Mockbee Samuel - The Rural Studio. Community Architecture - Softcover

Trechsel, Gail; Moos, David

 
9780931394522: Mockbee Samuel - The Rural Studio. Community Architecture
Softcover
ISBN 10: 093139452X ISBN 13: 9780931394522
Verlag: Birmingham Museum of Art, 2003

Reseña del editor

The architect and teacher Samuel Mockbee, founder of Auburn University's Rural Studio, was an idealist who put into action one of the boldest programs in contemporary architecture. Mockbee led his students in the design and construction of homes, community centers and other essential structures in Hale County, Alabama--one of the poorest counties in the United States. Mockbee believed that architecture could play a determining role in combating the brutalities of poverty. He inspired students to create vanguard designs and utilize an array of innovative, cost-effective building materials that included scraps of carpet baled into rectangular building blocks. This combination of ingenuity and enterprise informed the unique character of Mockbee's undertaking. "Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio" appraises Mockbee's unique contribution, assessing how he believed that architecture, practiced as a community-oriented undertaking, could transform the social environment.

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Verlag
Birmingham Museum of Art
Erscheinungsdatum
2003
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
093139452X
ISBN 13 
9780931394522
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
127
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