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I Design. I Build. Sometimes in That Order: An Argument for Construction-Centered Design Process

Huizenga, Richard
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5023-2764
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460653534

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2016, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
There exists a chasm between the world of design and the world of construction and fabrication. In contemporary practice and studio education it has had a significant impact on the way architects work, and by extension, the way architects think. Architects are not involved in the actual construction process, and contractors are not involved in the design process. This has yielded a cultural arrogance within the profession as well as academia that views architects as being on a higher level than construction professionals1 and accepts selective disregard or ignorance of construction realities as an acceptable status quo that begins at the foundational education level. With the significant widening of this designer vs. builder gap over the past decades following the modern era, the notion of the architect filling a “hands-off” role in the building process has become widely institutionalized2 and thus has created a near industry wide culture that views fabrication knowledge and craft as optional items that would make up an individual designer’s unique skill set, rather than cornerstones of a professional lexicon.
Vincent Sansalone, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Udo Greinacher, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
62 p.
Architecture
fabrication; process; construction; design-build

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  • Huizenga, R. (2016). I Design. I Build. Sometimes in That Order: An Argument for Construction-Centered Design Process [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460653534

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Huizenga, Richard. I Design. I Build. Sometimes in That Order: An Argument for Construction-Centered Design Process. 2016. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460653534.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Huizenga, Richard. "I Design. I Build. Sometimes in That Order: An Argument for Construction-Centered Design Process." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1460653534

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