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Monday, July 15, 2024 85. Getting Unstuck from the Rut: Introducing IDC

Today’s uncanny AI renderings are just the tip of the iceberg. Architects are banding together to clean up their digital houses, master data literacy,...

Monday, June 17, 2024 84. Movement

“Every line on the road is a political choice.” Marco te Brömmelstroet, a.k.a. “The Cycling Professor,” is the chair of Urban Mobility Futures at the ...

Monday, June 10, 2024 83. The City in the City

In The City in the City, Amy Thomas offers the first in-depth architectural and urban history of London's financial district, the City of London, ...

Monday, June 3, 2024 82. Designing the Forest

“Either you’re growing your materials or not. You’re getting them from a forest or a mine.” Lindsey Wikstrom is the Founding Principal of Mattaforma a...

Monday, May 27, 2024 81. Houser + Hytha = Highrises

Chris Hytha and Mark Houser are collaborators on Highrises: Art Deco, a multimedia series chronicling the great skyscraper edifices of the roaring ‘20...

Saturday, May 11, 2024 79. Cities in the Sky

Jason Barr is a professor of economics at Rutgers University Newark and one of the world's foremost experts on the economics of skyscrapers. His n...

Sunday, April 21, 2024 78. Irreplaceable

Kevin Kelley, a self-described “attention architect,” is a co-founding partner of design firm Shook Kelley and author of Irreplaceable: How to Create ...

Monday, January 22, 2024 73. On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo

Mankind’s quest for verticality has an underexplored dimension: the queasy feeling of vertigo many experience when close to the edge of a sheer drop. ...

Sunday, December 18, 2022 44. "Olive the Seal" - Unfrozen in 2022

Dan and Greg recap the highs and lows of the first full year of Unfrozen – 33 episodes – and look ahead to 2023. Did you know? You don’t have to catch...

Saturday, November 26, 2022 43. Who is the City For?

Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic Blair Kamin has long informed and delighted readers with his illuminating commentary. Kamin’s newest collec...

Tuesday, October 25, 2022 40. Typological Drift

Cities that produce only underwear, blue jeans and extras in domestic films are among the fascinating objects of study in Typological Drift: Emerging ...

Sunday, October 2, 2022 39. Seeking the Superfruit of Urbanism

Michael Eliason is an architect and founder of Larch Lab, a studio focused on prefabricated, decarbonized, climate-adaptive, low-energy buildings and ...

About Unfrozen

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.

Producer: Melissa Junttila

Sound Engineer: Rob Horvath

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