Over the past four years the students of the Architectural Association's Intermediate Unit 2 have designed and built a series of experimental pavilions. Structured to foilow a year in the life of the unit, this book presents the processes of the pavilions' design and production, from concept ideas to workshop fabrication. Essays bythe unit'stutors, Charles Walker and Martin Self, expiain the ambitions and pedagogic basis of the programme, rooted in the idea of learning through experience. The educational vaiidity of this innovative designbuiid programme and ¡ts architectural output we expiored through the voices of students, tutors and anonymous critics.