British-born Freear joined the design-build program at Auburn University in 2000, and has made scalable, low-cost housing solutions for impoverished rural communities a primary focus.

The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Initiative in collaboration with MASS Design Group, opens in Montgomery on April 26, along with a museum.

Auburn University’s Rural Studio transforms an aging bank building in Newbern, Alabama, into the town’s first public library.

A cluster of new buildings captures the rugged, free spirit of a rural boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama.

More than 800 floating concrete columns will commemorate the dead and compel communities to remember the past.