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What is architecture’s impact on the physical and social wellness of society? Why are our buildings making us sicker? MASS Design Group explores these questions and more in its latest book, The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity (Nov. 2021), published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Artbook DAP, distributors). The book examines how our built world was shaped by disease and reveals how historical examples can offer us caution and inspiration.
Author Michael Murphy, Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group is in conversation with Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for the New York Times.
The Architecture of Health complements Cooper Hewitt’s exhibition Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics, which opens to the public on December 10, 2021.
SPEAKERS
Michael Kimmelman (Moderator) is the architecture critic of the New York Times and the founder and editor at large of Headway, a nonprofit initiative at the Times exploring the world’s challenges through the lens of progress.
Michael Murphy, Int FRIBA, is a Founding Principal and the Executive Director of MASS Design Group. Murphy is the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Institute of Technology. MASS Design Group has received numerous awards globally, including the 2017 National Design Award from Cooper Hewitt.
What is architecture’s impact on the physical and social wellness of society? Why are our buildings making us sicker? MASS Design Group explores these questions and more in its latest book, The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity (Nov. 2021), published by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (Artbook DAP, distributors). The book examines how our built world was shaped by disease and reveals how historical examples can offer us caution and inspiration.
Author Michael Murphy, Founding Principal and Executive Director of MASS Design Group is in conversation with Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic for the New York Times.
The Architecture of Health complements Cooper Hewitt’s exhibition Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics, which opens to the public on December 10, 2021.
SPEAKERS
Michael Kimmelman (Moderator) is the architecture critic of the New York Times and the founder and editor at large of Headway, a nonprofit initiative at the Times exploring the world’s challenges through the lens of progress.
Michael Murphy, Int FRIBA, is a Founding Principal and the Executive Director of MASS Design Group. Murphy is the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Institute of Technology. MASS Design Group has received numerous awards globally, including the 2017 National Design Award from Cooper Hewitt.
