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by Andrea Oppenheimer (Author), Timothy Hursley (Author)

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Paperback: 170 pages
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press (5 Feb 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1568982925
ISBN-13: 978-1568982922
Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 20.4 x 1.6 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Mockbee (d. 2001) founded the Rural Studio, in Hale County, Alabama, in the early 1990s, where he and other architects have focused on designing and building modest, innovative houses for poor people. Architectural writer Oppenheimer and photographer Timothy Hursley document their work. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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5.0 out of 5 stars Inspirational, 16 Aug 2004

By	Stephen (Leeds, west yorkshire United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This book is a must for architects and designers hell bent on community design and participation.
The free design of the projects clearly shows enthusiasm from the client an designer to create projects that are truly inspirational, affordable and useable......

Samuel Mockbee is (or was) a man of our times. He hit upon an area of sub culture that American society hide and forget about.
His philosophy and approach is something we should all aspire to.

A GREAT READ!!!

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3.0 out of 5 stars A lot of Heart, Poor documentation., 18 Sep 2006

By	J. Lim "galavant" (Sweden) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I found this book while researching for architectural projects that are low-budget, yet not compensating the quality in design. It proved to be helpful to a small extent.

The introduction of the book sets the backdrop for the projects that will be introduced later - Hale's County, Mockbee's beliefs, etc. I found Mockbee's beliefs and approach very inspiring.

However, I don't think this book is documented so very well. The main problem is with the layout, not so much Mockbee nor Rural Studio. (Here I assume that information in the book was by choice, not by limitations of confidentiality of project data.)

I found myself wondering about the techniques used in construction, and I had to keep flipping between pages to try to figure out the space and how clients used the space, to relate to the words that were describing the projects.

There are also some one-liners that were under some photographs (not all plates had captions) that kept me wondering... (eg. Why was the trailer moved to the Butterfly House?) as they were not explained elsewhere.

It seems more like a folio for the rural studios in that sense. If I was an alum, I am sure I will need no futher introduction to the projects as I would be familiar with most of the projects presented in the pictures, having seen the real thing (probably).

Perhaps pictures paint a thousand words, but a little more thought in the way to document these projects would be better for readers to connect the text to the pictures (some sketches of plans perhaps?), and to do justice to the projects.

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5.0 out of 5 stars inspirational and noble, 9 April 2003

By	floridia cheung (glasgow, scotland United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

samuel mockbee's vision and dedication to providing sustainable and chic architecture to an alabama community is really inspirational!

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