Andrew Freear, director of Auburn University’s Rural Studio, has been awarded the 2023 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture. Sponsored by the University of Virginia and Monticello’s ...

Andrew Freear (left) and Reggie Walker (right) sit under a floating roof constructed by the Rural Studio in Hale County, Alabama on Oct. 18, 2023. Freear is the director of the Rural Studio. Housing ...

For decades, students and faculty from Auburn University’s Rural Studio have been working, studying and living in Hale County, Alabama, and using architecture to serve the greater good. There, more ...

After designing an incredibly cheap home, the 20K Initiative is now working with Fannie Mae and others to redesign mortgages and the other factors that make home ownership so expensive. Finalists Of ...

A town of 221 people called Newbern stretches across 1.2 square miles in rural Hale County. Those 221 people have places for community building, many of which Auburn University’s Rural Studio made ...

In rural Alabama, a university architecture programme is rebuilding the civic infrastructure of long-neglected towns, one project at a time. To reach the tiny town of Newbern, Alabama, you take a long ...