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  • The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon

    The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon
    2025/07/06

    Chicago’s Wrigley Building, constructed in 1921, is the “whited sepulcher” of Michigan Avenue, gleaming in terra cotta like the rows of teeth ostensibly cleansed by Wrigley’s Chewing Gum, the company that built the Beaux-Arts edifice. But its extravagant looks are only part of the story. Unfrozen hosts Robert Sharoff and William Zbaren, who wrote and photographed the new book from Rizzoli, The Wrigley Building: The Making of an Icon, to hear the rest.

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    Intro / Outro:

    “24 Hour Limes,” by The Cooper Vane

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    Discussed:

    • Graham, Anderson, Probst & White
    • Charles Beersman
    • Julia Morgan
    • Arts Club of Chicago
    • Joe Mansueto
    • Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, Helmut Jahn, 2011
    • John Vinci
    • Phillip Wrigley
    • William Hale “Big Bill” Thompson
    • Girilda Tower, Seville
    • Chateau Chambord, Loire Valley, France
    • New York Municipal Building, Stanford White, 1914
    • The Carter Family
    • Tribune Tower, Howells and Hood, 1925
    • London Guarantee Building, Alfred Alschuler, 1923
    • 333 North Michigan Avenue, Holabird & Roche, 1928
    • Belden-Stratford Hotel, Meyer Fridstein, 1923
    • Waldor-Astoria Chicago, Lucien Lagrange, 2009
    • Chicago Fire Stadium
    • Stanley Tigerman
    • Studio Blue, Cheryl Towler Weese
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    33 分
  • 100. Dancing About Architecture

    100. Dancing About Architecture
    2025/05/20
    The Unfrozen crew hit the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale with all the furious energy our 100th episode deserved. A rollicking roundup of robots, pans, picks, porches and pavilions, with special guest interviews: Michele Champagne, Kate Wagner, Marisa Moran Jahn, Bekim Ramku, Rafi Segal, Jeanne Gang, and Mark Cavagnero. And finally, while Rome picked a pontiff, we had our own mini-conclave in Venice and humbly offered up our picks for the 20th Biennale curator. Join us for this extra special centenary episode. -- Intro/Outro: “Bounder of Adventure,” by The Cooper Vane -- Discussed: - Olly Wainwright: Can robots make the perfect Aperol spritz? – Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 review | Architecture | The Guardian - Rowan Moore: Venice Architecture Biennale review: ‘a hot mess of pretension’ | The Observer - The New York Architecture Review crew: Nicolas, Chloe and Sammy - International Exhibition in the Arsenale o Robots, hemp, bio-concrete, 8-point font with AI-assisted summaries o Kate Crawford and Vladan Joier’s megascale text: Calculating Empires o Bjarke Ingels Group’s entry: Ancient Future, with Bhutanese carvers paced by an ABB robot o Christopher Hawthorne’s Speaker’s Corner o Shades of Rem Koolhaas’ 2014 Fundamentals edition - Kate Wagner’s review: o Dated techno-optimism o Cannibalism of architecture by art and exhibition design - National Pavilions: o Austria: “Agency for Better Living” o Canada: “Picoplanktonics” by The Living Room Collective o Denmark: “Build of Site” o Estonia: “Let Me Warm You” o Romania: “Human Scale” o Saudi Arabia: “The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection” o Slovenia: “Master Builders” o South Korea: “Little Toad, Little Toad”, but mainly this cat o Spain: “Internalities: Architectures for Territorial Equilibrium” o UAE: “Pressure Cooker” o USA: “Porch: An Architecture of Generosity” § Curators: · Peter MacKeith, Fay Jones School of Architecture, University of Arkansas · Rod Bigelow, Executive Director, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art · Marlon Blackwell, Marlon Blackwell Architects · Susan Chin, Design Connects · Stephen Burks, Man Made § Shades of the timber-themed 2021 exhibit, but with a twist § Interview with Mark Cavagnero, Mark Cavagnero Associates, on participation in Porch and his work updating the original 1969 design of the Oakland Museum of California by Kevin Roche and Dan Kiley o Uzbekistan: A Matter of Radiance - Interview with collaborators on Art-Tek Tulltorja, conversion of former brick works into a tech hub and community center, Pristina, Kosovo: o Rafi Segal, Associate Professor, Architecture & Urbanism, MIT o Marisa Moran Jahn, Director, Integrated Design,Parsons School of Design o Bekim Ramku, OUD+ Architects o Nol Binakaj, OUD+ Architects - Interview with Jeanne Gang, amidst a Bio-Blitz powered by the iNaturalist app and featuring a “disco ball for bees” - Unfrozen’s nominations for 2027 Biennale curator: o Carolyn Whitzman, Senior Housing Researcher, Schoolof Cities, University of Toronto and author of Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis o Diane Longboat, Senior Manager, StrategicInitiatives, Center for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto § See: Sweat lodge at the Center o Patrick Bellew, Chief Sustainability Officer, Surbana Jurong (Atelier Ten) § Gardens by the Bay cooling system,powered by incinerated tree trimming waste o Peter Barber, Peter Barber Architects o Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture - Stafford Beer: “The purpose of the system is what it does.”
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    1 時間 16 分
  • 99. The Venetian Scheme

    99. The Venetian Scheme
    2025/05/10

    The Unfrozen squad descends on Venice to experience inperson the full blunt force of the Biennale. Special guests include: Carlo Ratti, the curator of the 19th Architecture Biennale, Anastasia Sukhoroslova, CEO of All Things Urban, and Michele Champagne, graphic artist and contributor to Volume magazine.

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    Intro/Outro: “Bounder of Adventure” by The Cooper Vane

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    34 分
  • 98. Crisis & Criticism with Christopher Hawthorne

    98. Crisis & Criticism with Christopher Hawthorne
    2025/05/07
    Our guest on this episode is Christopher Hawthorne, the Senior Critic at Yale University’s School of Architecture. His previous roles include architecture critic of the Los Angeles Times, and Chief Design Officer of the City of Los Angeles. His current mission is to assemble the Speaker’s Corner at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. Unfrozen hears his unique perspective as both critic and exhibitor. -- Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane -- Discussed: 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale: “Inteligens: Natural, Artificial, Collective” – Carlo Ratti Speakers’ Corner / Re-staging Criticism series, part of the GENS Public Program - Florencia Rodriguez, Director, School of Architecture, University of Illinois Chicago - Mark Lee, Sharon Johnston of Johnston Marklee - Inspiration: “Vincent Scully: Architecture, Urbanism, and a Life in Search of Community,” by A. Krista Sykes - 9 May: “Exhibition as Critical Vessel” o Florencia Rodriguez, Moderator o Lesley Lokko, 2023 Biennale curator o Aric Chen o Pancho Diaz o Sarah Herda o Michael Meredith (MOS) > Building with Writing - 10 May: Conversation on L.A. Fires o Michael Maltzan o Alejandro Haiek Coll o Florencia Rodriguez 11 May: o Kate Wagner o Samuel Medina o Sam Jacob o Shumi Bose 1980 Venice Architecture Biennale – The Presence of the Past - Paolo Portoghesi - Strada Novissima, feat. Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry, Arati Isozaki, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown - Teatro del Mundo, Aldo Rossi - Critic’s Corner, feat. Vincent Scully, Charles Jencks, Kenneth Frampton & Christian Norberg-Schulz Why “The Brutalist” Isn’t Really About Architecture Kazuyo Sejima Writing About Architecture - Alexandra Lange Caught practicing without a license: Frank Lloyd Wright and Thomas Jefferson International Committee of Architecture Critics Salon de Mobile Ada Louise Huxtable You Have to Pay for the Public Life, by Charles Moore Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Robert Venturi Charles Jencks Foundation
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    51 分
  • 97. Holding Space

    97. Holding Space
    2025/05/06
    A quick one before we’re away. Dan and Greg sum up theirsprings and get ready for spritzes and socializing with smart people in at the 2025 Venice Biennale. -- Intro/Outro: “Bounder of Adventure,” by The Cooper Vane -- Discussed: Going Underground -> The Space Below w/ James Parakh · Toronto PATH · Montreal RESO · Chicago Pedway · Minneapolis Skyway · Houston Tunnels · Oklahoma City Underground · Hong Kong Central Elevated Walkway Zohran Mamdami –Make the Subway Great Again Smart City Expo, New York City Business Facilities Live eXchange, New Orleans Curbivore, Los Angeles Jonah Bliss Joshua Harris, Fordham University Marchetti’s constant Zipline Austin Baker Tilly Conference CosMc’s National Association of Realtors survey Waymo RoboCop Sidewalk Toronto Downstate IL secession movement Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson, feat. Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong Paul Romer Charter Cities The Voluntary City - David T. Beto, Peter Gordon and Alexander Tabarrok How to Run the World - Parag Khanna Hell on Earth – The 30 Years’ War Podcast The Network State - Balaji Srinivasan Global Parliament of Mayors / Ben Barber Polarization of reality > revenge of sovereignty Praxis: Med Charter City > Greenland feat. Steven Harper The evermore-relevant Hidden Globe episode Exit, Voice and Loyalty - Albert O. Hirschman Patri Friedman The lost art of imagining the future “My Brain Finally Broke,” - Jia Tolentino in The New Yorker Bruce Sterling – Atemporality
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    27 分
  • 96. The Key to the City

    96. The Key to the City
    2025/05/01

    Sara Bronin is an architect, attorney, policymaker, and professor at Cornell University. Born and raised in Houston, the only large US city without zoning, previously served as the Chair of the Planning and Zoning Commission of Hartford, Connecticut. Her book is called Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, and she joins Unfrozen to demystify the why and wherefore of what you can, cannot, and “must” build in cities all over the US.

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    Intro/Outro: “Elevator,” by The Cooper Vane

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    Discussed:

    - How large-lot mandates contribute to the epidemic of loneliness

    - YIMBY prevails in Arlington and Alexandria, VA

    - Re-zoning in Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland, OR, and Hartford

    - Supreme Court ruling on Shelley vs Kraemer, 1948, outlawing racially restrictive covenants

    - Houston’s affordability comes at the cost of flood zones and unpleasant adjacencies

    - Gulfton neighborhood

    - El Principe Azul nightclub

    - Effects of Parking Provision on Automobile Use in Cities: Inferring Causality

    - Albany Avenue rezoning and corridor improvements, Hartford

    - Denise Best

    - Form-based code

    - Washington Commanders’ new DC stadium

    - Code overhauls in Hartford, Charlottesville VA, and Boston

    - Bronin trashes Boston’s zoning code

    - Pittsburgh spends $5.8 million on zoning consultant
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    42 分
  • 78. Irreplaceable

    78. Irreplaceable
    2025/04/25

    Kevin Kelley, a self-described “attention architect,” is aco-founding partner of design firm Shook Kelley and author of Irreplaceable: How to Create Extraordinary Places That Bring People Together. In our digitized world of ghost commerce, he believes there is still a place for real places, and that it is incumbent on architects to stop looking down their nosesat retail, the essential lubricant of urban life, and start designing places that matter.

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    Intro/Outro: “24 Hour Limes" by The Cooper Vane

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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
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    52 分
  • 79. Cities in the Sky

    79. Cities in the Sky
    2025/04/25

    Jason Barr is a professor of economics at Rutgers University Newark and one of the world's foremost experts on the economics of skyscrapers. His new book, out May 14, 2024, is Cities in the Sky: The Quest to Build the World’s Tallest Skyscrapers. In it, Barr takes a global view of why the quest to build up is as fierce as ever, and why skyscrapers remain so controversial. Join the Unfrozen interview with Barr, in which some record-breaking myths get busted.

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    Intro/Outro: “Altitude Blues,” by Ladytron

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    Discussed:

    Mythbusting the Home Insurance Building

    First Skyscrapers | Skyscraper Firsts Forum

    LeRoy Buffington’s skyscraper patent

    Mythbusting The Skyscraper Index

    The Line

    Jeddah Tower

    Joel Garreau’s Edge City

    Emaar’s real estate play at Burj Khalifa: Downtown Dubai

    Legends Tower, Oklahoma City

    Empire State Building

    China’s “build it” economy

    “Zero Gravity Living”

    Nashville and Oracle

    Detroit and Dan Gilbert

    Newark renaissance

    Center City District (Philadelphia) study: DowntownsRebound

    Karen Seto(Yale)'s studies on tall building height canopies
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    42 分