News Release
Auburn University Architecture Professor Andrew Freear speaks on campus
University of Detroit Mercy's School of Architecture will host a lecture by Architecture Professor Andrew Freear on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 at 6 p.m. in the Genevieve Fisk Loranger Architecture Center on the McNichols Campus.
A native of Yorkshire, England, Andrew Freear is the executive director of the Rural Studio at Auburn University in Alabama. Freear was educated at the Polytechnic of Central London and the Architectural Association, London, England, and has practiced extensively in both London and Chicago. Before he came to Rural Studio, Freear taught design studio for five years at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Freear's work at Rural Studio has been published in Architectural Review, Architectural Digest, Progressive Architecture, Dwell, Domus, Abitare, and Lotus magazines. He has had the opportunity to lecture on the Rural Studio across the United States as well as abroad.
The Rural Studio is a studio that guides young designers to design and construct fine architecture in economically stressed communities. Following the teachings of the late Samuel Mockbee, founder of Rural Studio, architecture is celebrated as a form of social art which link the community and its people together.
Andrew Freear's talk is free and open to the public. Continuing education points are offered for this event. For more information, please contact the UDM School of Architecture at 313-993-1532, or e-mail Associate Professor Amy Green Deines at deinesag@udmercy.edu.
Release date: October 16, 2007
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