MAS Context
Featured
Essay
Geographies of the Lockdown in Barcelona: Mapping the City from Home
Text and maps by 300.000 km/s
MAS Context Spring Talks 2025
Anna & Eugeni Bach: Compressing Time
Lecture by Barcelona-based architects Anna & Eugeni Bach. The lecture took place at the Society of Architectural Historians (1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, IL 60610).
Anna and Eugeni Bach were introduced by Dan Wheeler, founding principal of Wheeler Kearns Architects.
Installation
Geometry of Light: Barcelona Pavilion
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe and MAS Context organized Geometry of Light, an art intervention by Luftwerk in collaboration with Iker Gil that took place at the Barcelona Pavilion, February 10-17, 2019 as part of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe’s ongoing program of artistic interventions.
Exhibition
Re-enactment: Lilly Reich’s Work Occupies the Barcelona Pavilion
Essay by Laura Martínez de Guereñu
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
At the New Obama Presidential Center, a Proposed Utopia of Hope and Change
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
The Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room and the Economies of Ornament
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius