MASS DESIGN GROUP

WHERE Boston, USA; Kigali, Rwanda
PEOPLE Christian Benimana (b. Rwanda, 1982)

For MASS, ‘justice is beauty’. The firm focuses on justice and equality issues initiatives where a collective investigation is conducted through architecture into new possibilities and new narratives for the future. MASS – Model of Architecture Serving Society is a not-for-profit organization whose members believe that beauty should not be reserved only for those who can afford it. For this reason, they work to develop a transversal model of practice that uses design, education and research to optimize their effects on the communities they serve.

SIGNS

  • AIA Architecture Firm Award, 2022
  • Justice is Beauty, Monacelli Press, 2019
  • The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, Montgomery, Alabama, USA, 2018
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