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

— The Architects Newspaper

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

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

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

— Southwest Contemporary

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

— Architect Magazine

Paul Farmer, Our Greatest Architect

— Press Release

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

— The Boston Globe

Newly Published, From Afro-Atlantic Histories to GameStop

— The New York Times

“Design and Healing" Exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt Offers Creative Responses to Epidemics

— Architectural Record

When you think of hospitals, you think of hallways. Here’s why we designed a hospital without them.

— Fast Company

How Architecture Has Responded to Health Emergencies

— Common Edge

A Timely Cooper Hewitt Museum Exhibit Prompts Designers To Overcome The Disinformation Of Anti-Vaxxers

— Forbes

A history of design innovations emerging from health crises

— Quartz

Favorite Architecture Books of 2021

— ArchiECHO

Epidemics: A Force for Life-Changing Innovation

— The New York Times

Can Architecture and Design Facilitate Healing?

— Metropolis

The secret to hospital design was solved 150 years ago. Why did we ignore it?

— Fast Company

Books for Your Holiday Gift List

— Architectural Record

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award

— American Institute of Architects

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

— Press Release

Designing for a Pandemic

— Wall Street Journal

Community Health Care

— Texas Architect Magazine

The MASS model of community-focused architecture

— CBS 60 Minutes

Why a Nonprofit Architecture Firm is Staffing-Up with Filmmakers

— CBS 60 Minutes Overtime

13 Architecture and Design Books to Add to Your Reading List

— Metropolis Magazine

Sisters of Charity Foundation picks MASS Design to build new health campus

— Cleveland Jewish News

2021 AIA Collaborative Achievement Award: MASS Design Group

— ARCHITECT Magazine

2021 Award for Excellence in Public Architecture: Katie Swenson

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Sisters of Charity plan health campus around St. Vincent hospital in Cleveland’s Central neighborhood

— Cleveland.com

MASS: Redefining Standards in Health Design

— design233

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

— ARCHITECT Magazine

How a McKinney clinic merges lessons from Texas — and Rwanda

— The Dallas Morning News (Premium)

National Building Museum Announces Two Important and Timely New Exhibitions on April 9

— Press Release

Haven's new shelter represents a new beginning

— The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

We were here: Why a memorial for Covid-19 victims can help us process our grief, and our anger, too

— Vox

Haven finalizes plans for new shelter, nearly quadrupling capacity

— The Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Family Health Center on Virginia: MASS Design Group

— ArchDaily

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

— ArchDaily

What Post-Pandemic Hospitals Might Look Like

— Bloomberg

Can Manuals and Toolkits Help Us Design a Safer Present or Future?

— Metropolis Magazine

MASS Design Group Wins 2021 AIA Collaborative Achievement Award

— ARCHITECT Magazine

AIA Collaborative Achievement

— American Institute of Architects

A Biomorphic Music Hall in Hungary, a Monolithic Bibliotheater in Shanghai, and a Railway Development in the Netherlands

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Key Projects That Will Transform Rwanda’s Southern Province

— KT Press

The Family Health Center on Virginia Makes Healthcare Accessible

— ARCHITECT Magazine

MASS Design Group Celebrates the Opening of the Family Health Center on Virginia in North Texas, Its Inaugural U.S. Healthcare Project

— Press Release

The Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) announces the winners of the 2020 BSA Design Awards and the 2020 BSA Honors and Awards at the annual BSA Awards Gala

— Archinect

BSA Earl Flansburgh Young Designers Award

— Boston Society of Architects

BSA Healthcare Facilities Design

— Boston Society of Architects

Rwanda launches new Covid-19 treatment facility with over 130 ICU beds

— The New Times Rwanda

Justice is Beauty

— Home & Design Magazine

Will San Francisco, New York and other big cities recover from COVID-19? What a post-vaccine city could look like.

— USA Today

Sarah Douglas rewinds a very different year of design at Wallpaper*

— Wallpaper

Dezeen's top 10 architecture trends of 2020

— Dezeen