Architecture is related to the city since, according to Alberti, “a big house is like a small city and a small city is like a big house”. This implies that Architecture, on a certain scale, can be understood as a builder of urbanity. A city can be understood as a great work of Architecture, while there are works of Architecture that seem to be organized as cities.

Separated from the rest of Brooklyn by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, the Farragut Houses stands in sharp contrast to nearby blocks in Dumbo and Vinegar Hill. This project, along with providing more affordable housing, is dedicated to eliminate the invisible walls between people, families, classes.