The new film Reality Check follows a year in the life of Virginia Tech's design/buildLAB, bringing a long-simmering debate over architecture education to the screen.
In 2012, a group of students at the Virginia Tech School of Architecture and Design came together to build Clifton Forge, Virginia, a community amphitheater. As part of Virginia Tech professors (and married couple) Keith and Marie Zawistowski's design/build LAB, the third-year undergraduate students spent an entire academic year conceiving the project and working with the community to bring it to fruition.