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Chargement... Proceed and Be Bold: Rural Studio After Samuel Mockbee (édition 1998)par Andrea Oppenheimer Dean (Auteur)
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Since Samuel Mockbee's death in 2001, the Rural Studio has continued to thrive, a tribute to its founder's vision. Under Mockbee's successor, Andrew Freear, the studio has seeded southwest Alabama with an additional seventeen architectural landmarks, and all are shown here. Andrea Oppenheimer Dean is author of several books on architecture including Rural Studio and editor for journals including Architecture, Architectural Record, Preservation, and Landscape. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The sub-title of Oppenheimer Dean's first title devoted to Rural Studio, Rural Studio Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency, captures the appeal of this program very neatly. There is an essential decency to the idea that the field of architecture does not exist solely for the benefit of the wealthy, that beauty does not belong to the privileged, and that, as Mockbee once expressed it, "Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul."
This second volume devoted to Rural Studio focuses on the years after Mockbee's death in 2001, when the program struggled to find a balance between inevitable change and the need to carry on Mockbee's vision. The projects highlighted include a community ballpark, a pavilion and restrooms for a newly re-opened park (the only public recreation area in all of Perry County), and a highly idiosyncratic house built for the equally idiosyncratic (and charming) Music Man.
Proceed and Be Bold is a beautiful book, both visually and thematically, and a worthy follow-up to the first title. It left me with the comforting feeling that while so many of us seem determined to sink our efforts into projects that do little to benefit the common good, there are people who are confronting some of our social ills with creative solutions. ( )