[1] Hull studied architecture at Washington State University, where he met future business partner David Miller.
After graduating from Washington State in 1972, Hull joined the Peace Corps, where he spent 4 years building sustainable schools in Afghanistan.
[2] Hull began his career working for modernist Marcel Breuer in New York City, and Rhone & Iredale in Vancouver, British Columbia.
[1] His buildings reflect a sensitivity to context, or "sense of place", and a commitment to environmental responsibility and sustainability.
[2] The ENR award-winning Bullitt Center[3] is the first commercial building in the USA to receive project certification from the Forest Stewardship Council[4] In 2013, Hull returned to Afghanistan to build a heath clinic and a school for girls in the cities of Herat and Mazar e Sharif, the same communities in which he had served as a Peace Corps volunteer at the beginning of his career.