Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Timothy Hursley

Book Overview

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: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.0" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary