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What Does “Trauma-Informed Design” Actually Mean?

— Dwell

Midwives break ground ceremonially for Boston’s first freestanding birth center in Roxbury

— The Boston Globe

Healthy Beginnings: MASS's Amie Shao on the Power of Birth Spaces and Conditions for Care — Madame Architect

— Madame Architect

Making Progress—and Facing Reality—in Maternal and Newborn Health

— Helmsley Charitable Trust

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

— ArchDaily

Maternal and newborn health investments’ most powerful asset is space

— Devex

The Neighborhood Birth Center is Eager to Bear Fruit

— Ujima Boston

Amie Shao: Designing Birth Spaces That Change Outcomes

— Apple Podcasts: Play with Matches

Wood Helps a Domestic Violence Shelter Become a Beacon for Safety

— Think Wood

Garrett’s Space: Alumni break ground with a peer-focused perspective on mental health

— Michigan Today

Memorable Cultural Moments of 2025

— Boston Art Review

Zoning Board approves Roxbury birth center plan

— Bay State Banner

Noella Nibakuze Reshapes Rwanda’s Design Identity

— Hospitality Design

Garrett’s Space Offers A Bigger Space for Teens and Young Adults Navigating Mental Health Challenges

— Hour Detroit

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

— The Architectural League of New York

Rwandan architect redesigns urban development in Africa

— Deutsche Welle

Building Cancer Care from the Ground Up in Rwanda

— Harvard Medicine

Garrett’s Space Breaks Ground on Transformative Mental Health Campus for Young Adults

— The New Sun Times

‘This place will save lives’: New mental health campus breaks ground in Ann Arbor

— NBC WDIV TV

Ground broken on Garrett's Space expansion

— WEMU 89.1

Nonprofit to break ground on center for young adults facing mental health challenges

— Crain's Detroit Business

Rooted in Tradition, Nature, and Community: Wellness and Healing Spaces from the North to the South Africa

— ArchDaily

Amid Zoning Debate, Advocates Press for Roxbury Birth Center

— The Boston Globe

Zoning Board Made Wrong Call in Rejecting Roxbury Birth Center

— The Boston Globe

This building is designed to help its residents live a longer, happier life

— Boston Globe

Future suicide prevention center outside Ann Arbor secures $373K in county millage funding

— MLIVE

MASS Design Group’s senior housing redevelopment fosters resident connections in Boston

— Think Wood

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Shaping Communities through Architecture: Designing for Dignity in Childbirth

— 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

Design for Health at the UIA World Congress of Architects 2023

— ArchDaily

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

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

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

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

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