs. Instead, she proposes strategic resettlement in small towns and “micropolitan areas”—places often overlooked but rich in cultural value and potential.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro:</p> <p>“24-Hour Limes” by The Cooper Vane</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>Hero towns leading the charge to accept climate migrants and flourish:</p> <ul> <li>Clinton, IA: <a href='https://www.nado.org/vibrant-rural-communities-clinton-iowa/'>Brownfield redevelopment and corridor revitalization</a></li> <li>Gorham and Milan, NH: <a href='https://www.conservationfund.org/our-impact/news-insights/community-forests-expand-protection-in-new-hampshire/'>Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program</a></li> <li>Madison, IN: <a href='https://www.madisonmainstreet.com/'>Main Street Program</a></li> <li>Morris, NY: <a href='https://www.growlivco.com/'>Livingston County Development Group</a></li> <li>Norfolk, NE: <a href='https://norfolkne.gov/government/departments/parks-and-recreation/north-fork-white-water-park/'>North Fork Whitewater Park</a></li> <li>Ord, NE: <a href='https://ordnebraska.com/give/vccff/'>Vibrant Future Fund</a></li> <li><a href='https://www.motherearthnews.com/sustainable-living/nature-andenvironment/'>Rock Port, MO</a>: Wind Capital Group – First town in U.S. to be 100% wind-powered</li> <li>West Windsor, VT: <a href='https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2023-02-23/mt-ascutneys-revival-serves-as-a-model-for-other-ski-areas'> Ascutney revitalization</a></li> </ul> <p>Jesse Keenan – <a href='https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/climate/climate-migration-duluth.html'>Climate-Proof Duluth</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.ny.gov/programs/downtown-revitalization-initiative'>New York State Small-Town Revitalization</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.t-mobile.com/brand/hometown-grants?msockid=27db3c1908d962160af728a209c163e4'>T-Mobile hometown grants</a></p> <p><a href='https://www.paragkhanna.com/'>Parag Khanna</a>, ecstatic nomad</p>

<p>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, <a href='https://www.amazon.ca/Wrigley-Building-Making-Icon/dp/084784336X#:~:text=An%20in-depth%20look%20at%20America%E2%80%99s%20historic%20skyscraper%20and,significance%20as%20one%20of%20Chicago%E2%80%99s%20most%20emblematic%20buildings.'>The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon</a>, to hear the rest.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro / Outro:</p> <p>“24 Hour Limes,” by The Cooper Vane</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <ul> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham,_Anderson,_Probst_%26_White'>Graham, Anderson, Probst &amp; White</a></li> <li>Charles Beersman</li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Morgan'>Julia Morgan</a></li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arts_Club_of_Chicago'>Arts Club of Chicago</a></li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Mansueto'>Joe Mansueto</a></li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_and_Rika_Mansueto_Library'>Joe and Rika Mansueto Library</a>, Helmut Jahn, 2011</li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Vinci'>John Vinci</a></li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Wrigley'>Phillip Wrigley</a></li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hale_Thompson'>William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson</a></li> <li><a href='https://giraldacatedral-tickets.org/en/?msclkid=f4b66a18b6fd147b62b1027233db7196'>Girilda Tower, Seville</a></li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Chambord'>Chateau Chambord,</a> Loire Valley, France</li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Municipal_Building'>New York Municipal Building</a>, Stanford White, 1914</li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Family'>The Carter Family</a></li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribune_Tower'>Tribune Tower</a>, Howells and Hood, 1925</li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Guarantee_Building'>London Guarantee Building</a>, Alfred Alschuler, 1923</li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/333_North_Michigan'>333 North Michigan Avenue</a>, Holabird &amp; Roche, 1928</li> <li><a href='https://www.beldenstratford.com/'>Belden-Stratford Hotel</a>, Meyer Fridstein, 1923</li> <li>Waldor-Astoria Chicago, Lucien Lagrange, 2009</li> <li><a href='https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/where-is-the-78-what-to-know-about-the-site-where-chicago-fire-plan-their-new-stadium/3760464/'>Chicago Fire Stadium</a></li> <li><a href='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Tigerman'>Stanley Tigerman</a></li> <li><a href='https://www.studioblue.us/about/team'>Studio Blue</a>, Cheryl Towler Weese</li> </ul>

<p>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: <a href="https://michelechampagne.com/">Michele Champagne</a>, <a href="https://www.thenation.com/authors/kate-wagner/">Kate Wagner</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisajahn/">Marisa Moran Jahn</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekim-ramku-50154314/">Bekim Ramku</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafi-segal-22b860b/">Rafi Segal</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannegang/">Jeanne Gang</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-cavagnero/">Mark Cavagnero</a>. 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.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “Bounder of Adventure,” by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p>-      Olly Wainwright: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/09/robots-aperol-spritz-venice-architecture-biennale-2025-review-3d">Can robots make the perfect Aperol spritz? – Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 review | Architecture | The Guardian</a></p><p>-         Rowan Moore: <a href="https://observer.co.uk/culture/architecture/article/venice-architecture-biennale-review-2025">Venice Architecture Biennale review: ‘a hot mess of pretension’ | The Observer</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://nyra.nyc/">The New York Architecture Review</a> crew: Nicolas, Chloe and Sammy</p><p>-         International Exhibition in the Arsenale</p><p>o  Robots, hemp, bio-concrete, 8-point font with AI-assisted summaries</p><p>o  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkatecrawford/">Kate Crawford</a> and Vladan Joier’s megascale text: <a href="https://calculatingempires.net/">Calculating Empires</a></p><p>o   Bjarke Ingels Group’s entry: <a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/collective/ancient-future-bridging-bhutan%E2%80%99s-tradition-and-innovation">Ancient Future</a>, with Bhutanese carvers paced by an ABB robot</p><p>o  Christopher Hawthorne’s Speaker’s Corner</p><p>o  Shades of Rem Koolhaas’ 2014 Fundamentals edition</p><p>-         Kate Wagner’s review:</p><p>o  Dated techno-optimism</p><p>o  Cannibalism of architecture by art and exhibition design</p><p>-         National Pavilions:</p><p>o  Austria: “<a href="https://labiennale2025.at/en/">Agency for Better Living</a>”</p><p>o  Canada: “<a href="https://picoplanktonics.com/">Picoplanktonics</a>” by The Living Room Collective</p><p>o  Denmark: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/denmark">Build of Site</a>”</p><p>o  Estonia: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/estonia">Let Me Warm You</a>”</p><p>o  Romania: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/romania">Human Scale</a>”</p><p>o  Saudi Arabia: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/saudi-arabia">The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection</a>”</p><p>o  Slovenia: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/slovenia-republic">Master Builders</a>”</p><p>o  South Korea: “<a href="https://www.korean-pavilion.or.kr/exhibition/">Little Toad, Little Toad</a>”, but mainly <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/kw1x3kkbix25j6vx9o1ay/IMG_0121.JPG?rlkey=gbsx4xmlxtlbku8z8nz6r84ho&st=ve0ioz2y&dl=0">this cat</a></p><p>o  Spain: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/spain">Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium</a>”</p><p>o  UAE: “<a href="https://sharjah24.ae/en/Articles/2025/05/08/a15">Pressure Cooker</a>”</p><p>o  USA: “<a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150479522/welcome-inside-the-porch-first-photos-of-the-completed-u-s-pavilion-at-the-2025-venice-biennale">Porch</a>: An Architecture of Generosity”</p><p>§  Curators: </p><p>·        <a href="https://fayjones.uark.edu/people/faculty-and-staff/profile.php?name=Peter-MacKeith&uid=mackeith&department=Dean">Peter MacKeith</a>, Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas</p><p>·        <a href="https://www.amacad.org/person/rod-bigelow">Rod Bigelow</a>, Executive Director, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art</p><p>·        <a href="https://www.marlonblackwell.com/">Marlon Blackwell</a>, Marlon Blackwell Architects</p><p>·        <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-chin-faia-b25b0b12/">Susan Chin</a>, Design Connects</p><p>·        <a href="https://stephenburksmanmade.com/">Stephen Burks, Man Made</a></p><p>§  Shades of the timber-themed <a href="https://www.dezeen.com/2021/05/20/us-pavilion-american-framing-venice-architecture-biennale-2021/">2021 exhibit</a>, but with a twist</p><p>§  Interview with Mark Cavagnero, <a href="https://www.cavagnero.com/">Mark Cavagnero Associates</a>, on participation in Porch and his work <a href="https://www.cavagnero.com/project/oakland-museum-of-california/">updating the original 1969 design</a> of the <a href="https://museumca.org/">Oakland Museum of California</a> by Kevin Roche and Dan Kiley </p><p>o  <a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/uzbekistan-republic">Uzbekistan: A Matter of Radiance</a></p><p>-         Interview with collaborators on <a href="https://architecture.mit.edu/news/creative-industry-hub-design-wins-international-competition">Art-Tek Tulltorja</a>, conversion of former brick works into a tech hub and community center, Pristina, Kosovo:</p><p>o  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafi-segal-22b860b/">Rafi Segal</a>, Associate Professor, Architecture &amp; Urbanism, MIT</p><p>o  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisajahn/">Marisa Moran Jahn</a>, Director, Integrated Design,Parsons School of Design</p><p>o  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekim-ramku-50154314/">Bekim Ramku</a>, OUD+ Architects</p><p>o  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/nol-binakaj-7529b158/">Nol Binakaj</a>, OUD+ Architects</p><p>-         Interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Gang">Jeanne Gang</a>, amidst a Bio-Blitz powered by the <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/">iNaturalist</a> app and featuring a “disco ball for bees”</p><p>-         Unfrozen’s nominations for 2027 Biennale curator:</p><p>o  <a href="https://schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/people/carolyn-whitzman/">Carolyn Whitzman</a>, Senior Housing Researcher, Schoolof Cities, University of Toronto and author of <a href="https://www.ubcpress.ca/home-truths">Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://firstpeoplesgroup.com/staff/diane-longboat/">Diane Longboat</a>, Senior Manager, StrategicInitiatives, Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto</p><p>§  See: <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/camh-bolsters-sweat-lodge-for-indigenous-clients-1.3651943">Sweat lodge at the Center</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://www.atelierten.com/team/patrick-bellew/">Patrick Bellew</a>, Chief Sustainability Officer, Surbana Jurong (Atelier Ten)</p><p>§  Gardens by the Bay cooling system,powered by incinerated tree trimming waste</p><p>o  <a href="https://www.peterbarberarchitects.com/personnel">Peter Barber</a>, Peter Barber Architects</p><p>o  <a href="https://forensic-architecture.org/about/team/member/eyal-weizman">Eyal Weizman</a>, Forensic Architecture</p><p>-         Stafford Beer: “The purpose of the system is what it does.”</p>

<p>Intro/Outro: “Depreston,” by Courtney Barnett</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p><a href="https://www.bu.edu/sociology/profile/japonica-brown-saracino/">Japonica Brown-Saracino</a></p><p><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244358/the-death-and-life-of-gentrification">The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea</a></p><p><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315881096/gentrification-debates-japonica-brown-saracino">The Gentrification Debates</a></p><p><a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053427">Explicating Divided Approaches to Gentrification and Growing Income Inequality</a></p><p>Sarah Schulman: <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gentrification_of_the_Mind/4akwDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0">The Gentrification of the Mind</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Glass">Ruth Glass</a> and the coining of “<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/ideas/100-years-bartlett/ruth-glass-and-coining-gentrification">Gentrification</a>” as a term in 1964</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs">Jane Jacobs</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities">The Death and Life of Great American Cities</a></p><p>Robert Goldman: <a href="https://www.vitalsource.com/products/renovating-value-robert-goldman-v9781439920503">Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification</a></p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/40953">Sharon Zukin: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Smith_(geographer)">Neil Smith</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-gap_theory">The Rent-Gap Theory</a></p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7725422/">Vida</a></p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10037034/">Gentefied</a></p><p><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623608/">The Curse</a></p><p><a href="https://sites.bu.edu/gentrification/profile/loretta-lees/">Loretta Lees</a>: Super-Gentrification</p><p>Wendy Griswold: <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo5568025.html">Regionalism and the Reading Class</a></p>

<p>The Unfrozen squad descends on Venice to experience inperson the full blunt force of the Biennale. Special guests include: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/cratti/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Carlo Ratti</a>, the curator of the 19th Architecture Biennale, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasia-sukhoroslova/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Anastasia Sukhoroslova</a>, CEO of All Things Urban, and <a href="https://michelechampagne.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Michele Champagne</a>, graphic artist and contributor to Volume magazine.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “Bounder of Adventure” by The Cooper Vane </p><p></p>

<p>Our guest on this episode is <a href="https://www.architecture.yale.edu/faculty/1496-christopher-hawthorne">Christopher Hawthorne</a>, the Senior Critic at Yale University’s School of Architecture. His previous roles include architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, and Chief Design Officer of the City of Los Angeles. His current mission is to assemble the Speaker’s Corner at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Unfrozen hears his unique perspective as both critic and exhibitor.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p>2025 Venice Architecture Biennale: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en">Inteligens: Natural, Artificial, Collective</a>” – Carlo Ratti</p><p>Speakers’ Corner / Re-staging Criticism series, part of the <a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/news/biennale-architettura-2025-gens-public-programme">GENS Public Program</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://today.uic.edu/the-school-of-architecture-at-uic-appoints-creative-powerhouse-as-director/">Florencia Rodriguez</a>, Director, School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago</p><p>-         Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston of <a href="https://www.johnstonmarklee.com/">Johnston Marklee</a></p><p>-         Inspiration: “<a href="https://www.perlego.com/book/4191352/vincent-scully-architecture-urbanism-and-a-life-in-search-of-community-pdf">Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community</a>,” by A. Krista Sykes</p><p>-         9 May: “Exhibition as Critical Vessel”</p><p>o   <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/florencia-rodriguez-717557a7/">Florencia Rodriguez</a>, Moderator</p><p>o  <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesley_Lokko">Lesley Lokko</a>, 2023 Biennale curator</p><p>o  <a href="https://www.archpaper.com/tag/aric-chen/">Aric Chen</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://mascontext.com/contributors/francisco-d%C3%ADaz">Pancho Diaz</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://chicagoarchitecturebiennial.org/people/sarah-herda/">Sarah Herda</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://mos.nyc/about/">Michael Meredith</a> (MOS) &gt; <a href="https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/michael-meredith7/">Building with Writing</a></p><p>-         10 May: Conversation on L.A. Fires</p><p>o   <a href="https://www.mmaltzan.com/">Michael Maltzan</a></p><p>o   <a href="https://labprofab.org/about/">Alejandro Haiek Coll</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/florencia-rodriguez-717557a7/">Florencia Rodriguez</a></p><p>11 May:</p><p>o  <a href="https://mcmansionhell.com/about">Kate Wagner</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/samuel-medina-0a023828/">Samuel Medina</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://www.samjacob.com/">Sam Jacob</a></p><p>o  <a href="https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/central-saint-martins/people/shumi-bose">Shumi Bose</a></p><p><a href="https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/text/1980-in-parallax-when-post-modernisms-met-in-venice">1980 Venice Architecture Biennale – The Presence of the Past</a> - Paolo Portoghesi</p><p>-         <a href="https://www.domusweb.it/en/from-the-archive/2012/08/25/-em-la-strada-novissima-em--the-1980-venice-biennale.html">Strada Novissima</a>, feat. Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Arati Isozaki, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown</p><p>-         <a href="https://www.domusweb.it/en/from-the-archive/2023/05/02/aldo-rossis-teatro-del-mondo-in-venice.html">Teatro del Mundo, Aldo Rossi</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://www.jencksfoundation.org/explore/image/sketches-for-critics-corner">Critic’s Corner</a>, feat. Vincent Scully, Charles Jencks, Kenneth Frampton &amp; Christian Norberg-Schulz</p><p><a href="https://yalereview.org/article/christopher-hawthorne-america-the-brutal">Why “The Brutalist” Isn’t Really About Architecture</a></p><p><a href="https://thegentlewoman.co.uk/library/kazuyo-sejima">Kazuyo Sejima</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Writing-About-Architecture-Mastering-Buildings/dp/1616890533">Writing About Architecture</a> - Alexandra Lange</p><p>Caught practicing without a license: Frank Lloyd Wright and Thomas Jefferson</p><p><a href="https://cicarchitecture.org/about/">International Committee of Architecture Critics</a></p><p><a href="https://www.salonemilano.it/en">Salon de Mobile</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Louise_Huxtable">Ada Louise Huxtable</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Pay-Public-Life/dp/0262133733">You Have to Pay for the Public Life</a>, by Charles Moore</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Complexity-Contradiction-Architecture-Robert-Venturi/dp/0870702823/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1RFUKE5P1RE49&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ChOZt8fugdIlzZxczTVa3eDSP7McEO-FqZA82DLnwJGrXcvy96fWHt6ylTAKCkJsaRw3JQVbi-Ip67nLpQqLHVgaoIpZHBLPqVwnJzIGWP8.dkahX_R-tiYjC1hC0ZUWfxxI_JYvrcZBwVKHMyOgshI&dib_tag=se&keywords=Complexity+and+Contradiction+in+Architecture%2C+Robert+Venturi&qid=1746550302&s=books&sprefix=complexity+and+contradiction+in+architecture%2C+robert+venturi%2Cstripbooks%2C103&sr=1-1">Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture</a>, Robert Venturi</p><p><a href="https://www.jencksfoundation.org/">Charles Jencks Foundation</a></p>

<p>A quick one before we’re away. Dan and Greg sum up theirsprings and get ready for spritzes and socializing with smart people in at the 2025 Venice Biennale.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “Bounder of Adventure,” by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p>Going Underground -&gt; The Space Below w/ <a href="https://www.ctbuh.org/people-profile/james-parakh">James Parakh</a></p><p>·        Toronto <a href="https://www.toronto.ca/explore-enjoy/visitor-toronto/path-torontos-downtown-pedestrian-walkway/">PATH</a></p><p>·        Montreal<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_City,_Montreal"> RESO</a></p><p>·        Chicago <a href="https://www.chicago.gov/city/en/depts/cdot/provdrs/ped/svcs/pedway.html">Pedway</a></p><p>·        Minneapolis <a href="https://www.minneapolis.org/map-transportation/minneapolis-skyway-guide/">Skyway</a></p><p>·        Houston <a href="https://downtownhouston.org/experience/downtown-tunnels">Tunnels</a></p><p>·        Oklahoma City <a href="https://downtownokc.com/underground/">Underground</a></p><p>·        Hong Kong <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Elevated_Walkway">Central Elevated Walkway</a></p><p><a href="https://www.zohranfornyc.com/">Zohran Mamdami</a> –Make the Subway Great Again</p><p><a href="https://www.smartcityexpousa.com/">Smart City Expo</a>, New York City</p><p><a href="https://bflivexchange.com/">Business Facilities Live eXchange</a>, New Orleans</p><p><a href="https://curbivore.co/">Curbivore</a>, Los Angeles</p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonahbliss/">Jonah Bliss</a></p><p><a href="https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-professional-and-continuing-studies/academics/real-estate-institute/faculty/">Joshua Harris</a>, Fordham University</p><p><a href="https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/marchettis-constant/">Marchetti’s constant</a></p><p><a href="https://www.flyzipline.com/">Zipline</a></p><p><a href="https://www.bakertilly.com/events">Austin Baker Tilly Conference</a></p><p><a href="https://cosmcs.com/">CosMc’s</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics">National Association of Realtors survey</a></p><p><a href="https://waymo.com/">Waymo</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboCop">RoboCop</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewalk_Toronto">Sidewalk Toronto</a></p><p><a href="https://redstatesecession.org/33-counties-have-now-voted-to-split-illinois/">Downstate IL secession movement</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash">Snow Crash</a> – Neal Stephenson, feat. Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Romer">Paul Romer</a></p><p><a href="https://chartercitiesinstitute.org/intro/">Charter Cities</a></p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Voluntary-City-Choice-Community-Society/dp/1598130323">The Voluntary City</a> - David T. Beto, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Run-World-Charting-Renaissance/dp/1400068274">How to Run the World</a> - Parag Khanna</p><p><a href="https://hellonearth.chapotraphouse.com/views/podcast/">Hell on Earth – The 30 Years’ War Podcast</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09VPKZR3G">The Network State</a> - <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Balaji-Srinivasan/e/B09VPWYPSY/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1">Balaji Srinivasan</a></p><p><a href="https://globalparliamentofmayors.org/">Global Parliament of Mayors</a> / Ben Barber</p><p>Polarization of reality &gt; revenge of sovereignty</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(proposed_city)">Praxis</a>: Med Charter City &gt; <a href="https://www.insidehook.com/internet/peter-thiel-praxis-next-great-city-greenland">Greenland</a> feat. Steven Harper</p><p>The evermore-relevant <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/92-the-hidden-globe">Hidden Globe episode</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/405642345539?chn=ps&_trkparms=ispr%3D1&amdata=enc%3A1Z-pyDeYKQteTKpTpGnwxIg23&norover=1&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-213727-13078-0&mkcid=2&itemid=405642345539&targetid=4580909052765420&device=c&mktype=&googleloc=&poi=&campaignid=603247545&mkgroupid=1236951576251627&rlsatarget=pla-4580909052765420&abcId=9316119&merchantid=51291&msclkid=9a7c29ba046d1ad3164141a031f1d591">Exit, Voice and Loyalty</a> - Albert O. Hirschman</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patri_Friedman">Patri Friedman</a></p><p>The lost art of imagining the future</p><p>“<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/my-brain-finally-broke">My Brain Finally Broke</a>,” - Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne3ZFmzMOU4">Bruce Sterling – Atemporality</a></p><p><br></p>

<p><br></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarabronin/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Sara Bronin</a> is an architect, attorney, policymaker, and professor at Cornell University. Born and raised in Houston, the only large US city without zoning, previously served as the Chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission of Hartford, Connecticut. Her book is called <a href="https://wwnorton.com/books/key-to-the-city" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World</a>, and she joins Unfrozen to demystify the why and wherefore of what you can, cannot, and “must” build in cities all over the US.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p>-         How large-lot mandates contribute to the epidemic of loneliness</p><p>-         YIMBY prevails in Arlington and Alexandria, VA</p><p>-         Re-zoning in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, OR, and Hartford</p><p>-         Supreme Court ruling on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelley_v._Kraemer" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Shelley vs Kraemer</a>, 1948, outlawing racially restrictive covenants</p><p>-         Houston’s affordability comes at the cost of flood zones and unpleasant adjacencies</p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfton%2C_Houston" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Gulfton</a> neighborhood</p><p>-         <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/locations/427175854066712/principe-azul-discotheque/?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">El Principe Azul nightclub</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://ssti.us/publications/effects-of-parking-provision-on-automobile-use-in-cities-inferring-causality-mccahill-garrick-atkinson-palombo-and-polinski-2015/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Effects of Parking Provision on Automobile Use in Cities: Inferring Causality</a></p><p>-         Albany Avenue rezoning and <a href="https://www.vhb.com/state-and-local-governments/albany-avenue-corridor-improvements/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">corridor improvements</a>, Hartford</p><p>-         <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/denise-best-9865a7143/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Denise Best</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form-based_code" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Form-based code</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://www.commanders.com/news/mayor-bowser-and-washington-commanders-announce-historic-deal-to-bring-the-team-home" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Washington Commanders’ new DC stadium</a></p><p>-         Code overhauls in Hartford, Charlottesville VA, and Boston</p><p>-         Bronin <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4570959" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">trashes</a> Boston’s zoning code</p><p>-         Pittsburgh <a href="https://triblive.com/opinion/editorial-the-high-cost-of-a-pittsburgh-master-plan/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">spends $5.8 million on zoning consultant</a></p><p><br></p>

<p>Scott Francisco is the founder and director of <a href="https://www.pilot-projects.org/">Pilot Projects</a>, 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 <a href="https://cities4forests.com/">Cities4Forests </a>initiative, which aims to more closely align the environmental and economic goals of cities and the forested lands on which they depend.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: &quot;Elevator,&quot; by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p><a href="https://www.woodatwork.ca/year-2015/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer">Wood @ Work, NYC, October 2015</a></p><p><a href="https://cities4forests.com/">Cities4Forests</a></p><p><a href="https://www.partnerforests.org/">Partner Forest Program</a></p><p><a href="https://www.wri.org/">World Resources Institute</a></p><p><a href="https://afbccc7c-7015-4250-881b-b4cd51c8373b.usrfiles.com/ugd/afbccc_7d2814bcebc44601a200c03b06e7197d.pdf">Mass Timber Tipping Point Report</a></p><p><a href="https://www.aimf.asso.fr/">Alliance of Francophone Mayors</a></p><p>Net zero</p><p><a href="https://www.arbor.eco/blog/understanding-scope-1-2-and-3-emissions-explained-with-examples">Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions</a></p><p><a href="https://www.nordic.ca/en/home">Nordic Structures</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Protocol">Montreal Protocol 1987</a></p><p><a href="https://www.unep.org/un-biodiversity-conference-cop-15">COP 15 Montreal, 2022</a></p><p><a href="https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement">COP 21 Paris Agreement</a>, 2015</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference">COP 26 Glasgow, 2021</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_United_Nations_Climate_Change_Conference">COP 28 Dubai, 2023</a></p><p><a href="https://unfccc.int/cop30">COP 30 Belem, Brazil</a>:Design for activation: A Mass Timber, Conservation Timber Pavilion, Floating on the Amazon, with Hammocks!</p><p><a href="https://cities4forests.com/project/call-to-action-on-forests-and-climate/">Declaration for Forests and Cities</a></p><p>Alec Fitala, DOM, rainforest products &gt; Hearts of Palmpasta</p>

<p></p><p>Tucked away in a hollow some 20 miles south of Atlanta, theTown of Trilith contains multitudes: possibly North America’s largest purpose-built film and television production studio, a steak/cigar bar, bucolic surrounds, “loft”-style living and cornhole games on an ersatz main street – everything, surely, <em>somebody </em>would want out of a hometown. But who? Kyle Holtan reports.</p><p>--</p><p>Music: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p><a href="https://www.cnu.org/">Congress for the New Urbanism</a></p><p><a href="https://www.serenbe.com/">Serenbe, GA</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilith_Studios">Pinewood Atlanta</a> Studios (now Trilith Studios)</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopolis_(film)">Megalopolis</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Cathy">Dan Cathy</a> &amp; River’s Rock LLC<br><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2021/06/23/how-the-chick-fil-a-billionaire-ceo-plays-a-part-in-your-favorite-marvel-movies/">How The Chick-Fil-A Billionaire CEO Plays A Part In Your Favorite Marvel Movies</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilithon">Trilithons</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Guidestones">Georgia Guidestones</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_del_Sol">Mesa del Sol</a></p><p><a href="https://www.buckhead.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-buckhead-cityhood-movement-a-timeline/">The Buckhead Succession Movement</a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockbridge,_Georgia">Stockbridge, GA</a> vs <a href="https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/stockbridge-spent-more-than-600-000-defeat-eagle-landing-cityhood/S2TyIuEUYXEwIjctab6RtL/">Eagle’s Landing</a></p><p><a href="https://www.silvercupstudios.com/">Silvercup Studios</a></p><p><a href="https://www.kaufmanastoria.com/">Kaufman Astoria Studios</a></p>

<p>Over the past 20 years, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrielle-bendiner-viani/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani</a> has taken the question, “what, and who is the city for?” directly to the streets of Prospect Heights in Brooklyn and Mosswood in Oakland, asking locals to take her to the places that matter to them. A visual urbanist, co-founder of the interdisciplinary studio <a href="https://buscada.com/about/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Buscada</a>, and widely exhibited photographer, Bendiner-Viani holds a doctorate in environmental psychology from the Graduate Center, CUNY.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane</p><p>Discussed:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospect_Heights,_Brooklyn" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Prospect Heights</a>, Brooklyn, NY</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosswood_Park" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mosswood</a>, Oakland, CA</p><p>Prior urbanists of “placework”:</p><p>-         Jane Jacobs</p><p>-         <a href="https://newleftreview.org/II/53/david-harvey-the-right-to-the-city" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">David Harvey – The Right to the City</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Lefebvre" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Henri Lefebvre</a> – <em>Le Droit à la Ville</em></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image_of_the_City" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kevin Lynch – Image of the City</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Pattern_Language" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Christopher Alexander – A Pattern Language</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindy_Thompson_Fullilove" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mindy Thompson Fullilove</a></p><p><a href="https://thenewurbanorder.substack.com/p/the-human-doom-loop" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Diana Lind – The Human Doom Loop</a></p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Anti-Social Century</a>, Derek Thompson, The Atlantic</p><p><a href="https://www.contestedcitybook.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Contested City</a>, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani</p>

