Issue 5

Energy

Graphic design by Iker Gil
Cover by Mitch Epstein

Energy. It’s what gets us from here to there. Out of bed, to the moon, across town, to the core of the issue. It hurries the pace of civilization, and it’s positing the planet with problems of a shape and scope never before seen. Or dealt with. It takes energy to deal. And here’s the real deal: energy is power.

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Mas issue energy cover opening

Entering the Second Year with more Energy

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

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(As) American (As) Power

Iker Gil and Andrew Clark interview photographer Mitch Epstein, author of American Power

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Farming the Air

MAS Context collects facts about wind power

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Material Energies

Julia Sedlock interviews Sean Lally

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Staged Energy

Photographers Chris Martin and Cesar Russ capture the exuberance of being on stage

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Power Move

Iker Gil interviews Elizabeth Redmond, founder and president of POWERleap

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Lanai Networks

Landscape architect Marcel Wilson explains the history, challenges and opportunities that Lanai Island in Hawaii is facing

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Prelinger Archives

Films from the Prelinger Archives showing the type of energy and ideals that the United States had during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s

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Case Study #1: Ecoboulevard Vallecas

Project by Ecosistema Urbano

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Case Study #2: Public Farm 1

Project by WORK Architecture Company

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Case Study #3: Photovoltaic Canopy

Project by Martinez Lapeña-Torres Arquitectos

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Case Study #4: Powerplant

Project by realities:united