News + Awards

Norrsken Kigali House / MASS Design Group

— ArchDaily

Norrsken Kigali House

— Archinect

Norrsken Kigali House

— Architect Magazine

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

MASS Design Group adapts a former school in Rwanda into an entrepreneurial hub for a Swedish nonprofit

— The Architects Newspaper

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

— Madame Architect

Kigali is building its way to becoming ‘the Silicon Valley of Africa’

— CNN

Kigali's Inspiring Skyline

— CNN: Inside Africa

See Affordable Housing at the National Building Museum

— Architects and Artisans

Seeding A Wilder Future

— Landscape Architecture Magazine

Editorial: Building Resiliency

— Canadian Architect

Can Architecture Build Values, Too?

— The New York Times

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

Moving Windmills

— CNN: Inside Africa

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

— Architect Magazine

Technical: Mass Timber Through a Life Cycle Lens

— Canadian Architect

Climate Change and the Crisis of Inequity

— Architectural Record

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

— The Boston Globe

MASS Announces Promotions in 2022

— Press Release

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

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— American Institute of Architects

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

The 10 most innovative architecture companies of 2021

— Fast Company

2021's Most Innovative Architecture Companies

— Fast Company

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

— ArchDaily

BSA Earl Flansburgh Young Designers Award

— Boston Society of Architects

Architizer A+ Firm Awards: Humanitarian Architecture

— Architizer

Justice is Beauty

— Home & Design Magazine

2021 AD100

— The Architectural Digest

How Recycling Existing Buildings Could Solve the Urban Housing Crisis

— Metropolis Magazine

MASS Design Group – Architecture Innovator of the Year

— e-architect

MASS Design Group Named WSJ Magazine’s Architecture Innovator of the Year

— Archinect

MASS Design Group Is Reimagining the Spaces of Everyday Life

— The Wall Street Journal

WSJ. Magazine Celebrates a Decade of Innovation

— Associated Press

The WSJ Magazine 2020 Innovator Awards

— WSJ Magazine

WSJ Magazine Sets Virtual Innovator Awards With BTS, Jennifer Lopez, Michaela Coel, Phoebe Waller-Bridge

— Hollywood Reporter

BTS and Jennifer Lopez: How to Watch WSJ. Magazine’s 2020 Innovator Awards

— WSJ Magazine

Katie Swenson Is Helping To Revolutionize Affordable Housing

— Forbes

MASS Design Group Head On Achieving Justice And Beauty In Our Cities

— 90.9 WBUR

Domus 1050 is on newsstands: “Will technology save us?”

— Domus

Building Industry Gets Serious About Its Embodied Carbon Problem

— Greentech Media

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

To reopen, restaurants will need to completely reinvent themselves

— The Boston Globe

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

— Architect's Newspaper

How Architects and Designers Can Respond to COVID-19

— Common Edge

Book Review: Justice is Beauty

— A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MASS MD Christian Benimana on key role infrastructure plays in Rwanda’s growth

— CNBC Africa

MASS Design Group: “L’architettura deve essere il luogo della ricostruzione della comunità stessa”

— Domus Web

Book Review: The world’s most beautiful architecture is also the most equitable

— Fast Company

Holiday Roundup of Architecture Books 2019

— Architectural Record

ARCHITECT Magazine ARCHITECT 50

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The African Design Center is Birthing a New Generation of African Architects and Designers

— Okayafrica