Alternative architecture
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Creativity is valued in architecture as much as is sound design. Alternative architecture often seen in owner-built homes attempts to combine creative use of unusual but cheap materials and still end up with a roof that doesn't leak.
A typical examples are the straw bale house, and the houses built in rural Alabama by the Rural Studio
Further Reading
- Samuel Mockbee, David Moos and Gail Trechsel, Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio Birmingham Museum of Art, October, 2003, trade paperback, 112 Pages, ISBN 093139452x
- Andrea Oppenheimer Dean, photographer, Timothy Hursley, Rural Studio: Samuel Mockbee and an Architecture of Decency, Princeton Architectural Press, 2002, paperback, 192 pages, ISBN 1568982925
