Unfrozen
84 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 days ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsA podcast on architecture and urbanism.
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Irreplaceable
April 21, 2024 13:57 - 52 minutes - 18.1 MBKevin Kelley, a self-described “attention architect,” is a co-founding partner of design firm Shook Kelley and author of Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together. In our digitized world of ghost commerce, he believes there is still a place for real places, and that it is incumbent on architects to stop looking down their noses at retail, the essential lubricant of urban life, and start designing places that matter. -- Intro/Outro: “Friction,” by Televis...
From Railyards to High-Rises
April 13, 2024 19:38 - 41 minutes - 14.2 MBCraig Hutson has worked in research and development in academia and industry and is fascinated with the history of Chicago’s lakefront. When seeking a definitive book about the history of Illinois Center and Lakeshore East, the air-rights developments above former docklands and railyards east of the Loop, he realized there wasn’t one, and he decided to write it himself. -- -- Intro/Outro: “Nighttime in the Switching Yard,” by Warren Zevon -- Discussed: Illinois Central Railroad Illino...
Horror in Architecture
March 23, 2024 22:53 - 45 minutes - 15.6 MBBlobs. Doppelgangers. Giants. Puppets. Incontinent objects. Mullets. Army of Darkness. All and much more are covered in Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing. The book examines how horror genre tropes familiar from books and cinema also appear in architecture, and in so doing, how we can find another way to understand and criticize our built environment, using the language of mass culture in place of “weaponized jargon.” Comaroff is the guest of ...
We're Back, Miss Us?
March 10, 2024 00:42 - 30 minutes - 10.4 MBNever mind the weather, don’t you feel it has been a cold and eerily quiet winter? Could it be because Unfrozen was offline due to unanticipated legal issues with our podcasting platform? Never fear, we are back in black / in the saddle again, we missed you, and we are ready to infiltrate your ears with our musings once again. Intro/Outro: “Miss You,” by the Rolling Stones -- Discussed: - Spotify throws a sprocket in our jam-bulance wheels - Ubik-like terms of ...
Domo Arigatou, "Mike 2.0"
January 29, 2024 13:00 - 43 minutes - 14.9 MBIn every office, there is someone with so much accumulated knowledge the boss wants to “clone” them. At structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti (TT), they’ve basically done that. The firm has taken the concept of a “digital twin” to a newly literal level – engineers can now quiz a synthetic clone of the firm’s in-house welding and metallurgy expert, constructed from 30 years of his files and emails. Chief Technology Officer Robert Otani tells Unfrozen where TT is taking generative art...
On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo
January 22, 2024 14:00 - 39 minutes - 13.6 MBMankind’s quest for verticality has an underexplored dimension: the queasy feeling of vertigo many experience when close to the edge of a sheer drop. Davide Deriu, Reader in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Westminster, London, has taken on the relative lack of research into the subject with an interdisciplinary approach, captured in his book On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo. Come, stand on the edge with us. -- Intro/Outro: “Vertigo” by U2 -- Discussed: ...
Trying Not to Think About Time: 2023 Recap / 2024 Preview
January 15, 2024 14:00 - 40 minutes - 14 MBOn the dawn of our fourth season, your hosts recap their favorite ‘casts of 2023, a live dramatic reading of Unfrozen’s 2023 Spotify Wrapped stats, and get on and off the soapbox as we stare down the barrel of 2024. -- Intro/Outro: “Trying Not to Think About Time,” by The Futureheads -- Discussed: - Unfrozen’s 2023 Spotify Wrapped Stats: o Most Popular Episode: “Show Me the Bodies” with Peter Apps o Most Shared Episode: “Untimely Meditations, Virtual Repatriations,” with Era ...
Renewing the Dream
December 28, 2023 06:55 - 40 minutes - 55.2 MBJames Sanders edited Renewing the Dream: The Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles, out now from Rizzoli. With contributions from Nik Karalis, Frances Anderton, Mark Valliantos and Unfrozen’s own Greg Lindsay, the book explores the forces behind the change in the mobility landscape of the most famously car-centric city on Earth. Through design provocations and disciplined research, Sanders and the authors see the city on the edge of a mobility revolution, already manifesting in t...
