Issues
Cape Town: The City Without and Within the White Lines
Makin’ It
Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium
Want More?
More Marina
Jason = More
In Good We Trust
CDF 2011 proposal
Survivor Maracaibo
Intuitive Design
It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Discussing University Works
Events
Kwong Von Glinow: There is Room
Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois
N H D M: Figurations and their Grounds
Ecosistema Urbano: Designing Atmospheres for Social Interaction
Future Landmarks: Strategies for Cultural and Architectural Preservation
Medium Matters: Architectural Representation After Construction
Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Ensamble Studio: Radical Logic
Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
Sancho-Madridejos: The Space Within the Fold
Pioneering Black Architects in Los Angeles and Chicago: A Reflection by Janna Ireland and Lee Bey
Domestic Explorations: Ardmore House + Columbus House 1
Building Subjects: Ideas on Housing from Chinese Vernacular Architecture
Architectures of Vigilantism
Richard Haas: An Artist About Architecture
Clive Wilkinson: The Theatre of Work
Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley
Marita Gomis: La Ricarda
Despina Stratigakos: Unconscious Bias in Architecture
Jonathan Solomon: Short-Cuts
Carlos Bedoya: Invisible Geometries
Alexandra Lange: Preserving Childhood
AGENCY: Undercurrents
Nathan Friedman: En-Medio
Terry Evans: Ancient Prairies and Fragmented Landscapes
Jason Reblando: New Deal Utopias
Charles Rice: Interior Urbanism
Killian Doherty: Yekepa
Koldo Lus Arana: Architectural Narratives / Building stories
Geoff Manaugh: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Kelly Bair: Tight Fade
Nina Rappaport: Vertical Urban Factory
Nina Rappaport: Ezra Stoller
Michael Kubo: Collective–LOK
David Schalliol: The Area
Christopher Baker: Free Love, Open-Source Style
John Szot: Forcible Entry
Luftwerk: Light+Space
Dawn Hancock: Top 10 List of Shit I Have Done to Create a Life I Love
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley: A Year on the Road with Venue
Luis Urculo
Inhabiting the Water
Design With Company: Spaces With Stories
Building Enjoyable Living Environments Through Architecture, Art, and Design
John Szot: Roman Mixtapes
Watershed Architecture
Bruce Goff at the Art Institute of Chicago
Phil Donohue: The Future Was Then
Anna & Eugeni Bach: Compressing Time
Mia Baarup Tofte: Learnings from a Danish Housing Lab
salazarsequeromedina: Small Adaptations
Sean Lally: New Origin Stories
Modernism as Character: Nathan Eddy
Territories of Territory Extraction
Nighttime as a Unique Territory
Lacol: Cooperative Ecosystems
Concentrico: Rethinking Our Built Environment Through Design
La Ricarda: An Architectural and Cultural Project
Tobias Armborst: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Verity-Jane Keefe: Operating Between the Cracks
1972/Accumulations
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Analog 2017: John Pobojewski
Analog 2017: Alisa Wolfson
Analog 2017: Aaron Rodgers & Angee Lennard
Analog 2017: Charles Adler
Analog 2017: Sean Lally
Analog 2017: Parsons & Charlesworth
Analog 2017: Elizabeth Blasius
Analog 2017: Marcia Lausen
Analog 2017: Judith de Jong
Analog 2017: Stewart Hicks
Analog 2017: Molly Meyer
Analog 2017: Micah Stanley
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Darren Bradley: Canberra’s Modernist Soul
Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis
Christopher Marcinkoski: Speculative Urbanization and The City That Never Was
New Aging with Matthias Hollwich and Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko
Analog 2016: Klaus
Analog 2016: Alisa Wolfson
Analog 2016: Rick Valicenti
Analog 2016: Thomas Kelley
Analog 2016: Noritaka Minami
Analog 2016: Tricia Van Eck
Analog 2016: Future Firm
Analog 2016: José Esparza
Analog 2016: Zoë Ryan
Analog 2016: Jeanne Gang
Analog 2016: Martin Kastner
Analog 2016: Lucas Daniel
Chris Grimley and Mark Pasnik: Heroic
Thomas Kelley: NK
Conor O’Shea: Designing Urban Biodiversity
Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction
Nocturnal Landscapes: Museo en la Calle
Alison Fisher: The Contextual Megastructure
Molly Wright Steenson: Architectures of Information
Bruce G. Moffat: Chicago Freight Tunnels
Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It
Analog 2012: Sam Vinz
Analog 2012: Dieter Roelstraete
Analog 2012: Marc Fisher
Analog 2012: David Sieren and Sam Rosen
Analog 2012: Andrew Clark
Analog 2012: John Pobojewski
Analog 2012: David Rueter
Analog 2012: Sean Lally
Analog 2012: Jimenez Lai
Analog 2011: Rick Valicenti
Analog 2011: Craighton Berman
Analog 2011: Cody Hudson
Analog 2011: Lisa Smith and Caroline Linder
