The MASS model of community-focused architecture

A project in Rwanda convinced a group of Harvard-trained architects to rethink their building methods, material and labor sources, and the end-use of their buildings.

We Americans spend 90% of our time inside of buildings, yet most of us give little thought to the role architecture plays in our lives and our health.  Tonight we bring you a story about a group of award-winning young architects who have set out to create a new model of architecture — not a particular style of building, but a way of thinking about how to build, who should build, using what, and for whom.  FOR MORE