Overview

This volume explores the transformative social change at the heart of designbuild education. From Black Mountain College to Rural Studio, designbuild was once viewed as a subversive critique of architectural education separate from the mainstream. Yet designbuild courses have exploded in popularity in the last decade so that nearly all schools of architecture boast designbuild programs or projects. With that widespread acceptance of designbuild comes a range of approaches and outcomes, from hands-on material and technological experimentation to the construction of large-scale projects addressing social challenges of their time and place. In Designbuild Pedagogies, leaders and innovators in designbuild pedagogy from around the world expound on the methods they use to approach their work and the potentials they envisage for this expanding mode of teaching. Collectively, these pieces frame designbuild as a radical form of education that shifts academic paradigms toward social justice. This book is structured into three main sections, The Past, The Present, and The Potentials and includes pieces by established practitioners and emerging voices from the US, Mexico, Chile, South Africa, Ecuador, Argentina, Thailand, Germany, the UK, and Australia. These provocative chapters make for an accessible and inspiring window into designbuild’s future and will be of interest to faculty and students of architecture and related design disciplines.

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Reviews

""Designbuild Pedagogies for Social Change is a powerful reminder that architecture is never just about buildings — it is about making change. This book shows how designbuild collapses the boundaries between thinking and making, classroom and community, transforming education into a practice of justice. It is both a call to action and an invitation to see building as a deeply human endeavor - one that builds capacity, relationships, and hope."" Katie Swenson, Senior Principal, MASS Design Group; author of Design with Love and In Bohemia ""Architecture as an applied discipline, must integrate the head and the hand. The world of ideas and the world of things. Architecture as a profession emerged from the building trades in the Middle Ages. Architecture has its roots in building, and this book contains perspectives on people carrying on those traditions."" Brian MacKay-Lyons, Principal, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects; Founder of Ghost Lab ""This book gathers the leading pedagogical innovations in designbuild education—a radical and experimental tradition that first challenged modern architectural teaching. This work returns the relationship between design and construction to the heart of architectural education, exploring hands-on making as a catalyst to reimagine architecture´s social role and transformative potential."" Cristóbal Molina Baeza, Head of Architecture, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of Chile, Tulane Visiting Professor ""This book shows us many ways to make the important connections between students and real places and real people. These experiences are powerful and transformative and inform designers about practice in a way that cannot be done in the classroom. I hope it will encourage more schools and programs to pursue this work."" Elizabeth Mossop, Professor of Urban Resilience, University of Technology Sydney, Academic Director Living Lab Northern Rivers

Author Information

Emilie Taylor Welty is a leader in design-build education whose research and practice are grounded in material explorations and expanding access to design. She is an architect and Associate Professor at the Tulane School of Architecture and Built Environment where she serves as the architecture program director. Emilie is also co-founder and principal at Colectivo, an award winning New Orleans based architecture firm.

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