{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Tangents by Out of Architecture","title":"Challenging Traditional Architecture with Intelligent City’s Kristin Slavin","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2856,"description":"Ever feel traditional architecture moves too slowly to tackle crises like housing shortages?\n\nOur latest guest Kristin set out to transform delivery for faster, quality sustainable housing. Her winding path from design into development, prefab and product led her to a mass timber housing startup reimagining solutions.\n\nWe cover:\nKristin's career from architecture to a hands-on developer role empowering new mass timber construction\nTransitioning into modular construction and product development at a tech startup\nNow leading product design for a prefab mass timber housing company scaling impact\nBelief that systematizing architecture can enable more creative freedom\nAdvice for architects to explore adjacent roles like development and technology\n\nIn our latest episode we understand how Kristin took control over her career, how she's shaping \nthe future of housing delivery at her mass timber startup, and her advice for how you can diversify your skills and have more impact as a designer.\nGuest Bio:\nKristin Slavin is an expert and thought leader in mass timber construction and low carbon building design, which has led to an impactful, if unconventional, career path in product development. Her extensive experience as an architect, developer, and product manager of mass timber buildings and prefabricated building products has helped drive national building code changes and an industry wide shift to more sustainable building practices. Her built work includes Carbon12, the tallest CLT building in the US at completion. At Intelligent City, Kristin leads the development of the architectural design platform, building typologies, interior design, and building systems accessories, enabling a broad set of solutions for clients from a consistent technology platform. Her goal is to create high quality, low impact, cost effective building solutions using mass timber in a repeatable, systematized way.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LFgtK9qMKWQAYTWftATdQi_aagYUpNocMGX20yTuPUI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzMyOTY1LzE2Njcy/ODQwOTUtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}