MAS Context

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Common Chicago

September 19, 2025–January 31, 2026

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MAS Context 2025 Fall Talks

MAS Context 2025 Fall Talks

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Ishinomaki Laboratory: A Furniture Company with a Deep Social Mission

David Schalliol interviews Keiji Ashizawa and Tomomi Hashimoto

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Not a Woman Architect: The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans

Book launch on September 17

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Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Shanghai Transforming

Photo essay by Juan de Dios Pérez

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Twenty-Five Years After Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

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Twenty-Five Years After Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

Photo essay by Luis Asín

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BairBalliet: Crop Top

BairBalliet: Crop Top

Installation by BairBalliet on view at Concéntrico between June 19–26, 2025.

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Plywood City

Text and photos by Iker Gil

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Emili Donato: Plans Are Made

Exhibition about Emili Donato co-curated by Jordi Roig and Miguel Jiménez

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Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson

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Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson

Iker Gil interviews architect Sidney K. Robinson

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

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

Iker Gil interviews Nicolas Grospierre

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From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

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From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

Essay by Alison Cuddy

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The Japanese House Inside and Out

Essay by Naomi Pollock

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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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Intertwinements

Essay by architect Ioanna Angelidou

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021

Natalie de Blois at 100

Friday, April 2, 2021 at 12PM

Architect and former SOM associate partner Natalie de Blois would have turned 100 years old on April 2, 2021. To commemorate this significant date and to discuss the relevance of Natalie de Blois’s work, MAS Context organized an online event on that day.

During the program, architectural historian and critic Gabrielle Esperdy discussed the career of Natalie de Blois. Architects Carol Ross Barney, Margaret McCurry, and Jana McCann provided remarks related to cofounding Chicago Women in Architecture, working at SOM, and her contributions to Austin.