MASS Design Group visited the University of Connecticut on Oct. 26 to share their mission to “research, build and advocate for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity.” The group ...

It would be a fair guess that Boston-based architectural firm MASS Design Group takes its name from its home state. It would also be wrong. It’s an acronym for an ethos: Model of Architecture Serving ...

Solar panels are able to meet Norrsken’s power needs, especially when coupled with other passive cooling design choices. (Chris Schwagga) In 2018, Norrsken, a Swedish nonprofit that helps ...

Rwanda is writing a new global story for itself. Over two decades after the end of the country’s civil war and the 1994 genocide, a series of progressive visions have been the catalyst for ...

As the spread of Covid-19 reached pandemic proportions last spring, MASS Design Group—a nonprofit architecture-and-design collective based in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda—began, almost immediately, ...

Late last week, 2022 AIA Firm Award–winning nonprofit architecture collective MASS Design Group announced that founding principal Michael Murphy is vacating his role as president and CEO to “pursue ...

Four glass houses, filled with actual mementos from people killed by gun violence, have been erected on the ground floor of the National Building Museum. Part of the Gun Violence Memorial Project, the ...

Just ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The Embrace, a monumental bronze sculpture depicting the intimately intertwined arms of Dr. King and Coretta Scott King, was revealed on the Boston Common to ...

More inclusive, equitable futures are grounded in how we design for justice and the human condition. Katie Swenson is a Senior Principal of international non-profit MASS Design Group, and she has ...

The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum have a new exhibition, “Visionary New England,” complete with contemporary images and historical pieces that recognizes the area’s contribution to alternative ...

“Come, sit next to me on this rock, and tell me about your father.” That was when Paul Farmer invited me in. I had arrived in Rwanda the previous day; three weeks before, my father had died. I was ...