Trespass 2: Private Views
December 22, 2023 22:44 - 46 minutes - 16 MBAndi Schmied is an artist and architect based in Budapest. On a fellowship with the Triangle Arts Association, she traveled to New York, impersonating a “Hungarian billionaire’s wife” and prospective apartment buyer to gain access to some of the highest and most expensive real-estate in the world. The result is “Private Views,” a book documenting through photography and research the rarified atmosphere of the so-called “pencil towers” now dotting the Manhattan skyline. -- Intro/Outro: “Som...
Trespass 1: Intimate Stranger
December 02, 2023 20:12 - 50 minutes - 17.3 MBZachary Balber is a photo artist who has been a frequent presence in the Miami contemporary art circuit exhibition since he got his BFA in Creative Photography at the University of Florida, New World School of the Arts, in 2009. His work has also been included in several American private and institutional collections. Intimate Stranger is a photographic series produced in Miami by Zachary Balber between 2013 and 2020. Zachary has created 150 photos in which he has taken, very rapidly and w...
Through the Portal: What We Can Learn from the Ferry Building
November 11, 2023 16:35 - 43 minutes - 14.9 MBThrough multiple earthquakes, misguided urban renewal schemes and changing economic conditions, the Ferry Building has stood at the foot of San Francisco’s Market Street since 1898. In his book, “Portal: San Francisco’s Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities,” John King, the urban design critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, tells Unfrozen what we can learn from the indefatigable icon, and what that might mean for the future of downtowns in this uncertain era. -- Intro/O...
Parks for Profit
November 05, 2023 17:03 - 51 minutes - 17.9 MBTo some, the postindustrial linear park, exemplified by the High Line in New York City, is one of the prime examples of the resurgence of the city that has taken place in the last few decades. But for Unfrozen guest Kevin Loughran, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Temple University, the postindustrial park is also a vector of gentrification and privatization of cities: a kind of “death show of zombie plants and railroad corpses.” Parks for Profit: Selling Nature in the City (Columbia Univ...
A House Deconstructed
October 23, 2023 21:50 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MB“We were like ants trying to describe a mountain.” We would like to think that we “know” what goes into making a modern building. But the truth is that no one, not even architects, knows. The O(U)R, Office of (UN)certainty Research, spent three years studying a single, relatively modest modern house located in Seattle by Allied8. The result is “A House Deconstructed,” featuring graphics by Angie Door. Mark Jarzombek is a professor of history and theory of architecture at MIT. Vikramaditya...
A.I., Meet Timber
October 08, 2023 18:43 - 38 minutes - 13.1 MBAt the intersection of A.I. and timber, expect new tessellations and kinetic results. Unfrozen interviews Mykola Murashko, a 23-year-old Cambridge graduate who, with Carlo Ratti, founded Maestro, a software-powered construction company whose initial projects feature precision-cut timber panels, optimized by artificial intelligence. Intro: The Cutter, by Echo and the Bunnymen -- Discussed: Blank: Speculations on CLT: Jennifer Bonner & Hanif Kara MIT Senseable City Lab Katerra ...
"V" is for "Value": Verse Design
September 16, 2023 18:45 - 1 hour - 20.8 MBVerse Design LA is headed by Paul Tang and Courtenay Bauer. The architecture firm has taken considerable risks, sometimes playing the role of ambassador and accountant while pursuing value for clients – including telling prospective clients they shouldn’t pursue the project. From high-speed rail stations in China to sprawling eco-resorts in Northern California, Verse Design has been around the Ring of Fire a few times, literally and figuratively. They share their wisdom with Unfrozen. --...
Larry Booth: Modern Beyond Style
September 10, 2023 01:29 - 33 minutes - 11.5 MBOur guest is Larry Booth, founder of Booth Hansen Architects and a member of the original "Chicago Seven" group of architects who broke away from the Miesian acolytes dominating the discourse in Chicago at the end of the 1970s. He has a new monograph by Jay Pridmore called "Modern Beyond Style." We chat about postmodernism, pluralism, and the sensibilities that have made his work timeless, even as he has transitioned from the "young Turk" to "the establishment." -- Intro/Outro: "Chicago" b...
Skyscrapers and Skullduggery
August 26, 2023 22:26 - 44 minutes - 15.3 MBThomas Leslie is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, and a noted skyscraper scholar. He has just published “Chicago Skyscrapers, 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City, the second book in a magisterial series on how the famous Chicago skyline came to be. This period saw the birth of icons like the Sears (Willis) Tower and John Hancock Center, the story of which is inextricable from the skullduggery in the backrooms of Chi...
Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World
August 21, 2023 02:53 - 53 minutes - 73.5 MBDrawing on his decades of experience working in and writing about shrinking cities, renowned urban policy expert and Center for Community Progress senior fellow Alan Mallach delivers a powerful wake-up call in his new book Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World: The era of booming global population and economic growth is over, and cities everywhere will shrink as a result. -- Intro/Outro: "Smaller and Smaller," by Faith No More Discussed: - Bruce Sterling - Germany and Japan's demograph...
New Territories
July 17, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBJustin Hui is an architect, artist and photographer who researches topics of land development, borders, globalization and memory. His recent projects are New Territories, which explores the changing landscape of Hong Kong’s northern frontier, and Urban Africa, Made in China, which tracks the phenomenon of Chinese companies constructing infrastructure and buildings across Africa, modeled after China’s urban development. — Intro/Outro: “Territories” by Rush Discussed: Hong Kon...
Concrete, the Cheech, and Principles of Preservation
July 09, 2023 15:14 - 37 minutes - 51.6 MBJohn Lesak is a Principal at Page & Turnbull in Los Angeles, where he specializes in in the preservation, rehabilitation, repair, and reuse of historic structures. His work includes the adaption of historic modern office buildings, 1970s concrete structures, and a 1960s library into The Cheech, a museum for Chicano art in Riverside, California that opened last year to house the collection of actor Cheech Marin. Unfrozen and Lesak chat concrete, the broad meaning of historic preservation, and...
Biennale Breakdown 3: Not for Sale, or: Lost in the Supermarket
June 26, 2023 03:12 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBThe third and final installment of the Biennale Breakdown is at hand: We speed-ran the national pavilions so you don’t have to. Here’s the rundown on our 16 most notable national showings, complete with two interviews of the curators of Latvia and Canada pavilions, all in less than 50 minutes. Intro/Outro: “Natural’s Not in It,” by Gang of Four Discussed: Austria: Partecipazione / Beteiligung Switzerland: Neighbors South Korea: 2086: Together How? The Netherlands: Plumbing th...
Untimely Meditations, Virtual Repatriations
June 18, 2023 23:02 - 1 hour - 83.7 MBDespite its looming omnipresence, the Venice Architecture Biennale had very little material on virtual/augmented reality and the metaverse. Unfrozen interviews two of the exceptions. First, Era Merkuri and Martin Gjoleka, principals of the Karlsruhe, Germany-based Heramarte, are the curators of the 2023 Albanian Pavilion, titled "Untimely Meditations: How We Learn to Live in Synthesized Realities." The project takes two real but highly adulterated 1950s public works projects in Tirana - ...
Old Wine, New Bottles: Urban Block Cities
June 03, 2023 16:13 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBCopenhagen has long been a paragon in urban planning circles. Karsten Palsson, CEO of Palsson Urbanism, says it's under threat from commercial development interests and weakened government, and now is the time to rearticulate and potentially export the principles that made it a paragon in the first place. Unfrozen sits with the author of "How to Design Humane Cities - Public Spaces and Urbanity," and the new "Urban Block Cities - 10 principles for Contemporary Planning." Intro/Outro: "Old W...
Biennale Breakdown 1: The Boys are Back in Town
May 29, 2023 20:51 - 47 minutes - 65 MBThe 18th Venice Architecture Biennale was one with “no architecture,” some critics have alleged, but there was no shortage of consequential exhibition. Shaking off jetlag and whiplash from the contrasts on hand, Greg and Dan attempt to unpack their initial impressions of “The Laboratory of the Future.” Intro/Outro: “The Boys are Back in Town,” by Thin Lizzy -- Discussed: Olalekon Jeyifous – winner of the Silver Lion for “The African Conservation Effort” Killing Architects + Buz...
Megablocks: Go Big and Go Home
May 07, 2023 15:05 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBJeffrey Johnson is Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design. He previously taught for 10 years at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, where he was the founding director of Asia Megacities Lab. Unfrozen interviews Johnson about his work at the Asia Megacities Lab, including the “China Lab Guide to Megablock Urbanism,” exploring the most persistent typology of China’s urban expansion, domestically ...
