EP 52: Designing Beauty in Hospitals, Part 1 | Michael Murphy

Michael Murphy, Int FRIBA, is a Founding Principal and Executive
Director of MASS Design Group, a collective of architecture and
design advocates dedicated to the construction of dignity. Since
MASS’s beginnings, Michael’s portfolio documents work in over a
dozen countries and spans the areas of healthcare, education,
housing, urban development, food systems, indigenous sovereignty,
and the public monument. Murphy's 2016 TED talk has reached over
1.7 million views, and he was awarded the Al Filipov Medal for
Peace and Justice in 2017. Michael is the Thomas W. Ventulett III
Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at Georgia Institute of
Technology, Baumer Visiting Professor at The Ohio State
University's Knowlton School, and has lectured at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, University of Michigan, Columbia
University’s Graduate School of Architecture Planning and
Preservation. Under Michael’s guidance, MASS has been awarded
globally and featured in over 900 publications. Most recently, MASS
was selected as the 2022 AIA Architecture Firm of the Year,
featured on CBS' 60 minutes and recognized as the winner of the AIA
2021 Collaborative Achievement Award, Wall Street Journal’s 2020
Architecture Innovator, the National Arts and Letters Award for
2017, and the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award. Check out
Michael’s new book, “The Architecture of Health: Hospital Design
and the Construction of Dignity” and visit the “Design and Healing:
Creative Responses to Epidemics” exhibit at the Cooper Hewitt,
Smithsonian Design Museum in NYC! Bon and Michael geeked out about
design and health for so long that we had to split the conversation
into two episodes. They talk about the evolution of the modern
hospital, creating buildings that breathe, bringing beauty into
healthcare and so much more.