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Avanzando: Border thinking and the future of architecture at AIA26

— AIArchitect

Wood Helps a Domestic Violence Shelter Become a Beacon for Safety

— Think Wood

“The Architecture of Decarceration”

— Carceral Architecture, Princeton University Press

AN looks back on the biggest housing stories of 2025

— Architect's Newspaper

The Architecture of Decarceration

— Carceral Architecture: From Within and Beyond the Prison Walls

BE+ Green Building Showcase Awards: Site and Landscape

— Built Environment Plus

Phius Passive Projects Design Competition: High Rise Multifamily 2025

— Phius

Phius Passive Projects Design Competition: Best Project by a Young Professional 2025

— Phius

City study reveals housing crisis for Albuquerque’s Native American residents

— Newsbreak

Having the resources to age: Local seniors find affordable housing with medical services on site

— Boston 25 News

AIA Housing Awards 2025: Specialized Housing

— American Institute of Architects

How can we amplify Indigenous Design?

— Metropolis Magazine

This building is designed to help its residents live a longer, happier life

— Boston Globe

Plan for new Mattapan complex aims to foster connection among children and senior adults

— WBUR

MASS Design Group and The Architectural Team to design combined housing and library project in Boston’s West End

— The Architect's Newspaper

MASS Design Group’s senior housing redevelopment fosters resident connections in Boston

— Think Wood

AIA Santa Fe 2024 Design Awards: Honor Award

— AIA Santa Fe

2024 Oregon Architecture Awards: Merit Award

— AIA Oregon

Well-Designed Low-Income Housing Is Possible

— Dwell

2024 SHN Architecture & Design Awards: Affordable Housing

— Senior Housing News

The First Ever Mayors’ Institute on City Design, co-sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Hosts Special Session for Mayors and Tribal Leaders

— Press Release

2024 IES Illumination Awards: Merit Award

— Illuminating Engineering Society

Shaping Communities through Architecture: Designing for Dignity in Childbirth

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Housing Justice, by Design

— ARCHITECT Magazine

New Brighton seniors’ facility adds dozens of units to let residents age ‘with dignity’

— WGBH, March 18, 2024

IAUD International Design Award 2023: Housing and Architecture

— International Association for Universal Design

MASS Design Group, Mikyoung Kim, Shigeru Ban Architects, and others throw their names in the hat to design a new library in Boston’s West End

— The Architect's Newspaper

12,000 architects came to S.F. This is what they said about the housing crisis

— San Francisco Chronicle

Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield: Advocating for Disability Justice in Design

— Architect Magazine

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS

— The Boston Globe

MASS: Seeking Abundance

— The Architectural League NY

MASS Design Group’s Director Jeffrey Mansfield Shares His Top Five Recent Obsessions

— ARTnews

Jeffrey Mansfield on His 'Architecture of Deafness' Exhibit and Designing for Social Inclusion

— Hunker

See Affordable Housing at the National Building Museum

— Architects and Artisans

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

— Southwest Contemporary

Principals at Six Top Firms Predict Where American Design Is Headed

— Metropolis

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

— Architect Magazine

‘Freedom Libraries’ aim to transform prisons, 500 books at a time

— The Washington Post

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— American Institute of Architects

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— Press Release

MASS Design Group Wins 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— Architect Magazine

Angela Brooks and Lawrence Scarpa Win 2022 AIA Gold Medal, The organization recognizes MASS Design Group with its annual Architecture Firm Award

— Architectural Record

Design for All

— Architectural Digest

2021 Award for Excellence in Public Architecture: Katie Swenson

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Katie Swenson and Jennifer Sage Named Winners of the 2021 AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Haven's new shelter represents a new beginning

— The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Haven finalizes plans for new shelter, nearly quadrupling capacity

— The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Architecture Can Heal: MASS Design Group's Katie Swenson on Building Equity Together

— ArchDaily

BSA Earl Flansburgh Young Designers Award

— Boston Society of Architects

Justice is Beauty

— Home & Design Magazine

How Recycling Existing Buildings Could Solve the Urban Housing Crisis

— Metropolis Magazine

MASS Design Group's Jeffrey Mansfield receives $50,000 grant for study into architecture for the deaf

— Archinect

This Design Director Is Bringing Awareness to the Architecture of Deafness

— Architectural Digest

MASS Design Group – Architecture Innovator of the Year

— e-architect

Katie Swenson Is Helping To Revolutionize Affordable Housing

— Forbes

How Deafness shapes our world

— Fast Company

Design School Hosts Panel on the Intersection of Voting and Design

— The Harvard Crimson

MASS Design Group publishes COVID-19 guide for retrofitting senior housing

— Archinect

MASS: Meet The Men, Women Who Have Changed The Face Of Architecture In Rwanda And Beyond

— KT Press

Op-ed: Lead with a mission-first design process to provide affordable housing

— Architect's Newspaper