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.
Monthly Column
From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Exhibition
Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
Essay
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
Monthly Column
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Monthly Column
Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Interview
Iker Gil and William Baker interview Rudolph Bergermann and Knut Göppert
Photo Essay
Text and photographs of Structures of Landscape in Tippet Rise by James Florio
Exhibition
Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds
Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
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