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Monday, October 23, 2023 A House Deconstructed

“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 tha...

Sunday, October 8, 2023 A.I., Meet Timber

At the intersection of A.I. and timber, expect new tessellations and kinetic results. Unfrozen interviews Mykola Murashko, a 23-year-old Cambridge gra...

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, 2023 Larry 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, 2023 Skyscrapers 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, 2023 Smaller 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, 2023 New 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, 2023 Concrete, 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, 2023 Biennale 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, 2023 Biennale 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, 2023 Old 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, 2023 Biennale 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...

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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