Observations

Name: MAS Context
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Observations features individual articles focused on the intersection between the built environment and other disciplines. This section is also the home to particular series, such as featuring exhibitions across the world affected by COVID-19, and In Context (a re-contextualization of our archives by our readers).

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Interview

Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History

Iker Gil interviews Germane Barnes

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Essay

House of the Architect

Text by Iker Gil

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Essay

From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Exhibition

Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez

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Essay

SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing

Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske

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Essay

Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Essay

Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Essay

Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Essay

1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida

Essay by Denise Scott Brown

Article

Betty Blum (1931–2022)

Architects and colleagues remember Betty Blum

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Exhibition

What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?

Text by Marin R. Sullivan

Essay

Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown

Text by Denise Scott Brown

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Interview

The Super Roof Turns 50

Iker Gil and William Baker interview Rudolph Bergermann and Knut Göppert

Essay

Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Photo Essay

After Demolition

Photo essay by David Schalliol

Essay

Will We, Chicago?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Photo Essay

Where the Sky Meets the Earth

Text and photographs of Structures of Landscape in Tippet Rise by James Florio

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Exhibition

Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez

Project

At Home with the Collective

Excerpts from a conversation between MAS Context and Alexander Eisenschmidt on a research project that he calls “At Home with the Collective” accompanied by a selection of work from a seminar and studio at UIC.