Using the Rural Studios work as a platform, the film examines the role of architecture in poverty, race, social change and sustainability. “Citizen Architect” airs on PBS Stations tonight at ...

Enter Auburn University’s Rural Studio. The architecture studio has embedded itself in Alabama’s Black Belt for 30 years as a three-way benefit: residents get a free house, students attending ...

Andrew Freear, director of Auburn University’s Rural Studio, has been awarded the 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Sponsored by the University of Virginia and Monticello’s ...

Auburn University Rural Studio celebrated its 30th anniversary. ... Rural Studio’s pedagogy encourages architectural education—and more architects—to confront poverty.

Rural Studio, established in 1993 by the late Samuel Mockbee and D.K Ruth and operating as an off-campus design-build program of Auburn University’s School of Architecture, Planning and ...

Last year, the studio worked with partners like Habitat for Humanity in a half dozen states by offering their rural housing designs meant to last. For NPR news, I'm Stephan Bisaha in Hale County, Ala.

Chinese studio Lichao Architecture Design Studio has transformed an abandoned brewery in Zhejiang, China, into a creative park, retaining its industrial character with additions in reclaimed brick ...

In 1993, Auburn University architecture faculty members Samuel Mockbee and D.K. Ruth cofounded Rural Studio, a design-build architectural education program headquartered two and half hours from ...

A produce farm on the Rural Studio campus in Newbern, Alabama Timothy Hursley Earlier today, the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum announced the winners of this year’s National Design Awards.

Last year, the studio worked with partners like Habitat for Humanity in a half dozen states by offering their rural housing designs meant to last. For NPR news, I'm Stephan Bisaha in Hale County, Ala.

Last year, the studio worked with partners like Habitat for Humanity in a half dozen states by offering their rural housing designs meant to last. For NPR news, I'm Stephan Bisaha in Hale County, Ala.

Many rural communities lack affordable housing. One university in Alabama is trying to help with some experimental architecture.