In January 2015, the nonprofit organization Architecture for Humanity (AFH)—which helped architects serve populations in need, including victims of natural disasters—filed for bankruptcy and closed its doors. But many of its chapters continued to operate. Garrett Jacobs helped form an organization to support those chapters, now called the Open Architecture Collaborative, and in 2016 he was named its first director. A graduate of Tulane University’s architecture school, Jacobs worked as a set designer in New Orleans and taught design to high school students there before moving to the Bay Area in 2012.
He spoke to RECORD by phone in mid-October, as wildfires ravaged Northern California. “It’s a little intense right now,” Jacobs, 31, said from his office in Alameda. “We can see smoke over the Bay.”
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