News + Awards

“The Architecture of Decarceration”

— Carceral Architecture, Princeton University Press

The Architecture of Decarceration

— Carceral Architecture: From Within and Beyond the Prison Walls

AIA Housing Awards 2025: Specialized Housing

— American Institute of Architects

2024 Oregon Architecture Awards: Merit Award

— AIA Oregon

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

IAUD International Design Award 2023: Housing and Architecture

— International Association for Universal Design

Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield: Advocating for Disability Justice in Design

— Architect Magazine

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

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

— The Washington Post

Design for All

— Architectural Digest

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

How Deafness shapes our world

— Fast Company

Design School Hosts Panel on the Intersection of Voting and Design

— The Harvard Crimson

‘The Writing on the Wall’: Voices of the Incarcerated

— The New York Times

Crime and Punishment

— Architectural Record

Architecture and Prison Reform

— Architectural Record

Vera Institute for Justice and MASS Design Group Reimagine Prisons

— Architectural Record

Prisoners Have the Answers to Our Prison Crisis, Say Hank Willis Thomas and Baz Dreisinger

— Newsweek