The way we build today is broken. 

During the Renaissance, people understood Architecture as the human habitat, the backdrop of everyday life. Consequently, they strove to infuse beauty and meaning into the everyday. To facilitate human flourishing through the built world. 

But today, our communities are a reflection of financial incentives, entrenched bureaucracy, meaningless consumption, and corporate destruction of local culture and identity, with no real guiding vision. 

The result is an ugly, inhumane, disposable world.  Who can argue that anything we build today will be loved or valued, let alone exist, 500 years from now? 

At Building Culture, we believe in the incredible human potential to shape our own world and to make it better.  Not just for ourselves, but for our children.  

But technical know-how isn’t enough.  Real change, real beauty, and real prosperity must be forged at the intersection of science and art, materiality and meaning, building and culture.  Our world is a reflection of beliefs and values as much as it is a reflection of our technical prowess. 

On The Building Culture Podcast, I interview top experts and trailblazers working in the industry who are contributing towards building a thriving future, and share my own experience as Founder of Building Culture as we evolve from a design + build company into a holistic real estate development company that builds human scaled neighborhoods that enrich the world.

Together, we can explore a new vision for city-building in the 21st century, and equip a new generation of architects, developers and builders to craft a more beautiful, resilient and thriving world for people.

- Austin Tunnell, Host & Founder of Building Culture