Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Timothy Hursley

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For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1568982925

ISBN13:9781568982922

Release Date:February 2002

Publisher:Princeton Architectural Press

Length:192 Pages

Weight:1.69 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 8.0" x 10.1"

Age Range:13 years and up

Grade Range:Grade 8 to Postsecondary

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Architecture Education & Reference History Humanities Individual Architects & Firms Methods & Materials Reference State & Local Study & Teaching

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