Rural Studio at Twenty: Designing and Building in Hale County, Alabama - Softcover

Freear, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161689153X ISBN 13: 9781616891534

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013

Synopsis

For two decades, the students of Auburn University’s Rural Studio have designed and built remarkable houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama’s Hale County, one of the poorest in the nation. Our critically acclaimed bestseller Rural Studio (2002) showed how salvaged lumber, bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, coloured bottles, carpet tiles and old license plates have been transformed into inexpensive buildings that are also models of sustainable architecture. Rural Studio at Twenty chronicles the evolution of the legendary program, founded by MacArthur Genius Grant and AIA Gold Medalwinner Samuel Mockbee and showcases an impressive portfolio of projects. Part monograph, part handbook and part manifesto, Rural Studio at Twenty is a must read for any architect, community advocate, professor or student as a model for engaging place through design.

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About the Author

Andrea Oppenheimer Dean is former Executive Editor of Architecture Magazine and a published author. Timothy Hursley is an architectural photographer who regularly contributes to the international press.

From the Back Cover

For two decades the students of Auburn University's Rural Studio have designed and built remarkable houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County, one of the poorest in the nation. Our critically acclaimed bestseller Rural Studio (2002) showed how salvaged lumber, bricks, discarded tires, hay-and-waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, carpet tiles, and old license plates were transformed into inexpensive buildings that were also models of sustainable architecture. Rural Studio at Twenty chronicles the evolution of the legendary program, founded by (MacArthur Genius Grant and AIA Gold Medal winner) Samuel Mockbee, and showcases an impressive portfolio of projects. Part monograph, part handbook, and part manifesto, Rural Studio at Twenty is a must-read for any architect, community advocate, professor, or student as a model for engaging place through design.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 161689153X
• ISBN 13: 9781616891534
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224