Michael Murphy: Architecture that's built to heal
מייקל מרפי: ארכיטקטורה שבנויה לרפא
As co-founder and CEO of MASS Design Group, Michael Murphy envisions and creates community-centric structures with healing built into their core. Full bio
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as I can remember,
of a house that we lived in.
scraping paint with this old heat gun
עם אקדח חום ישן
where he scraped,
painting and repainting:
is never meant to be done.
I got a phone call.
a lump in his stomach --
only three weeks to live.
to Poughkeepsie, New York,
would bring us.
what he could now no longer complete --
were refinished,
admiring a day's work,
to go to architecture school.
החלטתי ללכת לבית ספר לארכיטקטורה.
something different about buildings.
novel and sculptural forms,
is supposed to be a snail.
the greatest architecture --
הארכיטקטורה הכי טובה --
and innovative --
what more could we do?
מה עוד נוכל לעשות?
my final exams,
from an all-nighter
for the global poor.
עבור עניי העולם.
talking about architecture.
people sicker, he said,
with, say, a broken leg,
strand of tuberculosis.
had not been thought about,
שמאפשרים לנו להחלים?
hospitals that allow us to heal?
with a few classmates,
hillside of Rwanda.
in this old guesthouse,
חייתי בבוטארו בגסטהאוס הישן הזה,
a new type of hospital
סוג חדש של בית חולים
that flips the hallways on the outside,
שהופך את המסדרונות החוצה,
that could breathe
its environmental footprint?
that a simple view of nature
had a window with a view?
can make a hospital that heals.
יכולים ליצור בית חולים שמרפא.
is quite another.
construction differently
this enormous hilltop
and hard to get to site,
for the community."
with shovels and hoes,
the cost of that bulldozer.
Bruce started a guild,
master carpenters to train others
labor from all backgrounds,
the process of building to heal,
way of building, or "lo-fab,"
דרך יצור מקומית לבניה, או "לו-פאב,"
as an opportunity
of the places where you serve.
that this way of building
and evaluate architecture.
ומעריכים ארכיטקטורה.
can be designed to impact people's lives.
מתוכננות להשפיע על חיים של אנשים.
a local volcanic stone
a nuisance by farmers,
to cut these stones
כדי לחתוך את האבנים האלו
of the hospital.
these stones together,
the original wall and rebuild it.
את הקיר הראשון שבנו ולבנות אותו מחדש.
that hands cut these stones,
שידיים חתכו את האבנים האלו,
with rocks from this soil.
and you look at your built world,
ומביטים בעולם הבנוי שלכם,
an important question --
of those who made it?"
based around these questions,
could help end the epidemic of cholera.
יוכל לעזור לסיים את מגיפת הכולרה.
before it enters the water table,
לפני שהיא נכנסת למי התהום,
could radically reduce
of maternal and infant death
של תמותת יולדות וילודים
to be replicated nationally,
שתשוכפל לרמה הארצית,
and their attendants
and therefore have safer births.
ולכן יש להן לידות בטוחות יותר.
could also be used
disease transfer and war.
places in the world,
and the wood around us
and conserve our rich biodiversity.
את המגוון הביולוגי העשיר.
and hard of hearing in the world.
לנכים וכבדי שמיעה בעולם.
of visual communication.
that would awaken the ways
industrial infrastructure.
and design to revitalize this city
כדי להחיות את העיר
across our nation,
לרוחב האומה שלנו,
for innovation and growth?
we asked a simple question:
how we could create jobs,
in the dignity of the communities
a transformative engine for change.
מנוע לחילול שינויים.
civil rights leader
of African Americans
where these lynchings occurred,
בו הלינצ'ים האלה התרחשו,
to the victims of lynching
of their past,
in the United States.
to info@equaljusticeintiative.org:
ל info@equaljusticeintiative.org:
project we could do in America
שנוכל לעשות באמריקה
we think about racial injustice.
אנחנו חושבים על חוסר צדק גזעני.
with his team and talk to them.
והצוות שלו ולדבר איתם.
I canceled all my meetings
to Montgomery, Alabama.
and we walked around the city.
וטיילנו סביב העיר.
been placed all over the city
the history of slavery.
and the train tracks
slave-trading port in America
הגדול ביותר באמריקה
had stood on its steps
a new memorial
of this city and of this nation."
together over the last year
במשך השנה האחרונה
almost familiar building type,
or the colonnade at the Vatican.
and our perception shifts,
evoke the lynchings,
מעוררים את הלינצ'ים,
on the markers that hang above us.
of identical columns.
waiting in purgatory,
שמחכים בכור המצרף,
where these lynchings occurred.
from over a century of silence.
how it should be built,
we learned about in Rwanda.
those very columns
of where these killings occurred.
collecting that soil
leaders and descendants.
from where Will McBride was lynched,
בו וויל מקברייד נרצח,
would be at peace."
on this memorial later this year,
על האנדרטה הזו מאוחר יותר השנה,
of the unspeakable acts
על המעשים שלא ניתן לדבר עליהם
that day that this house --
to a much deeper relationship
expressive sculptures.
and our collective aspirations
האישיות והקולקטיביות שלנו
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Michael Murphy - DesignerAs co-founder and CEO of MASS Design Group, Michael Murphy envisions and creates community-centric structures with healing built into their core.
Why you should listen
Michael Murphy is the executive director of MASS Design Group. He spearheads MASS' research and design programs and has helped expand the firm into ten countries and three continents.
Murphy led the design and construction of MASS's first project, the Butaro Hospital in Rwanda, which opened in 2011. The award-winning hospital established the MASS blueprint: immersive study of each location for its challenges and advantages, design of buildings that will improve the well-being of patients and communities, low-impact and environmentally sensitive construction that enriches the community, and evaluation of each design’s impact in improving lives.
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