Nabil Mohareb, Sara Maassarani Archnet-IJAR, Volume 12 - Issue 2 - July 2018 - (146-161) – Regular Section Copyright © 2018 | Copyrights are granted to author(s), Archnet-IJAR, and Archnet @ MIT under the terms of the "CC-BY-NC-ND" License. 146 Archnet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research www.archnet-ijar.net/ -- https://archnet.org/collections/34 DESIGN-BUILD: AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH FOR ARCHITECTURE STUDIO EDUCATION DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26687/archnet-ijar.v12i2.1570 Nabil Mohareb, Sara Maassarani Keywords Abstract Design-build method; architectural design studio; architectural education; physical design models. Current architecture studios are missing an important phase in the education process, which is constructing the students’ conceptual ideas on a real physical scale. The design-build approach enables the students to test their ideas, theories, material selection, construction methods, environmental constraints, simulation results, level of space functionality and other important aspects when used by real target clients in an existing context. This paper aims to highlight the importance of using the design-build method through discussing a design project case study carried out by the Masters of Architecture design programme students at Beirut Arab University, who have built prototype units for refugees on a 1:1 scale. Nabil Mohareb * , Sara Maassarani Beirut Arab University, Tarik El Jadida P.O.Box 11 - 50 - 20 Riad El Solh 11072809, Lebanon *Corresponding Author’s email address: n.mohareb@yahoo.co.uk ArchNet-IJAR is indexed and listed in several databases, including: • Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals • EBSCO-Current Abstracts-Art and Architecture • CNKI: China National Knowledge Infrastructure • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals • Pro-Quest • Scopus-Elsevier • Web of Science