<p>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: <a href="https://michelechampagne.com/">Michele Champagne</a>, <a href="https://www.thenation.com/authors/kate-wagner/">Kate Wagner</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/marisajahn/">Marisa Moran Jahn</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bekim-ramku-50154314/">Bekim Ramku</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rafi-segal-22b860b/">Rafi Segal</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannegang/">Jeanne Gang</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-cavagnero/">Mark Cavagnero</a>. 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.</p><p>--</p><p>Intro/Outro: “Bounder of Adventure,” by The Cooper Vane</p><p>--</p><p>Discussed:</p><p>-      Olly Wainwright: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/09/robots-aperol-spritz-venice-architecture-biennale-2025-review-3d">Can robots make the perfect Aperol spritz? – Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 review | Architecture | The Guardian</a></p><p>-         Rowan Moore: <a href="https://observer.co.uk/culture/architecture/article/venice-architecture-biennale-review-2025">Venice Architecture Biennale review: ‘a hot mess of pretension’ | The Observer</a></p><p>-         <a href="https://nyra.nyc/">The New York Architecture Review</a> crew: Nicolas, Chloe and Sammy</p><p>-         International Exhibition in the Arsenale</p><p>o  Robots, hemp, bio-concrete, 8-point font with AI-assisted summaries</p><p>o  <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/drkatecrawford/">Kate Crawford</a> and Vladan Joier’s megascale text: <a href="https://calculatingempires.net/">Calculating Empires</a></p><p>o   Bjarke Ingels Group’s entry: <a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/collective/ancient-future-bridging-bhutan%E2%80%99s-tradition-and-innovation">Ancient Future</a>, with Bhutanese carvers paced by an ABB robot</p><p>o  Christopher Hawthorne’s Speaker’s Corner</p><p>o  Shades of Rem Koolhaas’ 2014 Fundamentals edition</p><p>-         Kate Wagner’s review:</p><p>o  Dated techno-optimism</p><p>o  Cannibalism of architecture by art and exhibition design</p><p>-         National Pavilions:</p><p>o  Austria: “<a href="https://labiennale2025.at/en/">Agency for Better Living</a>”</p><p>o  Canada: “<a href="https://picoplanktonics.com/">Picoplanktonics</a>” by The Living Room Collective</p><p>o  Denmark: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/denmark">Build of Site</a>”</p><p>o  Estonia: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/estonia">Let Me Warm You</a>”</p><p>o  Romania: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/romania">Human Scale</a>”</p><p>o  Saudi Arabia: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/saudi-arabia">The Um Slaim School: An Architecture of Connection</a>”</p><p>o  Slovenia: “<a href="https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2025/slovenia-republic">Master Builders</a>”</p><p>o  South Korea: