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MAS Context 2024 Fall Talks

August 26, 2024

We are happy to share the events of our MAS Context 2024 Fall Talks series. This series features in-person lectures on remarkable practices and practitioners, documentary screenings, book launches, exhibition tours, artistic installations, and a new edition of our Tracing / Traces series at The Art Institute of Chicago.

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James Florio below Ensamble Studio’s Beartooth Portal at Tippet Rise, Fishtail, Montana. Film still by Jeffrey Peixoto.

June 17–December 30 – (INFO AND PHOTOS)
Installation by Klaus
“Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been”

Saturday, August 24 – (INFO)
Private tour with Luftwerk, Giovanni Aloi, Jeremie Fant, and Andrea Kramer
“Lost & Found Tour”

Sunday, September 29 – (INFO)
Screening of the three-part documentary series produced by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Q&A with Giovanna Borasi
“Exploring Architecture’s Response to Societal Changes”

Thursday, October 3 – (VIDEO)
Lecture by filmmaker and photographer Phil Donohue
“The Future Was Then”

Tuesday, October 8 – (INFO AND PHOTOS)
Reception with architectural cartoonist Klaus and Iker Gil
“Welcome to Tribuneville Reception”

Thursday, October 10 – (VIDEO)
Lecture by architectural historian Luis Miguel Lus Arana, better known as architectural cartoonist “Klaus”
“Welcome to Tribuneville: Architectural History, Cartoons, and Urban Speculation”

Monday, October 14 – (INFO AND PHOTOS)
Film screening and Q&A with Thomas Beyer and Adrian Dorschner
“Robin Hood Gardens”

Saturday, October 19 – (INFO AND PHOTOS)
Presentation by Rick Valicenti

“Tracing Rick Valicenti”

Thursday, October 24 – (INFO AND PHOTOS)
Film screening and conversation with Montana-based photographer James Florio

“James Florio at Tippet Rise”

Saturday, November 9 – (INFO)
Presentations by Sarah Blankenbaker, Akima Brackeen, Alexander Eisenschmidt, Studio Becker Xu, and Antonio Torres

“Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024”

Thursday, November 21 – (INFO AND PHOTOS)
Presentation and book launch by Alexander Eisenschmidt and book contributors Geoff Goldberg, Jonathan Miller, and Kathryn E. O'Rourke
“Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago”

November 28–December 31 – (INFO)
Digital screening of film by Ben Loeterman
“John Portman: A Life of Building”

Sunday, December 15 – (INFO AND PHOTOS)
Film screening and Q&A with Paola Aguirre, Erin Babbin, Asiaha Butler, Cecile De Mello, Darnell Shields, and Michael Sullivan
“Beyond Closure”

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