John Cary is a co-founder of The Design Vanguard and the author of Design for Good: A New Era of Architecture for Everyone. With Casius Pealer, he co-founded and led ArchVoices, a weekly publication focused on issues affecting interns and young architects, from 1999 to 2005.
A survey of the members of Public Architecture's The 1% project--which asks firms to commit 1 percent of their yearly billable hours to pro bono efforts--and the AIA's creation of pro bono guidelines suggest that architects are increasingly interested in socially responsible work.