Alan Ricks
Lecturer in Architecture
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Alan Ricks is the chief operating officer of MASS Design Group, which he co-founded with Michael Murphy in 2010. Alan’s work with MASS spans design, research, and policy, and he most recently gave a TED Talk, which chief TED curator Chris Anderson described as “a different language about what architecture can aspire to be.” Since designing and building the Butaro District Hospital for Partners In Health, MASS has expanded to seven countries, focusing on design innovation and health infrastructure development.
Alan is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, and an Expert-in-Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab. Often the only architect at the table, he has worked with the government of Liberia to develop healthcare policy and addressed the Global Infrastructure Initiative sponsored by McKinsey and the Albright Stonebridge Group. Under his and Michael’s leadership, MASS has been the subject of a Harvard Graduate School of Design Case Study, and has been named finalists for the TED Prize, The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, and Buckminster Fuller Challenge. MASS has also received the World Architecture News Buro Happold Award, Architecture League Emerging Voices Award, Healthcare Design Changemaker Award, the Curry Stone Design Prize, and Contract Magazine ‘Designer of the Year’, among others.
Alan also works to expand dialogue around the role of design in advancing a more equitable world, including regular and guest lectures at the Harvard School of Public Health, Colorado College, the University of Pretoria, and the Harvard Leadership Conference, among others. Alan and Michael have published in the Lancet, the Huffington Post, the Journal of Architecture, and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. MASS’s first book, Empowering Architecture, was published in 2012 as a reflection on the Butaro Hospital design process. Select features on MASS include Wired Magazine, the New York Times, Fast Company, and the Boston Globe, and in architecture publications including Mark, Domus, and Lotus.
Alan is a graduate of Colorado College and the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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AD Interviews: Alan Ricks / MASS Design Group
COINs 2010 Abstract: Design Framework for Health Facilities
5th Annual Curry Stone Design Prize Awards Ceremony: "Five Social Impact Designers"
Open House Lecture: Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks of MASS Design Group
Emerging Voices 2013: Michael Murphy and Alan Ricks, MASS Design Group
TEDCity2.0: Alan Ricks
2011 Connected Health Symposium: Expert panel #6: Start Up: Four Entrepreneurs under the Age of 40
CAPLA Lecture Series: Alan Ricks: Justice is Beauty
Alan Ricks | MASS Design
5th Annual Curry Stone Design Prize Forum - session 2
MASS Design Group Is Reimagining the Spaces of Everyday Life, Intro by Hank Willis Thomas
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