Saturday, February 5, 2022Games With New Frontiers, Alien Rococo, and Paper Money
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 ...
Tuesday, February 1, 2022Can You Say Velaslavasay?
An interview with Sara Velas, founder, Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles.
Intro / Outro: “Heartaches,” Al Bowlly, Sid Phillips & His Melodians
Di...
Sunday, January 23, 2022Notes from Underground
A tour of the abandoned Pacific Electric Subway Terminal in downtown Los Angeles. From Unfrozen 1.0, originally posted May 11, 2012.
Intro/Outro: "Do ...
Wednesday, January 19, 2022What Fresh McMansion Hell is This?
Unfrozen interviews Kate Wagner, creator and curator of McMansion Hell.
Intro: "Suburbia," by Pet Shop Boys
Discussed:
- The special McMansion Hell th...
Saturday, January 15, 2022For Sale: Kindling $10.9 million (OBO)
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.
From the Unfroze...
Tuesday, January 11, 2022Are You Experienced? Join Team Insurgent!
Interview with Daniel Meyers and Traci Sym of +&> (Plus and Greater Than), an exhibition design firm in Portland, Oregon.
Intro / Outro: "Are Y...
Monday, January 3, 2022Can the Dome Home Finally Find a Mass Audience?
A certain subset of architects and futurists have long obsessed with mass-marketing domes, foam houses, spheres, and combinations thereof. Could their...
Monday, December 27, 2021Ghost Grocers, Dark Stores, and Street Life
Unfrozen interviews Lev Kushner, Partner, Department of Here, co-author of “The Dark Side of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery,” Bloomberg CityLab, Dec. 7, ...
Thursday, December 23, 2021In Praise of Words and Letters, Union Shops, and the New Sincerity
Greg and Dan host Eva Hagberg, author of “Dark Nostalgia,” “How to be Loved,” and the upcoming “When Eero Met His Match”.
Intro: “The Letter,” by The ...
Sunday, December 19, 2021Architect, Designer, Lover, Spy: The Eero You Never Knew
The complex (abridged) history of Eero Saarinen.
From the Unfrozen 1.0 blog, an audio version of an article that originally ran on October 20, 2012 in...
Thursday, December 2, 2021Get Back to the Tunnel of Love: Marriage Dynamics in Design Firms, Why We Can't Have Nice Things and a Lot of Other Things
It's a rambler, folks, but full of nuggets:
Intro: "Tunnel of Love" by Dire Straits
- Can BIG Transcend Bjarke?
- Angry Foursomes, Unwieldy Threesomes...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021Going Mobile, Productizing Everything
In which Greg and Dan discuss: CoMotion LA 2021, Conveyor-Belt Sushi, Sidewalk Labs' Mass Timber Factory, Carehaus at the CCA, Cold-Fusion Affordable ...
