ABSTRACT

Designbuild Education adopts the intellectual framework of American Pragmatism, which is a theory of action, to investigate architects’ compelling urge to build and how that manifests in collegiate designbuild programs. Organized into four themes—people, poetics, process, and practice—the book brings together new essays by some of today’s most well-known designbuild educators, including Andrew Freear from Rural Studio and Dan Rockhill from Studio 804, to shed light on the theoretical dimensions of their practice and work. Illustrated with over 100 black and white images.

chapter |16 pages

Introduction: Hands on, Minds on

Motivations of the Designbuild Educator

part 1|62 pages

People

chapter 1|14 pages

Backyard Architecture

chapter 2|15 pages

Design / Build / Evaluate

Connecting with Actual Humans

chapter 3|14 pages

Embracing Uncertainty

Community Designbuild

chapter 4|17 pages

Each One Teach One

Nested Associations in Designbuild Education

part 2|44 pages

Poetics

chapter 6|15 pages

Architecture into Presence

chapter 7|15 pages

The Action of Poetry

part 3|45 pages

Process

chapter 8|15 pages

In Process

chapter 9|14 pages

Embodied Making

Designing at Full Scale

chapter 10|14 pages

Practicing the Digital Vernacular

Raising a Barn and Raising Questions

part 4|61 pages

Practice

chapter 11|16 pages

Second Nature

Embedded Knowledge through Designbuild Education

chapter 12|14 pages

Labor-Intensive

Innovation by Necessity

chapter 13|13 pages

From Scratch

How to Start a Designbuild Program

chapter 14|16 pages

Work Ethic, Ethical Work

A Conversation with Designbuild Pioneer Dan Rockhill