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The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Atlas des Régions Naturelles: Documenting and Categorizing the French Landscape

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A History of Preservation in Chicago

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown

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Essay

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern

Essay by Marin R. Sullivan

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Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2024

Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

Saturday, June 15, 2024 at 2PM

Presentation and book launch by photographer Virginia Hanusik about her book Into the Quiet and the Light: Water, Life, and Land Loss in South Louisiana. The program took place at the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (4 West Burton Place Chicago, Illinois 60610).

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2024

Naomi Pollock: The Japanese House Since 1945 | Wrightwood 659

Thursday, June 6, 2024 at 6PM

Presentation and book launch by architect and author Naomi Pollock about her new book The Japanese House Since 1945. The lecture was organized in partnership with Wrightwood 659 and it took place at Wrightwood 659 (659 West Wrightwood Avenue, Chicago, IL 60614).

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Installation

Outpost Office: Public Utilities

April 25-May 1, 2024

Public Utilities is an installation by architects Outpost Office at the Concéntrico Festival in Logroño, Spain. The installation has been supported by MAS Context.

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.

Current Issue

Vigilantism

In this issue we explore spaces of vigilantism, both historically and today. What are the spatial dimensions of vigilante encounters, segregation, violence, and exclusion, or conversely emancipation, liberation, and inclusion? Threshold, circulation, private vs. public, and other architectural delineations of space have become the subject of much controversy as footage of sexist and racist policing of these spaces emerge.

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Monthly Column

The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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A History of Preservation in Chicago

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Urban Exploration as Creative Practice

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius