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The Cooper Hewitt National Design Awards Honor Architects

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Fred A. Bernstein
September 8, 2022
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Architects will take home several key awards of the prestigious program this year.
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Small House by the Front Porch Initiative

Rural Studio Program Promotes Energy-Efficient Home Ownership

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Joann Gonchar, FAIA
April 28, 2020
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The Front Porch Initiative aims to create resilient single-family houses while enhancing access to mortgages in high-needs rural areas.
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Newbern Library

Newbern Library by Rural Studio

Newbern, Alabama
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Beth Broome
July 2, 2017
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Auburn University’s Rural Studio transforms an aging bank building in Newbern, Alabama, into the town’s first public library.


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Lions Park Scout Hut

Lions Park Scout Hut by Rural Studio

Greensboro, Alabama
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Beth Broome
July 16, 2014
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A design-build team explores the potential of low-grade timber for a Boy Scout troop's headquarters.
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County Fare

Four Food-Related Projects by Rural Studio

Asad Syrkett
July 16, 2013
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Since it was founded in 1993 by Samuel Mockbee and Dennis K. Ruth, Rural Studio has provided first-rate architecture for disadvantaged populations in and around Hale County, Alabama. Houses, chapels, and community centers are among the structures designed and built by the firm with undergraduate architecture students at Auburn University.
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Lions Park Playscape

Lions Park Playscape by Rural Studio

Greensboro, Alabama
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Joann Gonchar, FAIA
March 16, 2012
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The design-build studio's latest intervention at Lions Park in Greensboro, Alabama, replaces a much-vandalized playground and is the fifth element designed and constructed at Lions Park by Rural Studio students.
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Filmmaker Sam Wainwright Douglas on 'Citizen Architect' Samuel Mockbee of Rural Studio

Donna Paul
January 16, 2011
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Filmmaker Sam Wainwright Douglas speaks to RECORD about "Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio."
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Interview with Rural Studios' Sam Mockbee

Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
July 1, 2000
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This is the eighth year that Samuel Mockbee and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama’s Hale County.
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Slideshow: Rural Studio’s Social Designs for Milan and Venice

Borrowing colorful bales of cardboard from a nearby recycling plant, Rural Studio created the installation Forum for the 21st Milan Triennale, which ran from April 2 to September 11. Andrew Freear, director of the Auburn University-based studio, explained that the project existed within the constraints of creating little to no waste; using materials available in close proximity to the exhibition space, thereby minimizing transportation; and addressing the question, “How do architects and designers instigate a responsible attitude towards the resources that we utilize every day?”

For the Venice Architecture Biennale, which kicked off on May 28, Rural Studio designed a theater-like space in which to screen videos of the studio’s work in Hale County, Alabama. The materials used in Theater of the UseFULL — including insulation panels and metal spring-coil beds still wrapped in clear shipping plastic — will be donated to two Venetian organizations after the exhibition concludes in late November. The installation, says Freear, epitomizes the directive under which the Studio has operated since its inception: “to build not what can be built, but what should be built.” –Miriam Sitz

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