The Roots of Urban Renaissance
April 23, 2023 14:59 - 47 minutes - 64.9 MBUnfrozen welcomes Brian Goldstein, the author of “The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem.” Goldstein is a historian of the American built environment and an associate professor of architectural history in the Department of Art and Art History at Swarthmore College. Previously, he was assistant professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico and an A.W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities and the...
Mass Support
April 17, 2023 11:00 - 52 minutes - 72.5 MBCassim Shepard is distinguished lecturer in architecture and urban studies at City College, City University of New York. Trained as an urban planner, geographer, and documentary filmmaker, Cassim produces nonfiction media about cities and places, with a particular emphasis on housing and civic life. His film and video work about cities around the world has been exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Museum of the City of New York, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, the ...
The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites
April 10, 2023 12:00 - 50 minutes - 69.3 MB"The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites" shows all major sites where space rockets have been launched since Sputnik in 1957. Brian Harvey and his co-author Gurbir Singh showcase the steps of space travel as they have never been presented before. We were lucky enough to catch them on Unfrozen. Have a listen and enjoy this unique exploration of the final frontier with us. Intro/Outro: "Rocketship XL-3" by Man or Astro-Man?
EV Equity
April 03, 2023 13:13 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBAdam Lubinsky, AICP, PhD, is a principal at WXY Studio. Adam leads a range of planning studies, strategic visions and master plans, and he has created new practice areas that address mobility, education and economic development using data analysis, design and new forms of community engagement. Lubinsky has just authored a detailed, 5,000-word report for the American Planning Association on equity and EV charging infrastructure, reaching their 40,000 members. Drawing on his work in this fiel...
Show Me the Bodies
March 18, 2023 17:37 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBAt Grenfell Tower, London, on 14 June 2017 a small kitchen fire quickly enveloped the entire 24-story building, aided by combustible cladding material affixed to its exterior. This and many other factors contributed to the deaths of 72 people. Grenfell Tower became an international symbol of systemic failure within the building industry and the government to protect the lives of high-rise residents. More than five years on, the public inquiry is nearly complete, having taken more than 1,600 ...
Moving the Monolith, Speed-Running the Follies: Numena and SpectraCities
March 11, 2023 18:54 - 50 minutes - 69.4 MBKicking off the “Metaverse Metropolis” series, Unfrozen spends a fascinating hour with Andreea Ion Cojocaru, CEO of Numena, and Nick Kauffman, Director of Communities for Spectra Cities. The companies are collaborating to build open-source city-building tools and in augmented and virtual reality, and working to translate the resulting deeper understanding of 3D space to build better communities in the physical world. Catch Andreea live at South by Southwest (SXSW): From Words to Worlds, Mar...
Still Alive in the Utopia / Dystopia
March 10, 2023 03:22 - 33 minutes - 46 MBDan and Greg return from podcast sabbatical to bring you tasty riffs and preview Unfrozen’s spring docket. You didn’t think you could get rid of us that easily, did you? Intro/Outro: “I’m Alive,” by Electric Light Orchestra -- Discussed: IIT MTBVU goes to Malaysia and Singapore CTBUH 2023 Conference Crescent City CA - site of a future megacity, and maybe tsunamis. A job for Climate Alpha Vanity Fair - Horseshoe Theorists - network states, crypto communities Economists believe archite...
Episode 46: More, More, More
February 04, 2023 16:51 - 38 minutes - 52.6 MBSean Mo and Heagi Kang are living the dream as Andmore Partners, a one-stop development and architecture shop in Los Angeles, working mostly in multifamily residential. Because they are investors as well as architects, the SCI-ARC grads take a hands-on approach to residential design that considers tenant longevity, maintenance, and management - meat-and-potatoes concerns that architects don't always have the privilege or obligation of considering. This informs and improves their future desig...
Episode 45: The Everyday Life of Memorials
January 08, 2023 21:34 - 50 minutes - 68.7 MBAndrew Shanken is currently the Director of American Studies, Faculty Curator of the Environmental Design Archives, on the Faculty Advisory Committee at the Townsend Center for the Humanities and the Global Urban Humanities at the University of California Berkeley. He has a joint appointment in American Studies. His most recent book is The Everyday Life of Memorials, which explores memorials’ relationship to the pulses of daily life, their meaning within this quotidian context, and their pla...
