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these are made from Chevy Caprice Windshields!! And cost almost nothing.  Samuel Mockbee: Genius Rural Studio, Glass Chapel, Wrap Around Balcony, Timber Architecture, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, Famous Architects, Community Center, Sambo, Mies Van Der Rohe

Samuel Mockbee (1944-2001) was a very famous architect: not neccesarily for his own buildings but for the studio he created at Auburn University, the Rural Studio.House with wall made out of cardboard scraps Lily Friedlander addition - Atlanta, GA. The Rural Studio took architecture students into poor parts of Hale County, Alabama and created homes for the needy. Not FEMA quality basic housing, but works in the high art of architeture, using donated and found materials (car windshields…

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Canton Fire Station No. 3, Canton, Mississippi by Samuel Mockbee, 1984 Samuel Mockbee, Canton Mississippi, The Deep South, Deep South, Architectural Practice, Sambo, Fire Station, The Deep, Mississippi

A fifth-generation Mississippian, Samuel “Sambo” Mockbee was educated in Alabama and returned to his home state in 1977 to establish his first architectural practice with classmate and friend Thomas Goodman. He spent his life surrounded by the extreme poverty of the Deep South, and was committed to the belief that “everyone, rich or poor, deserves […]

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