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Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio is a documentary film on the late architect Samuel Mockbee and the radical educational design/build program known as the Rural Studio.
Air date: 03/08/2010
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Citizen Architect: Samuel Mockbee and the Spirit of the Rural Studio premiered at SXSW 2010. In this interview, Sam Wainwright Douglas and Jack Sanders reveal what inspired them to make this film about the late Samuel Mockbee. Mockbee was known for his radical educational design/build program...
Air date: 03/09/2010
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In this scene that was deleted form the final version of the film, Rural Studio alumnus Bruce Lanier visits the project he worked on, the Thomaston Community Market. He discusses the work he and his classmates did and what his life is like several years after having gone through the program.
Air date: 08/23/2010
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Sitting outside under the shed he used as a painting studio, Mockbee flips through his sketchbooks, showing off his drawings and pontificating on the power and beauty of the sketch. "The initial sketch is always an emotion and it should flow freely..."
Air date: 08/23/2010
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This is a video tour of the volunteer fire station completed by the Rural Studio in 2004 in the tiny town of Newbern, Alabama. Until the Rural Studio broke ground on this project, no new building had been constructed on Main St. in Newbern for over a century
Air date: 08/23/2010
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