“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, 2024Houser + 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, 2024Cities 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, 2024Irreplaceable
Kevin Kelley, a self-described “attention architect,” is a
co-founding partner of design firm Shook Kelley and author of Irreplaceable: How to Create ...
Saturday, April 13, 2024From Railyards to High-Rises
Craig Hutson has worked in research and development in academia and industry and is fascinated with the history of Chicago’s lakefront. When seeking a...
Saturday, March 23, 2024Horror in Architecture
Blobs. Doppelgangers. Giants. Puppets. Incontinent objects.
Mullets. Army of Darkness. All and much more are covered in Horror
in Architecture: The Re...
Sunday, March 10, 2024We're Back, Miss Us?
Never mind the weather, don’t you feel it has been a cold
and eerily quiet winter? Could it be because Unfrozen was offline due to unanticipated legal...
Monday, January 29, 2024Domo Arigatou, "Mike 2.0"
In every office, there is someone with so much accumulated knowledge the boss wants to “clone” them. At structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti...
Monday, January 22, 2024On 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. ...
Monday, January 15, 2024Trying Not to Think About Time: 2023 Recap / 2024 Preview
On the dawn of our fourth season, your hosts recap their favorite ‘casts of 2023, a live dramatic reading of Unfrozen’s 2023 Spotify Wrapped stats, an...
Thursday, December 28, 2023Renewing the Dream
James Sanders edited Renewing the Dream: The
Mobility Revolution and the Future of Los Angeles,
out now from Rizzoli. With contributions from Nik Kara...
Friday, December 22, 2023Trespass 2: Private Views
Andi Schmied is an artist and architect based in Budapest. On a fellowship with the Triangle Arts Association, she traveled to New York, impersonating...
