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MAS Context Fall Talks 2015
Architectural critic, curator, historian and educator Nina Rappaport lectured about her photographer Ezra Stoller. The lecture took place at the Chicago offices of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM).
MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Lecture by architectural historian Emily Bills, critic and curator Mimi Zeiger, and author and designer Chris Grimley.
Interview
Iker Gil interviews Eric Bricker, director and producer of Visual Acoustics, a film that celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman
MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
Terry Evans: Ancient Prairies and Fragmented Landscapes
Lecture by photographer Terry Evans that took place at the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
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 Spring Talks 2016
Panel discussion with Richard Cahan, Karen Irvine, and David Schalliol about photography and place. The event took place at Perkins+Will in their new office at The Wrigley Building.
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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