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	Guardian Unlimited \| Weekend \| Building blocks of change
		Samuel Mockbee was a pioneering architect, driven by a need to address the inequalities of America's deep south.
		Samuel Mockbee was a larger than life character: a flamboyant, bearded bon viveur and raconteur, a white Mississippian who spent most of his adult life in Alabama.
		Mockbee's students not only had to design the houses, after long consultation with the clients to establish their needs, but they had to build them, too.
	www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,3605,686403,00.html (1080 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - Design - Mockbee Southern Genius - 2000.0823
		Earlier this summer, Alabama architect Samuel Mockbee picked up the phone and found out he was a genius.
		Mockbee eschews the humble title of teacher, even though he is a full professor at Auburn University's School of Architecture, Design and Construction and has been a visiting professor at Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, and a half-dozen other architecture schools.
		He insists he's no artist, either, despite the fact that he is an accomplished painter and draftsman with a one-man show ("Samuel Mockbee: The Architecture of the Black Warrior River," September 9 through October 21) at the Max Protetch Gallery in New York.
	www.architectureweek.com /2000/0823/design_1-1.html (312 words)

	Elevate Something Ordinary to Something Extraordinary.
		Every fall since 1993, Samuel Mockbee and his students have left Auburn and headed west to Hale County, one of the country's poorest regions.
		His father contracted tuberculosis during Mockbee's youth; Mockbee, his sister, and his mother were supported primarily by his paternal grandmother, Sweet Tee, whose flair in both her manner and her wardrobe influenced Mockbee at a young age.
		Mockbee called the nun (though he's quick to mention that he's not Catholic but "Christian by birth, Buddhist by philosophy, and heathen by nature") and helped her with the project.
	www.fastcompany.com /online/40/wf_mockbee.html (4802 words)

	AIArchitect, December 8, 2003 - Samuel ‘Sambo’ Mockbee Awarded 2004 AIA Gold Medal Posthumously
		To his students, Mockbee presented architecture as a discipline that must be committed to environmental, social, political, and aesthetic issues.
		Mockbee Coker Architects was known for challenging the classic processes and definitions in the creation of architecture, documented in their 1995 monograph, Mockbee Coker: Thought and Process (Princeton Architectural Press).
		Representatives of Samuel Mockbee will be presented with the Gold Medal at the 2004 American Architectural Foundation Accent on Architecture Gala March 3, 2004, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. AIArchitect reflected on Mockbee’s contributions in a January 2002 article.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek03/tw1205/1205tw_goldmedalmockbee.htm (803 words)

	Samuel Mockbee: A Design for Life
		An architect and professor of architecture at Auburn University, Mockbee, who died of leukemia-related complications on December 30 at the age of 57, disregarded the traditional, theoretical means of teaching architecture and charged his students with the task of creating real buildings.
		At the sites, Mockbee chatted with the students working there or the families living there, and at one house, he actually took a nap in the living room while I interviewed a resident.
		But I have met a few individuals, and Mockbee was one, who ask you questions anyway because, even though you are the reporter and they are the subject, you are both people.
	www.fastcompany.com /articles/2002/01/mockbee.html (993 words)

	AIArchitect, Jan. 7, 2002 - MacArthur Genius Mockbee Dies
		Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee, FAIA, professor of architecture at Auburn University and 2000 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellow, died December 30 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
		Mockbee is best known for his work at the Rural Studio, an extension of the AU College of Architecture, Design, and Construction in rural western Alabama that he cofounded in 1993 and codirected with fellow AU architecture professor D.K. Ruth.
		A noted academician, Mockbee was the Gresham Professor and 2000 J. Streeter Wiatt Distinguished Professor at Auburn.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek02/tw0104/0102tjimockbee.htm (475 words)

	The My Hero Project - Samuel Mockbees_mockbee
		Born Dec. 23, 1944, and raised in the deep South, Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee was surrounded by extreme poverty.
		In 1974, Mockbee graduated Auburn University in Alabama with an architecture degree; by 1984, he was a partner in the successful firm of Mockbee/Coker.
		Though Samuel Mockbee is no longer with us, his vision lives on both through Auburn University, which plans to continue and strengthen The Rural Studio, and through Mockbee's students, such as Steve Hoffman.
	myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=s_mockbee (641 words)

	National Building Museum: Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture
		This bold experiment began with the drive and vision of architect and educator Samuel Mockbee (1944-2001), who was posthumously awarded the 2004 AIA Gold Medal.
		What Mockbee and the students created for them is nothing short of remarkable—an inventive, individually tailored home that is diametrically opposed to typical institutionally generated low-income housing.
		Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture is organized by the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama.
	www.nbm.org /Exhibits/current/Mockbee.html (853 words)

	Designs for the little guy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mockbee died of leukemia in 2001 at age 57.
		Mockbee, who was awarded a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation in 2000, was a father figure to his students, Freear said: "You have to have a lot of faith to let 22-year-olds run out there and build something."
		Samuel Mockbee's Yancey Chapel was built with an old pine beam from a barn.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/arts/articles/0929mockbee29.html (838 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: Arts & Entertainment -- ARCHITECTURE: Redneck Modern (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Samuel Mockbee is eager to show off the buildings his Rural Studio has designed throughout Hale County, Ala.
		Mockbee sees the studio, which is financed by the university and such philanthropic groups as the Alabama Power Foundation, as a way to train a new generation of students in his belief that "architecture is a social art.
		Mockbee is an advocate of what is called "site-specific" architecture, so he made sure that the home picked up qualities of the area's cultural heritage, from its antebellum porches to the curves of silos.
	www.time.com /time/sampler/printout/0,8816,55424,00.html (1203 words)

	Art in America: In Mockbee's memory: a traveling show about the late architect Samuel Mockbee and his visionary Rural ...
		Mockbee approached architecture as a high-stakes process of passionate engagement, whether for the richest or poorest of clients.
		"Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio" appeared in Birmingham in conjunction with "Eye to I," a tripartite exhibition of photography exploring the city's history during the civil rights era and since.
		Mockbee's esthetic and educational style borrowed the confident clarity of Evans's photography and the baroque self-consciousness of Agee's Writing.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_5_92/ai_n6036831 (1331 words)

	Expressions: rural studio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mockbee was one of 25 recipients to receive the Chicago-based John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship.
		But Mockbee discourages the title "genius." He was quoted in a June Birmingham News article saying, "I've got a transcript from Auburn to prove I'm not a genius." However, he is excited to have received such an honor.
		Mockbee is a partner in the firm of Mockbee/Coker, a professor of Architecture at Auburn University and co-founder of the Rural Studio.
	www.auburn.edu /academic/classes/jrnl/4480001/ruralstudio/mockbee.html (234 words)

	Architectural Record \| Features \| AIA Gold Medal Winner \| Samuel Mockbee
		Architect Samuel Mockbee was convinced that "everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul" and that architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.
		Mockbee’s ideas and his aesthetic evolved while he was in private practice, first in a partnership he formed with Thomas Goodman in 1977, then with Coleman Coker in 1983.
		Mockbee was drawn there partly because of the poverty: The residents obviously needed help, and coming to Hale would force students to test their abstract notions about poverty by "crossing over into that other world, smelling it, feeling it, experiencing it," he said.
	www.architecturalrecord.com /features/aiaAwards/04mockbee-1.asp (1027 words)

	L A N D
		Mockbee said, “If you’re going to do this you gotta’ pack your bags, kiss your wife goodbye, and go to war.” Strong words from the least belligerent and dogmatic of men.
		Mockbee described the Mason’s Bend community center as “a windshield chapel with mud walls that picks up on the community’s vernacular forms and shapes.” It rests on a broad base of rammed earth that blends with the iron-colored road, and like neighboring buildings it hugs the ground.
		Mockbee told me he considered the building “as cutting edge as any piece of architecture in the United States.” It is also a lesson in resourcefulness.
	www.landviews.org /la2003/champion-aod.html (1580 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Black Warrior Architecture
		Mockbee's oddly deconstructivist structures, which can feature steep roofs and asymmetrical proportions, are in fact based on the "vernacular" building methods of the region.
		As an architect, Mockbee is searching for a certain morality in his work, and this ethical code is clearly indicated in the flow of artwork to architecture and back.
		Mockbee's new buildings are made on the smallest of budgets, using scavenged and recycled materials whenever possible.
	www.artnet.com /magazine/REVIEWS/walen/walen9-28-00.asp (572 words)

	Black & White
		Mockbee, who was driven as much by his social conscience as by his passion for design, believed that too often the role of the architect is as "court jester to neurotic politicians and egotistical developers.
		That Mockbee chose western Alabama's Hale County, a Black Belt area that consistently ranks as one of the poorest in the nation, reflects his interest in not only refining his students' technical skills but also in broadening their social conscience.
		Mockbee's work with the Rural Studio earned him numerous honors, among them a $500,000 MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant," and an invitation to participate in the Whitney Museum of American Art's 2002 Biennial, the first time the museum had extended invitations to architects.
	www.bwcitypaper.com /1editorialbody.lasso?-token.folder=2003-09-25&-token.story=54997.111215&-nothing (859 words)

