Size

Exhibit: 3,000 sq. ft.

Year

2021

Status

Completed

Client

National Building Museum

Services

Exhibit Design

Partners

Songha & Company (GVMP) Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund (GVMP) Purpose over Pain (GVMP)

Portrait of Maggie Jacobstein Stern
Maggie Jacobstein Stern
Director
Maggie Jacobstein Stern

Maggie Jacobstein Stern

Director — Boston

Maggie Jacobstein Stern has more than a decade of experience in exhibition development to MASS, having served as a content and education specialist at Ralph Appelbaum Associates, the New York-based interpretive museum planning and design firm. Select projects there included the Russian Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, the Presidio Officer’s Club in San Francisco, the Arctic Studies Center at the Anchorage Museum in Anchorage, and the Sentosa Maritime Museum in Singapore, among others.

She earned her B.A. from McGill University in Montreal and her Ed.M. from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education., where she studied the intersection between design and learning.

Funders & Supporters

The Kendeda Fund, CoStar Group, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, ARUP, STUDIOS Architecture, Herman Miller Cares, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts

Project Consultants

John Means and Rebecca Ballard, Robert Holleyman and Bill J. Keller, McInturff Architects, Arentz Landscape Architects LLC

Justice is Beauty: The Work of MASS Design Group opened April 9, 2021, at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.. The 3,000 sq. ft. exhibition introduces MASS Design Group’s portfolio, showcasing its work in the architecture of health from its first project, the Butaro District Hospital in Rwanda, designed to prevent the spread of tuberculosis, to its design for infection control in outbreaks of cholera, Ebola, and coronavirus.

The exhibition is organized around the themes of engaging, healing, fostering, conserving, and marking, and features completed buildings, proposed projects, and applied research initiatives along with photographs, videos, renderings, and models.

In conjunction withJustice is Beauty, MASS Design Group will be featured at the Museum with the Washington, D.C., debut of the Gun Violence Memorial Project, which also opens on April 9. Combining architecture with memory and advocacy, this installation—four glass houses that contain mementos of people killed by gun violence—is a partnership with conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas and gun violence prevention organizations Purpose Over Pain and Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. The Memorial, located on the Museum’s ground floor, will be free for all visitors.

Justice is Beauty and the Gun Violence Memorial Project will be on display through September 2022.