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What is Your Favorite Public Space?

We asked you, our public, about your favorite public space
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Filter Island

Project by UrbanLab
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Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition

Project by Design With Company
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Chicago Production: Raw Quality

Iker Gil and Andrew Clark talk to Arnold Horween III, president of Horween Leather Co., and John Culliton, VP sales
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Filter Island

Project by Urbanlab

Events

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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
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In Your City by the Lake

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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Bilbao issue launch in Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023

MAS Context Fall Talks 2023
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Common Chicago

Exhibition

Observations

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From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol
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2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire

Presentation by architect Nancy Abshire
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An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving

Essay by Iker Gil
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Will We, Chicago?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney

Iker Gil interviews Carol Ross Barney
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Art and Materiality: Unlocking Stories Embedded in the Materials of a Gilded Age Mansion

Iker Gil interviews Giovanni Aloi
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Plywood City

Text and photos by Iker Gil
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Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Carol Ross Barney

Stephen Killion interviews architect Carol Ross Barney, FAIA, founder and president of Ross Barney Architects
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Dialogues: Dan Wheeler

Iker Gil interviews architect Dan Wheeler

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Ross Barney Architects

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