MASS Design Group Boston, Massachusetts Architects, US Architectural Studio, United States
MASS Design Group : Massachusetts Architect Office
MDG: Contemporary American Architect Practice – Boston Studio, MA, USA
27 Mar 2020
Michael Sorkin of MASS Design Group Dies
Architect Michael Sorkin has died from COVID-19
COVID-19 takes the sage: Michael Sorkin rest in peace
Remember our elders:
In many traditions, the elders are not simply ?the old people? ? they are the culture bearers, the harbingers of language, the repository of rituals. They are our legacies ? what binds our past to our future ? in human form. When we lose our elders, our legacy too is threatened. The ligaments which bind their knowledge to the generations ahead of us is now no longer their responsibility. It is ours. And unless we record their legacy, culture, language, and wisdom, they are lost. I fear about how much was lost yesterday with the passing of Michael Sorkin. He was many things to many people over his long career: a dedicated teacher, the last of the great practitioner critics, and a tireless advocate for a more environmentally and socially just architectural reckoning. To me, he was an elder, a beacon for what I hoped to one day practice and understand.
I first met Michael in 2011. It was my thesis presentation, and he was on the jury. My topic was about a progressive publication of architects from the 1970s led by Giancarlo De Carlo, who advocated for social and political responsibility...