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MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
Lecture by architect and educator Cristina Gamboa of Barcelona-based Lacol. Response by Gabriel Cira and Quilian Riano, part of the Coop Network Group of The Architecture Lobby.
Exhibition
MAS Context and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects (AIADO) presented the exhibition Mass Market Alternatives by architect John Szot at the AIADO gallery located on the 12th floor of the Sullivan Center.
MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
Jason Reblando: New Deal Utopias
Lecture by photographer Jason Reblando that took place at the Society of Architectural Historians.
MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
Building Subjects: Ideas on Housing from Chinese Vernacular Architecture
Lecture by architect and educator De Peter Yi. Response by art historian Nancy P. Lin.
MAS Context Spring Talks 2025
Mia Baarup Tofte: Learnings from a Danish Housing Lab
Lecture by Copenhagen-based architect Mia Baarup Tofte, partner at NORD Architects. The program took place virtually.
The lecture was organized by MAS Context and the Chicago Architecture Biennial as part of the exhibition Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab.
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The Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room and the Economies of Ornament
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Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
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From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
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