There, in an old mansion, Morisette House, is the Rural Studio's office.
Newbern is also home to the Auburn University's Rural Studio.
The festival is hosted at the Alabama Rural Heritage Center, which was designed and built by Auburn University's Rural Studio.
The mission of the studio is very similar to that of the famous Rural Studio pioneered by Samuel Mockbee at Auburn University.
In a separate thesis program, architecture students spend a fifth year at the Rural Studio.
Rural Studio achieves this transformation, of both materials and architectural conventions; painting houses to match jungle vegetation does not.
Rural Studio does create buildings, but its focus is also on building moral character in students.
(2003) Samuel Mockbee and the Rural Studio.
In 1993 he founded Rural Studio with the help of D. K. Ruth, then the head of Auburn's architecture department.
Students are currently renovating a building for a social service agency in Greensboro, where Rural Studio is based, and another team will start a new project in the fall.