Jun 11, 2020
We are joined in-studio by David Getzin, a longtime friend of
the show, many of you may remember us reading his emails about good
pipe tobacco and constructing a Djed Drill. He was on a
cross-country road trip and stopped by to visit us here on the
plateau, and once we started talking about ancient mysteries and
other similar snakebro topics, we realized, we had to record a
podcast with him. So we all climbed into the tangent cube and,
amidst copious clouds of fine tobacco smoke and a few glasses of
wine, we recorded this episode.
The discussion ranges across many topics, but the main idea David
describes is something called the "Prime Symbol" in architectural
expression of cultures and civilizations across the ages, how it
changes, and what it means for us now in the modern age. We talk
about the categorizations of Prime Symbol in past cultures and what
they tell us about how those cultures viewed the world around them,
and how that may help us understand how to better express a modern
Prime Symbol in our own architecture.
You can follow David and his work through his
podcast, A History of Architecture, his
YouTube channel Living Process, and his
website, Living Process, LLC.