106th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, The Ethical Imperative

Erasing the Product: The Search for a Design/Build Pedagogy

Annual Meeting Proceedings

Author(s): John Poros

Design / Build pedagogy has tended to focus on full scale construction with clients outside of the academy. While students learning how to construct in full scale and interact with a client are a plus of this approach, there are also many pitfalls. The greatest of these pitfalls is the overwhelming need to create a completed, functional building over the need for students to understand and explore how design, drawings, and specifications become translated into construction. The studio described in this paper attempts to stand that relationship on its head, minimizing the final product in order to explore more thoroughly the process of communicating construction.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AM.106.76

Volume Editors
Amir Ameri & Rebecca O'Neal Dagg

ISBN
978-1-944214-15-9