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.

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Interview

The Super Roof Turns 50

Iker Gil and William Baker interview Rudolph Bergermann and Knut Göppert

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Monthly Column

Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Photo Essay

After Demolition

Photo essay by David Schalliol

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Monthly Column

Will We, Chicago?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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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

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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.

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Interview

G. E. Kidder Smith Builds

Iker Gil interviews Neil Donnelly, Angelo Maggi, Andrea Nalesso, Michelangelo Sabatino, and Siiri Tännler

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Interview

On the Origins of High Water

Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger interview Virginia Hanusik

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Exhibition

F: Reconstituting Tolstoy College

Essay by Liz Park with an introduction by Collective Question

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Interview

From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol

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Photo Essay

Eibar, the Factory City

Essay Luis Ulacia and photography by José Ronco with an introduction by Iker Gil

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Photo Essay

Story Poles

Text and photographs by David Schalliol

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Essay

John Moutoussamy at 100

Essay by Iker Gil

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Essay

This is not the Huarte House

Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone

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Project

Catalog for the Post-Human

Project and text by Parsons & Charlesworth

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Remembrance

Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work

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Essay

Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe

Essay by Denise Scott Brown