ABSTRACT

The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map. Together these projects serve as a field guide to the current trends in academic design-build studios, a window into the different processes and methodologies being taught and realized today. Design-build supports the idea that building, making and designing are intrinsic to each other: knowledge of one strengthens and informs the expression of the other. Hands-on learning through the act of building what you design translates theories and ideas into real world experience. The work chronicled in this book reveals how this type of applied knowledge grounds us in the physicality of the world in which we live.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

Time Map

Graphic History of the Academic Design-Build Studio Case Studies

chapter 3|7 pages

Manifesto for Handwork

Quality, Material, and Ideas

chapter 4|9 pages

Manifesto for Digital Fabrication

Control, Craft, and Agency

part 5|81 pages

Case Studies: Fast Build Less than One Semester Programs

part 6|50 pages

Case Studies: Build Semester-Long Programs

part 7|83 pages

Case Studies: Long Build Semester-Plus Programs

chapter |3 pages

Conclusion