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Issues

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Filming Production

Iker Gil selects a series of short films that document the processes and outcomes generated by individuals and small businesses
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Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers

THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT: opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus
Mas issue bilbao a city in film 01

A City in Film

Iker Gil interviews Koldo Serra
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Breaker Assembly

Film by Edward Burtynsky
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Amusement

Film by Jon Cole
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Under the Bridge

Film and essay by Nora Niasari
Mas issue work a city at work 01

A City at Work

Spirit of Space films Chicago at work
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Documenting Production

Eight films on Production from the Prelinger Archives
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Building Legacies

Diagrams by Jacob Chartoff
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Living

Issue 4
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More of More

MAS Context asked several people working in different fields to give us their definition of the concept of More.
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More Identities

Prada Transformer by OMA / Rem Koolhaas
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Designing Venues

Iker Gil interviews Doug Garofalo
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CDF 2011 proposal

Architects Sharon Haar and Iker Gil propose the first Chicago Design Festival
Mas issue living a frame of mind 01

A Frame of Mind

Essay Paul Mougey
Mas issue living selling a lifestyle 01

Selling Lifestyle

Iker Gil interviews Eric Bricker, director and producer of Visual Acoustics, a film that celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman
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Case Study #5: Linked Hybrid Complex

Project by Steven Holl Architects
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Prelinger Archives

Films from the Prelinger Archives showing the type of energy and ideals that the United States had during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s
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Mumbai Disconnected

Iker Gil interviews Camilla Nielsson, co-director with Frederik Jacobi of the documentary Mumbai Disconnected
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Everything is a Remix

Iker Gil interviews Kirby Ferguson, writer, director, editor and author of the Everything is a Remix series
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Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

Essay by Benjamin Brichta, the Network Architecture Lab, an experimental unit at the Columbia University GSAPP directed by Kazys Varnelis
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A Sound Life

Iker Gil interviews movie sound designer Oriol Tarragó
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Infra

Photo essay by Richard Mosse
Beyond built architecture 01

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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Harlem Time Tracker

Text and photographs by Camilo José Vergara
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Two Million Homes for Mexico

Text and photographs by Livia Corona Benjamin
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Utopias in the Gaps

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro with projects by Holes of Matter
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Surveillance in the News

A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.
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The Street as Platform

Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
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Materiality of Deletion

Essay by Christo de Klerk
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Designing for Other Things to Happen

Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos
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Almost There

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels in conversation with Dan Rybicky

Events

Mas event 2021 future landmarks 01

Future Landmarks: Strategies for Cultural and Architectural Preservation

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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The Area

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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Helmut Jahn: In a Flash

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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Modernism as Character: Nathan Eddy

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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Battleship Berlin

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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Charles Colbert at 100

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
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Uppland panel discussion

MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
Mas event 2020 uppland film screening 01

Uppland

MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
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Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
Mas event 2019 geometry of light barcelona pavilion 01

Geometry of Light: Barcelona Pavilion

Installation
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Geometry of Light fundraiser

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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1972/Accumulations

Exhibition
Mas event 2018 in your city by the lake 01

In Your City by the Lake

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 harry seidler modernist 01

Harry Seidler: Modernist

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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
Mas event 2017 jai alai blues 01

Jai Alai Blues

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Starship Chicago

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Analog 2017

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Killian Doherty: Yekepa

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Bilbao issue launch in Bilbao

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
Mas event 2016 dingbat 01

Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
Mas event 2016 unfinished spaces 01

Unfinished Spaces

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
Mas event 2016 photography and place

Photography and Place

MAS Context Spring Talks 2016
Mas event 2015 josep lluis sert 01

Josep Lluís Sert / A Nomadic Dream

MAS Context Spring Talks 2015
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Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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David Schalliol: The Area

MAS Context Fall Talks 2014
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Aberration: Live in Los Angeles

MAS Context Fall Talks 2011
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Analog 2011

MAS Context Fall Talks 2011
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Out of Context

MAS Context Spring Talks 2011
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The Area panel discussion

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
Mas event 2018 harry seidler modernist 05

Harry Seidler at 100

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
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Starship Chicago II Premiere

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
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Starship Chicago II

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

MAS Context Fall Talks 2023
Mas event 2023 a lot with little turkana 01

A Lot With Little

Exhibition
Mas event 2023 a lot with little fada 01

A Lot With Little Opening Reception

MAS Context Fall Talks 2023
Mas event 2023 mauricio rocha 01

Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little

MAS Context Fall Talks 2023
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Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner

MAS Context Spring Talks 2024
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Marta Maccaglia: A Lot With Little

MAS Context Spring Talks 2024
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A Lot With Little Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2024
Mas event 2024 james florio at tippet rise 01

James Florio at Tippet Rise

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
Mas event 2024 exploring architectures response to evolving societal changes 01

Exploring Architecture’s Response to Societal Changes

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
Mas event 2024 the future was then 01

Phil Donohue: The Future Was Then

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
Mas event 2024 robin hood gardens 01

Robin Hood Gardens

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
Mas events 2024 beyond closure anthony overton 01

Beyond Closure | Chicago

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
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John Portman: A Life of Building

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
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Beyond Closure | Minneapolis

MAS Context Spring Talks 2025

Observations

Mas observations 2021 this is not the huarte house 01

This is not the Huarte House

Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone
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Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work
Mas observations 2020 contributions of the basque exile to mexican architecture 01

Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
Mas observations 2020 access for all 01

Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik
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Chilean House: Domestic Images

Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski
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Without Michael

Jonathan Solomon remembers Michael Sorkin
Mas observations 2020 twelve cautionary urban tales 01

Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas

Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)
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Spontaneous Uses

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha
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After Demolition

Photo essay by David Schalliol
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Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History

Iker Gil interviews Germane Barnes
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Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond

Celebrating the work of JNL Graphic Design
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The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Lavadoiro

Text and photos by Ana Amado
Mas observations 2023 the passion tax is history 01

The “Passion Tax” is History

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas context observations 2023 hanover and over again 01

Hanover and Over Again!

Essay by Jason Griffiths
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Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Unnamed Spaces

Marta Bogéa, Mônica Junqueira de Camargo, and Pedro Kok in conversation with Alvaro Puntoni and João Sodré of GRUPOSP
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There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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As the Whole World Watched: Protest, Action, and Violence in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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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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Capturing the Feeling of John Portman

Photo essay by Phil Donohue
Mas observations 2024 exploring the specificities of place from panama to oxford 01

Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford

David Schalliol interviews Arturo Soto
Mas observations 2024 permastone and formstone modern marvels or the margarine of architecture 01

Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of Architecture

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2025 chicagoland on wheels 01

Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Natasha Egan

Stephen Killion interviews Natasha Egan, executive director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP)
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Dialogues: Dan Wheeler

Iker Gil interviews architect Dan Wheeler
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Dialogues: Kristine Fallon

Iker Gil interviews architect Kristine Fallon

News

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MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
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Lecture by James Florio on the making of Radical Logic
Mas event 2021 medium matters 01

MAS Context 2021 Fall Talks
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Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
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MAS Context 2018 Fall Talks
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MAS Context collaborates with Meneo
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Ordinary Cover
Mas event 2022 1972 accumulations 01

MAS Context 2022 Fall Talks
Mas news 2022 support

MAS Context 2022 Year in Review
Mas event 2023 periphery 01

MAS Context 2023 Spring Talks
Portrait of Molly Hanse and David Schalliol

Molly Hanse and David Schalliol join MAS Context’s team
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MAS Context 2023 Fall Talks
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MAS Context 2024 Spring Talks
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MAS Context 2024 Fall Talks
Mas news 2024 year in review

MAS Context 2024 Year in Review
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MAS Context 2025 Spring Talks
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MAS Context supports BairBalliet’s installation during Concéntrico’s Festival 2025

Shop

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Living

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Phil Donohue: The Future Was Then

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Future Firm

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David Schalliol

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Michael Renaud

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Mitch Epstein

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Prelinger Archives

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Richard Prouty

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Network Architecture Lab

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Factory Fifteen

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Roy Beeson

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