David Galullo, Rapt Studio

03/22/22 • 51 min

David Galullo roots himself in the idea of placemaking and how people use spaces to connect and build communities rather than the utilitarian side of architecture. It is with this lens, Galullo founded his multidisciplinary firm, Rapt Studio, where he has been pushing boundaries for clients from Goop to Google for the last ten years. When approaching projects, Galullo wants his team to question everything, noting that just because something has been designed a certain way for years, doesn't mean it should stay that way. Find out why he says "there is no better time to be a designer than now."

Thank you for listening! For more of our great interviews, find us at hospitalitydesign.com.

Thank you for listening! For more of our great interviews, find us at hospitalitydesign.com.

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Hospitality Design: What I've Learned - David Galullo, Rapt Studio

Transcript

Stacy Shoemaker Rauen: Hi, I'm here with David. Thanks so much for joining me today. How are you?

David Galullo: : I'm good. Thank you.

SSR: Yeah, thanks for joining. So we always start at the beginning at this podcast. So where did you grow up?

DG: I grew up in New Jersey in a little town called Hamilton Square, which was really just the middle of farmland when I was little. Now it's really kind of a suburb

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