Rural Studio is seen as the ur-example of practical hands-on undergraduate architecture courses. Set up by D.K. Ruth and Samuel Mockbee in 1993 as an off-campus design and build programme of the School of Architecture in Auburn, Alabama, its students make 1:1 architecture – not just radical, experimental structures that last a summer – but practical, useful buildings and real homes. They’ve constructed more than 150 structures at the last count for the local community of Hale County. From its foundation, the course established an ongoing ethos of recycling and reuse of materials, and each project starts with the premise of “what should be built, rather than what can be built”, a test of need that has seen a town hall, bathhouse, museum, skate park, animal shelter and church constructed in a relatively poor and underserved rural neighbourhood. p (rgw)
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“Dave′s House”‚ 2009. (Photo © Tim Hursley)
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