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Notes from the Velodrome

Essay by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard and faculty at the GSD
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What Kind of Vigilante Are You?

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Loopty Loops (#ALWAYSWIP)

Essay by Jennifer Bonner
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Logistical Ecologies

Project by Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape with MODUS Collective
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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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Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications

Essay by José García Soriano and Carmen López Albert
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Surveillance in the News

A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.
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Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage

Essay by Roy R. Behrens
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Can Architecture Be Ordinary?

Essay by Deborah Fausch
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Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro

Events

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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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Harry Seidler: Modernist

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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Envisioning New Spatial Organizations

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Josep Lluís Sert / A Nomadic Dream

MAS Context Spring Talks 2015
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Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
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Robin Hood Gardens

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

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024

Observations

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Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang

Ann Lui interviews Jeanne Gang
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Chilean House: Domestic Images

Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski
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Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Mid-Continent Modern

Introduction by Jeffery S. Poss with text and photographs by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope
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Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System

Essay by Rogelio Cadena

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Margaret McCurry

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels interview architect Margaret McCurry
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Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley

Iker Gil interviews architect Robert L. Wesley
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Dialogues: Dan Wheeler

Iker Gil interviews architect Dan Wheeler

News

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Iker Gil Participates in What Criticism? at Harvard GSD

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MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial

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MAS Context supports Outpost Office’s installation during Concéntrico 10

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Outpost Office

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