ALAN RICKS
FOUNDING PRINCIPAL and CHIEF DESIGN OFFICER
BOSTON
2 June 2021
Wednesday, 7:00 pm
IN PERSON at the Kalita HumpheysTheater with limited, pre-assigned seating for Forum members and sponsors. Anyone can join The Forum at www.dallasarchitectureforum.org
The mission of MASS Design Group is to research, build, and advocate for architecture that promotes justice and human dignity. MASS is a team of over 140+architects, landscape architects, engineers, builders, furniture designers, writers, filmmakers, and researchers representing 20 countries around the globe. They believe in expanding access to design that is purposeful, healing, and hopeful. In 2020, MASS was named the Architecture Innovator of the Year by the Wall Street Journal, for its origins in healthcare and designing architecture as a medium for healing. In 2019, Architect Magazine ranked MASS 4th in Design, and in 2017, MASS was awarded the National Design Award in Architecture, given each year by the Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Museum for Design. To date, their work has been featured in over 4,000 publications.
MASS believes that every project has a mission, and they accompany their partners throughout the design process – from early visioning through project completion – to develop and implement a shared vision for how design can achieve that mission. They do this through architecture, landscape design, engineering, planning, research, film, and community engagement. Helping build a climate positive future is imperative. MASS projects move beyond just issues of energy use and efficiency, to holistically design the project ecosystem, including an entire supply chain that is sustainable, resilient, and regenerative. One Health design is a strategy that produces diverse, healthy, and productive habitats for human, animal, and ecological growth.
MASS Design Group, which stands for Model of Architecture Serving Society, is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization, governed by a board of directors who oversee and advise on the organization and the maintenance of their mission. The board is comprised of a diverse group of through leaders from different sectors and perspectives that meet quarterly to review the organization’s strategy and operations. The full-time senior leadership of MASS Design Group is comprised of design principals and senior directors who develop and administer the strategy of MASS’s work. The group meets weekly to assess where to direct grants in the form of in-king services, select what projects to take on, and review general operations and strategy.
This lecture will be presented IN PERSON at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 2, 2021 at the Kalita Humpheys Theater with limited, pre-assigned seating for Forum members and sponsors only. Anyone may join The Forum at www.DallasArchitectureForum.org to attend this and other upcoming lectures. Advance registration for the lecture is required. Forum members will receive information about registration.