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https://www.archpaper.com/2023/05/rather-primary-focus-energy-efficiency-architects-should-consider-more-holistic-assessments-reduce-carbon-emissions-construction/

Kelly Alvarez Doran, a senior director at MASS Design Group

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Since MASS Design's first healthcare project in 2011, in Butaro, Rwanda, Michael Murphy has been "consumed with how hospitals offer us so many lessons on how fundamental architecture is to our ability to live healthy lives."⁠ ⁠ Read an enlightening interview with @michaelpmurphyjr — founder of @massdesigngroup & author of 'The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity' (published to accompany 'Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics' @cooperhewitt ) @hcdmagazine via linkinbio!⁠ ⁠ "I’ve looked at historical eras and how different architects have solved these questions and wanted to compile this into an abbreviated history," Murphy says.⁠ ⁠ "The pandemic has only expedited the need for such a survey, one that asks how architecture can more broadly allow us to breathe better and remain healthy. Hospitals are a window into how to answer that question because they are constantly thinking about the quality of indoor air environments and infectiousness."⁠ ⁠ Later, Anne DiNardo asks: "The book title introduces the idea of the relationship between the built environment and dignity. Why is that connection important?"⁠ ⁠ Murphy responds: "We argue in the book that hospitals are always attempting to mitigate the space between treating the individual and recognizing their dignity and managing massive population health issues, like outbreak and complicated medical procedures. Often between the two extremes is where design emerges to navigate the differences between an institution and feeling institutionalized. That feeling of hospitality is where dignity emerges—and is absent from so many medical spaces."⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio ⁠ ⁠ #architectureofhealth #massdesign #⁠michaelmurphy #designandhealing⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CZNKOL2pknp/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The work MASS Design has doen in this field is sensational and more important than ever to communicate.

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Congratulations to the team!

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We will be talking about our work on this project soon and are very proud to have been part of the design team of #MASSDesign #TheEllenCampus #EllenDeGeneres

The Ellen Campus Series Part 5: The First Visitors #EllenDeGeneres #TheE...

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"What has made [the hospital] so indifferent to the human experience? Why the indignity? Where is the design?" ⁠ ⁠ Congrats @michaelpmurphyjr Jeffrey Mansfield, @massdesigngroup & @cooperhewitt !! 'The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity,' published to accompany 'Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics,' is the cover story @metropolismag⁠ ⁠ "Writing about hospital design is a thankless task by traditional measures," Anthony Paletta writes, "because the cart is always driving the horse, so to speak, and you’re unlikely to recognize either in short order. Function envelops, strangles, and mutilates form like architectural cancer, leaving most hospitals to become bewildering and ugly amalgams over centuries or even mere decades.…⁠ ⁠ The volume makes the choice of subjects for most architectural histories look blithely easy as the authors grapple with, as they put it, 'inelegant Frankensteins.' They write, 'If we read architecture through its purpose, instead of its style, the hospital merges as paradigmatic, essential, and even canonical.'"⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #architectureofhealth #massdesign #⁠michaelmurphy #designandhealing⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CX1ULP-FqpH/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"Like all crises that reveal cracks in the system, the pandemic has prompted a public reckoning with the role of buildings in shaping our health. Recent reporting is waking up to the crisis of breathability in buildings, raising questions about our dependence on mechanical systems and the lack of access to fresh, natural air. Why are so many buildings filled with inoperable windows? How did we not foresee the dangers of creating an airtight seal around entire city blocks? Is it really acceptable that our built surroundings are entirely dependent on evermore complex mechanical systems that pollute the environment and, if they should fail, prevent us from breathing?"⁠ ⁠ Read an excerpt of Michael P. Murphy Jr.'s text in 'The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity' — published to accompany the exhibition 'Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics exhibition' on view @cooperhewitt through February 2023 — @fastcompany via linkinbio!⁠ ⁠ #architectureofhealth #massdesign #⁠michaelmurphy #designandhealing @michaelpmurphyjr @massdesigngroup⁠ ⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CXyghJ4LFXc/?utm_medium=tumblr

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An excellent review of the "small but potent exhibition" 'Design and Healing: Creative Responses to Epidemics' @cooperhewitt and its companion publication, 'The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design and the Construction of Dignity' — both of which are curated/authored by @michaelpmurphyjr & @massdesigngroup⁠ ⁠ @philip_kennicott writes: "The exhibition shows dignity in practice, from cooperative efforts to address urgent needs created by the current pandemic, to the design of new hospitals for treating such diseases as cholera, Ebola and tuberculosis, which still ravage large parts of the world.⁠ The book raises deeper questions about design, science and architecture. It also charts a history of hospitals from their origins within religious establishments, which provided basic hospice care and religious succor to the dying, to modern mega-hospitals, which seem to be constantly expanding as new specialties are developed and new techniques mainstreamed.⁠ Murphy also has a larger argument: that the study of hospital design isn’t ancillary to larger architectural themes but central to the story of architecture itself. The old modernist argument between form and function is seen within hospital design with unique salience and clarity, in part because the consequences of this debate are so directly felt by people who need health care.…"⁠ ⁠ Read the full review via linkinbio @washingtonpost⁠ ⁠ #architectureofhealth #massdesign #⁠michaelmurphy #designandhealing⁠ ⁠ https://www.instagram.com/p/CXlon9KLKnH/?utm_medium=tumblr