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The Design-Build Studio

Crafting Meaningful Work in Architecture Education
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The Design-Build Studio explores sixteen international, community-driven design-build projects, highlighting the integration of design, building, and making. With chapters on community engagement, digital and handmade techniques, and a graphic Time Map, the book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary academic design-build studios. It champions hands-on learning, showing how translating design theories into physical creations enriches both knowledge and experience.
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This book will appeal to students, educators, and practitioners in architecture and design, as well as those interested in community engagement and sustainable building methods.

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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.

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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, providing a window into the different processes and methodologies being taught and realised 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.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138121805

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 November 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 16 Line drawings, color; 140 Halftones, color; 156 Illustrations, color

Contributors:

  • Edited by Tolya Stonorov

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 189.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 834g

Pages: 286

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Arts & Culture Education & Reference Engineering, Technology & Agriculture Non-Fiction

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.

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