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MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
Join us for the 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 will take place at the Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center (78 East Washington Street, 2nd Floor North, Chicago, IL 60602).
This screening event will include a panel conversation with the film team and individuals featured in the film.
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
Outpost Office: Public Utilities
Public Utilities is an installation by architects Outpost Office at the Concéntrico Festival in Logroño, Spain. The installation has been supported by MAS Context.
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.
Essay
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
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.
Past Issues
MONTHLY
Monthly Column
The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius