Issue 23
Ordinary
Issue 23
Welcome to our Ordinary issue. This issue seeks to explore the value of commonness and the everyday environment. It focuses on those elements that go unnoticed or that we take for granted, from buildings and objects to experiences and traditions. We look at the ordinary elements of life that are worth rediscovering and celebrating, as well as look ahead to what will become ordinary in the future.
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Superordinary: On the Problematique of the Ordinary
Essay by Antonio Petrov
Essay by Deborah Fausch
Essay by Alberto Campo Baeza
Project by Michael Hirschbichler
There’s Nowt So Ordinary as Folk
Short essay by Ordinary Architecture (Elly Ward and Charles Holland)
Precise Response, Novel Future
Text and photographs by Michal Ojrzanowski
The Veneer of Nostalgia: Dingbat Life in Slums of Beverly Hills
Essay by Joshua G. Stein
Designing for Other Things to Happen
Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos
Short essay by Henry Shukman
Essay by David Karle
Installation by Jennifer Bonner
Glamour: Alleys as a Mechanism of the (extra) Ordinary
Essay by Linda Just
Ordinary Lilli-pot Spaces: Rendezvous in Tokyo
Essay by Zenovia Toloudi
Short essay by Tom Keeley
Text and photographs by Steven Montgomery
Essay by Regina Pozo
Project by Norman Kelley (Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley)