The school of helpful knocks: the experiential pedagogy of Design Build Research

2015-10-21T16:05:00-04:00

In some veins of architecture pedagogy, there seems to be a movement towards new technology at the expense of hands-on construction techniques. In the opinion of architect Michael Green and creative entrepreneur Scott Hawthorn, these schools increasingly churn out graduates who are so moored in abstraction that they have very little practical ability. This is problematic in a field where clients and real, physical buildings often refuse to be abstract. Design Build Research (DBR), based in Vancouver, British Columbia, is Green and Hawthorn’s solution to schools that isolate designers from the community for which they design.

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The school of helpful knocks: the experiential pedagogy of Design Build Research