Episode 44: "Olive the Seal" - Unfrozen in 2022
December 18, 2022 16:46 - 36 minutes - 50 MBDan and Greg recap the highs and lows of the first full year of Unfrozen – 33 episodes – and look ahead to 2023. Did you know? You don’t have to catch the stars as they fall. You can listen to any episode from our web site, or on your favorite podcast platform, at any time! Intro/Outro: “Our Lips are Sealed,” by The Go-Go’s Discussed: - A high number of episodes devoted to Peter Rees, the former chief planner of the City of London o Episode 37: The City is Here for You to Use o Episode...
Episode 43: Who is the City For?
November 26, 2022 14:49 - 46 minutes - 42.9 MBPulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic Blair Kamin has long informed and delighted readers with his illuminating commentary. Kamin’s newest collection, Who Is the City For?, does more than gather fifty-five of his most notable Chicago Tribune columns from the past decade: it pairs his words with striking new images by photographer and architecture critic Lee Bey, Kamin’s former rival at the Chicago Sun-Times. Listen to the Unfrozen interview with Kamin, and understand why “city planning ...
Episode 42: 1972: A Spatial Oddity
November 05, 2022 16:43 - 38 minutes - 53.2 MBThe Nakagin Capsule Tower, among the few large structures to emerge from the Japanese Metabolism movement, was barely 50 years old when it was demolished in September 2022, after years of neglect and debate. Unfrozen interviews visual artist Noritaka Minami and curator Iker Gil, who have staged the exhibition 1972/Accumulationsat MAS Context in Chicago, on display through December 8. -- Intro/Outro: “Space Oddity” by David Bowie - Discussed: Japanese Metabolism 1960 Tokyo World Design...
Episode 41: Imagine a City
October 31, 2022 12:00 - 38 minutes - 52.6 MBUnfrozen interviews Mark Vanhoenacker, a commercial airline pilot and author of Imagine a City and Skyfaring. A regular contributor to the New York Times and the Financial Times, he was trained as a historian and started in business before beginning flight training in 2001. He now flies the Boeing 787 Dreamliner from London to cities around the world. Intro/Outro: “Flying,” by The Beatles Discussed: Calvino’s Invisible Cities Holiday Inn and Suites, Pittsfield, Mass. Empire State Plaza,...
Episode 40: Typological Drift
October 25, 2022 02:20 - 50 minutes - 69.9 MBCities that produce only underwear, blue jeans and extras in domestic films are among the fascinating objects of study in Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China by Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz. Journey with Unfrozen and Shiqiao Li to reveal the surprising urban realities of China that escape normative urban theories, with several stops along the way in philosophy and linguistics. Typological Drift: Emerging Cities in China by Shiqiao Li and Esther Lorenz Interviewee: Shiqiao Li is Wee...
Episode 39: Seeking the Superfruit of Urbanism
October 02, 2022 15:47 - 38 minutes - 52.2 MBMichael Eliason is an architect and founder of Larch Lab, a studio focused on prefabricated, decarbonized, climate-adaptive, low-energy buildings and livable ecodistricts. Eliason, based in Seattle, had a transformative experience while living in Germany – the American residential model could be greatly improved by adopting some of the principles of Baugruppen – self-developed co-housing, without the granola trappings. Hear the Unfrozen interview – and then listen to his podcast, Livable Low...
Episode 38: Towards a Non-Combustible Practice, Away from Mundane Endeavors of Indifference
September 24, 2022 16:34 - 45 minutes - 62.5 MBHanif Kara is a civil and structural engineer and professor in practice at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design and the co-founder of AKT II, a 350-person engineering practice based in London. The firm won the Stirling Award for Peckham Library in 2000 (with (Will Alsop), the Sainsbury Laboratory in 2012 (with Stanton Williams), and the Bloomberg European Headquarters in 2018 (with Foster + Partners). He is co-author of Blank: Speculations on CLT with Jennifer Bonner, and the recip...
Episode 37: The City is Here for You to Use
September 17, 2022 17:06 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBUnfrozen interviews Peter Wynne Rees, Professor of Places and City Planning, The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, who was previously City Planning Officer for the City of London, from 1985 to 2014. He is a founding member and director (1990-2022) of the British Council for Offices and received their President’s Award in 2003 for “presiding over one of the most extensive periods of redevelopment in the City’s long history”. This is his first appearance on the progra...
