For MASS Design Group, the past year has offered a lot to celebrate. Not only did the nonprofit architecture firm mark its tenth anniversary, but it opened the year’s most celebrated memorial in the nation: Montgomery, Alabama’s, National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a Parthenon-style structure conceived in partnership with the Equal Justice Initiative and dedicated to the country’s 4,400-plus victims of lynching ( AD , June 2018 ). MASS also snagged a 2018 Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture, which praised the collective for the “strong personal direction” of its work. “We all have a fundamental right to a built world that is beautiful and improves our quality of life,” says cofounder Michael Murphy. We couldn’t agree more. ► Boston; massdesigngrourg
The principals of MASS Design Group.
