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Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer Came to the United States, 1941, naturalized. Daughter of Heinz Ernst and Kaethe Edith (Gassmann) Oppenheimer.
(For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur ...)
For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur Grant recipient, and his architecture students at Auburn University have been designing and building striking houses and community buildings for impoverished residents of Alabama's Hale County. Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings that bear the trademark of Mockbee's work, which he describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."In a time of unexampled prosperity, when architectural attention focuses on big, glossy urban projects, the Rural Studio provides an alternative of substance. In addition to being a social welfare venture, the Rural Studio--"Taliesin South" as Mockbee calls it--is also an educational experiment and a prod to the architectural profession to act on its best instincts. In giving students hands-on experience in designing and building something real, it extends their education beyond paper architecture. And in scavenging and reusing a variety of unusual materials, it is a model of sustainable architecture. The work of Rural Studio has struck such a chord-both architecturally and socially--that it has been featured on Oprah, Nightline, and CBS News, as well as in Time and People magazines.The Studio has completed more than a dozen projects, including the Bryant "Hay Bale" House, Harris "Butterfly" House, Yancey Chapel, Akron Chapel, Children's Center, H.E.R.O. Playground, Lewis House, Super Sheds and Pods, Spencer House addition, Farmer's Market, Mason's Bend Community Center, Goat House, and Shannon-Dutley House. These buildings, along with the incredible story of the Rural Studio, the people who live there, and Mockbee and his student architects, are detailed in this colorful book, the first on the subject."I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble"--Samuel Mockbee
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Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean. Princeton Architectural Pr,2002
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("Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul....)
"Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul."—Samuel Mockbee Based on this simple premise, in 1992 Samuel Mockbee launched the Rural Studio to create homes and community buildings for the poor while offering hands-on architecture training for coming generations. Choosing impoverished Hale County, Alabama, for his bold experiment, Mockbee and his Auburn University students peppered this left-behind corner of the rural South with striking buildings of exceptional design. Most use recycled and curious materials: hay bales, surplus tires, leftover carpet tiles, even discarded 1980 Chevy Caprice windshields. The publication of Rural Studio brought this innovative work to the public, and—five printings later—continues to affect the way people view architecture. Since Mockbee's death in 2001, the Rural Studio has continued to thrive, a tribute to its founder's vision. In 2004, the American Institute of Architects posthumously awarded Mockbee its highest honor, the Gold Medal for Architecture. Under Mockbee's successor, Andrew Freear, the studio has seeded southwest Alabama with an additional seventeen architectural landmarks, and all are shown here. With thoughtful text from Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and stunning photographs by Timothy Hursley, this new book explains the changes the studio has undergone during the last four years and its continuing ability to "proceed and be bold," as Mockbee counseled.
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Dean, Andrea Oppenheimer Came to the United States, 1941, naturalized. Daughter of Heinz Ernst and Kaethe Edith (Gassmann) Oppenheimer.
Bachelor, Columbia University, 1957.
Art columnist, associate editor District of Columbia Gazette, Washington, 1970-1973. Contributing editor Washingtonian magazine, 1971-1973. Freelance art columnist Washington Post/Washington Star, 1971-1974.
Editor Women's Work magazine, Washington, 1974-1975. Executive editor Architecture magazine, 1975-1990, editor-at-large, 1990-1991. Freelance art and architecture Smithsonian magazine, 1980-1992.
Editor-at-large History Preservation magazine, 1991-1997. Contributing editor Landscape Architecture, 1996-1999, Architectural Record, since 1997.
(For almost ten years, Samuel Mockbee, a recent MacArthur ...)
(Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decen...)
(Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decen...)
("Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul....)
(Book by Knapp, Stephen, Dean, Andrea O.)
(Book by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean)
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Advisory committee rural studio board chair Going Home Inc., since 2005. Member Lambda Alpha.
Children: Joanna, Nathaniel, Lisa. Married Grant Scott Shotwell, June 28, 1986.