Saturday, September 16, 2023"V" is for "Value": Verse Design
Verse Design LA is headed by Paul Tang and Courtenay Bauer. The architecture firm has taken considerable risks, sometimes playing the role of ambassad...
Sunday, September 10, 2023Larry Booth: Modern Beyond Style
Our guest is Larry Booth, founder of Booth Hansen Architects and a member of the original "Chicago Seven" group of architects who broke away...
Saturday, August 26, 2023Skyscrapers and Skullduggery
Thomas Leslie is a professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, and a noted skyscraper scholar. He has just published “Chica...
Monday, August 21, 2023Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World
Drawing on his decades of experience working in and writing about
shrinking cities, renowned urban policy expert and Center for Community
Progress s...
Monday, July 17, 2023New Territories
Justin Hui is an architect, artist and photographer who researches topics of land development, borders, globalization and memory. His recent projects ...
Sunday, July 9, 2023Concrete, the Cheech, and Principles of Preservation
John Lesak is a Principal at Page & Turnbull in Los Angeles,
where he specializes in in the preservation, rehabilitation, repair, and reuse of his...
Monday, June 26, 2023Biennale Breakdown 3: Not for Sale, or: Lost in the Supermarket
The 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 ...
Sunday, June 18, 2023Biennale Breakdown 2: Untimely Meditations, Virtual Repatriations
Despite its looming omnipresence, the Venice Architecture Biennale had very little material on virtual/augmented
reality and the metaverse. Unfrozen i...
Saturday, June 3, 2023Old Wine, New Bottles: Urban Block Cities
Copenhagen has long been a paragon in urban planning circles. Karsten Palsson, CEO of Palsson Urbanism, says it's under threat from commercial dev...
Monday, May 29, 2023Biennale Breakdown 1: The Boys are Back in Town
The 18th
Venice Architecture Biennale was one with “no architecture,” some critics have alleged, but there was no shortage of consequential exhibition...
Sunday, May 7, 2023Megablocks: Go Big and Go Home
Jeffrey Johnson is Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Kentucky College of Design. He previously taught for 10 years at the Gr...
Sunday, April 23, 2023The Roots of Urban Renaissance
Unfrozen welcomes Brian Goldstein, the author of “The Roots of Urban Renaissance: Gentrification and the Struggle Over Harlem.” Goldstein is a histori...
