Unfrozen

12. 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 Unfrozen 1.0 blog, Feb. 21, 2012
Intro/Outro: "On Fire," by Van Halen

11. 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 You Experienced?" by the Jimi Hendrix Experience
Cover Art: "Tubes" by +&> (Plus and Greater Than)
Discussed:
- Cambridge Seven
- High Museology versus Themed Entertainment
- Exhibition design is really “schmoopy”
- Encountering conflict is part of the training of performing artists, so it's good to have a theater person on your design team
- Starting with a narrative rather than a site
- Experiencing things that are not algorithmically selected for you
- ABOTI - Always Be on Team Insurgent
- The Real Dick Nixon, the Decemberists and Malkmus are all getting together on a Revolutionary War Memorial in South Carolina

10. 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 time be nigh? From a story originally posted on Unfrozen 1.0, Sept. 3, 2012.
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Intro: "Xanadu," by Rush
1. All Yesterday's Tomorrows
2. An Architect to the Stars Dreams of Domed Domesticity
3. Sprung From the Foam [Musical interlude: "Xanadu," by ELO and Olivia Newton-John]
4. Domes as Doom Defense
Outro: "Ridin' the Storm Out," by REO Speedwagon

9. 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, 2021, with Greg Lindsay

8. 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 Box Tops
Topics:
· Eero and Aline: “They met and immediately started banging”… and launched the modern world of Architecture PR
· “Publicists make their jobs look a lot harder than they are”
· Don’t piss off OTTO and ESTO
· “I blew my entire advance on seven Iwaan Baan photos”
· A Union SHoP?
o Tyler Goss cut the cord
· Architecture Twitter vs Instagram
o Guest crit
o Kevin Rogan
o Michael “Freecondo”
o “They were all talking about Henri Lefebvre, which makes me feel like a Boomer”
o Dank Lloyd Wright
o Zoolander’s Center for Ants
o Boy’s Firm
o The Architecture Lobby
· The New Sincerity goes mainstream: Lesley Lokko curates Venice 2023
· Casting the “When Eero Met His Match” movie
· “Letters are sexting through the centuries.”
· Undoing the primacy of the image
Outro: “We Used to Wait,” by The Arcade Fire

7. 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 The Faster Times, and on November 22, 2012 on Unfrozen.
Music:
"Jet," by Wings
"Rescue," by Echo and the Bunnymen
"Futurama," by Christopher Tyng
"Mais que Nada," by Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66
"Mork and Mindy," by Perry Botkin Jr.
"Do the Whirlwind," by Architecture in Helsinki

6. 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 in Rock and Architecture
- Sole proprietors aspiring to be corporate
- The Holland Tunnel aspiring to be the Lincoln Tunnel
- A Section of Now at the CCA
- Department of Care is a thing
- Walton in Buffalo, Wu in Boston, call it a draw?
- George Floyd died in a bike lane, or, infrastructure ain't shit without access
- Clearing the block in Baltimore
- Child care = infrastructure
- Ballooning costs of built and social infrastructure - The Economist (subscription required)
- California Dreaming > I want my TGV
- Gateway Tunnel
- GoJek, the Gateway Drug of Mobility Apps
- IBC says no to green at NAHB's bequest?
- Get in the GPIT
- Ghost Kitchens in Dark Cities
- CoMotion report card
- Lindsay's Law
- Wolf & Crane
Outro: "Walking in LA" by Missing Persons

5. Going Mobile, Productizing Everything

In which Greg and Dan discuss: CoMotion LA 2021, Conveyor-Belt Sushi, Sidewalk Labs' Mass Timber Factory, Carehaus at the CCA, Cold-Fusion Affordable Housing in the Great White North, the Benediction of St. Jane.
Intro: "Going Mobile," by The Who
Outro: "I Am a Tree," by Guided by Voices
Links:
Will Real Estate Ever Be Normal Again? - New York Times Magazine

4. It’s Mark’s Mungerverse, We’re Just Living in It

Considering: the Munger Nightmare Dorm at UCSB, the Metaverse, Pokemon Go, how BIM, CAD and CATIA can play the god game too, Planetary Computation, Really Feeling the Room, Snow and Stars as Fungible Tokens, Climbing Up the Walls.
Intro/Outro: "Climbing Up the Walls" by Radiohead
Show notes/Links:
Maybe the Munger Nightmare Dorm is the best we can do
Zuckerberg’s endgame is monetizing everything
The Intersection by Superflux
Crypto Cities => CityDAO
CAD’s Boring Future — And Why That’s Exciting
The 2021 Gray Invitational City Bracket

3. Turin-a-bout is Fair Play, Tracing Roots, Chasing Utopias

Greg, Dan and special guest Alexandra Siebenthal, host of the Design in the City Podcast by RESITE, convene in Turin, Italy, to discuss their "redpill" moments that got them hooked on architecture and urbanism, and what they're looking forward to seeing at Utopian Hours, the urban design festival held 8-10 October, 2021.
Intro/Outro: "Euro-Trash Girl" by Cracker