Links:
Freemasonry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
Building Culture: https://www.buildingculture.com
Building Culture Playbook: https://playbook.buildingculture.com
X: https://x.com/AustinTunnell
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/buildingculture/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@BuildingCulture
Timestamps
0:00 – intro
1:31 – about the business, the name Building Culture, and the ingredients of building
8:30 – first big project and what communities mean in terms of daily life
13:22 – specifics of the project, statistics, and demographics
19:40 – how it might be getting easier to do different things, city councils, precedent, and public utilities
28:50 – designing firetrucks for the street, and not the other way around
30:47 – how Austin got into urbanism
33:44 – Clay Chapman and structural masonry
38:04 – why we love exposed brick in America
40:08 – Uganda and moving to Carleton landing
42:36 – inflection points and sticking things out, value of perserverance
45:22 – Austin’s first design and the accessibility of beauty, Austin’s first customer, and getting started
49:14 – the “crazy badness” of architecture school and architecture’s effect on human flourishing
54:24 – humanism first and why beauty is considered controversial
57:09 – Geoff and Austin’s optimism, change over the last 20 years, and the counter-culture
1:00:01 – conclusion and where you can find Austin
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