University-based design-build programs have greatly expanded over the past two decades. While there are diverse pedagogical motivations, most center on design-build as an opportunity to expose architectural students to construction and to help them “realize what is involved in taking architec­ture from a drawing to a building.” With the ever-increasing reliance on digital tools and the related dissociation between the tools of architectural production and the physical act of building, construction experience becomes even more criti­cal in contemporary architectural education. The converse is also true. If there is educational value in exposing architec­ture students to construction, then there is complementary value in exposing construction management students to the design process. This is an underappreciated opportunity within the pedagogical discourse on university-based design-build programs. Design-build, properly conceived, can be a model for interdisciplinary collaboration—between archi­tects, builders, construction managers, and building science experts—that prepares students for future leadership in pro­fessional practice.