When architecture students at Auburn University’s Rural Studio first started working on the 20K initiative in 2005, they had a straightforward–if ambitious–goal: to design a high-quality house for ...

Rural Studio helps families build new housing on land with tangled titles, meaning there's no clear owner. Auburn University Rural Studio. Photo by Timothy Hursley, CC BY-SA Imagine your parents leave ...

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 ...

Racists were made here. Bull Connor, who unleashed police dogs on civil-rights protesters marching in downtown Birmingham; Thomas Blanton Jr. and Bobby Frank Cherry, who dropped a stick of dynamite ...

AUBURN –The late legendary architect Samuel Mockbee and Auburn University's Rural Studio for aspiring architects are the subject of a documentary film by producer and director Sam Wainwright Douglas ...

At Auburn University’s architectural-training program, “housing is health.” Associate Director Rusty Smith asserts: “As architects, we have a professional responsibility. It's not only an ethical or ...

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 Alabama, where Dr. Martin Luther King once preached hope, Hale County is a still, forgotten corner, seemingly unchanged since the turn of the past century. But thanks to the enduring vision of one ...

Across the US, heirs’ property laws hamstring families that want to build housing or leverage their land for loans. One Alabama project shows how policy reform and savvy design can build a way forward ...

Auburn University's Rural Studio and its founder the late Samuel Mockbee are featured in a documentary to air on PBS at 10 p.m. August 23. The name of the film by producer and director Sam Wainwright ...