Films for the Humanities and Sciences - The Home Maker: Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee

The Home Maker: Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee

Award-winning architect and recipient of a 2000 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Samuel Mockbee had a practical approach to architecture that reflected his lofty ideals. Based out of the Rural Studio he cofounded at Auburn University, Mockbee and his students designed and built—free of charge—homes and other structures using recyclable materials for people in one of Alabama’s poorest areas, Hale County. In this program filmed a year before Mockbee’s death, ABC News correspondent Robert Krulwich talks with the architect about his philosophy and goals in a field that often forgets that buildings are for people, not other architects. (22 minutes)

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Item#: BVL29961
Copyright date: ©2002
VHS ISBN 978-1-4213-0196-9
DVD ISBN 978-1-4213-6385-1


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