Of the many things that impressed me about Samuel Mockbee, two in particular stood out. The first was that his work truly made a difference. An architect and professor of architecture at Auburn ...

“Citizen Architect” aims to inspire, and does so with one basic idea: Architecture is for the people dwelling within it. What is a home, a workplace or house of worship without the souls inside it?

Get ready for the Music Man. No, not the old Broadway musical. This Music Man is the bigger-than-life Jimmie Lee Matthews, who earned his nickname by constantly blasting soul music through a network ...

If the looks of things at the MFAH Tuesday night were any indication, late architect Samuel Mockbee’s prodigious facial hair is contagious–at least judging by the production team for the documentary ...

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Students in Auburn University`s Rural Studio program, founded in 1993 by architect Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee (1944-2001), confront the problem of building for the residents of the Alabama counties known ...

For those who feel the fetishizing of modern architecture has reached a high/low point when there's a website dedicated to mocking people who appear in Dwell (the awesome www.unhappyhipsters.com), ...

The film follows up with Music Man, Sanders, his students and other Rural Studio graduates to see how the program has affected their lives. Through scenes with architects such as Hank Louis of ...

In an era marked by celebrity architects and grand cultural projects, it is all the more honorable that the American Institute of Architects has awarded its 2004 Gold Medal to Samuel Mockbee, a ...

In the last century of American homebuilding, there may no other time when architects were so irrelevant. Less than 10 percent of single-family residences are designed by architects now, and most of ...