Unfrozen

Daniel Safarik

A podcast on architecture and urbanism.

  1. MAR 31

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

    Intro: “S.P.Q.R.” by This Heat Discussed: Paul Goldberger “Trump Will Destroy Washington if It’s the Last Thing He Does,” New York Times, March 13, 2026 More Times analysis on the White House ballroom plans Godwin’s Law Albert Speer Benjamin Latrobe Alternate venues, that would not require a new ballroom at the White House: National Building MuseumMellon AuditoriumMoynihan Train Hall Saarinen's Dulles Airport design  “Fedlandia” – a plan to rebuild 230 acres of Federal downtown Washington East Potomac Golf Links Trump takeover plan, and the resistance National Garden of American Heroes Christopher Columbus statue, Baltimore White House ballroom architects James McCreryShalom BaranesArc de Trump – Justin Shubow Suit against Kennedy Center renovations Mamdani’s Trump-whispering to get funding for the Sunnyside Yards overbuild Dulles Airport overhaul proposals Original Dulles Airport mobile lounges John Foster Dulles Trump offer to release Gateway Tunnel funds in exchange for naming Penn Station after him Renaming of Palm Beach airport, after Trump Renovation and expansion of the US Embassy in Delhi, India (Edward Durell Stone > Weiss Manfredi) Penn Station reconstruction under Trump: Move Madison Square Garden?AECOM joint venture to lead project managementASTM + HOK + PAU Plan: Keep MSG, remove Hulu TheaterMoynihan Train Hall Ballpark: Baseball in the American City FIFA Sites include: Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MAArrowhead Stadium, Kansas City, MOSoFi Stadium, Inglewood, CAAT&T Stadium, Arlington, TXChuck Klosterman: “Football” as a “hyperobject” Milan San Siro (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza) NY Jets plan for West Side stadium Upcoming Goldberger book (11/17/2026): “The Imperfect City: Design, Serendipity, and the Real Life of Cities” -- Outro: “The Leopards Ate My Face,” by Franchesca Ramsey

    50 min
  2. MAR 8

    116. The Desert of the Real

    Intro: “Megeve,” by Henry Mancini Part 1: White-Hot Mid-Century Blowout The Lautner Compound (Hotel Lautner)Lucien HubbardJohn LautnerAlbert FreyFrey House IITamarisk trees“Racist Trees,” the movie, and the blowback from Tucker CarlsonPart 2: Palm Springs Mod Squad tours by Kurt Cyr Transition: “Loose Caboose,” by Henry Mancini Home 1: The Wentworth, Fairway Estates, Donald Wexler, 1965; addition by Robin Abrahams, 2022The Alexander Construction Co.Pilkington float glassCanyon View Estates – Palmer & Krisel for the Alexanders -- home of “Barbie” and “Don’t Worry Darling” Atomic Ranch magazineRoman tubsTransition: “Caravan,” by John Buzon Trio Home 2: Kurt Cyr home, Kurt Cyr, 2020Lawrence Crossley and the Crossley TractWashingtonia filifera (California palm)Hortus conclususKenny Irwin Jr. robot designs, feat. “Winston”Hans WegnerRoom 606, SAS Royal Hotel (Arne Jacobsen)Craig EllwoodDanish case study houses, per Wallpaper*Transition: “Miniskirt,” by Esquivel Home 3: The Desert Star Apartments (Motel), Howard Lapham, 1956; Converted to private residences in 2005“Car decking”Uba Tuba marbleCalico marbleCarrara marbleNichols Company Chinese Art Deco rugsThe Palm Springs School, by Alan Hess, (Rizzoli, 2025)Florence KnollTransition: “This Must Be the Place (Naïve Melody),” by Talking Heads Part 3: An Archipelago of Disney Lifestyle Mad Men: Season 2, Episode 12, “The Mountain King.”Storyliving by Disney: Cotino, Rancho Mirage, CASunnylandsStoryliving by Disney, Asteria, Pittsboro, NCDMB DevelopmentIt’s not Celebration, FLCrystal Lagoons – “Swimming pools are things of the past.”Dubai Festival City"Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next"ULI Florida Summit, OrlandoJoshua Harris“The Anti-Social Century,” by Derek Thompson, in The Atlantic, February 2025TestFitGreg’s address to the ULI Global Governing Trustees Meeting, Washington DC“Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community,” by Robert Putnam (2000)Firefly by Candlelight Homes, Eagle Mountain, UtahStonethrow, DallasChristopher LeinbergerTransition: “Terms and Conditions,” by Dan Safarik, recorded on the Teenage Engineering Riddim EP-40 dub machine Part 4: Terms and Conditions of Cotino Transition: “The Community of Hope,” by PJ Harvey Part 5: The Community of Hope Artifacts of an optimistic age:New York World’s Fair 1964Montreal Expo 1967“Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?”, by Mark Fisher“Welcome to the Desert of the Real,” by Slavoj ZizekBNP Paribas Indian Wells Open, sponsored by Emirates Airlines and the Public Investment Fund of Saudi ArabiaThe 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 bombsPalm Springs International Airport Main Building, Donald Wexler, 1966Outro: “Crawl Home,” by Desert Sessions (Josh Homme feat. PJ Harvey)

    1h 48m

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A podcast on architecture and urbanism.