News + Awards

2026 I-SEED Award, Honorable Mention

— I-SEED Network

Landback, boarding school healing, a tribal micro grid and more

— ICT Newscast

Caddo Nation prepares for opening of new childcare center

— ICT News

Outdoor rec grants awarded to Santa Fe Children's Museum, Reunity Resources

— Santa Fe New Mexican

MASS is renovating an education cluster by Ricardo Legorreta for a Santa Fe arts nonprofit

— The Architect's Newspaper

“The Architecture of Decarceration”

— Carceral Architecture, Princeton University Press

AIA Santa Fe Awards 2025: Merit Award

— AIA Santa Fe

AIA Santa Fe Awards 2025: Honor Award

— AIA Santa Fe

AIA Santa Fe Awards 2025: Citation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

The Architecture of Decarceration

— Carceral Architecture: From Within and Beyond the Prison Walls

How the Lower Sioux Is Harnessing Hemp to Build Sustainable Homes on Its Own Terms

— Dwell

MASS Design Group completes Snow Country Prison Japanese American Internment Memorial in North Dakota

— The Architect's Newspaper

New monument honors Japanese Americans incarcerated in North Dakota during World War II

— North Dakota Monitor

Tomás Rivera, Executive Director of Chainbreaker Collective, and Joseph Kunkel, Principle at MASS Design Group, discuss recently launched Midtown District-Hopewell Mann Neighborhood Stabilization Plan.

— KSFR Santa Fe

Development without displacement': City partners with nonprofits to protect Hopewell Mann from midtown project gentrification

— Santa Fe New Mexican

Snow Country Prison Memorial Ground Blessing in North Dakota

— Rafu Shimpo

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

— Newsbreak

To Be Done's Eastern Shoshone Cultural Hub project highlights the vitality of community design input

— Archinect

AIA Elevate Awards 2025: Architecture Design, Citation Award

— AIA New Mexico

AIA Elevate Awards 2025: Unbuilt Architecture, Merit Award

— AIA New Mexico

Barelas Community Kitchen opens, offers hub for food entrepreneurs

— Albuquerque Business Journal

How can we amplify Indigenous Design?

— Metropolis Magazine

Home Building: Q+A with AIA President Shawn Evans

— Santa Fe New Mexican

In Indian Country, Advancing Resilience Through Holistic Design

— Enterprise Community Partners

In Far West Texas, a Sacred Burial Site is Reclaimed Through Partnership and Perseverance

— Mellon Foundation

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

New architecture chapter gets start in New Mexico

— Albuquerque Journal

AIA New Mexico: Emerging Professional Friendly Award

— AIA New Mexico

AIA New Mexico: Distinguished Architecture Award of Merit

— AIA New Mexico

How Architecture Can Learn from Native America

— ARCHITECT Magazine

AIA Santa Fe: Honor Award

— AIA Santa Fe

AIA Santa Fe: Concept Innovation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

Indigenous Environmental and Climate Justice Series: Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab, MASS Design Group

— Urbanland

MASS: Seeking Abundance

— The Architectural League NY

Architecture firms MASS Design Group, AOS Architects merge Santa Fe offices

— Santa Fe New Mexican

MASS Design Group And Atkin Olshin Schade Architects Combine Offices In Strategic Partnership

— Press Release

“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

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

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

— The Washington Post

The Guggenheim and The World Around Present an Online Program Focused on Land

— Hyperallergic

Improving Communities through Culturally-Responsive Design

— Obama Foundation

Op-ed: COVID-19's impact on the Native American community

— The Hill

‘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