Designing for Failure in the Design/Build Studio

The designbuild studio, as a form of academic live project, straddles academia and practice. The intersection of experiential learning with real world contexts raises a potentially complicated ethical dilemma: In striving to maximize student learning for each student, while simultaneously striving to deliver the best possible work of architecture, what happens when these two goals find themselves at odds? This paper explores salutary failure – of architectural product and, occasionally, of architectural pedagogy – in the designbuild studio through the lens of a series of designbuild projects. These explorations include strategies for anticipating and guiding potential failures and developing the generosity to embrace failure.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.75

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9