- Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: Princeton Architectural Press; Auflage: 1 (1. Januar 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1568982925
- ISBN-13: 978-1568982922
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,4 x 1,7 x 25,7 cm
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This book is a revelation. It displays, for the first time in book form, the accomplishments of one of the most celebrated architectural studios in America, the Rural Studio, led by Samuel Mockbee of the Auburn University School of Architecture. Mockbee ran this studio for ten years until his tragic death from leukemia last year at the age of 57, a year after winning a MacArthur genius award. His students and associates created some of the most interesting and innovative architecture in the United States by serving the humblest needs of some of the poorest people in the most neglected counties of Alabama and Mississippi. About a dozen houses, churches, playgrounds, pavilions, and community centers are represented here in elegant photographs by Hursley, the unofficial photographer of the studio, and in concentrated prose by Dean, a former executive editor of Architecture magazine. The book includes descriptions of each project, interviews with students and clients, instructive essays on key topics, and a complete bibliography of the Rural Studio. Recommended to studio art as well as architecture programs. Peter Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
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Hale County, Alabama, is one of the least likely places on earth to find great architecture. Poor, black, and mostly ignored since Walker Evans and James Agee brought it to world attention in 1939 in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Hale is "a left-behind place," explain Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Timothy Hursley in the introduction to their remarkable book. But the hardscrabble land and its proud residents "seduced" Samuel Mockbee and has inspired the Auburn University students who operate out of the Rural Studio that Mockbee established there. The result is a legacy of extraordinary buildings - small in scale, miniscule in budget, but great in spirit and design.
Mockbee, who died at the end of last year, had strong convictions about the role of architects in our society and the need to teach students how to serve their communities. A big man who knew how to have a good time, Mockbee anchored his work and his teaching in a fierce sense of place. You can't understand his architecture without knowing about the land and the people for whom it was created.
This book reflects those ideas. A graceful introduction explains Mockbee, his motivations and his methods, then gives way to a series of chapters rooted in the places - Mason's Bend, Newbern, Sawyerville, Greensboro, Thomaston, and Akron - where the Rural Studio has built. Dean who is a contributing editor of Record, typically begins her descriptions of projects with the people who live in or use them, just the way Mockbee and his students began each project. Photographs show the untidy belongings and loving touches residents have added to their houses. Beat-up bicycles, embroidered tablecloths, and plastic furniture feel perfect in here.
The book also includes a short section of "Interviews with Students, a Teacher, and a Client," an essay by Lawrence Chua on "The Rural Mythology of Samuel Mockbee," and an essay by the photographer Cervin Robinson on the different approaches photographers from Evans to Hursley have taken in capturing the character of Hale County. Like Mockbee himself, this book impresses with its clear-eyed view of real life and its sense of conviction. -Architectural Record
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Das Rural Studio wurde 1993 von den Professoren Ruth und Mockbee gegründet mit der Mission, Architekturstudenten an der Auburn University auch die soziale Verantwortung eines Architekten nahe zu bringen. Studenten und Professoren entwerfen und errichten Wohnhäuser und kommunale Einrichtungen wie Spielplätze oder Markthallen in Hale County im ländlichen Alabama; Hale County gehöhrt zu den ärmsten Counties der Vereinigten Staaten und weist mehr als 1400 Gebäude auf, die nicht einmal Mindeststandards erfüllen.
Das Buch dokumentiert in eindrucksvollen Bildern und Texten die Projekte des Rural Studios und die betroffenen Menschen: Es wirkt gezeigt, in welch einfachen, teils erschreckenden Verhältnissen die Familien zuvor gelebt haben und wie sie sich in ihren neuen Häusern eingelebt haben.
Neben der sozialen Komponente zeichnet sich das Rural Studio durch besonderen Ideenreichtum aus. Um mit beschränkten finanziellen Mittel Herausragendes zu leisten, werden ungewöhnliche Baumaterialien und -techniken herangezogen. So wurde z.B. die Wände einer Kapelle aus Autoreifen errichtet (s.Bilder). Auch alte Flaschen und Heuballen werden verwendet.
Das Rural-Studio-Projekt hat seit seinem Bestehen mehrere renommierte Preise und Forschungsgelder erwerben können (mehr auf der Internetseite der Auburn University) und ist das Vermächtnis Samuel Mockbees, der 57-jährig am 30. Dezember 2001 starb. Bewertung: Künstlerisch und sozial besonders wertvoll.
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A beautiful book, but slightly lacking
17. Februar 2004
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I have been an admirer of the work of the Rural Studio from the start and couldn't wait to get this book... The photos are beautiful and touching, but the book is lacking in drawings (i.e. plans) and text. I was hoping for more about the thoughts and processes that students put into the designs, the role of Sam Mockbee in it all, and some architectural drawings that would more comprehensively showcase the projects
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this book taught me so much, and reminded me of much more
14. Juni 2002
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As an architecture student, each reading of this book reminds me why I got into archiecture in the first place; that architecture at its best is ingeneous and beautiful; that architecture is as relevant as its practicioners make it; that there is a greater good to be adressed by all in the field; that shelter is architecture's raison d'etre; that there are more important things in the architectural world than the latest Prada opening.
As a human, it reminds me how to live and create well.
You don't get that from your average architecture book, do ya?
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ETHICAL ARCHITECTURE
26. Dezember 2002
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In this stunning book the reader is taken to the most impoverished areas of Alabama and witnesses an astounding change in the architectural landscape. Homes that were once inhabitable shacks have been transformed into aesthetic buildings that have been transformed into true homes. Samuel Mockbee, his students, and his organization "Rural Studio" have made this transformation possible.
Rural Studio is a picturesque story of social consciousness taking place through the vehicle of architecture. Mockbee believes in making a difference in the lives of poor people who are in substandard housing. Alternative materials ( such as corrugated cardboard) and the recycling of cast off wood, tin, windshields and other unusual resources are used for construction at an affordable price.
I enjoyed the philosophy that Mockbee instills in his students not by preaching but by having them engage with their clients. His students learn that poor people are like people anywhere with their hopes and dreams. In listening to their clients his students learn how to build functional structures for them that meets the needs of the clients. I was overwhelmed by the before and after pictures of their various projects and was impressed with the use of alternative materials for insulation and windows.
Rural Studio is indeed doing good work and its founder and students are to be commended for their commitment to social change. I must admit that I also have some misgivings about the work. Mockbee's students (at least the ones portrayed in the book) are white upper to middle-class students of architecture who are helping impoverished African-Americans. Why aren't there African-American students in his group? These good works have a smack of paternalism no matter how well intentioned.
It is good to build affordable housing for people. Yet, what about the impoverishment of the community that doesn't allow for the upkeep of the housing? What good is it to build a home only to see it fall into disrepair because the people are unable to pay for its upkeep? These are the haunting questions that were always in the back of my mind.
Rural Studio will not give you the architectural plans of the homes built but shows the transformative spirits that come about when people are treated with dignity and decency. This is a book about relationships and an architecture that moves beyond the functional mode of plain buildings. You will be moved by the projects and people.
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