"Designbuild Pedagogies for Social Change is a powerful reminder that architecture is never just about buildings it is about making change. This book shows how designbuild collapses the boundaries between thinking and making, classroom and community, transforming education into a practice of justice. It is both a call to action and an invitation to see building as a deeply human endeavor - one that builds capacity, relationships, and hope."
Katie Swenson, Senior Principal, MASS Design Group; author of Design with Love and In Bohemia
"Architecture as an applied discipline, must integrate the head and the hand. The world of ideas and the world of things. Architecture as a profession emerged from the building trades in the Middle Ages. Architecture has its roots in building, and this book contains perspectives on people carrying on those traditions."
Brian MacKay-Lyons, Principal, MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects; Founder of Ghost Lab
"This book gathers the leading pedagogical innovations in designbuild educationa radical and experimental tradition that first challenged modern architectural teaching. This work returns the relationship between design and construction to the heart of architectural education, exploring hands-on making as a catalyst to reimagine architecture´s social role and transformative potential."
Cristóbal Molina Baeza, Head of Architecture, Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of Chile, Tulane Visiting Professor
"This book shows us many ways to make the important connections between students and real places and real people. These experiences are powerful and transformative and inform designers about practice in a way that cannot be done in the classroom. I hope it will encourage more schools and programs to pursue this work."
Elizabeth Mossop, Professor of Urban Resilience, University of Technology Sydney, Academic Director Living Lab Northern Rivers
