Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio

„I often encounter the claim „architects built …“. Mostly I like to contradict, „did not built, but only designed“, and that is a big difference. The vast majority of architects around the world have never built anything. The architect designs. He draws and models on the computer and only supervises on the construction sites. There are exceptions, and about one of them, The Rural Studio, is just this movie. We can see how young architects under the leadership of their instructors meet with the reality of the poor part of Alabama as part of the long-term university project and how they do not speculate, do not make up theoretical projects, but actually construct buildings responding to the needs of the local population.“ (Adam Gebrian) (Film a Architektura)