Prior to his Gulf Coast DesignLab program, in 1986 Coleman Coker began a thirteen-year partnership with
Samuel Mockbee. In 1995 their work was collected into the book,
Mockbee / Coker, Thought and Process, published by the
Princeton Architectural Press in recognition of their important and unusual work during their partnership. With Mockbee's death, Coker's partnership with Samuel Mockbee ended. Coker founded
buildingstudio. 's self-described principal focus is on inventive and imaginative work. In 1996 he was awarded the
Rome Prize from the
American Academy in Rome, in 1994, he was a Loeb Fellow in Advanced Environmental Studies at the
Harvard University Graduate School of Design. == References ==