Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1568985002 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She lives in Washington, D.C.Timothy Hursley is an award-winning photographer who established his own office in 1982. Hursley lives in Little Rock, Arkansas. Andrea Oppenheimer Dean is author of several books on architecture including Rural Studio and editor for journals including Architecture , Architectural Record , Preservation , and Landscape . His books include Rural Studio and Brot
"Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul."—Samuel Mockbee Based 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. The publication of Rural Studio brought this innovative work to the public, and—five printings later—continues to affect the way people view architecture. In 2004, the American Institute of Architects posthumously awarded Mockbee its highest honor, the Gold Medal for Architec
21)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. . (Apr. Mockbee, who died in 2001, believed that great architecture could be made from simple materials (as well as unorthodox and recycled: tires, windshields, hay), for people who were often living in far from ideal conditions; he put his ideas into practice via his studio in out-of-the-way southwestern Alabama. This book documents the studio's work under Andrew Freear in the years since Mockbee's death, including the gorgeously simple Antioch Baptist Church in Perry Co., Ala., which rose like a phoenix from within its century-old predecessor, and a totally heter
Five Stars DCM Great book and really enjoy reading about the project.. Informative Informative read. Great program, would like to see such a program done in other state.