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MAS Context Spring Talks 2025

Presenting Edith Farnsworth

Tuesday, February 11, 2025 at 6PM

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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).

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2025

Anna & Eugeni Bach: Compressing Time

Thursday, February 27, 2025 at 6PM

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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.

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2025

Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

Thursday, March 20, 2025 at 5:30PM

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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Exhibition

Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez

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Interview

A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight

A Conversation with Jack Bowman

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Article

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

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MAS Context Spring Talks 2023

Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes

Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 12PM

Online talk by Frida Grahn with a response by Elizabeth Greenspan and observations by Denise Scott Brown.

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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

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Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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A History of Preservation in Chicago

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia

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Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius