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Whatever becomes of Facebook\\u2019s corporate future \\u2013 and therefore the consequential Internet \\u2013 will play out in the world of Frank Gehry. The architect\\u2019s new HQ for Facebook in Menlo Park,\\xa0MPK20, opened earlier this week\\xa0with plentiful Instagrammed fanfare, and\\xa0Facebook recently submitted plans to build two more Gehry buildings\\xa0in the area. As we discuss on this week\\u2019s podcast, MPK20 is refreshingly old-school FOG, designed to embrace Facebook\'s \\u201cwork in progress\\u201d feel that Gehry\\u2019s rougher materiality embraces. It\\u2019s Facebook\\u2019s and FOG\\u2019s world; we\\u2019re just living in it.

This episode, we also discuss\\xa0the arrival of Airbnb in Cuba\\xa0\\u2013 whether this style of tourism could encourage architectural preservation, and what the company\\u2019s disruptive cachet means when there\\u2019s no status quo to disrupt. We\\u2019re also featuring part 1 of an interview I did with Kevin Roche, the Pritzker Prize winning architect who got his start over sixty years ago, working with Mies van der Rohe and Eero Saarinen. The 92-year old Roche, now at\\xa0Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates\\xa0outside of New Haven, Connecticut, shares his thoughts on the media\\u2019s role in architecture, the ideal client, and 21st century workplaces.