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MAS Context Spring Talks 2025
Presentations by author Michelangelo Sabatino and designer Chris Grimley about the book The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture. The program will take place at the Design Museum of Chicago (72 East Randolph Street, Chicago, Illinois 60601).
MAS Context Spring Talks 2025
Anna & Eugeni Bach: Compressing Time
Lecture by Barcelona-based architects Anna & Eugeni Bach. The lecture will take place at the Society of Architectural Historians (1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, IL 60610).
Anna and Eugeni Bach will be introduced by Dan Wheeler.
MAS Context Spring Talks 2025
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
Lecture by Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, curators and editors of Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design. The program, organized by MAS Context and the School of Architecture at UIC, will take place at the School of Architecture at UIC (845 West Harrison Street, 1100 A+DS, Chicago, Illinois 60607).
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A Dialog of Difference: Reflections on Bruce Goff’s Ford House
Texts by Petra Bachmaier, Leo Berk, Assaf Evron, Grant Gibson, Sidney K. Robinson, David Skidmore, and Mary Woolever
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.
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Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side
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Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of Architecture
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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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