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DESIGN:ED Podcast: Jack Becker and Andrew Linn

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Jack Becker and Andrew Linn, founders of 2023 Design Vanguard firm BLDUS, join Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast to discuss the studio's unique approach to materiality, the influence of research on the architectural process, and how design can encourage collaboration in their homebase of Washington, D.C.

“We are very keen on involving ourselves in the construction process—a bunch of our projects we have designed, built, and developed. In that sense, we have maintained quite a bit of control. We are not fetishizing a type of image that is supposed to be static and perfect. We have accepted that the final product is a living breathing thing that we know will change. That is something that we are invested in, the long-term.”

- Jack Becker

Hosted by Austin, Texas–based architect Aaron Prinz, Architectural Record’s DESIGN:ED podcast has featured the most renowned architects of our time—such as Art Gensler, Kengo Kuma, and Glenn Murcutt, as well as rising professionals in the next generation, such as Pascale Sablan, Michael Murphy, and Jenny Wu, all available in our library.

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