News + Awards

Lake Sophia by Field Operations is the first new swimming facility at a New York State Park in nearly two decades

— The Architect's Newspaper

Lake Sophia at Sojourner Truth State Park

— Landezine

Boston architecture firm chosen to transform former Confederate monument into place of gathering

— Bay State Banner

Bronze from dismantled Robert E. Lee statue used in Charlottesville park pavilion by MASS and Dana King

— Archinect

Lake Sophia Swimming Area Opens at Sojourner Truth State Park in Kingston

— Chronogram

MASS wins competition to replace confederate statue in Charlottesville, Virginia

— The Architect's Newspaper

MASS chosen as winner of Swords into Plowshares project

— NPM News

Bronze from former Robert E. Lee statue to become new Charlottesville public art

— 29News

Boston firm tapped to turn Confederate statue into monument to racial diversity

— The Washington Post

Rebuilding America’s Memory

— Architect Magazine

Poughkeepsie Cistern

— Domus #1114

How Hudson Valley Parks Are Becoming More Accessible to All

— Chronogram

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

Abandoned Poughkeepsie cistern becomes haunting concert hall for one day

— Times Union

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

— The Architect's Newspaper

In Charlottesville, Hood Design Studio, MASS Design Group, and PUSH Studio propose what should rise from the melted bronze of a Robert E. Lee statue

— The Architect's Newspaper

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

Announcing the Winners of the 2025 Architectural Record Awards

— 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

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

"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

Jha D Amazi on Collective Memory

— Future of the American City Podcast

Return to Freedom: Martin Luther King III and Embrace Boston Revisit Iconic MLK March

— Ebony

MASS Design Group Transforms an Abandoned Hudson Valley Cistern Into an Underground Arts Venue

— Architectural Record

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.

New Lots Library Redesign Honors African Burial Ground, Community Legacy

— Brooklyn Reader

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

— Architect Magazine

The world’s first climate-positive university

— Construction Management

Imagining Abundant Futures

— ARCHITECT Magazine

How Architecture Can Learn from Native America

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Shaping Our Future: The Transformative Power of Public Memorials

— ARCHITECT Magazine

The Power of Provenance

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Learning From Poughkeepsie

— ARCHITECT Magazine

Story in the Public Square

— PBS

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

Thinking Through Material Flows

— The Architects Newspaper

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

From Rwanda to Boston Common: the humanitarian mission of MASS

— The Boston Globe

Will the public embrace "The Embrace"?

— CBS News

Meet The Embrace: New Monument Honoring MLK Jr. & Coretta Scott King Now Open to Public

— NBC Boston