Issues

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Narrative

Issue 20
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Architectural Narratives

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Comics and Architecture, Comics in Architecture: A (not so) short recount of the interactions between architecture and graphic narrative

Essay by Koldo Lus Arana
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Building Stories

Drawings by Chris Ware with text by Klaus.
Mas issue narrative buildings and their representations 03

Buildings and their Representations Collapsing upon One Another: Architecture in Comic Strip Form

Essay by Mélanie van der Hoorn
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Amazing Archigram!

Clara Olóriz and Koldo Lus Arana interview Sir Peter Cook
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Lost in the Line

Graphic Novel by Léopold Lambert
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Out of Water

Graphic Novel by Jimenez Lai
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Kartun: The View!

Graphic novel by Jones, Partners: Architecture, Mark Simmons, and the Southern California Institute of Architecture
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Cartooning Architecture and Other Issues

Iker Gil interviews graphic artist Klaus
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Starchitecture Redux

Cartoons by Klaus
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Sensing the Comic’s DNA: Excerpts of a conversation with François Schuiten

Mélanie van der Hoorn in conversation with François Schuiten
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Swarte’s Mystery Theater

Koldo Lus Arana interviews Joost Swarte
Mas issue narrative labyrinths and metaphysical constructions 01

Labyrinths and Metaphysical Constructions: An Interview with Marc-Antonie Mathieu

Léopold Lambert interviews graphic novelist Marc-Antoine Mathieu
Mas issue narrative images come first 01

Images Come First

Andrea Alberghini interviews Manuele Fior
Mas issue narrative beta testing architecture 01

Beta Testing Architecture: Yearning for Space with Tom Kaczynski

Koldo Lus Arana interviews Tom Kaczynski
Mas issue narrative archiporn or storylines 01

Archiporn or Storylines? Creative Architectural Commercials as Challenges to the Communication and Marketing of Architecture

Essay by Mélanie van der Hoorn
Beyond built architecture 01

Beyond Built Architecture

Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera from dpr-barcelona interview Jonathan Gales, founding member of Factory Fifteen
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Legendary Acts

Essay by Ellie Abrons
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Micro-Modifications: Stories of Dingbat Dwellers

Text by Joshua G. Stein with photographs by Paul Redmond
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Character

Issue 32
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What Kind of Vigilante Are You?

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Lequeu’s Characters

Essay by Max Jarosz
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Architecture in the Age of (Super) Heroes

Essay by Galo Canizares
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Immanent Cartography

Essay and photographs by Nick Axel
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Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition

Project by Design With Company
Mas issue improbable emission 01

Radiation and Telecom: Émission

Project by Jordan Geiger
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24COA: A Visual Score

Project developed as part of the Pen & Bow workshop at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture led by Andrew Ruff. Visual score interpreted by ETHEL.
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Tracing Wright

A conversation between Richard Wright, Zoë Ryan, and Iker Gil
Mas issue repetition utopias in the gaps 01

Utopias in the Gaps

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro with projects by Holes of Matter
Mas issue surveillance in the news 01

Surveillance in the News

A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.
Mas issue surveillance the street as platform 01

The Street as Platform

Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
Mas issue legacy architecture and the city 01

Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof

Project by Ted Brown

Events

Mas event 2016 koldo lus arana 01

Koldo Lus Arana: Architectural Narratives / Building stories

MAS Context Spring Talks 2016
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Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
Mas event 2022 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
Mas event 2018 jonathan solomon 01

Jonathan Solomon: Short-Cuts

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 in your city by the lake 01

In Your City by the Lake

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 agency 01

AGENCY: Undercurrents

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 can we not open our eyes to our own treasures 01

Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 nathan friedman 01

Nathan Friedman: En-Medio

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 couplings 01

Couplings 2018

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 envisioning new spatial organizations 01

Envisioning New Spatial Organizations

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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Bilbao issue launch in Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
Mas event 2016 couplings 11

Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
Mas event 2015 chatter architecture talks back 01

Chatter: Architecture Talks Back

Exhibition
Mas event 2012 analog sam vinz 01

Analog 2012: Sam Vinz

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas event 2012 analog dieter roelstraete 01

Analog 2012: Dieter Roelstraete

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas event 2012 analog marc fisher 01

Analog 2012: Marc Fisher

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas event 2012 analog david sieren sam rosen 01

Analog 2012: David Sieren and Sam Rosen

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas event 2012 analog andrew clark 01

Analog 2012: Andrew Clark

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas event 2012 analog john pobojewski 01

Analog 2012: John Pobojewski

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas event 2012 analog david rueter 01

Analog 2012: David Rueter

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas issue boundary challenging the physical and disciplinary boundaries 02

Analog 2012: Sean Lally

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas event 2012 analog jimenez lai 01

Analog 2012: Jimenez Lai

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
Mas event 2012 analog 01

Analog 2012

MAS Context Fall Talks 2012
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Couplings 2023

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
Mas observations 2022 way beyond bigness 08

Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
Mas observations 2019 liminal frontier 13

Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
Mas observations 2022 way beyond bigness 13

Watershed Architecture

MAS Context Fall Talks 2023
Mas events 2024 beyond closure anthony overton 01

Beyond Closure

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024

Observations

Mas observations 2023 som computer group 06

SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing

Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
Mas observations 2023 christopher columbus memorial 01

Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial

Monthly Column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2022 from the mississippi watershed 01

From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol
Mas observations 2021 helmut jahn 1940 2021 01

Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work
Mas observations 2020 twelve cautionary urban tales 01

Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
Mas observations 2019 southern exposure 07

Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

Iker Gil interviews Lee Bey
Mas observations 2019 groundscraper city 01

Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983

Essay by Andy Sturdevant
Mas observations 2019 en medio super servicio lomas 01

En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas

Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)
Mas observations 2022 madrid diversa rainer torrado 02

Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
Mas observations 2022 seeing richard nickel 01

Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 chicago school closures 10 years later anthony overton incubator 01

Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 threatened altered and demolished abrams house 01

Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 seeking zohn zara pfeifer 01

Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
Mas observations 2023 griot germane barnes venice biennale 01

Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History

Iker Gil interviews Germane Barnes
Mas observations 2023 beyond the landmarks 01

Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana

Text and photographs by David Schalliol
Mas observations 2023 the englewood nature trail 01

The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 lavadoiro ana amado 01

Lavadoiro

Text and photos by Ana Amado
Mas observations 2024 urban archaeology lost buildings of st louis 01

Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Unnamed Spaces

Marta Bogéa, Mônica Junqueira de Camargo, and Pedro Kok in conversation with Alvaro Puntoni and João Sodré of GRUPOSP
Mas observations 2024 the birds the couple and my doppelganger in reverse 01

The Birds, the Couple, and My Doppelgänger in Reverse

Text by Umi the Cat and project by Imu Chan Architecture
Mas observations 2024 the return of michigan central station opening 01

The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2024 the culture of shellfish harvesters 01

The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters

Texts by Miguel Losada and Pedro G. Losada, with photography by Pedro G. Losada
Mas observations 2024 edgar miller anti modern 01

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern

Essay by Marin R. Sullivan
Mas observations 2024 a history of preservation in chicago 01

A History of Preservation in Chicago

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius