UNLV DESIGN+BUILD

The DESIGN+BUILD Lab at UNLV's School of Architecture establishes a rigorous, hands-on environment for students and faculty to engage in situated learning and design research through projects with tangible (often full-scale) outcomes. We include making and building as integral and inseparable parts within a larger design continuum that is iteratively informed by prototyping. Rather than compromising our design preconceptions, material behavior and production constraints are infused into our design thinking from the beginning as generative design logics. By being subjected to the challenges of constructing their designs, students learn to fully consider every design decision made, every line drawn on paper, and how building professionals do their jobs, thus making them better designers.