Observations
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.
Project
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.
Interview
Iker Gil interviews Neil Donnelly, Angelo Maggi, Andrea Nalesso, Michelangelo Sabatino, and Siiri Tännler
Essay
The Significant Life and Uncertain Future of the Helen Plum Library
Essay by Iker Gil and Julie Michiels
Exhibition
F: Reconstituting Tolstoy College
Essay by Liz Park with an introduction by Collective Question
Photo Essay
Essay Luis Ulacia and photography by José Ronco with an introduction by Iker Gil
Essay
A Field Guide to Sprawl Mountain: Modeling Waiting in the Landscape of Dismantled Transit
Essay and project by Joshua G. Stein
Essay
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Presentation by architect Nancy Abshire
Photo Essay
Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment
Text and photographs by Jason Reblando
Essay
A Total Work of Art: The Salime Hydroelectric Power Plant
Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone
