Kevin Kelley, a self-described “attention architect,” is a

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Intro/Outro: “Friction,” by Television

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Discussed:

Bass Pro Shops at the Memphis Pyramid

Against 15-Minute Delivery

“The Bonfire Effect,” courtesy Loxahatchie, Florida

Participation mystique, as per Jung, as per Lucien Levy-Bruhl

“TheAnxious Generation” by Jonathan Haidt

“Harvard Guide to Shopping” by Rem Koolhaas et. al.

Prior Unfrozen commentary on the replacement for the Orange County Government Center by Paul Rudolph

Robert Venturi on Las Vegas

Maslow's hierarchy of needs

Yaromir Steiner and Easton Town Center, Columbus

Victor Gruen

Country Club Plaza, Kansas City

The Grove, Los Angeles

The Farmer’s Market, Los Angeles

Larchmont, Los Angeles

Hollywood and Highland (now Ovation), Los Angeles

Harley-Davidson dealerships’ Parts Bar

Mercado Gonzalez, Costa Mesa, CA

Craig Hutson has worked in research and development in academia and industry and is fascinated with the history of Chicago’s lakefront. When seeking a definitive book about the history of Illinois Center and Lakeshore East, the air-rights developments above former docklands and railyards east of the Loop, he realized there wasn’t one, and he decided to write it himself.

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Intro/Outro: “Nighttime in the Switching Yard,” by Warren

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Discussed:

Illinois Central Railroad

Illinois Center

Lakeshore East

Millennium Park

Maggie Daley Park

Aqua

St. Regis Chicago

Outer Drive East (400 East Randolph)

Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower

The Park at Lakeshore East

Millennium Station

Hyatt Regency Chicago

Chicago Pedway

Boulevard East

Magellan Development Group

James Loewenberg

Intro/Outro: “Nighttime in the Switching Yard,” by Warren Zevon

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Discussed:

Illinois Central Railroad

Illinois Center

Lakeshore East

Millennium Park

Maggie Daley Park

Aqua

St. Regis Chicago

Outer Drive East (400 East Randolph)

Blue Cross Blue Shield Tower

The Park at Lakeshore East

Millennium Station

Hyatt Regency Chicago

Chicago Pedway

Boulevard East

Frank Lowenberg

Magellan Development

Intro/Outro: “Scare Me,” by Deadbolt

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Discussed:

Immanuel Kant

Edmund Burke

Harvard Graduate School of Design under Rem Koolhaas

Bigness, or the Problem of Large, by Rem Koolhaas

Centre Pompidou = Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

Xintiandi, Shanghai

Jan Gehl

The Architectural Uncanny, by Anthony Vidler

Built Beautiful, with narration by … Martha Stewart

Mullets

Army of Darkness

Twins are in

Doppelgangers

Ordos 100, Inner Mongolia

• House House, by Johnston Marklee
• Gaston Bachelard
• Preston Scott Cohen
• Ai Weiwei

H.R. Giger -> Zaha Hadid -> Thomas Heatherwick-> Santiago Calatrava

Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town

Gordon Matta-Clark

Jan Kaplicky / Future Systems

Frank Gehry

Francois Roche

Parc de la Villette

American Psycho

Hannover Pavilion at Expo 2000 by MVRDV = Arby’s Breakfast Sandwich

Toshiko Mori

Caltrans Building, Los Angeles, Morphosis

Daniel Libeskind

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, by Alan Moore

House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski

The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov

Saddam Hussein’s Frank Frazetta-esque fantasy interior paintings

Idi Amin’s Chinese Garden

Great Basilica, Yamoussukro, Ivory Coast (110% the size of St. Peters)

Anti-Oedipus, by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

The Day of the Beast and Philip Johnson’s Gate of Europe, Madrid

Intro/Outro: “Miss You,” by the Rolling Stones

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Discussed:

• Spotify throws a sprocket in our jam-bulance wheels
• Ubik-like terms of service, as written by Philip K. Dick.
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act
• Dubai: Mistakes were made
• 15-minute cities are in the Dubai 2040 plan
• Junkspace
• Diriyah Gate
• Qiddiya
• North Pole Riyadh, 2-kilometer tower by Foster + Partners
• The Ministry of McKinsey
• The US Senate Inquiry into the PIF Consultants
• Dubai Creek Harbour and the delayed Dubai Creek Tower maybe restarting?
• Jeddah Tower also maybe restarting?
• Pritzker Prize goes to Riken Yamamoto
  • Work includes The Circle, Zurich Airport
• Bjarke Ingels had a big, postmodern, postironic week
  • Museum/Casino of Freedom and Democracy, New York
  • Las Vegas A’s Stadium
• Exhuming Baudrillard
• Bears and Sox lobbying Chicago and Illinois for stadium subsidies
• F1 < Saudi Vegas > F1
• Saudi 2034 World Cup Stadium by Populous
• Greg’s SXSW calendar
  • Conference of Mayors Civic I/O Mayor’s Summit
  • Using Augmented Reality to Drive Inclusive City Development
• Also at SXSW: Imagine Harder: Prototyping Impossible Futures
• Don’t drive or walk outside using Apple Vision Pro goggles
• Upcoming guests:
  • Joshua Comaroff & Ong Ker-Shing, authors of Horror in Architecture
  • Kevin Kelley, Shook Kelley, author of Irreplaceable (not Kevin Kelly)

Never mind the weather, don’t you feel it has been a cold

Intro/Outro: “Miss You,” by the Rolling Stones

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o  Kevin Kelley, Shook Kelley, author of Irreplaceable (not Kevin Kelly)

Intro/Outro: “Mr. Roboto,” by Styx

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Discussed:

• ZHA’s Patrik Schumacher keynote at the AIA Center for Architecture’s AI+A Symposium, 16 December 2023 
• Dall-E, ChatGPT, Midjourney, OpenAI
• HOU 3000: Serpentine Galleries’ virtual chief curator, Hans Ulrich Obrist
• TT’s Spark Intranet
• Cornell Tech Jacobs Institute: The Future of Generative AI in Architecture, Design and Engineering
• TT made a digital twin of welding and metallurgy expert Mike DeLashmit. The real Mike gives Mike 2.0 a “4.7 out of 5” in terms of the accuracy of its answers.
• Converting scanned PDF drawings with annotations into vectors + tabular data
• Google Gemini
• A “hallucination throttle” for generative AI iterations on existing documents
• Using AI to optimize material quantities, operational energy, and eventually, embodied carbon

In every office, there is someone with so much accumulated knowledge the boss wants to “clone” them. At structural engineering firm Thornton Tomasetti (TT), they’ve basically done that. The firm has taken the concept of a “digital twin” to a newly literal level – engineers can now quiz a synthetic clone of the firm’s in-house welding and metallurgy expert, constructed from 30

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Intro/Outro: “Mr. Roboto,” by Styx

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Discussed:

·     ZHA’s Patrik Schumacher keynote at the AIA

·     Dall-E, ChatGPT, Midjourney, OpenAI

·     HOU 3000: Serpentine Galleries’ virtual

·     TT’s Spark Intranet

·     Cornell Tech Jacobs Institute: The

·     TT made a digital twin of welding and metallurgy expert Mike DeLashmit. The real Mike gives "Mike 2.0" a “4.7 out of 5” in terms of the accuracy of its answers.

·     Converting scanned PDF drawings with annotations into vectors + tabular data

·     Google Gemini

·     A “hallucination throttle” for generative AI

·     Using AI to optimize material quantities,

Mankind’s quest for verticality has an underexplored dimension:

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Intro/Outro: "I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane

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Discussed:

Intro/Outro: “Trying Not to Think About Time,” by The Futureheads

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Discussed:

• Unfrozen’s 2023 Spotify Wrapped Stats: 
  • Most Popular Episode: “Show Me the Bodies” with Peter Apps
  • Most Shared Episode: “Untimely Meditations, Virtual Repatriations,” with Era Merkuri and Martin Gjoleka + Chidi Nwaubani
• After School Newsletter by Casey Lewis
• Unfrozen’s Favorites of 2023:
  • Attending the Venice Biennale during previews, including Sir Peter Cook’s assertion that, while at their event and on their payroll, NEOM would be less than half-built and eventually devolve into shantytowns
  • “Moving the Monolith, Speed-Running the Follies,” with Andreea Ion Cojocaru and Nick Kauffman
  • “The Atlas of Space Rocket Launch Sites,” with Brian Harvey and Gurbir Singh. Greg was channeling Geoff Manaugh’s BLDGBLOG
  • “Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World,” with Alan Mallach
  • “Renewing the Dream” with James Sanders

• 2024 Doomscroll:
  • NEOM meets the Metaverse at Aquellum + Zaha Hadid’s Minas Morgul tower, Discovery at Trojena
  • You won’t have Charlie Munger to kick around anymore
  • CES is underway, and so is the metaverse rebranding
  • Apple Vision Pro
  • Meta Wayfarer Ray-Bans
  • Want work? You need to kneel before the PIF
  • Are architects and engineers really building the future for Saudi’s young? Or are they just taking the money and running
• Half the world’s population will vote in 2024
• No election scheduled in Canada, but in 2025, things are looking topsy-turvy:
  • Canada is “three NIMBYs in a trenchcoat” right now
  • Households now owe more in mortgage debt than Canada’s entire GDP
  • Pierre Poilievre and the Canadian Conservatives seem to be the only ones taking the housing crisis seriously, and the kids are listening
  • CHMC can’t just straight-up build affordable housing – why?
• But it’s good real estate vibes in the US once rates get cut
• Freedom Cities
• California Forever
• You can build it – but who will insure it?
• Will San Francisco exit its doom loop in 2024? What cities will pull ahead?
• Gensler doubles down in its hometown + Shvo to the rescue at the Transamerica Pyramid
• Greg draws a picture of the work-from-home, AI-driven, obesity-drug-taking hellscape called America
• People are competing for walkable urbanism everywhere because we can’t seem to build any new housing
• Could consumer branding of residential real estate boost housing construction?
  • Welcome to the Neighborhood! Wall Street Designed It
  • Culdesac – build-to-rent walkable urbanism in Tempe, AZ
  • WeWork’s Adam Neumann starts Flow
• Dead mall resurrections
• Easton Town Center, Columbus
• Retrofitting Suburbia, Ellen Dunham Jones and June Williamson

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Engagements Preview 2024:

• “Don’t Believe the Hype: Cities are Alive and Well,” University of Maryland Baltimore, 22 February
• “Using Augmented Reality to Drive Inclusive City Development,” SXSW, Austin, 10 March
• Smart City Expo USA, New York, 22-23 May
• CTBUH International Conference, London and Paris, 23-27 September