Observations

Name: MAS Context
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This platform features articles, essays, interviews, reviews, and photo essays about the built environment and the people and conditions that shape it. Since 2022, Observations has also included a monthly column by architectural historian Elizabeth Blasius.

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Monthly Column

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

Remembrance

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

Monthly Column

Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Photo Essay

After Demolition

Photo essay by David Schalliol

Monthly Column

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.