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119. Mussolini's Ballroom, or, The Leopards Ate My Face

Intro: “S.P.Q.R.” by This HeatDiscussed:<a href="https://paulgoldberger.com/">Paul Goldberger</a>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/culture/white-house-ballroom-trump.html?searchResultPosition=1">Trump Will Destroy Washington if It’s the Last Thing He Does</a>,” New York Times, March 13, 2026More Times<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/03/29/upshot/white-house-ballroom.html"> analysis</a> on the White House ballroom plans<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law">Godwin’s Law</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Speer">Albert Speer</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Henry_Latrobe">Benjamin Latrobe</a>Alternate venues, that would not require a new ballroom at the White House:<ul><li><a href="https://nbm.org/">National Building Museum</a></li><li><a href="https://www.eventsatmellon.com/">Mellon Auditorium</a></li></ul><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan_Train_Hall">Moynihan Train Hall</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulles_International_Airport">Saarinen's Dulles Airport design</a>&nbsp;“<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-trump-demolish-rebuild-washington/">Fedlandia</a>” – a plan to rebuild 230 acres of Federal downtown Washington<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7046638/2026/02/14/lawsuit-trump-takeover-dc-golf-course/?searchResultPosition=2">East Potomac Golf Links</a> Trump takeover plan, and the resistance<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Garden_of_American_Heroes">National Garden of American Heroes</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Christopher_Columbus_%28Baltimore%29">Christopher Columbus statue, Baltimore</a>White House ballroom architects<ul><li><a href="https://mccreryarchitects.com/">James McCrery</a></li><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/us/politics/trump-ballroom-architect.html?searchResultPosition=1">Shalom Baranes</a></li></ul><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-31/trump-says-triumphal-arch-construction-to-begin-in-two-months">Arc de Trump</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Shubow">Justin Shubow</a>Suit <a href="https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/nx-s1-5757505/kennedy-center-trump-lawsuit">against Kennedy Center renovations</a>Mamdani’s <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/mamdani-pitches-sunnyside-yards-housing-project-trump-queens/6470480/?utm_source=copilot.com">Trump-whispering</a> to get funding for the Sunnyside Yards overbuild<a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150521848/design-proposals-for-trump-s-dulles-international-airport-overhaul-include-zaha-hadid-architects-adjaye-associates-grimshaw">Dulles Airport overhaul proposals</a>Original Dulles Airport <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_lounge">mobile lounges</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Foster_Dulles">John Foster Dulles</a>Trump offer to release Gateway Tunnel funds <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-asked-dulles-penn-station-named-exchange-gateway-money-released-rcna257708">in exchange for naming Penn Station after him</a><a href="https://cbs12.com/news/local/palm-beach-international-airport-rename-representative-brian-mast-bill-would-codify-president-donald-j-trump-international-airport-name-and-seek-code-djt">Renaming of Palm Beach airport</a>, after Trump<a href="https://www.weissmanfredi.com/projects/25-u-s-embassy-in-new-delhi-india">Renovation and expansion of the US Embassy in Delhi, India</a> (Edward Durell Stone &gt; Weiss Manfredi)Penn Station reconstruction under Trump:<ul><li><a href="https://gothamist.com/news/trump-weighs-moving-madison-square-garden-for-penn-station-rebuild-sources-say">Move Madison Square Garden</a>?</li><li><a href="https://media.amtrak.com/2026/03/trumps-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-and-amtrak-announce-progress-on-new-york-penn-station-transformation/">AECOM joint venture to lead project management</a></li><li>ASTM + HOK + PAU Plan: <a href="https://www.6sqft.com/new-penn-station-overhaul-proposal-adds-vishaan-chakrabarti-to-design-team/">Keep MSG, remove Hulu Theater</a></li></ul><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moynihan_Train_Hall">Moynihan Train Hall</a><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ballpark-paul-goldberger/1129614867">Ballpark: Baseball in the American City</a>FIFA Sites include:<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gillette_Stadium">Gillette Stadium</a>, Foxborough, MA</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrowhead_Stadium">Arrowhead Stadium</a>, Kansas City, MO</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoFi_Stadium">SoFi Stadium</a>, Inglewood, CA</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Stadium">AT&amp;T Stadium</a>, Arlington, TX</li></ul>Chuck Klosterman: “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_%28book%29?utm_source=copilot.com">Football</a>” as a “hyperobject”<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Siro">Milan San Siro</a> (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Stadium">NY Jets plan for West Side stadium</a>Upcoming Goldberger book (11/17/2026): “<a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/720345/the-imperfect-city-by-paul-goldberger/">The Imperfect City: Design, Serendipity, and the Real Life of Cities</a>”--Outro: “The Leopards Ate My Face,” by Franchesca Ramsey&nbsp;

Mar 31

50 min

118. Migrant Midwest

Intro/Outro: “America,” by Neil Diamond--Discussed:<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-burkham-05799417/">Jonathan Burkham</a><a href="https://bookshop.org/p/books/migrant-midwest-the-case-for-immigration-and-economic-growth-in-the-american-heartland-dr-jonathan-mann-burkham/6d3473bccb748f47?ean=9798216276098&amp;next=t&amp;next=t&amp;affiliate=94913&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">Migrant Midwest</a>Ed Glaeser – “<a href="https://nyti.ms/4lWnHrJ">Human Capital Follows the Thermometer</a>,” New York Times, April 19, 2011Civic Federation’s report “<a href="https://www.civicfed.org/blog/chicagos-budget-growth-2019-2025?utm_source=copilot.com">Chicago's Budget Growth: 2019–2025</a>”Minneapolis’ resilience and defense of its Somali community against ICE raidsSpringfield, Ohio – myths and realities about its Haitian population<a href="https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityDCD/planning/plans/Citywide/plan/Data.pdf?utm_source=copilot.com">Milwaukee</a> – population trends 1960-2024Michigan governor Rick Snyder’s 2014 <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/michigan-us-give-immigrants-visas-help-bankrupt-detroit-flna2D11980300?utm_source=copilot.com">call for 50,000 visas</a><a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mcda/population/michigan-population-analysis/2026/01/27/vintage2025-estimates">Michigan’s population growth</a>, 2021-2025Nick Reding, “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methland">Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town</a>”<a href="https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/immigrate-canada/provincial-nominee-program.html">Canadian Provincial Nominee Program</a><a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-provincial-nominee-program-focusing-temporary-workers-9.7063307">Backlash to the CPNP</a> + no housing growth<a href="https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&amp;&amp;p=d1f235259799d092d7a3a21233a2f18a9b8ce8b565b7f3ab789fcc5a0a063bb0JmltdHM9MTc3NDY1NjAwMA&amp;ptn=3&amp;ver=2&amp;hsh=4&amp;fclid=0dc8a875-56a9-618d-0c45-be1a57e460cc&amp;psq=Canada%e2%80%99s+population+decline&amp;u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2JjLmNhL25ld3MvcG9saXRpY3MvY2FuYWRhLXBvcHVsYXRpb24tZGVjbGluZS1maXJzdC10aW1lLTkuNzEzMzY0Mw">Canada’s population decline</a> – 102,000 in 2025, the first since Confederation in 1867<a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/61-smaller-cities-in-a-shrinking-world">Allan Mallach – Smaller Cities in a Shrinking World – Unfrozen</a> 61&nbsp;<a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/108-north">Jesse Keenan – North – Unfrozen 108</a>“<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/climate/climate-migration-duluth.html">Climate-proof Duluth</a>”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/darylfairweather?utm_source=copilot.com">Daryl Fairweather,</a> Redfin chief economist, new resident of Williams Bay, WI<a href="https://cms.nar.realtor/sites/default/files/2024-11/2024-migration-trends-report-11-25-2024.pdf">National Association of Realtors migration trends 2024</a>

