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Towards a New Standard: New Housing Strategies in Chicago

Event with Future Firm, Duo Development, and the City of Chicago on July 29, 2025

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Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab

Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab

July 5–August 31

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Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

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Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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BairBalliet: Crop Top

BairBalliet: Crop Top

Installation by BairBalliet on view at Concéntrico between June 19–26, 2025.

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Plywood City

Text and photos by Iker Gil

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Emili Donato: Plans Are Made

Exhibition about Emili Donato co-curated by Jordi Roig and Miguel Jiménez

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Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson

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Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson

Iker Gil interviews architect Sidney K. Robinson

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We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System

We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System

Essay by Rogelio Cadena

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Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World

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Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World

Iker Gil interviews Nicolas Grospierre

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Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the Subway Lines in New York City

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Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the Subway Lines in New York City

Iker Gil interviews Brian Rose

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From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

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From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

Essay by Alison Cuddy

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Towards a New Standard: New Housing Strategies in Chicago

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2021

Lacol: Cooperative Ecosystems

Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 12PM

Lecture by architect and educator Cristina Gamboa of Barcelona-based Lacol. Response by Gabriel Cira and Quilian Riano, part of the Coop Network Group of The Architecture Lobby.

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Essay

Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl

Interview

Cooperative Dream

Iker Gil interviews Jeanne Gang

Exhibition

Mass Market Alternatives

August 28-October 2, 2017

MAS Context and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO) presented the exhibition Mass Market Alternatives by architect John Szot at the AIADO gallery located on the 12th floor of the Sullivan Center.

MAS Context Fall Talks 2023

Kwong Von Glinow: There is Room

Tuesday, September 12, 2023 at 6PM

Lecture by Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow of the Chicago-based architecture practice Kwong Von Glinow. The lecture took place at the Society of Architectural Historians (1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610).