Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee

by Timothy Hursley and Andrea Oppenheimer Dean

Book Overview

"Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul."Samuel Mockbee

Based on this simple premise, in 1992 Samuel Mockbee launched the Rural Studio to create homes and community buildings for the poor while offering hands-on architecture training for coming generations. Choosing impoverished Hale County, Alabama, for his bold experiment, Mockbee and his Auburn University students peppered this left-behind corner of the rural South with striking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1568985002
• ISBN13: 9781568985008
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary