Proceed and Be Bold

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ISBN: 9781568985008
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Softcover, 176 pages
20,3 x 25,4 cm
colour
April 2005
€23,00 (excl. VAT)

Proceed and Be Bold

Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee

Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, Timothy Hursley

“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. Since Mockbee’s death in 2001, the Rural Studio has continued to thrive, a tribute to its founder’s vision. In 2004, the American Institute of Architects posthumously awarded Mockbee its highest honor, the Gold Medal for Architecture. Under Mockbee’s successor, Andrew Freear, the studio has seeded southwest Alabama with an additional seventeen architectural landmarks, and all are shown here. With thoughtful text from Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and stunning photographs by Timothy Hursley, this new book explains the changes the studio has undergone during the last four years and its continuing ability to “proceed and be bold,” as Mockbee counseled.