Fast Company profiles two New York architects successfully using design to address social problems.
"Currently in their 10th year working together and their 5th year as partners in Gans & Jelacic, the pair is in the midst of several cutting-edge projects that share the same goal: to deliver practical and pleasant living spaces for people who need them desperately. Those people include the urban homeless, refugees in camps around the world -- even schoolkids in Staten Island, for whom a desk is a sort of home away from home. "We're looking to make a humane environment for people who don't normally have a voice to ask for it," says Jelacic."
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