MASS Design Group worked with Dr. Farmer, a global public heath advocate and a founder of Partners In Health, in his fight for quality healthcare as a basic human right.

Born in 1924 to a Jewish family in northern Serbia, Ferušić enrolled in architecture school less than a year after her liberation from Auschwitz and would become the first female dean at the University of Sarajevo’s architecture school.

In a time when building construction is contributing to multiple global crises, the American-Israeli designer posits that nature has much to teach us.

The competition to create the U.S. Pavilion at next year’s architecture biennale is open only to non profits and educational organizations.