	American Profile: 8/27/2000 - 9/2/2000: Mockbee's Masterpieces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mockbee founded the Rural Studio in 1993 to provide houses for residents of Hale County, in west Alabama about 150 miles from the Auburn University campus.
		Mockbee was first attracted to the region as a student traveling from his home in Meridian, Miss., to Auburn University in the 1960s.
		Mockbee commutes weekly between Auburn and his home in Canton, Miss., where he is still a partner of Mockbee/Coker Architects, a firm that also operates a branch in Memphis, Tenn. It was during one of these drives that the Rural Studio idea formed.
	www.americanprofile.com /issues/20000827/20000827se_324.asp (731 words)

	Untitled Document
		Samuel Mockbee (1944-2001), founder of Auburn University's Rural Studio, was an idealist who put into practice one of the boldest programs in contemporary architecture.
		Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: Community Architecture is the first comprehensive traveling exhibition to survey Mockbee's work at the Rural Studio.
		Mockbee had recently mounted exhibitions of the Rural Studio's work at the Max Protech Gallery, New York, and the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, and posthumously participated in the Whitney Biennial, 2002 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
	www.artsbma.org /mockbeepr.htm (1645 words)

	Blogger: Email Post to a Friend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Mockbee died December 30, 2001 but left behind were stunning, noble works for people in one of the poorest areas in the country.
		Rural Studio, Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and Timothy Hursley Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio : Community Architecture and
		Proceed and be Bold : Rural Studio after Samuel Mockbee There's a group on Flickr of Hale County (I really need to drive back out and take more pics, esp. of Rural Studio projects) and one person in particular who has some really nice pics of RS buildings.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7139867&postID=112525802265974831 (546 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - News - AIA Gold Medal for Samuel Mockbee - 2003.1210
		The late Samuel Mockbee, FAIA, has just joined Thomas Jefferson in an elite club of architects who have received AIA Gold Medals posthumously.
		Mockbee is perhaps best known as cofounder of the Auburn University Rural Studio, in which he guided architecture students in designing and building houses and community structures in rural Alabama.
		As reported in ArchitectureWeek, Mockbee was also recipient in 2000 of a MacArthur Foundation "genius award." Although he rejected the label, he was clearly ingenious in inspiring students and in transforming local, inexpensive, often reused materials into designs of great imagination.
	www.architectureweek.com /2003/1210/news_1-1.html (245 words)

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		AUBURN -- Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee, the late founder of Auburn University's internationally acclaimed Rural Studio, has been selected as the 2004 recipient of the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
		Mockbee died of complications from leukemia in December 2001.
		Mockbee was a visiting professor in the schools of architecture and design at Harvard University, the University of Virginia, Yale University and the University of California at Berkeley.
	www.ocm.auburn.edu /news_releases/mockbee.html (597 words)

	REAL LIFE / Samuel Mockbee showed us how well-designed homes can shape lives
		Samuel Mockbee, an architect with a lucrative practice, decided to dedicate his time to what he liked to call an "American architecture without pretense," building homes for the homeless.
		Mockbee's so-called Rural Studio, affiliated with Auburn University's College of Architecture, was inaugurated a decade ago, a sort of Taliesin South along the lines of Frank Lloyd Wright's famous desert enclave.
		Mockbee was teaching his students "the fundamentals not only of design and construction, but also of decency and fairness," writes Dean in her introduction.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2002/06/22/HO32197.DTL (1851 words)

	ArtForum: Samuel Mockbee and the rural studio; Birmingham Museum of Art - Birmingham, AL
		The students act not as caseworkers but as architects seeking to understand the needs and desires of their clients, and the resulting structures, developed in stages by successive groups of students, have taken the form of private residences, cafes, meeting halls, and churches.
		Mockbee had a thriving practice in Canton, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee, noted for combining elements of rural, southern vernacular architecture with sophisticated modernism.
		Samuel Mockbee was not the only socially engaged architect who thought that modernist design could improve the lives of those in need, but he was one of the few who succeeded in bringing about immediately visible social change through architectural practice.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_5_42/ai_112735025 (515 words)

	Home and Community for the Forgotten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Samuel Mockbee and his students work side-by-side with rural citizens to create beautiful, unconventional architecture that uplifts the soul of a community and its residents.
		Mockbee, characteristically, is quick to discount the genius part, although he admits that it propelled him and The Rural Studio out from under the shade of obscurity right to center stage—in fact, all the way to Oprah herself.
		Mockbee says he's constantly out there talking about what they're doing and trying to raise money, when where he really wants to be is at The Rural Studio doing what he's talking about.
	www.isdesignet.com /Magazine/Oct'01/cover.html (2222 words)

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