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MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
Inhabiting the Water
Lecture by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño about the project and book Inhabiting the Water. The lecture will take place at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago (31 West Ohio Street, Chicago IL 60654).
MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
Couplings 2023
The third edition of the MAS Context Couplings series will explore the influence of past projects, realized or unrealized, in shaping contemporary thinking in architecture. The event will take place at Gensler (11 East Madison Street, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60602).
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Current Issue
In this issue we explore spaces of vigilantism, both historically and today. What are the spatial dimensions of vigilante encounters, segregation, violence, and exclusion, or conversely emancipation, liberation, and inclusion? Threshold, circulation, private vs. public, and other architectural delineations of space have become the subject of much controversy as footage of sexist and racist policing of these spaces emerge.
