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MAS Context 2025 Fall Talks

August 22, 2025

We are happy to share the first events of our MAS Context 2025 Fall Talks series. This series features in-person lectures on remarkable practices and practitioners, book launches, exhibitions, several explorations of archives, and a new edition of our Tracing / Traces series at The Art Institute of Chicago.

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The Shared Ground Floor, Proposal for the Street in 10 years project, Concéntrico Festival, finalist, competition, 2024. © salazarsequeromedina.

Thursday, September 4 – (INFO AND RSVP)
Presentation and book launch with Montana-based photographer James Florio
“Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal”

Wednesday, September 17 – (INFO AND RSVP)
Presentations by David Fleener, Sibylle Schlaich, and Mike Schlaich
“Not a Woman Architect: The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans”

September 19, 2025–January 31, 2026
Exhibition
“Common Chicago”

Monday, September 29 – (INFO)
Presentations by Javier Peña, Design with Company, and BairBalliet
“Concéntrico: Ten Years Reflecting on the City Through Contemporary Practices”

October 1–November 19 – (INFO)
Exhibition reflecting on the first decade of the Concéntrico festival
“Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory”

Wednesday, October 1 – (INFO)
Exhibition opening
“Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory”

Thursday, October 9 – (INFO AND RSVP)
Visit to the archive with Jane Kelley

“Exploring the Architecture and Design Open Archive”

Wednesday, October 15 (INFO AND RSVP)
Lecture by of Rebekah Coffman and Aries Gomez

“Unbuilding/Rebuilding: Recentering the Architectural Archive”

Monday, October 20 (INFO AND RSVP)
Lecture by Laura Salazar and Pablo Sequero of salazarsequeromedina

“Small Adaptations”

Tuesday, October 28 – (INFO AND RSVP)
Lecture by Marin R. Sullivan

“Isamu Noguchi’s Designs for a Better World”

Saturday, December 6 – (INFO AND RSVP)
Presentations by Zehra Ahmed, Dirk Denison, Anders Nereim, Uthman Olowa, and Melissa Rovner

“Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2025”

Tuesday, December 9 – (INFO AND RSVP)
Lecture by Sean Lally

“Show Me”

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