After hearing Paul Farmer speak about Rwanda’s lack of hospitals in 2007, Michael Murphy, then a first year M.Arch at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, was so inspired that he marched up to Farmer to discuss the intersection of healthcare and architecture. One year and a prestigious Hart Howerton Fellowship later, Murphy was invited by Paul Farmer to help with the design a new hospital in the Burera District of Rwanda. And so, the seeds of MASS Design Group were sewn. Photo 2 of 14 in Architecture Delivery to Rwanda by Tiffany Chu

Architecture Delivery to Rwanda

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After hearing Paul Farmer speak about Rwanda’s lack of hospitals in 2007, Michael Murphy, then a first year M.Arch at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, was so inspired that he marched up to Farmer to discuss the intersection of healthcare and architecture. One year and a prestigious Hart Howerton Fellowship later, Murphy was invited by Paul Farmer to help with the design a new hospital in the Burera District of Rwanda. And so, the seeds of MASS Design Group were sewn.