MAS Context

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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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We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System

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Essay

We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System

Essay by Rogelio Cadena

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

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

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Installation

Germane Barnes: Intersect

September 1-September 6, 2022

Intersect is an installation by architect Germane Barnes at the Concentrico Festival in Logroño, Spain. The installation has been supported by MAS Context.

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Installation

Design with Company: Stone Wall Stand In

April 27-May 2, 2023

Stone Wall Stand In is an installation by architects Design With Company at the Concéntrico Festival in Logroño, Spain. The installation has been supported by MAS Context and the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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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.

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Interview

Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History

Iker Gil interviews Germane Barnes

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MAS Context Fall Talks 2021

Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency

Tuesday, September 21, 2021 at 12PM

Lecture by architects Germane Barnes and Shawhin Roudbari, Future Firm, and VAPAA Collective

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MAS Context Fall Talks 2021

Vigilantism issue launch

Saturday, September 18, 2021 at 7PM

MAS Context guest editors Germane Barnes and Shawhin Roudbari, along with graphic designer Bobby Joe Smith III, and contributors Could Be Architecture, Ashley Bigham, Jennifer Bonner, and Sekou Cooke presented our issue dedicated to the topic of Vigilantism. The event took place at Principle Barbers.

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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

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

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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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Monthly Column

A History of Preservation in Chicago

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius