Patrick Donley sits down with Marilyn Moedinger to chat about her career in architecture and academia, her early days in construction as a general laborer and project manager, what it was like traveling around the world studying vernacular architecture, and how it’s been renovating a 300-year-old family farm house, plus a whole lot more.

Marilyn is the founding principal of Runcible Studios and has been an adjunct professor for over 10 years where she has taught design studios, construction detailing, building science, theory, and design/build

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN:

00:00 - Intro.

02:47 - How Marilyn got turned onto architecture.

06:24 - Why she took a job as a general laborer right out of college.

11:22 - What are some of her early challenges were as a project manager?

25:59 - Why going back to get a Masters degree at UVA was one of her best financial decisions?

28:35 - What is involved in getting licensed as an architect?

35:00 - What her next steps were after obtaining her Masters degree in architecture.

36:01 - How she got to travel around the world studying vernacular architecture.

44:50 - What the jump was like starting her own architecture practice.

45:48 - Why academia wasn’t for her.

53:53 - Why she named her company Runcible Studios.

55:13 - How she survived during the pandemic doing other entrepreneurial ventures.

60:16 - What it’s been like renovating a 300-year-old family farm house.

66:40 - What her own real estate portfolio looks like and her plans for the future.

69:36 - How she bought and managed a renovation sight unseen.

72:55 - How she used a 1031 on a condo she rented to purchase two properties.

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