Academic design-build programs offer a method of teaching that outperforms conventional architecture pedagogy. Design build learning outcomes including those focused on complexity and collaborative problem solving offer transferable lessons that young designers can take with them into the profession. This is a baseline assumption our university’s community design center has operated under for fourteen years, an assumption based on academic writings, antidote, and personal experience. With hundreds of alumni now in practice, we used a web-based survey instrument to test these assumptions and assess the outcomes of the design-build mode of education.
Can community design build trust? A comparative study of design factors in Boise, Idaho neighborhoods
