Design Build or Integrated Practice

Those in the design build world are finding opportunities created by the dysfunctions of the conventional delivery process.

Is design build moving toward Integrated Practice? Or is it just another spin on a current model with the architect at the lead?

Here is an article from a recent conference on Design Build and Integrated Practice. This article was written by Cindy Frewen Wuellner, FAIA and PhD, a virtual contributor to Operation Mindshift.

Here is a quote from Markku Allison when I posed the question to him. Markku leads the effort for Integrated Practice through the AIA.

"Actually, architect led design build and integrated practice are NOT the same thing. Integrated practice is not a delivery method; it’s the term coined by the institute to describe how industry transformation will shake out for architects, and is a set of values and beliefs about practice. Industry consensus for the "name" of the delivery model behind integrated practice is integrated project delivery, which is also not the same thing as architect led design build."

I'll be curious to hear what others think.

Mindshift's mission involves understanding the technical elements of delivery, the models but as Markku points out - going deeper to the paradigms that frame and condition our models.