Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency
- ISBN-10
- 1568982925
- ISBN-13
- 9781568982922
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 185
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-02
- Publisher
- Princeton Architectural Press
- Author
- Andrea Oppenheimer Dean
Description
Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings in a style Mockbee describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."".
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