Designbuild has progressively influenced the education of architects & designers Previous publications have focused on products of designbuild work This book instead focuses on how designbuild works It places particular emphasis on the process of teaching designbuild drawing directly from the expertise of Jersey Devil whose work embodies designbuild's ethos In their fifth decade the group's collaborators-Steve Badanes Jim Adamson & John Ringel-continue to make things mostly now with students Their work has influenced a generation of practitioners & educators-Samuel Mockbee cited Jersey Devil as inspiration for establishing Rural Studio Drawing out the largely untold stories of Jersey Devil's process these dialogues reconnect the practice of designbuild with its teaching