When we want to talk about improving cities, it's essential that we approach the question with a sense of balance - a bit more of "both/and" and less ...

Driven by the same relentless passion that produced the world's most prominent energy-rating system for buildings, LEED, David Gottfried, best-known a...

Unfrozen started as a blog in 2011, using for its title the quote from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, “Music is liquid architecture. Architecture is froz...

Forgive them, for they know not what they do. We have already passed the point where AI agents outnumber humans in terms of Internet traffic, and we a...

In this episode, Unfrozen continues to focus on a topic of intense and contemporary interest: America’s failure to build enough housing, especially in...

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 t...

The AECO (architecture / engineering / construction / operation) supply chain is among the most inefficient compared to other global industries, and i...

In this extremely classy (and somewhat lengthier) episode of Unfrozen, Greg delivers his report from San Diego, where he got a private tour of the Lou...

For all the talk about America's seeming inability to build its way out of the housing affordability crisis, we have largely ignored the potential of ...

“Every time we design a street, we are making a decision about how we want to use our commonly owned space. That is inherently political.” That’s what...

Andrew James Gregor is an architect and novelist living in the Bay Area of California. Roscoe, his second novel, is the story of a day in the life of ...

Dan and Greg recount journeys to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, and yes, Pittsburgh, all unique urban palimpsests offering rich landscapes of inquiry. T...