Design-Build

<p>Design-Build provides everything you need to know about how to embark on a design-build project within a studio or professional practice setting. Design-build models have increased across academic programs worldwide allowing students to address the real-world challenges of working in the community using a participatory design process. In practice they offer a full partnership between the designer and builder to elevate design concepts and reduce project costs.</p><p>Written by an experienced practitioner and educator this book offers contextual background on the development of the design-build model in pedagogy and practice guidance from inception to conclusion for classroom and field usage discussions on the shift to community-engaged design and inspirational examples from international case studies. Illustrated in full color throughout it looks at structuring a design-build firm best-practice efficiency and the limitations of design-build as a practice model.</p><p>This is the fundamental guidebook for those interested in developing or working for a design-build professional practice academics leading design-build programs and students interested in social and environmental justice education and practice through a design-build model.</p>