Unfrozen

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 80s, come back to life as Zombie Capitalism.

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Intro: "Games Without Frontiers," by Peter Gabriel

Outro: "Paper Money," by Montrose

Discussed:

· Beijing Olympics

· Other Olympic Riffs

· Safe as Houses?

· Greg’s book reccs:

An interview with Sara Velas, founder, Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles.

Intro / Outro: “Heartaches,” Al Bowlly, Sid Phillips & His Melodians

Discussed:

Robert Barker

Ruby Carlson

Mush to the Movies with LAFF

Magical Urbanism

Unrestored Restoration

Hauntology

The Union Square Florist Shop: A Case of Spectral Immersion

Luis Barragan

Thom Andersen

Mark Fisher

Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon, Oakland, CA

William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA

Revolutionario Taco

Charles Hood

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 Not Feed the Oyster," by Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks

Midsection: "Judge Doom," by Alan Silvestri and the London Symphony Orchestra

Unfrozen interviews Kate Wagner, creator and curator of McMansion Hell.

Intro: "Suburbia," by Pet Shop Boys

Discussed:

- The special McMansion Hell that is Barrington, IL

- Why surprise-visiting teachers in their suburban homes is a bad idea

- The best the Metaverse can do is take us shopping at Wal-Mart and just browsing at H&M?

- Best places to see a McMansion in the Wild

- What it's like to be a critic during the media meltdown of the early 2020s

- I'd rather be biking

Outro: "Bicycle Race," by Queen

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.

Intro/Outro: "On Fire," by Van Halen

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

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