Mar 30

45 min

117. The Death and Life of Gentrification

Intro/Outro: “Depreston,” by Courtney Barnett--Discussed:<a href="https://www.bu.edu/sociology/profile/japonica-brown-saracino/">Japonica Brown-Saracino</a><a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691244358/the-death-and-life-of-gentrification">The Death and Life of Gentrification: A New Map of a Persistent Idea</a><a href="https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781315881096/gentrification-debates-japonica-brown-saracino">The Gentrification Debates</a><a href="https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053427">Explicating Divided Approaches to Gentrification and Growing Income Inequality</a>Sarah Schulman: <a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Gentrification_of_the_Mind/4akwDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&amp;gbpv=0">The Gentrification of the Mind</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Glass">Ruth Glass</a> and the coining of “<a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/ideas/100-years-bartlett/ruth-glass-and-coining-gentrification">Gentrification</a>” as a term in 1964<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs">Jane Jacobs</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_and_Life_of_Great_American_Cities">The Death and Life of Great American Cities</a>Robert Goldman: <a href="https://www.vitalsource.com/products/renovating-value-robert-goldman-v9781439920503">Renovating Value: HGTV and the Spectacle of Gentrification</a><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/40953">Sharon Zukin: Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Smith_(geographer)">Neil Smith</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-gap_theory">The Rent-Gap Theory</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7725422/">Vida</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10037034/">Gentefied</a><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13623608/">The Curse</a><a href="https://sites.bu.edu/gentrification/profile/loretta-lees/">Loretta Lees</a>: Super-GentrificationWendy Griswold: <a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo5568025.html">Regionalism and the Reading Class</a>

Mar 21

43 min

116. The Desert of the Real

Intro: “Megeve,” by Henry ManciniPart 1: White-Hot Mid-Century Blowout<ul><li><a href="https://www.thelautnercompound.com/hotel-lautner">The Lautner Compound (Hotel Lautner)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien_Hubbard">Lucien Hubbard</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lautner">John Lautner</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Frey_(architect)">Albert Frey</a></li><li><a href="https://www.psmuseum.org/visit/frey-house">Frey House II</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamarix">Tamarisk trees</a></li><li>“<a href="https://www.pbs.org/independentlens/documentaries/racist-trees/">Racist Trees</a>,” the movie, and the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nplfO7tS7Lk">blowback from Tucker Carlson</a></li></ul>Part 2: <a href="https://www.psmodsquad.com/">Palm Springs Mod Squad</a> tours by <a href="https://www.psmodsquad.com/your-guide.html">Kurt Cyr</a>Transition: “Loose Caboose,” by Henry Mancini<ul><li>Home 1: The Wentworth, Fairway Estates, Donald Wexler, 1965; addition by Robin Abrahams, 2022</li><li>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Construction_Company">Alexander Construction Co</a>.</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float_glass">Pilkington float glass</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Fey#Canyon_View_Estates_(1962%E2%80%931966)">Canyon View Estates</a> – Palmer &amp; Krisel for the Alexanders -- home of “Barbie” and “Don’t Worry Darling”&nbsp;</li><li><a href="https://www.atomic-ranch.com/product/atomic-ranch-magazine-subscription/?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=21382503997&amp;gbraid=0AAAAA9Urn0k1gbXV1cdp7FrFgm9xp3Vww&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA2bTNBhDjARIsAK89wlFP2aC0O1DmmwwMaxnrkVYP4CAn6Q43qiSvEKg5NFm6yi9f4AFkLlIaAmZUEALw_wcB">Atomic Ranch magazine</a></li><li><a href="https://www.angi.com/articles/what-is-roman-tub.htm?msockid=170162089b5f6d6304fc74ec9ac26c96">Roman tubs</a></li></ul>Transition: “Caravan,” by John Buzon Trio<ul><li>Home 2: Kurt Cyr home, <a href="https://kurtcyr.com/">Kurt Cyr</a>, 2020</li><li><a href="https://visitpalmsprings.com/blog/post/lawrence-crossley-makes-mark-in-palm-springs/">Lawrence Crossley</a> and the Crossley Tract</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washingtonia_filifera">Washingtonia filifera</a> (California palm)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortus_conclusus">Hortus conclusus</a></li><li>Kenny Irwin Jr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robolights">robot designs</a>, feat. “Winston”</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Wegner">Hans Wegner</a></li><li>Room 606, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radisson_Collection_Royal_Hotel,_Copenhagen">SAS Royal Hotel</a> (Arne Jacobsen)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Ellwood">Craig Ellwood</a></li><li>Danish case study houses, per <a href="https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/residential/three-danish-modernist-houses">Wallpaper</a>*</li></ul>Transition: “Miniskirt,” by Esquivel<ul><li>Home 3: The <a href="https://desertstarpalmsprings.com/">Desert Star Apartments</a> (Motel), Howard Lapham, 1956; Converted to private residences in 2005</li><li>“Car decking”</li><li><a href="https://marble.com/granite-countertops/ubatuba/654#:~:text=Ubatuba%20is%20a%20popular%20granite%20from%20Brazil.,Brazil%20*%20**Colors**%20Gold%2C%20grey%2C%20green%2C%20black">Uba Tuba marble</a></li><li><a href="https://cameo.mfa.org/wiki/Calico_marble">Calico marble</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrara_marble">Carrara marble</a></li><li><a href="https://www.adibs.com/collections/nichols-rugs?srsltid=AfmBOoqy6lklvgI18l5Du37-Xk82ywikyYioZcoAorGjVmE61kcNAxy_">Nichols Company Chinese Art Deco rugs</a></li><li><a href="https://www.rizzoliusa.com/book/9780847842551/">The Palm Springs School, by Alan Hess</a>, (Rizzoli, 2025)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Knoll">Florence Knoll</a></li></ul>Transition: “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody),” by Talking HeadsPart 3: An Archipelago of Disney Lifestyle<ul><li>Mad Men: Season 2, Episode 12, “The Mountain King.”</li><li><a href="https://www.storylivingbydisney.com/cotino/">Storyliving by Disney: Cotino, Rancho Mirage, CA</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunnylands">Sunnylands</a></li><li><a href="https://www.storylivingbydisney.com/asteria/">Storyliving by Disney, Asteria</a>, Pittsboro, NC</li><li><a href="https://dmbdevelopment.com/">DMB Development</a></li><li>It’s not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebration%2C_Florida">Celebration, FL</a></li><li><a href="https://www.crystal-lagoons.com/">Crystal Lagoons</a> – “Swimming pools are things of the past.”</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai_Festival_City">Dubai Festival City</a></li><li><a href="https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374533519/aerotropolis/">"Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next"</a></li><li><a href="https://florida.uli.org/speakers/">ULI Florida Summit, Orlando</a></li><li><a href="https://www.fordham.edu/school-of-professional-and-continuing-studies/academics/real-estate-institute/faculty/">Joshua Harris</a></li><li>“<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/02/american-loneliness-personality-politics/681091/">The Anti-Social Century</a>,” by Derek Thompson, in The Atlantic, February 2025</li><li><a href="https://www.testfit.io/">TestFit</a></li><li>Greg’s address to the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7425575367060553728/?originTrackingId=RyBO8d6peCR5RT%2F4wEqGAg%3D%3D">ULI Global Governing Trustees Meeting</a>, Washington DC</li><li>“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowling_Alone">Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community</a>,” by Robert Putnam (2000)</li><li><a href="https://www.candlelighthomes.com/communities/firefly">Firefly by Candlelight Homes</a>, Eagle Mountain, Utah</li><li><a href="https://stonethrowclub.com/">Stonethrow</a>, Dallas</li><li><a href="https://chrisleinberger.com/biographies">Christopher Leinberger</a></li></ul>Transition: “Terms and Conditions,” by Dan Safarik, recorded on the Teenage Engineering Riddim EP-40 dub machinePart 4: Terms and Conditions of CotinoTransition: “The Community of Hope,” by PJ HarveyPart 5: The Community of Hope<ul><li>Artifacts of an optimistic age:</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_New_York_World%27s_Fair">New York World’s Fair 1964</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_67">Montreal Expo 1967</a></li><li>“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalist_Realism">Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative</a>?”, by Mark Fisher</li><li>“<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Desert_of_the_Real">Welcome to the Desert of the Real</a>,” by Slavoj Zizek</li><li><a href="https://bnpparibasopen.com/">BNP Paribas Indian Wells Open</a>, sponsored by Emirates Airlines and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia</li><li>The destruction of the present and perhaps the future: Dubai’s neo-liberalism vs Iran and the rest of the world coming to its doorstep with bombs</li><li>Palm Springs International Airport Main Building, Donald Wexler, 1966</li></ul>Outro: “Crawl Home,” by Desert Sessions (Josh Homme feat. PJ Harvey)

Mar 8

1 hr 47 min

115. Homegrown Cities

Intro/Outro: “Coming Up,” by Cornershop--Discussed:<ul><li><a href="https://www.versobooks.com/products/730-the-homegrown-city">Homegrown Cities: Reclaiming the Metropolis for Its Users</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dharavi">Dharavi</a>, Mumbai (including Koliwada)</li><li><a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/episode-31-emergent-tokyo-346">Emergent Tokyo</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikumen">Shanghai Shikumen</a></li><li><a href="https://urbz.net/articles/slum-outside">Urbz: The Slum Outside</a></li><li>Stewart Brand: “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Buildings_Learn">How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built</a>”</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott">James C. Scott</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hernando_de_Soto_(economist)">Hernando de Soto</a> and land title</li><li>“Ad-hocracy”</li><li><a href="https://dsrny.com/project/open-house">Open House: Levittown</a> intervention by DS+R, Droog &amp; EFGH, 2011</li><li><a href="https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2011/07/18/foreclosed-title-and-model-scenarios/">MoMA Foreclosed</a> project: Cicero, 2011</li></ul><a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1400">Uneven Growth: Tactical Urbanisms for Expanding Megacities | MoMA</a>, 2014-2015

Mar 2

51 min

114. Africa's Buildings

--Intro/Outro: “Afrique Victime,” by Mdou Moctar--Discussed:<a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691251431/africas-buildings">Africa’s Buildings: Architecture and the Displacement of Cultural Heritage</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Magdala">Siege of Magdala, Ethiopia</a>, 1867-8 &gt; Request for return of items, 1872<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Expedition_of_1897">Benin Expedition of 1897</a>Egypt is in Africa!<a href="https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-nigeria-benin-bronzes-art-restitution-9075dc135bc2a207f9b22e8762e620d1">Netherlands’ return of the Benin bronzes</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin_Dialogue_Group">Benin Dialogue Group</a><a href="https://apnews.com/article/travel-museums-africa-70f80520cf1bfcca6059e16a316bc76e">US museums’ return of Benin bronzes</a>Flashback to Episode 57: <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/57-biennale-breakdown-2-untimely-meditations-virtual-repatriations">Looty</a> (Chidi Nwaubani) - raiding the British Museum in “digital repatriation”<a href="https://www.archpaper.com/2023/06/lesley-lokkos-venice-architecture-biennale-is-a-welcome-breath-of-futuristic-air/">Lesley Lokko //&nbsp; Venice Biennale 2023</a> // <a href="https://www.africanfuturesinstitute.com/">African Futures Institute</a><a href="https://wearemowaa.org/">Museum of West African Art (MoWAA)</a>, Benin City, Nigeria (ex-Edo-Benin), by <a href="https://www.adjaye.com/">Adjaye Associates</a><a href="https://wearemowaa.org/news-and-ideas/statement-from-mowaa">Demonstration against MoWAA</a>, November 2025<a href="https://mcn-sn.com/">Musee de Civilization Noir (MCN)</a> Dakar, Senegal<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_Williamsburg">Colonial Williamsburg</a> (reconstructed village / open-air museum) model applied to Africa?… or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xintiandi">Xintiandi</a>, Shanghai<a href="https://www.nmt.go.tz/pages/village-museum">Village Museum</a>, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos_Museum">Jos Museum</a>, Northern Nigeria<a href="https://www.juliawatson.com/">Julia Watson</a> – Lo-Tek<a href="https://modelofarchitecture.org/">MASS Design Group</a>, Rwanda<a href="https://zeitzmocaa.museum/with-grace-and-light/?v=0b3b97fa6688">Koyo Koouh</a> – Art Biennale – Zeitz MoCAA<a href="https://www.panafricanbiennale.org/">Pan-African Biennale of Architecture</a> – Nairobi, Kenya, September 2026 (Omar Degan)

