Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency

Andrea Oppenheimer Dean

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Princeton Architectural Press, 2002

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Synopsis 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 Mockbee's work, which he describes as contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."In a time of unexampled prosperity, when architectural attention focuses on big, glossy urban projects, the Rural Studio provides an alternative of substance. In addition to being a social welfare venture, the Rural Studio - "Taliesin South" as Mockbee calls it - is also an educational experiment and a prod to the architectural profession to act on its best instincts. In giving students hands-on experience in designing and building something real, it extends their education beyond paper architecture. And in scavenging and reusing a variety of unusual materials, it is a model of sustainable architecture. The work of Rural Studio has struck such a chord-both architecturally and socially - that it has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, and CBS News, as well as in Time and People magazines.The Studio has completed more than a dozen projects, including the Bryant "Hay Bale" House, Harris "Butterfly" House, Yancey Chapel, Akron Chapel, Children's Center, H.E.R.O. Playground, Lewis House, Super Sheds and Pods, Spencer House addition, Farmer's Market, Mason's Bend Community Center, Goat House, and Shannon-Dutley House. These buildings, along with the incredible story of the Rural Studio, the people who live there, and Mockbee and his student architects, are detailed in this colorful book, the first on the subject."I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble" - Samuel Mockbee" About the Author Andrea Oppenheimer Dean is former Executive Editor of Architecture Magazine and a published author. She lives in Washington, D.C. Timothy Hursley is an architectural photographer who regularly contributes to the international press. He lives in Little Rock, AR. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

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Titre
Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
Auteur
Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
Éditeur
Princeton Architectural Press
Année de publication
2002
État de l'article
Assez bon
Reliure
Couverture souple
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
1568982925
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781568982922
Poids de l'article
736 grammes
Dimensions
20,64 centimètres de largeur par 25,4 centimètres de hauteur par 1,59 centimètre de profondeur

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