Issues
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
Layoff Moveon
Jason = More
EMBT Goes East
In Good We Trust
Living in Cabrini
Case Study #5: Linked Hybrid Complex
Cape Town: The City Without and Within the White Lines
Typo
Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications
The Street as Platform
Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Discussing University Works
Virginia Tech, School of Architecture + Design
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
Waseda University, Department of Architecture
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Built Environment
Events
Junior Architects: New Paradigms in Design Education
Modernism as Character: Nathan Eddy
Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
Natalie de Blois at 100
Walter Netsch at 100
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
Alexandra Lange: Preserving Childhood
Couplings 2018
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes
A Lot With Little
A Lot With Little Opening Reception
A Lot With Little Chicago
Beyond Closure | Chicago
Beyond Closure | Minneapolis
Identity as Infrastructure: How Span’s Design Shapes Culture, Institutions, and Public Life
Shaping Contemporary Realities | Day 1: Innovative Adaptation
Shaping Contemporary Realities | Day 2: Civic Changemaking
Shaping Contemporary Realities | Day 3: Flourishing Environments
Observations
John Moutoussamy at 100
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Only Girl Architect Lonely
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
Will We, Chicago?
The Super Roof Turns 50
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat
Seeking Zohn
House of the Architect
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Art at the James R. Thompson Center
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture
Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial
Mid-Continent Modern
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight
Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown
A History of Preservation in Chicago
Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame
Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College
Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford
Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side
Architecture Across the Americas: A Look at the Five Finalists of the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater
Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth
Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism
Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition
From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
Northerly Island at 100
What Happened to Gerri’s Palm Tavern?
Why Ella Briggs Captivates Us: A Female Challenger of Modernism
A Dark Age for the Renaissance Center
Reading MASP as a Work of Urban Design
In Search of the Ordinary
The Totality and Paradox of Asbestos
Ignasi de Solà-Morales and the Metropolis
Luis Peña Ganchegui at 100
The Fascist Architecture Industrial Complex
Antifascist Architects: Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Balthazar Korab at 100
Learning from Philadelphia
The Housing Crisis is Also a Design Crisis: Six Housing Design Strategies That Could Halve the Housing Shortage
Dialogues
Dialogues: Margaret McCurry
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
Dialogues: Kristine Fallon
Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson
Dialogues: David Woodhouse
Dialogues: Linda Searl
News
The Graham Foundation supports Dark Matter University’s book
Molly Hanse and David Schalliol join MAS Context’s team
MAS Context supports Outpost Office’s installation during Concéntrico 10
MAS Context donates Robert L. Wesley’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context donates Kristine Fallon’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context supports BairBalliet’s installation during Concéntrico’s Festival 2025
MAS Context donates Dan Wheeler’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context launches its new book Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing
Robert L. Wesley (1937–2026)
“Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal” by James Florio at Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings
Contributors
Jimenez Lai
Gem Barton
Maya Bird-Murphy
Fred Scharmen
Monica Chadha
Andres L. Hernandez
Jayne Kelley
Derek Hoeferlin
Dan Wheeler
Clive Wilkinson
Ellen Grimes
Liz Park
Chris Cornelius
Amarí Peliowski
Demar Matthews
Bruce Mau
Sharon Haar
Prelinger Archives
Peter Eisenman
Joanna Livieratos
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Odile Compagnon
Zenovia Toloudi
Craig Mod
Tama-chan
Florence Twu
Nick Senske
Catherine Ledner
Marta Maccaglia
Woodhouse Tinucci Architects
Susan Conger-Austin
Asiaha Butler
Cecile De Mello
Ben Loescher
Meredith Miller
Colectivo C733
New Office
Anna Mort
Civic Projects Architecture
Studio Gang
UrbanWorks
Wheeler Kearns Architects
X, Nilay Mistry, and Chicago Public Art Group
Jean-Marie Montangerand
Aneesha Dharwadker
Brian Gladstein
Britni Harris
Brian D. Goldstein
Suzanne Lettieri
Cynthia Vranas
Eleanor Esser Gorski
Nora Semel
Sabina Bokhari