Feb 23

51 min

113. The Disappointed Tourist

Intro: “Ruins,” by Pink FrostOutro: “Disappointed,” by Morrissey--Discussed:- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/">The Disappointed Tourist</a> – site and project- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/atlantis/">Atlantis</a>- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/berlin-night-club/">Berlin Nightclub</a>, Chicago, closed 2023- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/birmingham-central/">Birmingham Central Library –</a> J.H. Chamberlain, Birmingham, UK, b. 1882, d. 1974- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/birmingham-central-library/">Birmingham Central Library</a> – John Madin, Birmingham, UK, b. 1974, d. 2015- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/black-wall-street/">Black Wall Street –</a> Tulsa, d. 1921- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/cathedral-christ/">Cathedral of Christ the Saviour –</a> Konstantin Thon, Moscow, b. 1883, d. 1931- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/cbgb/">CBGB &amp; OMFUG</a> – New York, b. 1973, d. 2006- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/colossus-of-rhodes/">Colossus of Rhodes</a>, d. 226- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/commuter-carpet-by-ellen-harvey/">Commuter Carpet by Ellen Harvey –&nbsp;</a>Francisco CTA Station, Chicago, b. 2007, d. 2025- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/great-synagogue-warsaw/">Great Synagogue – </a>Warsaw, b. 1878, d. 1943- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/kims-video-and-music/">Kim’s Video –&nbsp;</a>New York, c. 2014- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/nauvoo-temple/">Mormon Temple – Nauvoo,</a> IL, b. 1843, d. 1848- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/other-music/">Other Music</a>, New York, b. 1995, d. 2016- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/penn-station/">Penn Station</a> – McKim, Mead &amp; White, New York, b. 1910, d. 1963- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/riverview/">Riverview – Chicago, b.</a> 1904, d. 1967&nbsp;- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/robin-hood-gardens/">Robin Hood Gardens –</a> Alison &amp; Peter Smithson, b. 1972, d. 2017- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/tower-records/">Tower Records</a> – New York, b. 1983, d. 2006- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/ukraine/">Ukraine</a>- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/world-trade-center/">World Trade Center</a> – New York, b. 1973, d. 2001- <a href="https://disappointedtourist.org/worldbeforeplastic/">The World Before Plastic</a>, d. 1907- <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal_Forum">The Montreal Forum</a>, b. 1924, r. 1998- <a href="https://theclio.com/entry/158351">Temple B’Nai Jehuda</a>, Clarence Kivett and Ralph Myers, Kansas City, b. 1967, d. 2003<a href="https://www.ellenharvey.info/utopia_machine/">Utopia Machine</a>

Feb 16

49 min

112. The Invention of the Future

Bruno Carvalho is a Harvard professor and author of <a href="https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691246550/the-invention-of-the-future">The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World</a>. The book explores the evolution of urban planning, the impact of transportation on city development, and the interplay between planners and the organic growth of cities. On this episode of Unfrozen, we question the reliability of historical narratives, the role of technology in shaping urban futures, and the challenges of modern urbanism.--Intro/Outro: “In the Future,” by Sparks--Discussed:Urban Plans, Cities &amp; Experiments<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1755_Lisbon_earthquake">Lisbon earthquake, 1755</a></li><li><a href="en.wikipedia.org%20in%20Bing)">Commissioners’ Plan of 1811 (NYC Grid)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bras%C3%ADlia">Brasília</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcosanti">Arcosanti (Paolo Soleri)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside,_Illinois">Riverside, Illinois (Olmsted &amp; Vaux)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkways_in_New_York">New York Parkway System</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwinville,_Massachusetts">Baldwinville, Massachusetts</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neom">NEOM (Saudi Arabia)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagos">Lagos (Nigeria)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta">Jakarta (Indonesia)</a> &nbsp;</li></ul>Key Figures in Architecture &amp; Planning<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebasti%C3%A3o_Jos%C3%A9_de_Carvalho_e_Melo,_1st_Marquis_of_Pombal">Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges-Eug%C3%A8ne_Haussmann">Baron Georges-Eugene Hausmann</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Howard">Ebenezer Howard</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Moreno_(urbanist)">Carlos Moreno</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marchetti%27s_constant">Cesar Marchetti</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BAcio_Costa">Lúcio Costa</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Niemeyer">Oscar Niemeyer</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juscelino_Kubitschek">Juscelino Kubitschek</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Soleri">Paolo Soleri</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Romer">Paul Romer (Economist; Charter Cities)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted">Frederick Law Olmsted</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cook_(architect)">Peter Cook (Archigram)</a> <a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FPeter_Cook_%28architect%29%22">(en.wikipedia.org in Bing)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Gehl">Jan Gehl</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A9s_Duany">Andrés Duany (New Urbanism)</a></li><li><a href="https://tclf.org/pioneer/clarke-rapuano">Clarke &amp; Rapuano (via Robert Moses)</a></li></ul>Infrastructure, Policy &amp; Governance<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal-Aid_Highway_Act_of_1956">Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956</a> &nbsp;</li></ul>Political Economy, Land &amp; State Power<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_George">Henry George</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State">Seeing Like a State (James C. Scott)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=%22https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Modernist_City%22">The Modernist City (James Holston)</a></li><li><a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/753001/the-land-trap-by-mike-bird/">The Land Trap (Mike Bird)</a></li></ul>

