Michael Murphy, Int FRIBA, is the founding principal and executive director of MASS Design Group, an architecture and design collective that leverages buildings, as well as the design and construction process, to become catalysts for economic growth, social change, and justice. MASS has been recognized as the winners of the national Arts and Letters Award for 2017 and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. MASS's project, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice, was named the single greatest work of American architecture in the 21st century. Murphy is from Poughkeepsie, NY, and holds a master of architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design and a bachelor of arts from the University of Chicago.