Analog 2011: Jason Pickleman
Analog 2011: Cheryl Towler Weese
Analog 2011: Karen Semone
Analog 2011: Jeremiah Chiu
Analog 2011: Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta
Analog 2011: Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer
Analog 2011: Sarah Dunn
Analog 2011: Andrew Moddrell and Christopher Marcinkoski
Analog 2011: John Szot
Analog 2011: Jessica Rodrigue
Analog 2011: David Schalliol
Analog 2011: Lee Bey
Periphery
Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure
Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change
There is Room
Contemporary Spanish Architecture Practices: BEAR and HANGHAR
A Lot With Little
Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little
Naomi Pollock: The Japanese House Since 1945 | Wrightwood 659
Marta Maccaglia: A Lot With Little
Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024
Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
Koray Duman: Spaces of Generosity
Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab
Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory
Marin R. Sullivan: Isamu Noguchi’s Designs for a Better World
Concéntrico: Ten Years Reflecting on the City Through Contemporary Practices
Identity as Infrastructure: How Span’s Design Shapes Culture, Institutions, and Public Life
Germane Barnes: Turn the Mic Up
Adam Paul Susaneck: Segregation by Design and Reconnecting Communities
Lee Bey on The Best Side: The Architecture, Places, and Spaces of Chicago’s West Side
The Difficulty of Representation
Luis Urculo: The Difficulty of Representation
Observations
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Only Girl Architect Lonely
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Without Michael
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
Connections: 48 Years
The Super Roof Turns 50
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
House of the Architect
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
Hanover and Over Again!
Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland
A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight
Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern
Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame
Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College
We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System
Ishinomaki Laboratory: A Furniture Company with a Deep Social Mission
Unidad Vecinal: A Flexible Architecture Continuously Activated
Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
Reading MASP as a Work of Urban Design
Antifascist Architects: Kiyoshi Kuromiya
Dialogues
Dialogues: James Goggin
Dialogues: Dawn Hancock
Dialogues: Margaret McCurry
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
Dialogues: David Woodhouse
News
Lecture by James Florio on the making of Radical Logic
MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
MAS Context 2021 Fall Talks
MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
MAS Context 2021 Spring Talks
MAS Context 2019 Fall Talks
MAS Context 2019 Spring Talks
MAS Context 2018 Fall Talks
Repositioning the historic Schweikher House
MAS Context talk at UIC School of Design
MAS Context 2014 Fall Talks
MAS Context collaborates with Luis Mendo
MAS Context 2014 Spring Talks
MAS Context in Archizines Exhibition in Milan
MAS Context 2022 Fall Talks
MAS Context 2022 Year in Review
MAS Context supports Design With Company’s installation during Concéntrico 09
MAS Context 2023 Spring Talks
MAS Context 2023 Fall Talks
MAS Context 2023 Year in Review
MAS Context 2024 Spring Talks
MAS Context 2024 Fall Talks
MAS Context 2025 Fall Talks
MAS Context donates Dan Wheeler’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context 2025 Spring Talks
Summer Sale at the MAS Context Reading Room
MAS Context launches its new book Challenging Patterns of Supremacy: Provocations from Collective Pedagogy, Practice, and Organizing
Winter Sale and Closing Reception at the MAS Context Reading Room
MAS Context 2026 Spring Talks
Matching Funds Opportunity Between April 1 and May 31, 2026
Contributors
Ecosistema Urbano
Margaret McCurry
Andrew Holder
Stanley Tigerman
Jon Astbury
Neil Donnelly Studio
James Goggin
Anna & Eugeni Bach
KOGAA
Derek Hoeferlin
Killian Doherty
Edward Lawrenson
Verity-Jane Keefe
MAS Context
Vladimir Belogolovsky
Nathan Friedman
Alisa Wolfson
Michel Rojkind
fala
Carlos Copertone
Olga Subirós
Antonio Cobo
Maria Moreno-Carranco
Benedetta Tagliabue
Yuko Nagayama
Simon Scheithauer
Jean-Claude Girard
Evangelina Guerra Luján
David Karle
Jordan Geiger
Mélanie van der Hoorn
Alex Fuller
Smout Allen
Luke Sturgeon
Knut Göppert
Marin R. Sullivan
Adam Wiseman
Noemí Blager
Peter Landon
Rebekah Coffman
Ernest Wong
Karl Jones
David Woodhouse