The Design-Build Studio: Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138121800 ISBN 13: 9781138121805

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map. Together these projects serve as a field guide to the current trends in academic design-build studios, a window into the different processes and methodologies being taught and realized today. Design-build supports the idea that building, making and designing are intrinsic to each other: knowledge of one strengthens and informs the expression of the other. Hands-on learning through the act of building what you design translates theories and ideas into real world experience. The work chronicled in this book reveals how this type of applied knowledge grounds us in the physicality of the world in which we live.

About this title

About the Author

Tolya Stonorov is a registered architect, Assistant Professor at Norwich University, Vermont, and co-founder of Stonorov Workshop, an architecture and building collaborative. She received an MArch from the University of California, Berkeley, and has practiced design-build since 2006. Among other honors, Stonorov was awarded the 2016 Vermont Women in Higher Education Peggy R. Williams Emerging Professional Award; her work has been widely published.

Review

"Stonorov advocates for a better architect - one that builds in a more complete way. The multi-faceted approach of building one's designs with the added value of community contributions should be a required experience for every budding architect."
 
- Clifford Curry, FAIA & Co-Founder of the Curry Stone Design Prize

"Too many architecture students are trapped in the design studio, denied the visceral act of making what they design, and the sense of purpose realized only when working in partnership with real communities. But this collection of design/build case studies and manifestos marks a turning point in architectural education from the studio to the field. It should be required reading for those who equip students to think with their hands and to apply design to the real world."

- Michael Crowley, President, Yestermorrow Design/Build School

The Design-Build Studio is a deep dive into the methods and lessons of the important educational tool known as design-build. The content provides a thorough presentation of the state of the art, and allows the reader to compare and contrast the thinking and making of thirty of the outstanding leaders in the field. This book presents a learning opportunity that will allow us all to better define what works well, and move further forward in the evolution of this inclusive, pluralistic, and transformative teaching method.

• Bryan Bell, Executive Director, Design Corps, Associate Professor, NC State University, Co-Founder, SEED Network

"These sweetly empowering stories share seat-of-the-pants problem-solving, tricks and tips learned in the course of ambitious, student-built public architecture installed around the corner and across the world."
 

• Dana Buntrock, Professor, Dept of Architecture + Chair, Center for Japanese Studies University of California, Berkeley

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138121800
• ISBN 13: 9781138121805
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Stonorov Tolya