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Vertical Urban Factory

Essay by architectural critic, curator and educator Nina Rappaport
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Beyond Built Architecture

Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera from dpr-barcelona interview Jonathan Gales, founding member of Factory Fifteen
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Behind the Bilbao Effect: An Overnight Success in 20 Years

Essay by Koldo Lus Arana
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Case Study #2: Walden 7

Project by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
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Lanai Networks

Landscape architect Marcel Wilson explains the history, challenges and opportunities that Lanai Island in Hawaii is facing
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Architectural Narratives

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More

Essay by Roberto Soundy and project by URBANÍSTICA—Empresa Metropolitana de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de la Ciudad de Guatemala and Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a)
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Belly Flops

Short Essay by Michelle Benoit
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One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952

Essay by Michelle Benoit
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Utopias in the Gaps

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro with projects by Holes of Matter

Events

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Nina Rappaport: Vertical Urban Factory

MAS Context Fall Talks 2015
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Couplings 2018

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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Bilbao issue launch in Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016

Observations

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Eibar, the Factory City

Essay Luis Ulacia and photography by José Ronco with an introduction by Iker Gil
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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
Mas observations 2020 access for all 01

Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik
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José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
Mas observations 2019 a career in five projects 01

A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
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Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
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There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown

Julian Rose interviews Denise Scott Brown
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Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame

Essay by Alexander Eisenschmidt
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Material Acts: Re-fusing

Interview with Laurens Bekemans, Ben Loescher, Meredith Miller, and Virginia San Fratello by the Material Acts team (Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu)
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Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World

Iker Gil interviews Nicolas Grospierre

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Margaret McCurry

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels interview architect Margaret McCurry

News

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Vertical Urban Factory in Toronto

Contributors

Factory Fifteen

Contributor

Nina Rappaport

Contributor

Julia Sedlock

Contributor

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