Firm Description

FACT (Fabrication And Construction Team) is an allied practice and frequent collaborator of the architecture firm Actual Architecture Company. FACT engages design intensive projects and creative, non-profit clients in collaborations that span design and construction.

In such a practice the boundaries that conventionally distinguish the profession of architecture are eroded to admit other disciplines ordinarily thought of as distinct. Under Professor Jeffrey L. Day’s leadership, FACT operates an academic/professional collaborative design lab that offers students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, a forum for exploration aimed at expanding the understanding of the complex relationships between thinking (conceiving, designing, theorizing) and making.

FACT is a “do-tank”, a lab in which ideas and new knowledge are developed though action as well as thought. Where academic design studios focus on ideation, conceptualization and a little design development, FACT offers students an opportunity to focus on the creative opportunities embedded in the development and realization of projects. Such a practice allows production to influence design as much as design directs production.