Patrick MacLeamy was the CEO of HOK from 2003 to 2017, capping off a 50-year career at the venerable firm responsible for the National Air and Space M...
Monday, August 15, 2022Architecture of Normal
Daniel Kaven is the author of Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape, a book that views the built environment through the ...
Sunday, July 31, 2022Chicago: Two Guides, One Cast
Chicago is a famed architecture town, but the road has not always been smooth. Hear from the editor and author, respectively, of two recently released...
Saturday, July 23, 2022Tallest Timber, Boutique Hotels, Pokemon NO! and more…
Dan’s recent consecration of the world’s tallest timber building; Greg’s new gigs, and hotels to stay at while making them happen; the third space in ...
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...