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Ruhehe Primary School by MASS Design Group

Rwanda

Laura Raskin

February 15, 2019

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The transformation of a Rwandan facility by MASS Design Group’s African Design Centre is a model for local education.

Opening Day at Lynching Memorial and Museum Offers Powerful, Haunting Experience

Glenny Brock

April 27, 2018

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RECORD reports from the opening day of the evocative new National Memorial for Peace and Justice and Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama.

Lynching Memorial Opening Thursday in Alabama

Miriam Sitz

April 25, 2018

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The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Initiative in collaboration with MASS Design Group, opens in Montgomery on April 26, along with a museum.

Memorial to Victims of Lynching Planned for Alabama

Miriam Sitz

August 19, 2016

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More than 800 floating concrete columns will commemorate the dead and compel communities to remember the past.

Kasungu Maternity Waiting Village by MASS Design Group

Malawi

Miriam Sitz

July 1, 2016

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A short-term-housing village in Malawi by MASS Design Group provides safety and comfort for expectant mothers.

Ilima Primary School

A remote Congolese village promises to protect the rain forest in exchange for an innovative school building.

Laura Raskin

January 1, 2016

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MASS Design group is used to working in remote places. Building schools or health centers where there were none and training local labor is practically written into its DNA.

GHESKIO Cholera Treatment Center

The Water Cure: A small project with a big program sets a holistic design standard for health care in Haiti.

Linda C. Lentz

June 16, 2015

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A small project with a big program sets a holistic design standard for health care in Haiti.

Butaro Doctors' Housing

Laura Raskin

March 16, 2013

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Before 2007, people living in the rural Burera district of northern Rwanda had little access to a health-care facility or doctors.

Girubuntu Primary School

Clifford A. Pearson

March 16, 2012

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In addition to designing the Girubuntu school, MASS Design Group founders Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks helped select its site, get approvals, and build the organizational infrastructure to support it.

Butaro Hospital

Healing Architecture: Once torn by war, Rwanda has made great strides in recent years, but poverty persists. For a remote region that had no doctors, a new hospital is providing vital services ' and hope.

Jenna M. McKnight

December 16, 2011

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In December 2006, while in the throes of a final charrette at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, first-year student Michael Murphy took a break to attend a speech by the noted humanitarian doctor Paul Farmer.

Multifamily Housing Design: Three Approaches for Growing Cities

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE
May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

This webinar will explore current design practices, strategies, and materials used in multifamily housing projects and profile three unique projects:

Each presenter will demonstrate the design constraints and challenges as well as their solutions while highlighting differing approaches to integrating multifamily housing into the surrounding city buildings and spaces. The presentations will be followed by a moderated discussion in which the panelists will discuss how their projects address a variety of issues, including cost and affordability, community concerns, unit design, and open space.

Wood Structures: An Impressive Renewable Resource

Credits: 1 AIA LU/Elective; 1 AIBD P-CE

May qualify for learning hours through most Canadian architectural associations

This discussion will focus on how distinctive wood projects address several key issues, including cost, aesthetics, drivers, and design constraints and opportunities. We will describe the design constraints of the Temple Beth Tzedek project as well as strategies used for the University of Arkansas project to reduce its carbon footprint.

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Ruhehe Primary School by MASS Design Group

Opening Day at Lynching Memorial and Museum Offers Powerful, Haunting Experience

Lynching Memorial Opening Thursday in Alabama

Memorial to Victims of Lynching Planned for Alabama

Kasungu Maternity Waiting Village by MASS Design Group

Ilima Primary School

GHESKIO Cholera Treatment Center

Butaro Doctors' Housing

Girubuntu Primary School

Butaro Hospital

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