UAB, Birmingham Museum of Art, and SECAC are pleased to present the 2018 Edward M. and Hermione C. Friend Lecture / 2018 SECAC Keynote address featuring Andrew Freear of Auburn University’s Rural Studio.

Freear, originally from Yorkshire, England, is the Wiatt Professor and director of the Rural Studio – Auburn University. Freear lives in a small rural community in Hale County, where for nearly two decades he has directed a program that questions the conventional education and role of architects. His architecture students have designed and built community buildings, homes, and landscape projects for under-resourced local towns and nonprofit organizations.