Rural Studio
Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
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"I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble" —Samuel Mockbee
For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University designed and built 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 created inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of Mockbee's work, which he described 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 called 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.
Samuel Mockbee died in December, 2001, at the age of 57, from complications relating to his long-term illness with leukemia.
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.
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