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Mas issue amusement defencing 01

De[FENCING]

Architect Joseph Altshuler proposes a public intervention in the most typical constraint of urban isolation: the fence
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Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal

Essay by Tania Tovar Torres
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Survivor Maracaibo

Architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn share their experience living in Maracaibo, where informal inventions address social and economic conditions
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The Available City

Project by David Brown
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Utopias in the Gaps

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro with projects by Holes of Matter
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Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers

THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT: opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus
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Materiality of Deletion

Essay by Christo de Klerk
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Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof

Project by Ted Brown

Events

Mas event 2017 john szot 01

John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Common Chicago

Exhibition

Observations

Mas observations 2023 christopher columbus memorial 01

Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial

Monthly Column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2024 drawing the ring of steel 01

Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast

Essay and project by Kate Catterall
Mas observations 2024 the century and consumers buildings 01

The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2024 restoring the sears roebuck companys sunken garden 01

Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2024 the return of michigan central station opening 01

The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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

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