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Trace

Issue 19
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Petrified Traces

Text and images by Michael Hirschbichler
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Reinterpreting our Traces

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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True Love Leaves No Traces

Essay by Daniel Luis Martinez
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The Chengzhongcun: Urban Traces of the Village

Essay by John Joseph Burns
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The Trace of Superusers: From Santiago Centro to Superkilen in Copenhagen

Essay by Kristine Samson and José Abásolo
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Letters to the editor

On our Boundary issue
Mas issue trace a year on the road with venue 01

A Year on the Road with Venue

Iker Gil interviews Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley, directors of Venue
Mas issue trace reading the ephemera of caithness 01

Reading the Ephemera of Caithness

Essay by Dimitra Ntzani and John Barber
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River Ending

Photographs by Sreedeep with an intro text by Kamalini Mukherjee
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Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance

Essay by Matthew Hung with photography by Greg Girard
Mas issue trace embracing idiosyncratic weirdness 01

Embracing Idiosyncratic Weirdness

Iker Gil and Andrew Clark interview Moby
Mas issue trace tracing intentions 01

Tracing Intentions: The Photography of Frank Thiel

Essay by Krishna Bharathi with photography by Frank Thiel
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Ruined and Neglected

Essay by Ljubica Slavković
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Elliston, Newfoundland

Text and photographs by Lisa Hirmer
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American Postmodern

Essay by Jayne Kelley
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Personal Monuments

Text and Illustrations by John Pobojewski
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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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Anthropocene Through the Eyes of Gabriele Basilico, Robert Smithson, and Gordon Matta-Clark

Essay by Enric Llorach
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Tracing Wright

A conversation between Richard Wright, Zoë Ryan, and Iker Gil
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Dizzy

Project by Charlie O’Geen and Frank Fantauzzi. Text by Phreddy Wischusen
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Nightworks

Project by Dennis Maher
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Residential Archaeology

Text and diagrams by Juan Carlos Tello
Mas issue network traces 01

Network Traces

Photographs by Cecilia Galera and Marc Goodwin
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Surveillance

Issue 22
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Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal

Essay by Tania Tovar Torres
Mas issue events designing venues 01

Designing Venues

Iker Gil interviews Doug Garofalo
Mas issue visibility the disappearing architect 02

The Disappearing Architect: Four Moves Towards Invisibility

Text by Ya´el Santopinto and Jonathan Wong
Mas issue visibility i know ive seen the master plan 01

I know I’ve Seen the Master Plan

Text by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes from OMNIBUS with photographs by Lorenz Bürgi
Mas issue repetition we print because we can 01

We Print Because We Can

Essay by Patrick Sykes
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.
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The Street as Platform

Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
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Materiality of Deletion

Essay by Christo de Klerk
Mas issue ordinary can architecture be ordinary 03

Can Architecture Be Ordinary?

Essay by Deborah Fausch
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Seeing Triborough

Visual essay by Sam Holleran
Mas issue university works discussing university works 01

Discussing University Works

A conversation between Andrew Clark, Judith De Jong, Alexander Eisenschimdt, Iker Gil, Jimenez Lai, Paul Preissner, Juan Manuel Rois, and Karla Sierralta

Events

Mas event 2021 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2021

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
Mas event 2020 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2020

MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
Mas event 2022 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
Mas event 2018 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
Mas event 2017 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
Mas event 2023 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023

MAS Context Fall Talks 2023
Mas event 2024 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
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Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
Mas event 2019 geometry of light barcelona pavilion 01

Geometry of Light: Barcelona Pavilion

Installation
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Killian Doherty: Yekepa

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Exploring the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2015
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Couplings 2023

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner

MAS Context Spring Talks 2024

Observations

Mas observations 2021 an industrial legacy worth saving 01

An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving

Essay by Iker Gil
Mas observations 2020 casa chilena 15

Chilean House: Domestic Images

Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski
Mas observations 2020 twelve cautionary urban tales 01

Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
Mas observations 2019 jose miguel de prada poole 01

José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
Mas observations 2019 a career in five projects 01

A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
Mas observations 2022 at home with the collective 01

At Home with the Collective

Excerpts from a conversation between MAS Context and Alexander Eisenschmidt on a research project that he calls “At Home with the Collective” accompanied by a selection of work from a seminar and studio at UIC.
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Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
Mas observations 2024 drawing the ring of steel 01

Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast

Essay and project by Kate Catterall
Mas observations 2024 theres a place called kokomo opalescent glass 01

There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern

Essay by Marin R. Sullivan
Mas observations 2024 atlas des regions naturelles 01

Atlas des Régions Naturelles: Documenting and Categorizing the French Landscape

Text and photographs by Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier
Mas observations 2024 departures and arrivals 01

Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame

Essay by Alexander Eisenschmidt

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Richard Wright

Stephen Killion interviews Richard Wright, founder of Wright, the premier auction house specializing in modern and contemporary design
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Dialogues: Kristine Fallon

Iker Gil interviews architect Kristine Fallon

News

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Trace Cover and Trailer by John Pobojewski
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MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
Mas event 2021 medium matters 01

MAS Context 2021 Fall Talks
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MAS Context 2019 Fall Talks
Mas event 2018 alexandra lange 07

MAS Context 2018 Fall Talks
Mas event 2022 1972 accumulations 01

MAS Context 2022 Fall Talks
Mas event 2023 there is room 06

MAS Context 2023 Fall Talks
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MAS Context 2024 Fall Talks

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Surveillance

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