Feb 9

44 min

111. American Bridge

Intro/Outro: “Lattice,” by Tipper--Discussed:<ul><li><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262552110/american-bridge/">American Bridge: Reinventing Building, Making History</a></li><li>Gregory Dreicer</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice_truss_bridge">Lattice bridge</a> patented 1820 by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithiel_Town">Ithiel Town</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Jackson_Davis">A.J. Davis</a></li><li>Nationalism and national character (e.g. “American,” “British”)</li><li>Wooden bridges and iron bridges</li><li>Evolutionary analogies (“technology evolves”)</li><li>Evolutionary hierarchies</li><li>Industrialization myths</li><li>Industrialization of construction</li><li>Invention of the beam</li><li>Uniform parts</li><li>Knowledge types: “technology” and “science”</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howe_truss">Howe truss</a>, patented 1840</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_truss">Warren truss</a>, patented 1848</li><li>Invention as networked, transnational process</li><li>Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Watson_(landscape_designer)">Julia Watson</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannia_Bridge">Britannia Bridge</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephenson">Robert Stephenson</a></li><li>Railway boom and Bezos’&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/jeff-bezos-ai-in-an-industrial-bubble-but-society-to-benefit.html?msockid=170162089b5f6d6304fc74ec9ac26c96">“good bubble</a>”</li><li>Railway construction labor</li><li><a href="https://www.press.purdue.edu/author/tom-f-peters/">Tom F. Peters’</a>, Manhattan grid, redundancy</li><li>Structural redundancy and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key_Bridge_(Baltimore)">Key Bridge, Baltimore</a></li><li>Iron as symbol</li><li><a href="https://www.coveredbridgesociety.org/">Covered bridges</a></li><li>Techno-utopianism</li><li>History of engineering and design</li><li>Myth of abundance of wood in the US</li></ul>

Jan 24

37 min

110. Incorporating Architects

--Intro/Outro: “Beancounter,” by The Cooper Vane--Discussed:<ul><li><a href="https://www.ucpress.edu/books/incorporating-architects/paper">Incorporating Architects: How American Architecture Became a Practice of Empire</a>, by Aaron Cayer</li><li>Episode 90 – <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/90-magalopolis-1">Magalopolis</a></li><li>Episode 104 – <a href="https://unfrozenarch.net/episodes/make-gaza-great-again">Make Gaza Great Again</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudill_Rowlett_Scott">Caudill Rowlett Scott</a>, 1946-1994</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Architects_Collaborative">The Architects Collaborative</a>, 1945-1995</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halliburton">Halliburton</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechtel">Bechtel</a></li><li><a href="https://www.gensler.com/">Gensler</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AECOM">AECOM</a> / DMJM</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C._Portman_Jr.">John Portman</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URS_Corporation">URS</a>, 1951-2014</li><li><a href="https://www.gao.gov/products/b-207849">Brooks Act</a>, 1972</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemian_Grove">Bohemian Grove</a></li><li><a href="https://gluckplus.com/">GLUCK+</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton">Booz Allen Hamilton</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litton_Industries">Litton Industries</a>, 1953-2001</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crying_of_Lot_49">The Crying of Lot 49</a>, by Thomas Pynchon</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Bourdieu">Pierre Bourdieu</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Kahn_(architect)">Albert Kahn</a></li><li><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262049115/albert-kahn-inc/">Albert Kahn Inc.: Architecture, Labor, and Industry</a>,&nbsp;by Claire Zimmerman</li><li><a href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16482793W/Final_report_to_the_General_Court_of_the_Special_Commission_Concerning_State_and_County_Buildings?edition=finalreporttogen13mass">Final report to the General Court of the Special Commission Concerning State and County Buildings</a> (Massachusetts, 1980)</li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Mountain_(company)">Iron Mountain</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Pelli">Cesar Pelli</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_J._Lumsden">Anthony Lumsden</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_(rocket_family)">Titan (rocket family)</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Martin_Smith">Jack Martin Smith</a></li><li><a href="https://www.blastbooks.com/book/another-science-fiction/">Another Science Fiction</a>, by Megan Prelinger</li></ul>

Dec 27, 2025