Jeffrey Yasuo Mansfield is a principal at MASS Design Group, where he works on a portfolio of projects that uplift lived experience and cultural memory. Jeffrey was named the 2023 Lifchez Visiting Professor of Practice in Social Justice at the University of California-Berkeley and the 2023 Bruce Goff Chair of Creative Architecture at the University of Oklahoma. He has taught design studios at the University of California-Berkeley, the University of Michigan, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Jeffrey is also an inaugural recipient of the Ford and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Disability Futures fellowship and is a former John W. Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. Jeffrey co-authored The Architecture of Health, published by Cooper Hewitt and co-edited MASS Design Group’s first Monograph, Justice is Beauty. Jeffrey received his A.B. in Architecture at Princeton University and M.Arch at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has been deaf since birth.
We are thrilled to have Jeffrey join us at ArchEx this year and give our members a keynote presentation exploring how lessons from Deafness and Disability can inform the design of spaces that promote cultural belonging.
Online Registration is now closed. You can register onsite starting November 6th at the Richmond Marriott.
