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Sambo Mockbee

admin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:31:25 +0000

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 them. more

Steve Badanes

admin — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:31:51 +0000

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 to create unique and sustainable homes, public art and public spaces around the world.

Cameron Sinclair

admin — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:34:10 +0000

Cameron Sinclair is the co-founder of Architecture For Humanity, a non-profit organization providing architectural solutions to humanitarian crises. Architecture For Humanity now includes 40,000 members and 72 chapters in 14 countries.

Michael Rotondi

admin — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:43:01 +0000

Michael Rotondi founded the Morphosis architecture firm in 1972 with Thom Mayne and was the Director of SCI Arc from 1987 to 1997. Rotondi is the current principal of RoTo Architecture, an award-wining firm founded in 1991 that creates unconventional structures and dissolves the boundaries between design, science, technology and the fine arts.

Jimmie Lee Matthews

admin — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:11:13 +0000

Living in extreme poverty, Jimmie Lee was chosen to be a recipient of a home from the Rural Studio’s 2002/2003 sophomore class. Known within the community of Greensboro, Alabama as Music Man because of his passion for soul music, he has always managed to maintain a healthy zeal for life, blasting R&B from his vast collection of used stereos and boasting that he “ain’t never met a stranger!”

Peter Eisenman

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:09:44 +0000

Peter Eisenman is an architect and founder of Eisenman Architects. Eisenman’s large-scale projects deconstruct accepted architectural theories using fragmented forms and shapes. Peter Eisenman also teaches theory seminars and advanced design studios at Yale University.

Coleman Coker

admin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:06:41 +0000

Coleman Coker launched buildingstudio in 1999, after a thirteen-year partnership with Samuel Mockbee. Coker’s work explores the idea of presence and how the small things people make fit into the larger interconnected whole. Coker is the visiting Favrot Chair at the Tulane University School of Architecture and the E. Fay Jones Chair at the University of Arkansas.

Jackie Mockbee

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:05:53 +0000

Jackie Mockbee provided love and support to Samuel Mockbee throughout their marriage and his projects. Jackie and Sambo had four-children: Margaret, Sarah Ann, Carol, and Julius. Jackie compiled an audio diary throughout the first year after Samuel Mockbee passed and was featured on WNYC’s topic show “The Next Big Thing.”

Carol Mockbee

admin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:03:46 +0000

Carol Mockbee is the third-daughter of Jackie and Samuel Mockbee. Carol enrolled in Auburn University’s Rural Studio in 2003 and single-handedly completed Samuel Mockbee’s Subrosa Pantheon project in Newbern, AL.

D.K. Ruth

admin — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 19:51:44 +0000

Dennis K. Ruth founded the Rural Studio with Samuel Mockbee in 1993 and devoted his life to teaching in the same context-based environment as Mockbee himself. Ruth was the Head of the Department as well as the Interim Dean of the College of Architecture, Design and Construction of Auburn University. D.K. Ruth passed away in his home August 26, 2009.