Film | Citizen Architect – Samuel Mockbee and The Rural Studio

While walking around looking for unsuspecting person to interview, I came across this film poster about Samuel Mockbee, who was a professor and architect for the amazing Rural Studio in Alabama.  The film is called Citizen Architect. As some of you may know, that before I became a DJ and Digital Manager for 88Nine RadioMilwaukee, I practiced architecture and received my degree from Howard University in Washington, DC. I will always have special place in my heart for architecture and design. I have always wanted to attend the Rural Studio as a graduate student.

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…Filmmaker Sam Wainwright Douglas directed Citizen Architect, a 60-minute film for PBS that explores Mockbee’s effort to infect architecture’s future practitioners with the knowledge and passion to improve their community’s quality of life. Chronicling the philosophy and heart behind the Rural Studio, the documentary is guided by passionate, frank and never-before-seen interviews with Mockbee himself.

The film is premiering down at SXSW  this week, and hopefully I can check it out. There are two screenings: 1 on March 17th at the Alamo Ritz 1 and the other on March 20th at the same theater.