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Sunday, May 15, 2022 Florida in Houston, "Durbin Renewal" in Chicago, Metabolism Demo'ed in Tokyo

Greg reports from Houston, where he and Richard Florida had some stage-sharing to do. Dan recounts a jaunt to the Canadian Riviera and Pacific Northwe...

Tuesday, May 3, 2022 A Skyscraper Superfan Aims High

Meet Changsub Lee, a 14-year-old in South Korea who has been designing skyscrapers since he was eight. He's already a celebrity in the tall building w...

Saturday, April 23, 2022 A Tale of Two Toy Cities

Two toy visions of Los Angeles describe two very different future visions: One vision wants you to play with its toys – and would be offended if you ...

Saturday, April 16, 2022 Metal Machine Musings

Original story: Unfrozen 1.0, Sept. 3, 2012 A profile of two metallic sculptures by two design firms in Los Angeles: "A Loose Horizon," by LAYER, at t...

Saturday, April 9, 2022 Growing Moss, Gathering Pace

Dan and Greg interview Matt Nardella, founder of Moss Design, a Chicago design-build firm with an array of residential and commercial projects, and a ...

Monday, April 4, 2022 Of Montreal, Hype-r-Mediocrity and All That

Dan and Greg reunite again in person, in Greg’s adopted home city of Montreal. Witness Greg’s Unified Theory of Montreal Modernism. Featuring music by...

Saturday, March 19, 2022 The Engine Room, the City, and Color Commentary

Building on the momentum of Episode 21, this special episode is a back-to-back Rees attack, with Greg and Dan both relaying their respective reports f...

Saturday, March 12, 2022 This is London: Rees Reminiscences

Greg, fresh from a trip to London, shares with Dan updates and reminiscences of the hale old town in the throes of ever-later capitalism, doffing hats...

Saturday, March 5, 2022 Hopeful Monsters, Strange Creatures and the Freedom of Choice

Designers, urbanists, public policy advocates, and any others are who would join the Urban Technology Program at the University of Michigan are “hopef...

Saturday, February 26, 2022 Around the World

The German publishing house DOM has released more than 130 Architectural Guides to regions, cities and countries around the world, as well as one guid...

Sunday, February 20, 2022 Too-Late Modernism?

Brutalism has had a rough time over the past decade. Can it be redeemed before it’s too late? Originally published in The Faster Times on October 8, 2...

Saturday, February 12, 2022 The Spell of Hot Desk

Silicon Valley prides itself on "innovation" and "disruption," and its products are meant to drive "sharing" and "collaboration," but the architecture...

About the Show

Unfrozen is a podcast about architecture and urbanism. 

Daniel Safarik is a recovering journalist and an attempted architect. He is the Director of Research and Thought Leadership at the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. In previous lives he's been a financial technology reporter, rock vocalist and marketing director for architecture firms.

Greg Lindsay is a journalist, urbanist, futurist, and speaker. He is co-author of Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.

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