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MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
John Portman: A Life of Building
Between November 28 and December 31, 2024, and coinciding with what would have been the 100th birthday of architect John Portman, MAS Context is hosting the digital screening of John Portman: A Life of Building, a film directed by Ben Loeterman.
Installation
Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been
MAS Context and 150 Media Stream are thrilled to co-present “Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been” by architectural cartoonist Klaus.
The hand-drawn animation, installed on 150 Media Stream’s giant media wall—a 150 ft x 22 ft series of LED screens—features sixty of the most inventive building designs entered in the famed 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower architectural competition, as well as flying machines, elevated walkways, monorail tramways, and other fantastical details dreamed up by the artist.
MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
Premiere of Beyond Closure, a documentary by On The Real Film and Borderless that retraces the history of the largest mass school closures in the US history. The screening took place at the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 East Washington Street, 2nd Floor North, Chicago, IL 60602).
This screening event included a panel conversation with Paola Aguirre, Erin Babbin, Asiaha Butler, Cecile De Mello, Darnell Shields, and Michael Sullivan, moderated by Iker Gil.
MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes
Online talk by Frida Grahn with a response by Elizabeth Greenspan and observations by Denise Scott Brown.
Exhibition
Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
Essay
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
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The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster
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The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
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Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
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The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
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