Michael Murphy
Founding Principal, Michael P. Murphy Studio, Thomas Ventulett Chair of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Founding Principal & Trustee Emeritus, MASS Design Group
Michael Murphy
Founding Principal, Michael P. Murphy Studio, Thomas Ventulett Chair of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, Founding Principal & Trustee Emeritus, MASS Design Group
Biography
Michael Murphy is an architectural designer, educator and writer, whose work focuses on how the built environment shapes our lives, our health, and our communities. Michael’s recent book, The Architecture of Health, traces the history of medical design and its attempt to align architecture with health outcomes. Michael’s new work looks at the ownership of the built environment and how sharing access can solve the climate and social crises we face.
Michael is the current Thomas Ventulett Chair of Architecture at Georgia Tech and serves as Trustee Emeritus on the board of MASS Design Group, which he co-founded and led until 2022. During his tenure, MASS won the 2017 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, the National Arts and Letters Award, and the 2022 AIA firm of the year award.
Michael has a BA from University of Chicago, an M.Arch from Harvard graduate school of Design, and lives in Boston with his wife and two children. Michael is from Poughkeepsie New York.
Speaker Videos
Architecture that's built to heal | Michael Murphy