Design | Build

The School of Constructive Arts plans to host residential design-build courses in partnership with existing college and university architecture programs at our campus in West Texas. These classes will create opportunities for future architects to experience the challenges and rewards of manifesting their ideas with their own hands. Students will live on site while participating in lectures, environmental education, and the design build project. Living simply in close contact with nature is an integral part of the educational experience. Eventually semester length courses will be offered to smaller groups of architecture students. This longer time frame will allow for advanced students to develop individual research projects. Students will return to their programs with first hand experience of construction, ecologically integrated design, and life in close contact with the desert environment, experiences that will hopefully impact their studies and eventually their practice.