Study Architecture 
ProPEL 
Author(s): Michael Hughes
The term design/build is a slight misnomer for these courses, which are intended less as surveys of the popular alternative delivery method than as hands-on clinics to teach students about sites, structures, materials, and joinery. Academic design/build programs remove design projects from the studio vacuum and push students to reconcile their drawings with real structures they can build, weld, wire, and plumb. They encourage students to work as part of collaborative teams, resolving conflicts, managing finances, and communicating with clients. Academics and construction industry professionals both use the term ‘Design-Build’ but the term is used differently by each group to describe two distinct operational strategies. In the construction industry, “Design-build is a method of project delivery in which one entity- the design-build team- works under a single contract with the project owner to provide design and construction services.” In contrast, design-build in schools of architecture refers to a teaching method distinguished by the integration of hands-on, full-scale construction as a fundamental component in the design process. In practice, confusion arising from this semantic overlap is limited by the fact that academic faculty and building contractors seldom intersect in daily practice.
https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2019.59
Volume Editors
Richard Blythe & Johan De Walsche
ISBN
978-1-944214-23-4
