Design/Build with Jersey Devil: A Handbook for Education and Practice (Architecture Briefs) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1616893567 ISBN 13: 9781616893569

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2016

Synopsis

Design/build has progressively influenced the education of architects and designers. Previous publications have focused on products of design/build work. This book instead focuses on how design/build works. It places particular emphasis on the process of teaching design/build, drawing directly from the expertise of Jersey Devil, whose work embodies design/build’s ethos. In their fifth decade, the group’s collaborators―Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and John Ringel―continue to make things, mostly now with students. Their work has influenced a generation of practitioners and educators―Samuel Mockbee cited Jersey Devil as inspiration for establishing Rural Studio. Drawing out the largely untold stories of Jersey Devil’s process, these dialogues reconnect the practice of design/build with its teaching.

About this title

About the Author

Charlie Hailey teaches design/build, history, and theory at the University of Florida, where he received his doctorate. A licensed architect and a Fulbright Scholar, he also studied at Princeton University and UT-Austin and has worked with the designer-builders Jersey Devil. His previous books include Campsite (LSU Press, 2008), Camps (MIT Press, 2009), and Spoil Island (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013).

From the Back Cover

Steve Badanes, Jim Adamson, and John Ringel believe an architect's job does not stop at designing a building, but that it extends to constructing it as well. Now working into their fth decade, Jersey Devil, the loose-knit group they founded in 1972, bands together under this design/build ethos that an architect's place is just as much on the job site as it is at the drawing board.The trio pioneered design/build practice and their in uence has spawned more than one hundred design/build programs. Jersey Devil's process and expertise are unpacked in this Architecture Brief, providing students and teachers with a toolkit for design/build education.Through stories, didactic commentary, and sample exercises, the Design/Build complements nuts-and-bolts content with Jersey Devil's philosophy and perspective, allowing the book to impart practical instruction while acting as a valuable guide for navigating the elusive challenges of design/build. Themes touch on socially responsible architecture, intuition and intentionality, detailing and fostering craftsmanship, group work and collaboration, o -the-shelf components and nonstandard applications, educational reform, ethos and risk, good life and play, the politics of building, and university-community relations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616893567
• ISBN 13: 9781616893569
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144