Steve Badanes
Steve Badanes is a Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of Architecture and one of the founding members of the Jersey Devil design-build firm. Launched in 1972, Jersey Devil continues...
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Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the spirit of the Rural Studio will broadcast on August 23, 2010 at 10 PM EST/9 PM CST on PBS. See the full screening schedule
View ArticleAbout Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio
Hale County, Alabama has long battled notoriety – with a poverty rate over 30 percent and a struggling economy, the region’s ills were enough to turn many away. But Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee, an architect...
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Samuel Mockbee – “Sambo” to those who knew him – was an architect, educator and artist who dedicated his life to teaching, and to providing sustainable, low-cost homes to those who could not afford...
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Buy the DVD here> You are Samuel Mockbee’s son-in-law. Aside from the family connection and access to the subject, what drove you and your wife, Sarah Ann, to work on and complete this film? SAM: I...
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“Sam Wainwright Douglas’s doc is an absorbing, frequently moving, sometimes funny celebration of what can happen when architecture is practiced as a social art concerned with creature and spiritual...
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