Michael Murphy: Architecture that's built to heal
麥克.墨菲: 用以治癒人的建築
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
where he scraped,
painting and repainting:
is never meant to be done.
I got a phone call.
我接到了一通電話,
a lump in his stomach --
胃中發現了一個腫塊,
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,
也開始重新生長,
to go to architecture school.
something different about buildings.
跟建築物不太一樣的東西。
novel and sculptural forms,
is supposed to be a snail.
the greatest architecture --
and innovative --
what more could we do?
我們還能做什麼?
my final exams,
from an all-nighter
for the global poor.
健康活動家領袖。
talking about architecture.
讓我非常驚訝。
people sicker, he said,
with, say, a broken leg,
strand of tuberculosis.
結核病菌離開醫院。
had not been thought about,
助人恢復健康的醫院的
hospitals that allow us to heal?
with a few classmates,
hillside of Rwanda.
in this old guesthouse,
a new type of hospital
that flips the hallways on the outside,
that could breathe
its environmental footprint?
that a simple view of nature
had a window with a view?
can make a hospital that heals.
is quite another.
Bruce Nizeye一起工作,
construction differently
this enormous hilltop
and hard to get to site,
並且難以攀登上頂點,
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,
雇用各種背景的勞工,
the process of building to heal,
way of building, or "lo-fab,"
as an opportunity
of the places where you serve.
that this way of building
and evaluate architecture.
can be designed to impact people's lives.
也能改變人們的生活。
a local volcanic stone
a nuisance by farmers,
to cut these stones
of the hospital.
these stones together,
the original wall and rebuild it.
把原本的的舊牆也都重新建造
that hands cut these stones,
with rocks from this soil.
and you look at your built world,
看看人們建構出的世界
an important question --
of those who made it?"
based around these questions,
could help end the epidemic of cholera.
是否能改善霍亂的流行,
before it enters the water table,
能夠初步清潔它們,
could radically reduce
of maternal and infant death
to be replicated nationally,
and their attendants
and therefore have safer births.
如此可以安全的分娩。
could also be used
disease transfer and war.
places in the world,
and the wood around us
and conserve our rich biodiversity.
and hard of hearing in the world.
of visual communication.
that would awaken the ways
industrial infrastructure.
and design to revitalize this city
across our nation,
for innovation and growth?
創新及成長的中心呢?
we asked a simple question:
我們問了一個簡單的問題
how we could create jobs,
in the dignity of the communities
a transformative engine for change.
civil rights leader
勇敢無畏的民權領袖,
of African Americans
where these lynchings occurred,
to the victims of lynching
of their past,
in the United States.
to info@equaljusticeintiative.org:
project we could do in America
we think about racial injustice.
with his team and talk to them.
I canceled all my meetings
to Montgomery, Alabama.
and we walked around the city.
been placed all over the city
the history of slavery.
and the train tracks
slave-trading port in America
had stood on its steps
a new memorial
of this city and of this nation."
together over the last year
almost familiar building type,
or the colonnade at the Vatican.
and our perception shifts,
evoke the lynchings,
on the markers that hang above us.
掛於我們頭上方的標誌裡。
of identical columns.
waiting in purgatory,
where these lynchings occurred.
from over a century of silence.
這個國家的傷痕終於開始復原。
how it should be built,
we learned about in Rwanda.
those very columns
能用當年私刑地點的泥土
of where these killings occurred.
collecting that soil
leaders and descendants.
from where Will McBride was lynched,
would be at peace."
on this memorial later this year,
of the unspeakable acts
that day that this house --
to a much deeper relationship
expressive sculptures.
and our collective aspirations
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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