#25 | Gueston Smith | Shipping Container Architecture

Architect and designer Gueston Smith on prefab buildings, custom shipping container spaces, pop-up retail trailers, and designing clothing and sneakers. With a degree in architecture Gueston has helped pioneer progress in the industry of prefab structures, custom modified shipping container spaces, and mobile pop-up retail trailers in the United States. He has also taken his passion for designing spaces to designing products, clothing, sneakers and there is more to come. To learn more about Gueston: https://www.guesscreative.com Chapters 0:00 Welcome Gueston Smith 2:31 Going his own way 5:02 Why shipping containers work 7:37 Portable homes for the future 10:11 Growing up in Texas 12:49 Basketball at the Elridge School 15:19 The city championship 17:49 Video games and design software 20:20 Starting college at 16 22:52 What architecture school is like 25:28 The studio system 27:59 Bonding in the studio 30:33 The first class to use CAD 33:09 From thought to reality 35:40 Figuring yourself out 38:14 Din Tai Fung 40:45 Fencing, boxing and kung fu 43:15 Paths through architecture 45:47 A thesis inspired by Jordans 48:23 Ryan photographs the Shanghai World Financial Center 50:57 Watching a building go up 53:28 A unit one person can set up 56:03 Ryan's belongings in a container 58:34 Designing offices and labs 1:01:10 Graphic design on the side 1:03:43 Building skills and a network 1:06:17 Don't just quit and jump 1:08:47 Translating a client's vision 1:11:19 Designing a restaurant 1:13:51 A restaurant in a double-decker bus 1:16:21 Container homes on Airbnb 1:18:55 Experiences over hotels 1:21:27 Clothing, shoes and an electric ATV 1:24:01 Building on a slope 1:26:36 Factory-built modules 1:29:08 Building in phases 1:31:40 Resale value 1:34:11 Steel, concrete and fireproof homes 1:36:42 Where ideas come from 1:39:14 Bringing nature indoors 1:41:45 Wesley Snipes 1:44:18 The drive to downtown LA 1:46:49 Getting out the door to train 1:49:19 Building credibility 1:51:51 Two-way players and Vegas 1:54:22 How Mike D'Antoni changed the game 1:56:56 All-Star games then and now 1:59:27 Martial arts and architecture 2:02:01 Wrapping up The Ryan Pyle Podcast is ad-free by choice. If you enjoy these conversations, you can buy me a coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/ryanpyle Ryan's TV series are streaming around the world. Follow the Podcast X: https://x.com/RyanPylePodcast Facebook: https://facebook.com/ryanpylepodcast Follow Ryan Pyle YouTube: https://youtube.com/@ryanjpyle Instagram: https://instagram.com/ryanpyle X: https://x.com/RyanPyle Facebook: https://facebook.com/ryanpyle https://www.ryanpyle.com