Monday, July 11, 2022Future Storage: From Mineral Extraction to Data Forestry
Marina Otero, head of the Social Design Masters Program at Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands, is the winner of the Harvard Graduate School of Desi...
Saturday, June 25, 2022Emergent Tokyo
Think of Tokyo less as a "chaotic" than as an "emergent" city. This means spontaneous, self-organizing aspects create order from the bottom up. That k...
Saturday, June 11, 2022True Lies
For a truly philosophical take on the role of the architect in the post-truth era, Unfrozen interviews Richard Francis-Jones, author of Truth and Lies...
Saturday, June 4, 2022"Al" in on Supertalls
Unfrozen interviews Stefan Al, author, Supertall, founder, Stefan Al Architects, designer of Canton Tower, Guangzhou with Information Based Architectu...
Sunday, May 15, 2022Florida in Houston, "Durbin Renewal" in Chicago, Metabolism Demo'ed in Tokyo
Greg reports from Houston, where he and Richard Florida had some stage-sharing to do. Dan recounts a jaunt to the Canadian Riviera and Pacific Northwe...
Tuesday, May 3, 2022A Skyscraper Superfan Aims High
Meet Changsub Lee, a 14-year-old in South Korea who has been designing skyscrapers since he was eight. He's already a celebrity in the tall building w...
Saturday, April 23, 2022A Tale of Two Toy Cities
Two toy visions of Los Angeles describe two very different future visions: One vision wants you to play with its toys – and would be offended if you ...
Saturday, April 16, 2022Metal Machine Musings
Original story: Unfrozen 1.0, Sept. 3, 2012
A profile of two metallic sculptures by two design firms in Los Angeles: "A Loose Horizon," by LAYER, at t...
Saturday, April 9, 2022Growing Moss, Gathering Pace
Dan and Greg interview Matt Nardella, founder of Moss Design, a Chicago design-build firm with an array of residential and commercial projects, and a ...
Monday, April 4, 2022Of Montreal, Hype-r-Mediocrity and All That
Dan and Greg reunite again in person, in Greg’s adopted home city of Montreal. Witness Greg’s Unified Theory of Montreal Modernism. Featuring music by...
Saturday, March 19, 2022The Engine Room, the City, and Color Commentary
Building on the momentum of Episode 21, this special episode is a back-to-back Rees attack, with Greg and Dan both relaying their respective reports f...
Saturday, March 12, 2022This is London: Rees Reminiscences
Greg, fresh from a trip to London, shares with Dan updates and reminiscences of the hale old town in the throes of ever-later capitalism, doffing hats...