ABSTRACT
In advancing the cause of economic growth and public accountability, government policies commonly resort to the language of production. So the UK construction industry must ‘realise maximum value for all clients, end users and stakeholders and exceed their expectations through the consistent delivery of world class products and services’. 1 One means to this end is ‘education and training in the value of long term integrated supply chains’. 2 Education becomes part of that supply chain, supplying industry and the professions with a ready workforce. The factory metaphor suggests efficiency, uniformity, compliance and integration. This productivist rationality encounters resistance from architectural educators, 3 who negotiate the fine line between maintaining standards but also want to see creativity flourish through diversity and uncertainty.
