ABSTRACT
Viscerally and experientially, architecture makes its deepest marks on people. Yet, in the architectural design studio—the unique, insatiable incubator of ideas—students are predominantly educated to design buildings cerebrally and analytically. Designbuild programs provide opportunities for educators to shift the brackets to include the additional aspects of the discipline, such as directly engaged collaboration with communities, clients, and consultants; cost estimating, budgeting, and construction costs; product and material research and testing; detailing, craftsmanship, and fabrication processes; and the means and methods of construction—issues that are understandably excluded or marginalized in the conventional design studio. Designbuild pedagogy is not philosophically innocent, that is, it is not simply another method of delivering the same basic content. Design principles are often, in potential and raw form, already present within the complex and disparate forces coming to bear on a project.
