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 ...

The Board of Directors and the Strategic Council of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) today honored MASS Design Group with the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award. The annual AIA Architecture ...

MASS Design Group’s Christian Benimana, Alan Ricks, and Patricia Gruits gave individual talks and welcomed speakers at Abundant Futures. (Scott Roth/Courtesy MASS Design Group) At Abundant Futures / ...

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 ...

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 ...

Libraries have long been a bastion of democracy. These grand spaces can embody the power of literature, architecture, community, and opportunity. Freedom Reads, an organization that supports people in ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

International studio MASS Design Group renovated and adapted six derelict factory buildings into a mixed-use community hub in New York's Hudson Valley. The new Scenic Hudson Northside Hub was ...