Unfrozen

Unfrozen

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  • 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

    44 min
  • 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
    - GPIT
    - Ghost Kitchens in Dark Cities
    - CoMotion report card
    - Lindsay's Law
    - Wolf & Crane

    Outro: "Walking in LA" by Missing Persons

    44 min
  • 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

    32 min
  • 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

    43 min
  • 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

    43 min
  • 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

    25 min
  • 1. Deth in Venice

    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

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    Produced by: Melissa Junttila

    Engineered by: Robert Horvath

    44 min

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