MASS Design Group (Model of Architecture Serving Society). A non-profit organization founded in 2008 in the American city of Boston, governed by a board of directors that oversees the organization's activities. The board is composed of a diverse group of leaders from different sectors and perspectives - Karen Conway, Yves Iradukunda, Donald Kimelman, Neil Mahapatra, Megan Minoka Hill, Tej Nuthulaganti, Sridhar Prasad, Sharon Prince, Diana Ramírez-Jasso, Jean Shia, and Jay Wickersham - who meet quarterly to review the organization's strategy and operations.
MASS believes that architecture has a critical role to play in supporting communities to confront history, shape new narratives, collectively heal, and project new possibilities for the future.
It has a team of more than 200 architects, landscape architects, engineers, builders, designers, manufacturers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers representing 20 countries around the world.
In 2021, the American Institute of Architects honored MASS Design Group with the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm Award. In 2020, MASS was named Architecture Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal for our roots in healthcare and commitment to architecture as a medium for healing. In 2019, Architect Magazine ranked MASS 4th on its Top 50 Firms in Design list, and in 2017, MASS was awarded the National Design Award in Architecture, given annually by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
