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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

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

Shaping Communities through Architecture: Designing for Dignity in Childbirth

— ARCHITECT Magazine

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

Could creativity transform medicine? These artists think so

— NPR

Berkeley Rupp Prize awarded to Sierra Bainbridge, co-founder of MASS Design Group

— Berkeley College of Environmental Design

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

Design for Health at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

— ArchDaily

Landezine International Landscape Award

— Landezine

Thinking Through Material Flows

— The Architects Newspaper

BSLA Excellence Award in General Design

— Boston Society of Landscape Architects

Participatory design in action

— The World Bank ZIRP Blog

Building a Better World

— Harvard Magazine

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

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

— Madame Architect

Seeding A Wilder Future

— Landscape Architecture Magazine

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

Reimagining UT’s East Mall — New campus initiative to honor the Precursors

— UT News

MASS Establishes a Model for Regenerative Construction in Rwanda

— Architectural Record

2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award: MASS Design Group

— Architect Magazine

Minneapolis College of Art & Design launches itself toward a 'campus of the future'

— Star Tribune

Paul Farmer, Our Greatest Architect

— Press Release

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

— The Boston Globe

Ellen DeGeneres Gorilla Conservation Campus Now Open

— KT Press

Ellen DeGeneres' Gorilla Conservation Campus Is Officially Open in Rwanda: 'the Honor of a Lifetime'

— PEOPLE

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

Can Architecture and Design Facilitate Healing?

— Metropolis

Epidemics: A Force for Life-Changing Innovation

— The New York Times

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

Why a Nonprofit Architecture Firm is Staffing-Up with Filmmakers

— CBS 60 Minutes Overtime

The MASS model of community-focused architecture

— CBS 60 Minutes