Iker Gil
About
Iker Gil is a founding partner at MAS Studio, editor in chief of the nonprofit MAS Context, and executive director of the SOM Foundation. Iker has edited or coedited several books including Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio and Shanghai Transforming. He has curated multiple exhibitions including Nocturnal Landscapes, Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac, and BOLD: Alternative Scenarios for Chicago, part of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial. He was Associate Curator of the US Pavilion for the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale and cocurator of Exhibit Columbus 2020–2021. He was the 2024 Morgenstern Visiting Chairs at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), and the Escola da Cidade (São Paulo).
Essay
A Total Work of Art: The Salime Hydroelectric Power Plant
Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone
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
Essay
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
Introduction
The More Important Something Is, The More It Is Hidden
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Exhibition
Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac
Text by Carlos Copertonee, Patxi Eguiluz, and Iker Gil
Interview
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
Iker Gil interviews Lee Bey
