MAS Context

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News

MAS Context 2025 Fall Talks

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Ishinomaki Laboratory: A Furniture Company with a Deep Social Mission

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Photo Essay

Shanghai Transforming

Photo essay by Juan de Dios Pérez

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Twenty-Five Years After Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

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Photo Essay

Plywood City

Text and photos by Iker Gil

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Emili Donato: Plans Are Made

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Oral History

Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson

Iker Gil interviews architect Sidney K. Robinson

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

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Essay

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

Essay by Alison Cuddy

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Unidad Vecinal: A Flexible Architecture Continuously Activated

Featured

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Project

Wrong Chairs

Project by Norman Kelley (Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley)

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Essay

A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney

Iker Gil interviews Carol Ross Barney

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2025

Now / Arriving 2025: Perkins&Will

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 6PM

Bryan Schabel shared a completed project and a project in the works as part of the fourth edition of the MAS Context Now / Arriving series.

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2024

Now / Arriving Spring 2024

Thursday, February 22, 2024 at 6PM

Event featuring architecture offices Latent, Norman Kelley, and Woodhouse Tinucci Architects. The event took place at Jordan Mozer & Associates, Ltd. (320 North Laflin Street, Chicago, IL 60607).

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Project

Filter Island

Project by UrbanLab

We are a platform that commissions and shares relevant ideas, proposals, and experiences that connect diverse disciplines and place. We want the work to respond to our current context while having a rigor and depth that makes it relevant through time and changing conditions.

Past Issues

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Issue 32

Character

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Issue 30-31

Bilbao

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Issue 29

Bold

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Issue 28

Hidden

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Issue 27

Debate

MONTHLY

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Monthly Column

Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Monthly Column

Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Monthly Column

Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Monthly Column

The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Monthly Column

The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Monthly Column

Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Monthly Column

Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius