Hints and tips:
...In the US there is Rural Studio, co-founded by DK Ruth and Samuel Mockbee (and now guided by a Brit, Andrew Freear) as a way of making architecture students engage in a more hands-on process....
...Mockbee died in 2001 and Andrew Freear, an articulate British-born architect, took up the helm at Rural Studio. In England, there has recently been a real boom in architects doing it themselves....
...Andrew Freear, Rural Studio director, acknowledges it’s a deceptively low figure....
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