Design It!

Chapter 9Host an Architecture Design Studio

In nineteenth-century France, architecture professors collected students’ projects in wooden carts so they could be easily transported for grading. Of course, nobody was ready for the professor to take their project when the cart came around, but that didn’t stop the professor from taking it anyway. As a result, students followed after the cart, feverishly working en charrette, in the cart, to finish their bridges and buildings, attaching bits of balsa wood and twists of wire as the professor wheeled the cart off to pick up the next student’s project.

In the twenty-first century, charrette is a style ...