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

— ICT Newscast

Caddo Nation prepares for opening of new childcare center

— ICT News

MASS: A Non-Profit Model for Architecture in Service of Society

— ArchDaily

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: Citation Award

— AIA Santa Fe

AIA Santa Fe Awards 2025: Merit Award

— AIA Santa Fe

Evaluation of Characteristic Strength and Stiffness Properties of Regionally Sourced Pinus Patula Sawn Timber for Structural Application in East Africa

— East African Journal of Engineering

2025 Architectural Record Awards Winner: Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture

— Architectural Record

The Architecture of Decarceration

— Carceral Architecture: From Within and Beyond the Prison Walls

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Architectural Record Awards

— Architectural Record

2025 Architectural Record Awards: Colleges & Universities

— Architectural Record

Noella Nibakuze Reshapes Rwanda’s Design Identity

— Hospitality Design

Rwanda’s Institute for Conservation Agriculture wins Harvard’s top design prize

— Nile Post

MASS Wins Green Prize for Rwanda Ag Campus

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

— Harvard Graduate School of Design

MASS Awarded Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design

— Harvard Graduate School of Design

Is “the vernacular” having a moment in Venice?

— Architect's Newspaper

AIA reveals winners of 2025 Architecture Awards

— Dezeen

Architizer A+Awards 2025: +Landscape

— Architizer

Architizer A+Awards 2025: Sustainable Landscape & Planning

— Architizer

AIA Architecture Award 2025

— American Institute of Architects

"I Would Prefer Not To" Podcast: MASS Design Group

— The Architectural League of New York

Bioregional design: What is it and what will it mean for climate and planet?

— World Economic Forum

Harvard Graduate School of Design Community Makes a Strong Showing at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

— Harvard Graduate School of Design

Winning a Dezeen Award Adds Credibility

— Dezeen

Two Striking New Libraries, Inviting in Different Ways

— Curbed

Earthen walls for Rwanda Institute for Conservation Agriculture by MASS Design Group

— Metalocus

MASS Design Group, Marble Fairbanks Architects Unveil Brooklyn Public Library’s New Lots Branch

— AIA New York

Building a sustainable campus for the world’s first climate-positive university

— Autodesk

Modern Building Honoring African Burial Ground to Transform New Lots Library

— Brownstoner

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects to redesign library in Brooklyn on site of African American burial ground

— The Architect's Newspaper

Plans for restorative New Lots Library are unveiled in Brooklyn

— Archinect

New Lots Library redesign will recognize site’s legacy as an African Burial Ground

— 6sqft.

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects Share The Designs for the Brooklyn Public Library New Lots Branch, Honoring the Community’s African Burial Ground History

— Press Release

MASS Design Group and Marble Fairbanks Architects Design a Library That Honors African Burial Ground

— Architect Magazine

Brooklyn Public Library Gets Major Overhaul

— Pix11 NY TV

New Lots Library Redesign Honors African Burial Ground, Community Legacy

— Brooklyn Reader

Sustainable Building of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Sustainable Project of the Year 2024

— Dezeen

Istructe Structural Awards 2024

— Istructe

Autodesk Design & Make: Best Building Award

— Autodesk Foundation

The world’s first climate-positive university

— Construction Management

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Commonwealth Association of Architects: Environmental Impact Award

— Commonwealth Association of Architects

CONSTRUMAT Sustainability Awards 2024, Shortlist

— CONSTRUMAT

CONSTRUMAT Awards 2024, Finalist

— CONSTRUMAT

How Architecture Can Learn from Native America

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The Power of Provenance

— ARCHITECT Magazine

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

— Stirworld

The future of architecture and building with Kelly Alvarez Doran

— the bentway

A Guide to Rewilding

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Landezine International Landscape Award

— Landezine

Thinking Through Material Flows

— The Architects Newspaper

BSLA Excellence Award in General Design

— Boston Society of Landscape Architects

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

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

— The Boston Globe

MASS: Seeking Abundance

— The Architectural League NY

Seeding A Wilder Future

— Landscape Architecture Magazine