Episode 36: Big Time: Patrick MacLeamy
August 26, 2022 22:13 - 52 minutes - 72.1 MBPatrick MacLeamy was the CEO of HOK from 2003 to 2017, capping off a 50-year career at the venerable firm responsible for the National Air and Space Museum, Moscone Center, and Dallas Fort Worth International Airport, and is credited with creating "The MacLeamy Curve," a touchstone of business guidance for the built environment. In his semi-retirement, he is a founder and chairman of buildingSMART International, which encourages the adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and more op...
Episode 35: Architecture of Normal
August 15, 2022 12:00 - 52 minutes - 72.2 MBDaniel Kaven is the author of Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape, a book that views the built environment through the lens of successive developments in transportation. An architect and visual artist hailing from Albuquerque, now calling Portland home, Kaven takes on suburbanization, flying cars, and why “Generation Z needs to get out in the streets and be really pissed off about work-from-home.” Intro/Outro: The Big Country, by The Talking Heads Discussed: ...
Episode 34: Chicago: Two Guides, One Cast
July 31, 2022 14:56 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBChicago is a famed architecture town, but the road has not always been smooth. Hear from the editor and author, respectively, of two recently released guides – Laurie Petersen for the AIA Guide to Chicago and Vladimir Belogolovskyfor the DOM Architectural Guide Chicago, discourse on Postmodernist icons like the Thompson (future Google?) Center and Harold Washington Library, and muse on what came next, where we are now, and why Chicago is still important to architecture everywhere.
Episode 33: Tallest Timber, Boutique Hotels, Pokemon NO! and more…
July 23, 2022 17:35 - 37 minutes - 51.6 MBDan’s recent consecration of the world’s tallest timber building; Greg’s new gigs, and hotels to stay at while making them happen; the third space in a post-COVID world; update on the Durbin Renewal scandal in Chicago, and a preview of upcoming guests. Intro/Outro: Super Sex by Morphine Tall Timber: Ascent, Milwaukee Rocket & Tigerli, Winterthur, Switzerland Atlassian Central, Sydney Greg’s gig in NYC this week: Patcraft– Shaw Industries, with: Brad Hargraeves – Common Evan Fain – I...
Future Storage: From Mineral Extraction to Data Forestry
July 11, 2022 12:00 - 42 minutes - 58 MBMarina Otero, head of the Social Design Masters Program at Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands, is the winner of the Harvard Graduate School of Design's 2022 Wheelwright Prize. Her study, Future Storage: Architectures to Host the Metaverse, will examine new architecture paradigms for storing data, and how reimagining digital infrastructures could meet the unprecedented demands facing the world today. Intro: Lithium, by Nirvana Discussed: The Stack, Benjamin Bratton Ingrid Burrington ...
Episode 31: Emergent Tokyo
June 25, 2022 18:04 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBThink of Tokyo less as a “chaotic” than as an “emergent” city. This means spontaneous, self-organizing aspects create order from the bottom up. That kind of emergence can be, if not designed, then facilitated. Unfrozen interviews Jorge Almazan, Associate Professor, Department of System Design Engineering, Keio University, and author of “Emergent Tokyo: Designing the Spontaneous City.” Intro: Woman from Tokyo, by Deep Purple Discussed: Yokocho Alleys Zakkyo Buildings Ankyo Streets Compl...
Episode 30: True Lies
June 11, 2022 20:44 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBFor a truly philosophical take on the role of the architect in the post-truth era, Unfrozen interviews Richard Francis-Jones, author of Truth and Lies in Architecture. Intro: “Telling Lies,” by David Bowie Discussed: Architecture’s ambiguous relationship to truth. The criteria that make a building worthy of love. How can architecture bring us closer to nature? Architecture is “never neutral nor innocent. There is a mutual interconnection between architecture and the events around it.” ...
Episode 29: "Al" in on Supertalls
June 04, 2022 16:43 - 38 minutes - 53 MBUnfrozen interviews Stefan Al, author, Supertall, founder, Stefan Al Architects, designer of Canton Tower, Guangzhou with Information Based Architecture (IBA). Intro/Outro: “History Rhymes,” by Empty City Squares Discussed: Technology: The role of technologies: concrete, elevators, air conditioning and dampers Society: Culture, social preferences, zoning, aesthetics The succession of events that led to today’s skyscrapers New York – zoning London – view corridors Hong Kong – transit-...