Is Architecture Irrelevant? Mockbee Speaks Out

Samuel Mockbee, winner of a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' grant, talks about the relevance of architecture, his influences, and why you shouldn't "trust anyone under 50."

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September 20, 2001, 1:30 PM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

"In the last century of American homebuilding, there may no other time when architects were so irrelevant...Somebody forgot to tell this to Samuel Mockbee...Last year he won a MacArthur Foundation "genius" grant, only the third architect (along with Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio) out of 588 past recipients to receive this award."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

Read the full story: Samuel Mockbee

Thursday, August 9, 2001 in Salon

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