Beyond the familiar social spaces of home and work are our spaces between: libraries, parks, learning environments, cafes, clubs, and places for worship. Neither house, nor office, these “third places” provide the connective tissue of communal, collective life.

Spaces Between don’t require the intervention of architects, but architecture can be enlisted to strengthen them. Acting on our innate joy and impulse to gather together, architecture marries an urbanistic big picture vision with local and tactical initiative: it occupies a creative ground where Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs meet.

We make connections between people and places. While architecture alone cannot solve social problems like poverty, poor education, alienation and ill health, we nevertheless advocate for projects that support their context with catalytic opportunities for healthy and productive social exchange. These projects can sometimes be grand, sometimes modest. But when successful, they are inevitably adopted, internalized and cherished by the communities they serve, becoming landmarks and entering the collective memory of their neighborhood and the city.