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Issues

Mas issue living facts 01

Living Facts

MAS Context selects facts and numbers about the way we live around the world.
Mas issue hidden reconciling infrastructural artifacts 02

Reconciling Infrastructural Artifacts

Project by Roberto Boettger
Mas issue surveillance intelligence artifacts 01

Intelligence Artifacts: A Selection of Objects from the CIA’s Museum

Selection of several artifacts that were designed and used for intelligence operations during the twentieth century
Mas issue bold of all of the facts and all of the figures 01

Of All of the Facts, and All of the Figures

Project by Michael Pecirno
Mas issue energy farming the air 01

Farming the Air

MAS Context collects facts about wind power
Mas issue character breaking bad 01

Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal

Essay by Tania Tovar Torres
Mas issue bilbao behind the bilbao effect 01

Behind the Bilbao Effect: An Overnight Success in 20 Years

Essay by Koldo Lus Arana
Mas issue more jason more cover

Jason = More

Iker Gil interviews Jason Pickleman
Mas issue public despair 01

Despair

Architect Edward Emile Richardson explains the impact that the public housing laws have had in the public housing system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Mas issue ownership negotiating legality 01

Negotiating Legality

Projects by Santiago Cirugeda, architect and director of Recetas Urbanas
Mas issue surveillance in the news 01

Surveillance in the News

A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.
Mas issue legacy architecture and the city 01

Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof

Project by Ted Brown
Mas issue hidden archipelagos of detritus 01

Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
Mas issue hidden seeing triborough 12

Seeing Triborough

Visual essay by Sam Holleran
Mas issue university works daniels automatic revisited 07

Automatic Revisited: Fabricating Sustainable Concrete Elements

Project by Jesse Colin Jackson and Luke Stern

Events

Mas event 2019 tracing traces 14

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
Mas event 2022 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
Mas event 2018 can we not open our eyes to our own treasures 01

Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 couplings 01

Couplings 2018

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018

Observations

Mas observations 2021 only girl architect only 01

Only Girl Architect Lonely

Essay by Susan King
Mas observations 2021 a dialogue of difference 01

A Dialog of Difference: Reflections on Bruce Goff’s Ford House

Texts by Petra Bachmaier, Leo Berk, Assaf Evron, Grant Gibson, Sidney K. Robinson, David Skidmore, and Mary Woolever
Mas observations 2020 converging at architecture 01

Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang

Ann Lui interviews Jeanne Gang
Mas observations 2020 twelve cautionary urban tales 01

Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
Mas observations 2019 atlantic city 01

Atlantic City

Iker Gil interviews Brian Rose
Mas observations 2018 in context katya tylevich 01

In Context: Katya Tylevich

Katya Tylevich recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context chris berthelsen 01

In Context: Chris Berthelsen

Chris Berthelsen recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2024 urban archaeology lost buildings of st louis 01

Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2024 a corten steel landmark hiding in plain sight 01b

A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight

A Conversation with Jack Bowman
Mas observations 2024 building culture denise scott brown 05

Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown

Julian Rose interviews Denise Scott Brown
Mas observations 2025 florence scala the joan of arc of chicagos near west side 01

Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2025 national public housing museum 01

The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2025 stonewall inn movement and monument 04

Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2025 virgil abloh edith farnsworth and midcentury modernism 01

Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2025 unidad vecinal 01

Unidad Vecinal: A Flexible Architecture Continuously Activated

Iker Gil interviews Francisco Quiñones and Nathan Friedman of Departamento del Distrito
Mas observations 2025 evans wollen 01

Evans Woollen: Tracing the Forgotten History of the “Dean of Indiana Architects”

Essay by writer Phillip Cox and photographer Niall Cronin
Mas observations 2025 northerly island at 100 phil enquist

Northerly Island at 100

Collective reflection on Northerly Island as it turns 100
Mas observations 2026 reading masp as a work of urban design 01

Reading MASP as a Work of Urban Design

Essay by Judith K. De Jong

News

Mas dialogues 2022 margaret mccurry office

MAS Context donates Margaret McCurry’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
Mas dialogues robert l wesley interview naples 02

MAS Context donates Robert L. Wesley’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
Mas dialogues 2024 kristine fallon official portrait

MAS Context donates Kristine Fallon’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
Mas dialogues 2023 dan wheeler sesc pompeia

MAS Context donates Dan Wheeler’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago

Contributors

Antonio Petrov

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Christopher Baker

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Kate Catterall

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