Wednesday / July 14, 2021 / 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Architects as Worldwide Collaborators for MASS-ive Change
Online
The AIA Collaborative Achievement Award recognizes and encourages collaboration among design professionals, clients, organizations, knowledge communities and others that have had a beneficial influence on or advanced the architectural profession. MASS Design Group is an interdisciplinary collective deeply committed to equitable, community-driven design ensuring that architecture addresses the social issues facing the world. With its mission embedded in its name—MASS is an acronym for Model of Architecture Serving Society—the company was founded on the notion that buildings hold the power to heal. Learn how Mass Design Group’s project approach expands design excellence with a mission to elevate people and places at a world scale. Explore the firm's past and present work, their process, and their firm culture in a presentation led by the firm’s leaders followed by a Q&A. Each attendee will gain inspirational insights to assist them in the evolution of their practice.
After attending this program, participants will be able to:
- Investigate approaches that expand the architectural practice to a world scale.
- Engage clients as thought partners to translate the mission into project principles and create designs that are a vehicle for positive change.
- Explain how to structure the design process as a form of policy development and emerging research to produce projects that address inequality.
- Explore the ways in which architecture can improve health and well-being and provide critical infrastructure.
Moderators
- Craig Brandt, AIA, Principal, HBRA (Chicago) and COD Advisory Group Programming Co-chair
- Katie Swenson, Assoc. AIA, Senior Principal, MASS Design Group
Speakers
- Michael Murphy, Founding Principal & Executive Director, MASS Design Group
- Amie Shao, Principal, MASS Design Group
- Joseph Kunkel, Assoc. AIA, Principal & Director of the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab, MASS Design Group
- Neel Shah, M.D., MPP, FACOG, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Delivery Decisions Initiative, Harvard’s Ariadne Labs
- Pardis Sabeti, M.D., D.Phil., Professor, Harvard University and T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Institute Member, The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
- Chef Jody Adams, TRADE, Saloniki, and Porto restaurants
