News + Awards

AIA New Mexico: Distinguished Architecture Award of Merit

— AIA New Mexico

PRX: Monumental

— PRX

Shaping Our Future: The Transformative Power of Public Memorials

— ARCHITECT Magazine

AIA Santa Fe: Honor Award

— AIA Santa Fe

The Power of Provenance

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so

— NPR

Berkeley Rupp Prize awarded to Sierra Bainbridge, co-founder of MASS Design Group

— Berkeley College of Environmental Design

Pondering if architecture hurts or heals, with Christian Benimana of MASS Design Group

— Stirworld

Design for Health at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

— ArchDaily

King’s Chapel in Boston reckons with complicated roots as it honors more than 200 enslaved connected to congregation

— The Boston Globe

On Boston's Freedom Trail, King's Chapel plans a dramatic facelift to recognize its ties to slavery

— GBH News

Unbuilt Architecture Award - Citation

— AIA New Mexico

Participatory design in action

— The World Bank ZIRP Blog

Building a Better World

— Harvard Magazine

Five key projects by Dezeen Awards judge and MASS Design Group's Kelly Alvarez Doran

— Dezeen

Love in Design: MASS Design Group's Senior Principal Katie Swenson on Home Making, Community Architects, and Feeling Others' Joy

— Madame Architect

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS

— The Boston Globe

Will the public embrace "The Embrace"?

— CBS News

MASS Design Group and Hank Willis Thomas Unveil Boston Memorial to MLK and Coretta Scott King

— Architectural Record

Mayor Wu and Embrace Boston Announce Unveiling of "The Embrace"

— City of Boston

Meet The Embrace: New Monument Honoring MLK Jr. & Coretta Scott King Now Open to Public

— NBC Boston

MASS Design Group's touching Hank Willis Thomas MLK memorial commission debuts in Boston

— Archinect

Unveiling “The Embrace,” Boston’s Tribute to the Legacy of Coretta Scott King and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

— Boston Art Review

A new sculpture and plaza on the Boston Common honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and legacy

— Architect's Newspaper

‘The Embrace’ sculpture celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy in Boston

— PBS News Hour

In Boston, 'The Embrace' Honors the Legacy and Love of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King

— Architect Magazine

‘I see love and strength:’ King family delivers powerful speeches as Embrace memorial honoring MLK is unveiled

— Boston Herald

MASS Design Group — the firm behind ‘The Embrace’ — has made a name for itself with these social justice-driven projects

— The Boston Globe

A Striking New Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Captures the Feeling of Love

— Architectural Digest

'Embrace' sculpture unveiled on Boston Common ahead of MLK Day

— WCVB Channel 5

‘The Embrace’ is a tribute to love, justice, and the unsung

— The Boston Globe

AIA Santa Fe: Conceptual Work Innovation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

MASS: Seeking Abundance

— The Architectural League NY

Changing Narratives: MASS Design Group’s Noella Nibakuze on Pioneering Paths and Shaping a Rwandan Architecture

— Madame Architect

“A sacred space”: Architects and tribal community share a plan to protect Presidio’s Lipan Apache cemetery

— Marfa Public Radio

City of Presidio approves architectural designs for Lipan Apache Cemetery

— The Big Bend Sentinel

Hank Willis Thomas Sees His Art as a Call to “Loving Action”

— Wall Street Journal Magazine

Critical Mass: MASS Design Group’s International Humanitarian Architecture Starts with Immersion in the Local

— Southwest Contemporary

Reimagining UT’s East Mall — New campus initiative to honor the Precursors

— UT News

One of the Most Significant Memorials on the Planet

— Architect Magazine

July 2022 Editor's Letter: Memorializing the Victims of Gun Violence

— Architectural Record

A ‘Sad Kinship’ as Towns Build Memorials to Victims of Mass Shootings

— New York Times

Circle of Champions Walk unveiled in Poughkeepsie

— Mid Hudson News

Poughkeepsie's Champions: Memorial to celebrate city's civic leaders, see what's planned

— Poughkeepsie Journal

‘In the heart of their hug’: Hank Willis Thomas on his ‘Embrace’ tribute to the Kings

— The Boston Globe

The Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize Announces MCHAP Outstanding Projects

— ArchDaily

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

— Architect Magazine

Should the U.S. Create a National Memorial for Gun Violence?

— Surface Magazine

At gun violence memorial, visitors reflect on two weeks of mass death

— The Washington Post

We need a national memorial to gun violence. Now.

— The Washington Post

Officials break ground on monument honoring Martin Luther King

— The Boston Globe

Paul Farmer, Our Greatest Architect

— Press Release

What Paul Farmer taught me about ‘dignity construction’ in health care

— The Boston Globe

Newly Published, From Afro-Atlantic Histories to GameStop

— The New York Times

‘The Embrace,’ Boston’s long-awaited tribute to the Kings, will be unveiled on MLK Day 2023

— The Boston Globe

“Design and Healing" Exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Offers Creative Responses to Epidemics

— Architectural Record

When you think of hospitals, you think of hallways. Here’s why we designed a hospital without them.

— Fast Company

How Architecture Has Responded to Health Emergencies

— Common Edge

A Timely Cooper Hewitt Museum Exhibit Prompts Designers To Overcome The Disinformation Of Anti-Vaxxers

— Forbes

A history of design innovations emerging from health crises

— Quartz