Issue 21
Repetition
Issue 21
Repetition
Articles designed by Nick Adam, Lauren Ayers, Jeremiah Chiu, Renata Graw, Jinhwan Kim, Jennifer Mahanay, Dan Marsden, Jason Pickleman, Scott Reinhard, Michael Renaud, Bud Rodecker, Isaac Tobin, Rick Valicenti, Katherine Walker, Beth Weaver, and Magdalena Wistuba
Cover photography by Ross Floyd
Welcome to our Repetition issue. Through eighteen contributions we immerse into a world of monotony, variation, experimentation, replicas, strategies, simulations, imperfections, and routines. We do so in long and short essays, photo essays, interviews, videos, manifestos, and projects. A combination of contributions that question, embrace, and ultimately work with the topic at hand. On top of the varied format of our contributions you will find another aspect added to the mix. Each contribution is uniquely interpreted by a designer based in Chicago, all under the creative direction of Rick Valicenti and Bud Rodecker from Thirst. A specific identity for each contribution that makes up an issue on repetition. We had fun adding even more variation to the topic. In the end, repetition does not have to be boring.
Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
Essay by Roberto Soundy and project by URBANÍSTICA—Empresa Metropolitana de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de la Ciudad de Guatemala and Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a)
Text and photographs by Camilo José Vergara
Project by Ana Miljacki, Lee Moreau, and Sarah Hirschman
An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition
Essay by Panos Dragonas
Text and photographs by Livia Corona Benjamin
Short Essay by Michelle Benoit
Essay by Patrick Sykes
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
Essay by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán
Film by Edward Burtynsky
Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge
Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker
Manifesto by Urtzi Grau and Cristina Goberna from Fake Industries Architectural Agonism
Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications
Essay by José García Soriano and Carmen López Albert
Text, photograph, and pattern by James Goggin
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Iker Gil interviews astronaut Claude Nicollier
A Clearing in the Woods: Bearing Witness to Change Through Repetition
Text and photographs by Lyndon Valicenti