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Justin Brown, AIA, LEED AP

Principal
Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Justin Brown believes in architecture's potential to address seemingly insurmountable challenges. As a Co-founder and Principal at MASS Design Group, Justin leads the Fringe Cities Design Lab in Poughkeepsie, New York.

At the Fringe Cities Design Lab, Justin leads research on disinvested mid-size American cities and uses  community-engaged design practices to unlock capital that will transform existing liabilities into future assets. Before founding the lab, he was the project architect for the Equal Justice Initiative’s National Memorial for Peace and Justice, the United States’ first memorial dedicated to the legacies of racial terror.

Before joining MASS, Justin led award-winning projects at Gensler in Washington DC, Perez APC in New Orleans, and Toshiko Mori Architect in New York. He has served as a guest lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, MIT's School of Architecture and Planning, the University of Toronto, and Dartmouth College. 

Justin holds a Master of Architecture from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Arts in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated summa cum laude.