Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee (Repost)
Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press | ISBN: 1568985002 | edition 1998 | PDF | 176 pages | 15,4 mb
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press | ISBN: 1568985002 | edition 1998 | PDF | 176 pages | 15,4 mb
ased 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 buildings of exceptional design. Most use recycled and curious materials: hay bales, surplus tires, leftover carpet tiles, even discarded 1980 Chevy Caprice windshields. The publication of Rural Studio brought this innovative work to the public, and five printings later continues to affect the way people view architecture.