Michael Murphy has said he is stepping down as president and CEO of the MASS Design Group, the non-profit firm he founded in 2008 with Alan Ricks, Marika Shioiri Clark, and Alda Ly. He plans to open his own design studio, which will address ways the ownership of buildings can be extended to disadvantaged groups. Murphy, 42, has also accepted an endowed chair at the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he teaches architecture studios (this year’s subject is memorials). He will remain on MASS’s board.
MASS, which stands for Model of Architecture Serving Society, is best known for its hospitals in Africa, clinics in Haiti, and the National Memorial for Peace and Justice—a tribute to victims of lynchings—in Montgomery, Alabama. This year MASS received the American Institute of Architects’ Architecture Firm Award, a remarkable achievement for a firm only 14 years old. MASS will now be run by senior principals and managing directors Christian Benimana (in the Kilgali, Rwanda office) and Patricia Gruits (in Boston), and Ricks, now its chief Design Officer. Murphy’s titles of president and CEO will go unfilled.
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