<p>Michael Murphy is co-founder and executive director of MASS Design Group, an architecture and design collaborative with offices in Boston and Kigali, Rwanda. As a designer, writer, and teacher, his work investigates the social and political consequences of the built world. He focuses on how environments shape behavior.</p>

<p>As Michael Murphy has tried to emphasize using local sources in his constructions, he very much wanted me to incorporate that premise into his cocktail. So I turned to New York Distilling’s Brooklyn-made rye to reboot a version of the old Liberal cocktail.</p>