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

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

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

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

It's a rambler, folks, but full of nuggets:

Intro: "Tunnel of Love" by Dire Straits

- Can BIG Transcend Bjarke?

Outro: "Walking in LA" by Missing Persons

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

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

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

Greg and Dan visit the Venice Biennale and share their thoughts on "How Will We Live Together?"

Intro/Outro: "Isolation" by Joy Division

Links:

Greg and Dan successfully make it to the 2020 > 2021 Venice Biennale, on their fourth attempt, only to find it is closed on Mondays. Fortunately, there are other things to talk about and see.

Intro/Outro: "Reverence" by Jesus and Mary Chain

Links:

Scuola Grande di San Rocco

2014 Venice Biennale - Elements of Architecture

Eva Hagberg

Basilica San Marco

MOSE

University of Oregon School of Architecture & Environment

Rem Koolhaas

Fondaco dei Tedeschi

Palazzo Grassi

San Giorgio Maggiore

El Segundo refinery

School of Rock

St. Anger

Master of Puppets

Tintoretto

Roman Abramovich

Alan Faena

Len Blavatnik

The Billionaire’s Playlist, Connie Bruck, The New Yorker

ReSite interview with Hashim Sarkis

Open Collectives: Architecture for an Equitable Digital Economy in

Chicago Architecture Biennial

Prada Foundation, Milan

Exhibit Columbus

Bilbao Effect

Guggenheim Bilbao

Emmanuel Pratt

Amanda Williams

Theaster Gates

Obama Presidential Center

Sweet Water Foundation

Rafi Segal

Dyson Sphere

Irene Lopez de Vallejo

DiSCOs