Building Culture
Austin Tunnell, host of the Building Culture Podcast — seated portrait.
Podcast

The Building Culture Podcast

Long conversations on the long game — architecture, cities, capital, and the people building real places.

Hosted by Austin Tunnell.

Why

America is the wealthiest, most technologically advanced society in history.

And yet the habitat we’ve built is excruciatingly ugly, destructive, and inhuman.

There’s no single reason. A century of regulation making walkable neighborhoods illegal: exclusionary zoning, parking minimums, building codes, fire laws. Capital markets built around the five-year exit instead of the generational hold. An industry that doesn’t think about place at all. No single lever moves it. More touch faucets and drive-throughs won’t fix it.

A more thriving world is possible — but it won’t come from nostalgia, raw technology, or conventional thinking. It will come from fusing time-tested wisdom with modern innovation, and from the people who are actually doing the work. On this podcast, I sit down with them.

Where to listen
Episodes