When Samuel Mockbee was posthumously awarded the 2004 AIA Gold Medal earlier this year, the architectural establishment's highest honor finally found its social conscience―and maybe the profession did too. Much has happened in the eleven years since Mockbee and D.K. Ruth cofounded the Rural Studio, a design-build program at Auburn University that has dramatically raised the profile of hands-on, communi- ty-based architecture. Indeed, there is a new generation of practitioners―some are gradu- ates of Rural Studio or like-minded programs, others are simply passionate about an archi- tecture of social engagement―whose mem- bers develop projects and programs for clients rarely served by design professionals.
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