House 66, one of two Front Porch Initiative prototypes built in Opelika, Alabama, is the first Passive House–certified building in the state. It is also built to the Insurance Institute for Business & ...

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 ...

In rural Alabama, a university architecture programme is rebuilding the civic infrastructure of long-neglected towns, one project at a time. To reach the tiny town of Newbern, Alabama, you take a long ...

For decades, students and faculty from Auburn University’s Rural Studio have been working, studying and living in Hale County, Alabama, and using architecture to serve the greater good. There, more ...

In the world of architecture, high design and humanitarianism aren't easily matched. But architect and teacher Samuel Mockbee dedicated his career to merging these two concepts. Though in recent years ...

Rural Studio, a student-centered design/build program at Auburn University’s College of Architecture, Design and Construction, has announced a collaboration with the mortgage loan company Fannie Mae ...

"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio: community architecture organized by David Moos at the Birmingham Museum of Art"--T.p. verso. siris_sil_721382 ...

Eighty-one years ago, Walker Evans came to Hale County, Alabama, to photograph the region’s crushing poverty. These days, tourists come to photograph its architecture. Since 1993, students from Auburn ...