Designbuild Pedagogies for Social Change: Past, Present and Potentials

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 ...