Design integration brings discrete elements of the design together early and often to optimize performance outcomes, achieve greater efficiencies, and identify synergies.

Design Integration can be characterized as a working method that is iterative, continuously collaborative, and information-rich, and is targeted at optimizing the environmental, economic, and experiential performance of a building.

Globalization and the spread of modernism have led to what critics have described as a decline of site specificity in architecture and a standardization of the built environment.

An integrated design process ideally involves close coordination among the professionals designing architectural, structural, and mechanical systems, and with the construction team and manufacturers of building products.

Considering the complexity of ecological and social challenges, universities and the teaching of architecture offer a unique opportunity to create real-life design problems from their local communities, thereby engaging their students in the learning process.

The challenge of design-for-sustainability is to balance the need to educate about design process as an intelligent discipline while using the content of social, economic, and environmental factors as the space of design decision-making.

The Same’ Polytechnic College is a proposed vocational training institution in the United Republic of Tanzania to provide educational opportunities which increase human capital, with the goal of reducing severe levels of poverty.

There is a gap in architectural education when preparing future architects for leadership roles.

Challenges of building resilience and sustainability in the built environment demand collaboration across multiple disciplines in both research and practice.

This paper describes the pedagogical findings of a class that was developed to evaluate the indoor environmental quality (IEQ) and energy performance of Green buildings.

Service learning engages students with community partners in creating products for public benefit, allowing students to learn field research and design communication methods while contributing their time and expertise.

As anthropogenic climate change destabilizes a fixed idea of climate, it is also destabilizing a fixed idea of comfort.

Cross-laminated timber (CLT) construction is an emerging technology in the Pacific Northwest (PNW).

Alabama’s Blackbelt counties suffer from some of the poorest economic conditions in the country.

How might architectural education change to accommodate the opportunity of designing thermodynamic systems beyond the building scale?

Within a rapidly changing climate, never have humans seen such rampant degradation of their environment.

The Net Positive studio is a 7-week studio in the penultimate year of a professional M. Arch. program at the University of Minnesota.

It is clear that building energy performance plays an essential role in architecture and in architectural practice, not only for reasons of occupant comfort and energy efficiency but also for minimal code compliance.

The internet not only has changed a vast spectrum of the world’s operations, but also the ways teaching can deal with information and strategies for learning.

In alignment with the rapid advancement of cyber-physical technologies in an information age, we are faced with complex problems that go beyond the kind of challenges that designers had to deal with in the past.

Material characteristic and fabrication methodologies informing design processes are a growing focus of research and pedagogy.

This paper describes a series of research seminars investigating the contemporary capacities of architectural ornamentation in the context of computational design and digital fabrication technologies.

Educators and practitioners have come to the consensus that Building Information Modeling (BIM) has radically transformed how the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry practices and operates.