Volunteer Training Architects who wanted to help out with Sandy reconstruction got up to date on the latest code and zoning information. Photo by Rachel Minnery

A few of the amazing staff and volunteers working tirelessly on the installation.

The 1,000-square-foot pavilion was completed in 2009 as a volunteer structure and tool shed--though today its used far more by the public than initially anticipated. "The garden was wiped out after the storm," McKay recalls. "There was nothing, zero. Volunteers came in and replanted everything." Photo by Frank Doering.

Our student volunteers working on a new module. Photo by Clifford Ho.

Then the designers and volunteers poked the gluey mixture into the holes and cracks of the textured stone wall.

Living with less allows the Perezes more time to devote to their relationship, travel, and volunteer work.

Volunteers wear white glove during the process to keep the rope as clean as possible. Photo by Clifford Ho.

The overall construction cost of the Hammerfest Cabin was about €100,000, including many hours of volunteer work.

Volunteers tend the R. Roots Garden in Minneapolis, where the produce they grow goes to the local community.

TThe first modern construction in historic Hyde Park, the forward-thinking residence unabashedly volunteers a fresh point of view in the architectural dialogue of the neighborhood.

Rebuilding Together volunteers undertook a makeover of Jefferson Pre-K in San Francisco this past April, one of 40 such projects.

Mithun, the firm behind the landscape architecture, integrated edible plants in the courtyard’s terraced benches that can be harvested and used for meals prepared by volunteers.

A pair of volunteers puts a table together.

Baker and volunteers raise the original flag in 1978.

A volunteer at the Houston Food Bank packs meals.

The new coop was a collaboration between parents who volunteered on the project.

A volunteer prepping the interior of one of the geodesic-inspired Flock Houses.

Volunteers smooth the sides of the wood squares to prep them for the next steps.

Mrs. Libby Besse, left, with SarasotaMOD volunteers Jo Ann Lovell and Elliott Himelfarb.

Volunteers at work on another Mad Housers project. Photo courtesy of Mad Housers Inc.

The coop was designed by architect Gideon Danilowitz and was constructed with fellow volunteers from his son's school in Tucson.

Volunteers painstakingly identify residential architectural features by canvassing 35 square miles across Midland.

The firm and its team of volunteers fabricated the Buckminster Fuller–esque dome out of 450 recycled umbrellas.

Volunteers install the pop-up exhibition. Architecture for Humanity hopes to find a permanent solution to the underutilized space.

The House of the Immediate Future (HOIF) was designed by Method Homes in Seattle, Washington and constructed by Habitat for Humanity volunteers.

Marino Santa Maria covered Pasaje Lanin with Venetian mosaics and tile murals with a team of 20 neighborhood volunteers.

Estelita's Library was part of Sawhorse's all-womxn's program, meaning that all participants - mentors, students, and volunteers - identified as female.

Gabbert and Avery pose with Ingrid in their “growing ground,” planted and tended by local urban farmer Tara Kolla and a fleet of volunteers.

Community participants benefit from new housing while learning skills of construction and management, introducing volunteers to industries wherein they will acquire future employment.

Frank Lloyd Wright was the first modern architect to design a Universalist church. He volunteered to design a replacement for Unity Church in Oak Park, Illinois, the morning after it burned down. The result is the beloved Unity Temple.

Last year, Jesse was dubbed King of the Market for his role greeting residents, volunteers, and visitors at the on-site gift shop, which sells goods made by community members.

The facade featuring the polycarbonate wall was meant to be the extent of the public side of the pavilion. It has, however, garnered great interest and is now used frequently by those besides the garden volunteers. "People wanted to have parties and lectures in it," McKay says. "It went from this little potting shed into a really beautiful pavilion that people can use for other things." Photo by Frank Doering.

The living room is outfitted with furniture from a nearby Herman Miller outlet store, while the hanging rug was acquired by Jill's great grandmother while volunteering at a Native American reservation in Arizona.

Designers and Studio 5 volunteers Mike Lenhart and Sandy Kitson with their class of fifth-graders at Sunnyside Elementary School in San Francisco. The lesson for the day was letterforms and type. By the end of class, the students had designed monograms of their initials for their own personal portfolios.

In addition to revamping a San Francisco playground, the team of volunteers (in league with some professionals, including Seam Studios Landscape and Design and Swinerton Construction) also worked on the interior.

‘The people behind it are volunteers who raised the money on Kickstarter. We want to inspire people to think differently about the world and realise they have the power to change it.’