Saturday, February 12, 2022 The Spell of Hot Desk

Silicon Valley prides itself on "innovation" and "disruption," and its products are meant to drive "sharing" and "collaboration," but the architecture...

Saturday, February 5, 2022 Games With New Frontiers, Alien Rococo, and Paper Money

Greg and Dan, back at it again, talking about Olympics architecture and urbanism, the Housing Crisis 2.0, and the greatest hits from the 60s, 70s and ...

Tuesday, February 1, 2022 Can You Say Velaslavasay?

An interview with Sara Velas, founder, Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles. Intro / Outro: “Heartaches,” Al Bowlly, Sid Phillips & His Melodians Di...

Sunday, January 23, 2022 Notes from Underground

A tour of the abandoned Pacific Electric Subway Terminal in downtown Los Angeles. From Unfrozen 1.0, originally posted May 11, 2012. Intro/Outro: "Do ...

Wednesday, January 19, 2022 What Fresh McMansion Hell is This?

Unfrozen interviews Kate Wagner, creator and curator of McMansion Hell. Intro: "Suburbia," by Pet Shop Boys Discussed: - The special McMansion Hell th...

Saturday, January 15, 2022 For Sale: Kindling $10.9 million (OBO)

The sordid tale of a totally avoidable fire in the Hollywood Hills: a McMansion used as a set for a reality TV show goes up in smoke. From the Unfroze...

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 Are You Experienced? Join Team Insurgent!

Interview with Daniel Meyers and Traci Sym of +&> (Plus and Greater Than), an exhibition design firm in Portland, Oregon. Intro / Outro: "Are Y...

Monday, January 3, 2022 Can the Dome Home Finally Find a Mass Audience?

A certain subset of architects and futurists have long obsessed with mass-marketing domes, foam houses, spheres, and combinations thereof. Could their...

Monday, December 27, 2021 Ghost Grocers, Dark Stores, and Street Life

Unfrozen interviews Lev Kushner, Partner, Department of Here, co-author of “The Dark Side of 15-Minute Grocery Delivery,” Bloomberg CityLab, Dec. 7, ...

Thursday, December 23, 2021 In Praise of Words and Letters, Union Shops, and the New Sincerity

Greg and Dan host Eva Hagberg, author of “Dark Nostalgia,” “How to be Loved,” and the upcoming “When Eero Met His Match”. Intro: “The Letter,” by The ...

Sunday, December 19, 2021 Architect, Designer, Lover, Spy: The Eero You Never Knew

The complex (abridged) history of Eero Saarinen. From the Unfrozen 1.0 blog, an audio version of an article that originally ran on October 20, 2012 in...

Thursday, December 2, 2021 Get Back to the Tunnel of Love: Marriage Dynamics in Design Firms, Why We Can't Have Nice Things and a Lot of Other Things

It's a rambler, folks, but full of nuggets: Intro: "Tunnel of Love" by Dire Straits - Can BIG Transcend Bjarke? - Angry Foursomes, Unwieldy Threesomes...

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.

Welcome to Unfrozen, a podcast about architecture and urbanism.

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