Of the many things that impressed me about Samuel Mockbee, two in particular stood out. The first was that his work truly made a difference. An architect and professor of architecture at Auburn ...

“Citizen Architect” aims to inspire, and does so with one basic idea: Architecture is for the people dwelling within it. What is a home, a workplace or house of worship without the souls inside it?

The film follows up with Music Man, Sanders, his students and other Rural Studio graduates to see how the program has affected their lives. Through scenes with architects such as Hank Louis of ...

The late architect Samuel Mockbee, who brought the benefits of design to the rural poor in the South, will posthumously receive the 2004 American Institute of Architects’ Gold Medal, one of the ...

Students in Auburn University`s Rural Studio program, founded in 1993 by architect Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee (1944-2001), confront the problem of building for the residents of the Alabama counties known ...

For more than 20 years, a quiet revolution in American architecture took place in Canton. Samuel Mockbee, a Meridian native, practiced a defiantly local but widely influential form of modernist ...

In the last century of American homebuilding, there may no other time when architects were so irrelevant. Less than 10 percent of single-family residences are designed by architects now, and most of ...

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For two weeks this fall, about 20 art and architecture students from Auburn University and the University of Hartford ironed leaves, sawed and sanded heavy cardboard tubing, and bound bales of carpet ...

For those who feel the fetishizing of modern architecture has reached a high/low point when there's a website dedicated to mocking people who appear in Dwell (the awesome www.unhappyhipsters.com), ...