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So often architecture is associated with high price custom homes and fancy institutional buildings.

But many designers are also helping shape the city with pro bono work for nonprofits in less affluent neighborhoods. One in the news recently is the Campus For At-Risk Children in Watts being designed by Frank Gehry.

And unveiled Saturday – with a celebratory Thanksgiving meal — is Mobile Village: Kitchen, designed by LA architect Deborah Richmond for Peace4Kids, a nonprofit for foster kids located at Watts/Willowbrook Boys and Girls Club in South LA.

KCRW's Frances Anderton and Steve Chiotakis discussed the project and its ambitious goals.

Mobile Village: Kitchen Brings Nutrition and Good Design To Foster Kids

KCRW’s DnA: Design and Architecture explores who and what matters in our designed world – on air, online and at public events. Host Frances Anderton talks to designers, users and experts about products, fashion, buildings and more, in Los Angeles and beyond –revealing how we shape today’s world and how it shapes us.


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