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Events

Our spring and fall events include talks, panel discussions, film screenings, book launches, studio visits, exhibitions, and artistic installations. All events are documented and archived online and on the MAS Context Vimeo Channel.

Upcoming

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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2026

Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 11:30AM
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Chicago book launch: “Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House” and “Casa Gomis Bertrand / La Ricarda”

Thursday, November 19, 2026 at 6PM
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Exhibition

Temporary Permanence: The Urbanization of Jordan’s Refugee Camps

November 14-December 5, 2026
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Alonzo Robinson, Jr.: Rediscovering Wisconsin’s First Black Architect

Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 6PM
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Junior Architects: New Paradigms in Design Education

Thursday, November 5, 2026 at 6PM
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

David Schalliol: Isolated Building Studies

Saturday, October 24, 2026 at 5PM
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Barcelona book launch: Casa Gomis Bertrand / La Ricarda

Thursday, October 15, 2026
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Max Bond: The Life and Work of the People’s Architect

Monday, October 5, 2026 at 5PM
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Vanishing Japan: Modern Architecture, Gone But Not Forgotten

Thursday, October 1, 2026 at 6PM
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Shaping Contemporary Realities: Architecture and Beyond

September 24-September 26, 2026
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MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Off Center: Notes on the Periphery

Thursday, September 10, 2026
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Exhibition

Off Center

August 15-September 12, 2026

Past

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Mas event 2026 block by block 01

MAS Context Fall Talks 2026

Block by Block: Aligning Design and Housing Justice with Zoning Reform

Tuesday, August 4, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 the storks stair 01

Installation

Future Firm: The Stork’s Stair

June 18-June 23, 2026
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Mas event 2026 antifascist architecture

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Antifascist Architecture

Wednesday, June 10, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 the best side 05

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Lee Bey on The Best Side: The Architecture, Places, and Spaces of Chicago’s West Side

Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 recontextualizing modernismo architecture intervention and site 01

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Recontextualizing Modernismo: Architecture, Intervention, and Site

Thursday, April 30, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 now arriving tom lee studio 01

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Now / Arriving 2026: Tom Lee Studio

Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 now arriving range design architecture 01

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Now / Arriving 2026: Range Design & Architecture

Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 now arriving orders 01

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Now / Arriving 2026: Orders

Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 now arriving main

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Now / Arriving 2026

Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 turn the mic up 01

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Germane Barnes: Turn the Mic Up

Monday, April 13, 2026 at 6PM
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Mas event 2026 the difficulty of representation art on the mart 01

Installation

The Difficulty of Representation

April 9-April 26, 2026
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Mas event 2026 the difficulty of representation 02

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Luis Urculo: The Difficulty of Representation

Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 6PM