<p>Between, and sometimes within, the boundaries of nation-states are thousands of liminal zones which are neither here nor there, and their rules are different from those of the countries in which they are physically located. Author <a href="https://www.atossaaraxia.com/">Atossa Araxia Abrahamian</a> calls this “<a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-hidden-globe-how-wealth-hacks-the-world-atossa-araxia-abrahamian/21085249?ean=9780593329856">The Hidden Globe</a>,” and chronicles the in-between places where money, art, luxurygoods, and stateless prisoners spend time in limbo. At a time of rising nationalism, tariff wars, and mass deportations, these places are on the ascendant. What are they like? Why are they there? And what’s next? Join this episode ofUnfrozen to find out.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by the Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Freeport">The Geneva Freeport</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard">Svalbard</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenet_(film)">Tenet</a><em></em></p><p>-         <a href="https://www.atossaaraxia.com/the-cosmopolites">The Cosmopolites</a><em></em></p><p>-         <a href="https://www.henleyglobal.com/">Henley &amp; Partners</a><em></em></p><p>-         <a href="https://www.difc.ae/">Dubai International Finance Center</a> (DIFC)</p><p>-         <a href="https://www.markbeer.net/">Mark Beer</a>, Zone Man</p><p>-         <a href="https://www.e-resident.gov.ee/">Estonia e-residency program</a><em></em></p><p>-         Greenland, Guantanamo Bay, and the Panama Canalare also zones</p><p>-         <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/trump-freedom-cities-innovation">Freedom Cities</a><em></em></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boten">Boten, Laos</a><em></em></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boten%E2%80%93Vientiane_railway">Laos-China Railway</a><em></em></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Triangle_Special_Economic_Zone">Golden Triangle Zone</a><em></em></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont_Pelerin_Society">The Mont Pelerin Society</a><em></em></p><p>-         <a href="https://www.kellereasterling.com/books/extrastatecraft-the-power-of-infrastructure-space">Extrastatecraft </a>by Keller Easterling</p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Collier">Paul Collier</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_city_(economic_development)">Paul Romer and the Charter City</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission:_Impossible_%E2%80%93_Ghost_Protocol">Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://www.hudsonyardsnewyork.com/">Hudson Yards</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot%E2%80%93Hawley_Tariff_Act">Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://auchincloss.house.gov/">U.S. Rep Jake Auchinsloss</a> (D – MA) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jake-auchincloss.html">infavor of charter cities</a></p><p>-         Citizenship by investment = passports for sale:here to stay</p><p>-         <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(proposed_city)">Praxis</a>: “The startup nation we deserve today”</p>

<p>Amidst the unprecedented destruction wrought by the multiple fires that swept across Southern California in January 2025, there are opportunities, and causes for optimism that we can build back, better than before. Among these is the prospective role of prefabricated construction, which can be 30 to 50 percent faster than traditional methods. Steve Glenn, CEO of <a href="https://www.plantprefab.com/">Plant Prefab</a>, shares his thoughts on the role prefab can play in reconstruction.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>Bloomberg CityLab: <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-19/los-angeles-fire-victims-turn-to-prefab-homes-for-quick-builds">Los Angeles Fire Victims Turn to Prefab Homes for Quick Builds</a></p> <p>Regulations: </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.coastal.ca.gov/">California Coastal Commission</a></li> <li><a href="https://lci.ca.gov/ceqa/">CEQA</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.hcd.ca.gov/building-standards/calgreen">CALGreen</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dgs.ca.gov/DSA/Resources/Page-Content/Resources-List-Folder/Overview-Title-24-Building-Standards-Code">Title 24</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.hud.gov/program_offices/housing/mhs/faqs">HUD Code </a>(Manufactured Homes)</li> <li><a href="https://www.usfa.fema.gov/wui/">Wildland Urban Interface⁠</a> (WUI) Zones </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolsey_Fire">Woolsey fire</a>, 2018</p> <p>Architecturally significant buildings (at least 32) <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/architecture-houses-lost-los-angeles-fires-2598556">lost in the fires</a> </p>

<p>The inauguration of the 47th president of the United States takes place on January 20. What are the implications of Trump 2.0 on the built environment, design and cities? Inspired by the eponymous, omnibus <a href="https://nyra.nyc/articles/archforum" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">crucible of dread</a> in the New York Review of Architecture, we huddled with the best and brightest design critics we know, Kate Wagner (<a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/kate-wagner-architecture-the-nation/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Nation</a> / <a href="https://mcmansionhell.com/about" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">McMansion Hell</a>) and <a href="https://zachmortice.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Zach Mortice</a> (Bloomberg CityLab) to try to come to grips with the oncoming MAGAlopolis.</p> <p>===</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane</p> <p>==</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>Will They Build the Wall and its Ancillaries?</p> <p><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/trump-architecture-culture-wars-traditional-aesthetics/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Trump Will Not Make Architecture Great Again</a></p> <p><a href="https://zachmortice.com/2024/11/18/the-tartarian-candidate/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Make Tartaria Great Again</a></p> <p>Journalists needed, maybe more than architects right now</p> <p>The Harold Washington Library is not a relic of an advanced 19th century civilization</p> <p>Will there be a Super State Fair?</p> <p>Trump administration aesthetic = <a href="https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/BioShock_Infinite" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">BioShock Infinite</a></p> <p>Will the <a href="https://federalnewsnetwork.com/facilities-construction/2024/04/new-fbi-headquarters-will-take-more-than-a-decade-to-build-as-agency-struggles-with-obsolete-space/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">FBI Edgar J. Hoover Building</a> (C.F. Murphy, 1975) be moved or demolished?</p> <p>The Trads Have It</p> <p>Tommy Tuberville: California will get Federal aid if “<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/tuberville-says-california-doesn-t-deserve-disaster-relief-funding/ar-BB1rqHyY" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">conditions are met</a>”</p> <p><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/scott-turner-hud-nominee-trump-public-housing-texas" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Scott Turner</a>: Putting the CHUD in HUD</p> <p>Jason Tester: <a href="https://insurrectionactfuture.org/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Insurrection</a></p> <p>Post-fire price gouging in L.A.</p> <p><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/natural-disasters/newsom-suspends-landmark-environmental-laws-to-ease-rebuilding-in-wildfire-zones/ar-BB1rjMCM?ocid=BingNewsSerp" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Suspending environmental regulations</a> in California to build the same thing over again</p> <p>It’s housing affordability, stupid – look at Canada</p> <p>What happened to the <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/16/economy/biden-rent-increase-5-percent-cap-plan/index.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">rent cap</a>?</p> <p>We’re a few election cycles away from “progressive” mayors actually stepping up to the mic</p> <p>“The future is about old people, in big cities, afraid of the sky.” – <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/03/the-future-is-about-old-people-in-big-cities-afraid-of-the-sky/284459/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Bruce Sterling</a></p> <p>Hoovervilles &gt; Trumptowns</p> <p>DOGE = Department of Graft Enhancement</p> <p><br /></p>

<p>Intro: “Megeve,” by Henry Mancini</p><p>Part 1: White-Hot Mid-Century Blowout</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.thelautnercompound.com/hotel-lautner">The Lautner Compound (Hotel Lautner)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Hubbard">Lucien Hubbard</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lautner">John Lautner</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Frey_(architect)">Albert Frey</a></li><li><a href="https://www.psmuseum.org/visit/frey-house">Frey House II</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarix">Tamarisk trees</a></li><li>“<a href="https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/racist-trees/">Racist Trees</a>,” the movie, and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nplfO7tS7Lk">blowback from Tucker Carlson</a></li></ul><p>Part 2: <a href="https://www.psmodsquad.com/">Palm Springs Mod Squad</a> tours by <a href="https://www.psmodsquad.com/your-guide.html">Kurt Cyr</a></p><p>Transition: “Loose Caboose,” by Henry Mancini</p><ul><li>Home 1: The Wentworth, Fairway Estates, Donald Wexler, 1965; addition by Robin Abrahams, 2022</li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Construction_Company">Alexander Construction Co</a>.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_glass">Pilkington float glass</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fey#Canyon_View_Estates_(1962%E2%80%931966)">Canyon View Estates</a> – Palmer &amp; Krisel for the Alexanders -- home of “Barbie” and “Don’t Worry Darling”&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.atomic-ranch.com/product/atomic-ranch-magazine-subscription/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21382503997&amp;gbraid=0AAAAA9Urn0k1gbXV1cdp7FrFgm9xp3Vww&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA2bTNBhDjARIsAK89wlFP2aC0O1DmmwwMaxnrkVYP4CAn6Q43qiSvEKg5NFm6yi9f4AFkLlIaAmZUEALw_wcB">Atomic Ranch magazine</a></li><li><a href="https://www.angi.com/articles/what-is-roman-tub.htm?msockid=170162089b5f6d6304fc74ec9ac26c96">Roman tubs</a></li></ul><p>Transition: “Caravan,” by John Buzon Trio</p><ul><li>Home 2: Kurt Cyr home, <a href="https://kurtcyr.com/">Kurt Cyr</a>, 2020</li><li><a href="https://visitpalmsprings.com/blog/post/lawrence-crossley-makes-mark-in-palm-springs/">Lawrence Crossley</a> and the Crossley Tract</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washingtonia_filifera">Washingtonia filifera</a> (California palm)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortus_conclusus">Hortus conclusus</a></li><li>Kenny Irwin Jr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robolights">robot designs</a>, feat. “Winston”</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wegner">Hans Wegner</a></li><li>Room 606, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radisson_Collection_Royal_Hotel,_Copenhagen">SAS Royal Hotel</a> (Arne Jacobsen)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Ellwood">Craig Ellwood</a></li><li>Danish case study houses, per <a href="https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/residential/three-danish-modernist-houses">Wallpaper</a>*</li></ul><p>Transition: “Miniskirt,” by Esquivel</p><ul><li>Home 3: The <a href="https://desertstarpalmsprings.com/">Desert Star Apartments</a> (Motel), Howard Lapham, 1956; Converted to private residences in 2005</li><li>“Car decking”</li><li><a href="https://marble.com/granite-countertops/ubatuba/654#:~:text=Ubatuba%20is%20a%20popular%20granite%20from%20Brazil.,Brazil%20*%20**Colors**%20Gold%2C%20grey%2C%20green%2C%20black">Uba Tuba marble</a></li><li><a href="https://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Calico_marble">Calico marble</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara_marble">Carrara marble</a></li><li><a href="https://www.adibs.com/collections/nichols-rugs?srsltid=AfmBOoqy6lklvgI18l5Du37-Xk82ywikyYioZcoAorGjVmE61kcNAxy_">Nichols Company Chinese Art Deco rugs</a></li><li><a href="https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847842551/">The Palm Springs School, by Alan Hess</a>, (Rizzoli, 2025)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Knoll">Florence Knoll</a></li></ul><p>Transition: “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody),” by Talking Heads</p><p>Part 3: An Archipelago of Disney Lifestyle</p><ul><li>Mad Men: Season 2, Episode 12, “The Mountain King.”</li><li><a href="https://www.storylivingbydisney.com/cotino/">Storyliving by Disney: Cotino, Rancho Mirage, CA</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnylands">Sunnylands</a></li><li><a href="https://www.storylivingbydisney.com/asteria/">Storyliving by Disney, Asteria</a>, Pittsboro, NC</li><li><a href="https://dmbdevelopment.com/">DMB Development</a></li><li>It’s not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration%2C_Florida">Celebration, FL</a></li><li><a href="https://www.crystal-lagoons.com/">Crystal Lagoons</a> – “Swimming pools are things of the past.”</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Festival_City">Dubai Festival City</a></li><li><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533519/aerotropolis/">"Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next"</a></li><li><a href="https://florida.uli.org/speakers/">ULI Florida Summit, Orlando</a></li><li><a href="https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-professional-and-continuing-studies/academics/real-estate-institute/faculty/">Joshua Harris</a></li><li>“<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/">The Anti-Social Century</a>,” by Derek Thompson, in The Atlantic, February 2025</li><li><a href="https://www.testfit.io/">TestFit</a></li><li>Greg’s address to the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7425575367060553728/?originTrackingId=RyBO8d6peCR5RT%2F4wEqGAg%3D%3D">ULI Global Governing Trustees Meeting</a>, Washington DC</li><li>“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone">Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community</a>,” by Robert Putnam (2000)</li><li><a href="https://www.candlelighthomes.com/communities/firefly">Firefly by Candlelight Homes</a>, Eagle Mountain, Utah</li><li><a href="https://stonethrowclub.com/">Stonethrow</a>, Dallas</li><li><a href="https://chrisleinberger.com/biographies">Christopher Leinberger</a></li></ul><p>Transition: “Terms and Conditions,” by Dan Safarik, recorded on the Teenage Engineering Riddim EP-40 dub machine</p><p>Part 4: Terms and Conditions of Cotino</p><p>Transition: “The Community of Hope,” by PJ Harvey</p><p>Part 5: The Community of Hope</p><ul><li>Artifacts of an optimistic age:</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_New_York_World%27s_Fair">New York World’s Fair 1964</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_67">Montreal Expo 1967</a></li><li>“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism">Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative</a>?”, by Mark Fisher</li><li>“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Desert_of_the_Real">Welcome to the Desert of the Real</a>,” by Slavoj Zizek</li><li><a href="https://bnpparibasopen.com/">BNP Paribas Indian Wells Open</a>, sponsored by Emirates Airlines and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia</li><li>The destruction of the present and perhaps the future: Dubai’s neo-liberalism vs Iran and the rest of the world coming to its doorstep with bombs</li><li>Palm Springs International Airport Main Building, Donald Wexler, 1966</li></ul><p>Outro: “Crawl Home,” by Desert Sessions (Josh Homme feat. PJ Harvey)</p>

<p>Dan and Greg recap Unfrozen in 2024 and look ahead to 2025.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Show Notes:</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “I Still Wear the Uniform,” by The Cooper Vane</p> <p>- Our Spotify Wrapped Stats for 2024</p> <p>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AndrewAndrew" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">AndrewAndrew</a></p> <p>- That time in 2005 when Greg wrote that podcasts would never amount to anything. If you find it, send us the link!</p> <p>---</p> <p>TOP EPISODES OF 2024:</p> <p>- Top episode of 2024 was also the top episode of 2023: <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/show-me-the-bodies-742" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Show Me the Bodies</a></p> <p>- <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/horror-in-architecture" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Horror in Architecture</a>, with Joshua Comaroff</p> <p>- <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/glass-houses" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Glass Houses</a>, with Madeline Ashby</p> <p>- <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/domo-arigatou-mike-20" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Domo Arigatou, Mike 2.0</a> with Robert Otani</p> <p>- <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/on-balance-architecture-and-vertigo" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo</a>, with Davide Deriu</p> <p>- <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/getting-unstuck-from-the-rut-introducing-idc" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Innovation Design Consortium</a>, with Peter Devereaux</p> <p>- <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/salty-urbanism" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Salty Urbanism</a>, with Jeffrey Huber</p> <p>- Cornell Tech <a href="https://www.urbantechsummit.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Urban Tech Summit</a></p> <p>In 2025…maybe?:</p> <p>- Jane Jacobs the Musical<a href="https://www.mosesjacobsopera.com/" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">: A Marvelous Order</a></p> <p>- <a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">La Biennale Architettura 2025</a> – curated by Carlo Ratti</p> <p>- Who will build the Wall?</p> <p>- Who has built the Line – and died?</p> <p>- Data Towers:</p> <p>-             <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">33 Thomas Street</a> – the AT&amp;T Long Lines / Neutron Bomb Building</p> <p>-             <a href="https://www.skyscrapercenter.com/building/1-brooklyn-bridge-plaza/3090" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1 Brooklyn Bridge Plaza</a> – the Verizon telephone exchange</p>

<p><a href="https://pau.studio/who/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Vishaan Chakrabarti</a> is the founder and creative director of the Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU), and the author of &quot;<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691208435/the-architecture-of-urbanity" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Architecture of Urbanity</a>.&quot; He has worn many hats - in development, architecture, government and academia, and brings this experience to bear in his public advocacy work.</p><p><br></p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: &quot;I Still Wear the Uniform,&quot; by The Cooper Vane</p><p><br></p><p>Show Notes:</p><p><br></p><p>- The &quot;Joy&quot; Thing with Tim Walz</p><p>- Obama &gt; Biden Infrastructure Bill</p><p>- Is it really Rural vs Urban, or Suburban vs Everyone Else? Is it Rurbanity?</p><p>- UC Berkeley analysis of carbon footprints of cities vs rural vs suburban</p><p>- The mortgage interest tax deduction</p><p>- The Federal gas tax</p><p>- Out-migration from expensive to affordable cities - not the suburbs</p><p>- Railroad suburbs: Montclair and Maplewood NJ</p><p>- Carbon pricing</p><p>- Jane Jacobs&#39; idea that cities formed around trade</p><p>- James C. Scott</p><p>- The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber &amp; David Wengrow</p><p>- Alternate civilizational origin stories at the Venice Biennale</p><p>- The places we go on vacation all have lousy parking</p><p>- The energy source powering cars is not really the issue - it&#39;s the degree to which we design our cities around cars - or not</p><p>- Copenhagen - the urban planning Mecca - but where are the immigrants?</p><p>- InterOculus, PAU, Columbus, Indiana</p><p>- &quot;Because they&#39;ve been told their definition of excellence is to design spaceships to be built by slaves in the sand, that&#39;s what architects are off doing. And so of course they&#39;re not at the adult table influencing policy. We can&#39;t relegate ourselves to the kiddie table by talking about irrelevant things and then complain about the chicken nuggets.&quot;</p><p>- &quot;We don&#39;t help everyday people visualize the power of policy change as well as we could.&quot;</p><p>- &quot;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.&quot;</p><p>- &quot;Designing policy is a form of design.&quot;</p><p>- New York Times collaboration with PAU = NYC = Not Your Car</p><p>- Gov. Kathy Hochul&#39;s cancellation of congestion pricing</p><p>- Robert Caro, The Power Broker - &quot;The city&#39;s permanent government&quot; - the &quot;deep state&quot; might actually be OK</p><p>- &quot;New York, New York, New York,&quot; by Tom Dyja</p><p>- Accepting imperfection as a necessary democratic outcome - instead of going Roark on imperfection and blowing it up</p><p>- Uber&#39;s hiring of Bradley Tusk, Bloomberg&#39;s third mayoral campaign manager</p><p>- Alejandro Aravena - an architect literally being the architect of the new Chilean constitution</p><p>- Norman Foster - adviser to the United Nations on rebuilding Ukraine</p><p>- Book design by Michael Beirut and Britt Cobb at Pentagram</p><p><br></p><p><br></p>

<p><a href="https://www.madelineashby.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Madeline Ashby</a> is a freelance futurist and author of <a href="https://www.madelineashby.com/writing/glass-houses/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Glass Houses</a>, 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.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: "I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Show Notes:</p><p>- Previous work:</p><ul> <li>- <a href="https://www.madelineashby.com/writing/company-town/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Company Town</a></li></ul><ul> <li>- The <a href="https://www.madelineashby.com/writing/the-machine-dynasty-omnibus/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Machine Dynasty</a> series</li></ul><p>- <a href="https://www.ocadu.ca/node/100054954" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Strategic Foresight and Innovation Program </a>- OCAD University</p><p>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Dark_House_(1932_film)" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Old Dark House</a>, 1932</p><p>- <a href="https://legacy.iftf.org/aonm/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Institute for the Future - Age of Networked Matter</a></p><p>- <a href="https://www.hauntedobjectspodcast.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Haunted Objects</a>, Greg and Dana Newkirk</p><p>- Major inspo: Michael Mann movies</p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113277/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Heat</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091474/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_8_nm_0_in_0_q_Manhunter" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Manhunter</a></li></ul><p>- <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1568346/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo </a></p><p>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alone_Complex" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex</a></p><p>- David Cronenberg's Brutalist Toronto</p><p>- Toshiya Ueno and "<a href="https://networkcultures.org/geertlovink-archive/interviews/interview-with-toshiya-ueno/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Cultural Odorlessness</a>" </p><p>- Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross collaboration on Halsey's 2021 album "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Can%27t_Have_Love,_I_Want_Power" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power</a>."</p><p>- The tendency of AI to generate from the baseline average of all things on the internet - usually porn, maybe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hentai" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">hentai</a></p><p>- "<a href="https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/domestic-violence-a-new-short-story-from-madeline-ashby.html" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Domestic Violence</a>," Madeline Ashby, Slate, 2018</p><p>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Bee" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Samantha Bee</a> - "Excuse Me, Do You Have a Moment to Talk About Canada?"</p><p>- <a href="https://thenetworkstate.com/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Network states</a></p><p>- <a href="https://tech.cornell.edu/news/new-cornell-tech-course-helping-cities-reboot/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Augmented Cities</a>, Cornell Tech</p><p>- The decline of dating apps and replacement by AI bot boyfriends and girlfriends / The fracking of human consciousness</p><p>- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">DARVO</a></p><p>- Movie version would almost certainly star <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Bell" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Kristen Bell</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Stewart" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Kristen Stewart</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>

<p>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 <a href="https://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/architecture/people/faculty/huber/" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Jeffrey Huber</a>, Principal, <a href="https://brooksscarpa.com/projects" target="_blank" rel="ugc noopener noreferrer">Brooks + Scarpa</a> and Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Florida Atlantic University, about how the concept is applied in South Florida.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: &quot;I Still Wear the Uniform,&quot; by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p><br></p>

<p>Today’s uncanny AI renderings are just the tip of the iceberg. 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 <a href="https://www.innovationdesignconsortium.com/">Innovation Design Consortium</a>, an elite corps of leaders and technologists of America’s 40 largest architecture firms, who have banded together to battle the bots. Unfrozen interviews its Chair, <a href="https://www.hed.design/people/j-peter-devereaux">Peter Devereaux</a>, Founding Principal of <a href="https://www.hed.design/">HED</a>. 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.”</p> <p><br></p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “Stuck in a Rut,” by The Darkness</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>The Road to IDC: Writing guidelines for the use of generative AI via the AIA Large Firm Roundtable (LFRT)</p> <p>See also: “<a href="https://urban.tech.cornell.edu/the-future-of-generative-ai/">The Future of Generative AI</a> in Architecture, Design and Engineering,” Cornell Tech</p> <p>Key players:</p> <p>-         <a href="https://www.bdcnetwork.com/blog/carole-wedge-shepley-bulfinch-retires">Carole Wedge</a>, <a href="https://shepleybulfinch.com/">Shepley Bulfinch</a></p> <p>-         <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-packard-b0901bb0/">Bob Packard</a>, <a href="https://www.zgf.com/leadership/">ZGF</a></p> <p>-         <a href="https://www.cannondesign.com/people/brad-lukanic">Brad Lukanic</a>, Cannon Design</p> <p>Other leading lights in the AI 4 AEC community:</p> <p><a href="https://www.architecture.yale.edu/faculty/339-phillip-bernstein">Phillip Bernstein</a>, Yale</p> <p><a href="https://www.thorntontomasetti.com/person/christopher-minerva">Chris Minerva, Thornton Tomasetti</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.hok.com/people/leadership/view/greg-schleusner/">Greg Schluesner,</a><br>Executive Committee Secretary, IDC <br>Director of Design Technology, HOK</p> <p><a href="https://dataleaders.net/data-leaders-appoints-volker-buscher-as-chief-data-officer/">Volker Buscher</a>, <br>Chief Data Officer, Data Leaders<br>Former Chief Data Officer, Arup</p> <p><a href="https://www.fr.com/">Fish &amp; Richardson</a> </p> <p>-          IP Law, terms and conditions, “give to get”</p> <p>Is this the “anti-Autodesk”? </p> <p>What does “after Autodesk” look like?</p> <p> </p>

<p>“Every line on the road is a political choice.”</p> <p><a href="https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/b/r/m.c.g.tebrommelstroet/m.c.g.te-brommelstroet.html?cb">Marco te Brömmelstroet</a>, a.k.a. “The Cycling Professor,” is the chair of Urban Mobility Futures at the University of Amsterdam. His book <a href="https://islandpress.org/books/movement#desc">Movement</a><em>,</em> 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.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “My White Bicycle,” by Tomorrow</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>-              <a href="https://urbancyclinginstitute.org/">Urban Cycling Institute</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woonerf">Woonerf</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicane">Chicane</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2018/04/10/intersection-upgrade-a-banana-and-a-chips-cone/">Chip Cone</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://www.tudelft.nl/en/delft-outlook/articles/new-life-in-the-cauliflower-neighbourhood">Cauliflower neighborhood</a>, a.k.a. <a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloemkoolwijk">Bloemkoolwijk</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516129/fighting-traffic/">Fighting Traffic</a>, by Peter Norton</p> <p>-              <a href="https://www.roaddanger.org/">RoadDanger.org</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer">Stafford Beer</a></p> <p>-              Rollback of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/07/nyregion/mta-congestion-pricing.html">congestion pricing</a> in New York City</p> <p>-              The <a href="https://jornwemmenhove.tumblr.com/post/67363751572/in-1969-john-lennon-and-yoko-ono-received-a-white">bicycle</a> at the bed-in, Amsterdam 1969</p> <p>-              The Royal Dutch Touring Club, <a href="https://www.anwb.nl/">AWNB</a> vs the EWNB</p> <p>-              <a href="https://www.openplans.org/blog/paris-streetfilms">School streets, Paris</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo_(movement)">Provo</a> – Dutch nonviolent protest group + The White Bicycle Plan</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zen_and_the_Art_of_Motorcycle_Maintenance">Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance</a>, by Robert Pirsig</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_highway">Bicycle Highways</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hidalgo">Anne Hidalgo</a> + <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Moreno_(urbanist)">Carlos Moreno</a> = 170,000 trees</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen">Groningen</a> car ban, 1980</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieuwmarkt_riots">Nieuwmarkt riots</a>, Amsterdam, 1975</p> <p>-              <a href="http://www.jsadikkhan.com/">Janette Sadiq-Khan</a> and the Times Square pedestrianization</p> <p>-              <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-start-a-bike-bus/">Bike Bus</a> – Sam Balto</p> <p>-              NYC Municipal Vehicle Active Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) / <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/027-23/mayor-adams-results-successful-pilot-program-reduce-speeding-hard-braking-in">Speed Geofencing</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rie_Plante">Valerie Plante</a>, Mayor of Montreal, <a href="https://bixi.com/en/who-we-are/">BIXI bikes </a>(non-profit bike-sharing program)</p> <p>-              <a href="https://swapfiets.com/">Swapfliets</a> (Swap Bike) </p>

<p>In <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262048415/the-city-in-the-city/">The City in the City</a>, <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/amy-thomas-35199/">Amy Thomas</a> offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London&#39;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.</p> <p>--</p> <p>Intro/Outro: “Money,” by Pink Floyd</p> <p>--</p> <p>Discussed:</p> <p>-              <a href="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/44398">Peter Wynne Rees</a></p> <p>o  <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/search?s=This+is+London">This is London: Rees Remembrances</a></p> <p>o  <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/episode-37-the-city-is-here-for-you-to-use-800">The City is Here for You to Use</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul's_Cathedral">St Paul’s Cathedral</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England">The Bank of England</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://www.briangriffin.co.uk/photography/projects/the-big-tie">The BigTie, by Brian Griffin</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadgate">Broadgate</a></p> <p>-              Top hatters</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesday_Book">The Domesday Book</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London_Corporation">Corporation of London</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Wine_House">Jamaica Wine House</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_and_Vulture">The George and Vulture</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_building">Lloyds</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_of_London">Lloyds Building</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Ji%C5%99i%C4%8Dn%C3%A1">Eva Jiricna</a>: Kenzo &gt; Interiors at Lloyds</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting_Image">Spitting Image</a> Richard Rogers episode</p> <p>-              “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Where-Good-Ideas-Come-Innovation/dp/1594487715/">Where Ideas Come From</a>,” by Steven Johnson</p> <p>-              Paul Romer’s “spillover effect”</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_(financial_markets)">The Big Bang</a>, 1986</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Provincial_Bank">National Provincial Bank</a></p> <p>-              If it’s bad in the City, it’s worse at Canary Wharf and <a href="https://nypost.com/2017/04/19/ubs-has-officially-ditched-its-massive-trading-floor/">Stamford</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Bishopsgate_bombing">Bishopsgate bombing</a>, 1993 &amp; the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_and_Environmental_Zone">Ring of Steel</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbican_Estate">The Barbican Estate</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternoster_Square">Paternoster Square</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/aug/16/prince-charles-one-new-change">Prince Charles</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Wall#modern">London Wall</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_County_Council">London County Council</a> vs. the City of London Corporation</p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_1_Poultry">No. 1 Poultry</a>, by James Stirling</p> <p>-              <a href="https://oneexchangesquare.com/">One Exchange Square</a></p> <p>-              <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Duffy_(architect)">Frank Duffy</a></p> <p>-              “<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/Edge_of_Empire/ibwLnVj8hToC?hl=en">Edge of Empire</a>,” by Jane Margaret Jacobs </p> <p>-              The British financial archipelago, e.g., Bermuda and the Cayman Islands</p>