Issues
Visualizing Electromagnetic Fields
Automatic Revisited: Fabricating Sustainable Concrete Elements
Is Romanticism Alive and Well and Living in America?
More Identities
The Emperor’s Castle
Wrong Chairs
Small / Large Inflatables
The Vizcaya Amusement Park: A Story of Broken Dreams
Notes from the Velodrome
Makin’ It
Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal
Drawing Soane’s
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium
Farmer’s Work
Want More?
Jason = More
More of More
Cooperative Dream
Living in Cabrini
Places, Not Spaces
Case Study #4: The Whale
Despair
The Great Mosques of Lake Geneva
Second Sun
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
A Sound Life
Infra
Futures: Expo Boston ‘76
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Tracing Wright
Typo
An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition
We Print Because We Can
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
Utopias in the Gaps
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Surveillance in the News
The Street as Platform
Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers
The Traveller
Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage
Materiality of Deletion
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Designing for Other Things to Happen
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Circulating Borders: The BMW Guggenheim Lab
Discussing University Works
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
Waseda University, Department of Architecture
Events
Thomas Kelley: NK
John Szot: Roman Mixtapes
Analog 2016: Thomas Kelley
Josep Lluís Sert / A Nomadic Dream
Not a Woman Architect: The Life and Work of Brigitte Peterhans
Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois
Charles Colbert at 100
Natalie de Blois at 100
Richard Haas: An Artist About Architecture
Walter Netsch at 100
Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Tobias Armborst: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Despina Stratigakos: Unconscious Bias in Architecture
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
Nathan Friedman: En-Medio
Couplings 2018
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Fundraising for Mexico and Puerto Rico
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis
Analog 2016
Michael Kubo: Collective–LOK
The Aesthetic of Transience
Couplings 2023
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
Contemporary Spanish Architecture Practices: BEAR and HANGHAR
Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little
Bruce Goff at the Art Institute of Chicago
Now / Arriving Spring 2024
Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024
Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light
Robin Hood Gardens
BairBalliet: Crop Top
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
Thus We Advance, Harvesting Our Caravans
Aesthetic Codes of Interconnected Populations
Common Chicago
Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable
All Magnificent and Wild: Notes on Chicago Residential Hotels
GOFF
Germane Barnes: Turn the Mic Up
Don’t Give Up the Ship!
Observations
In Context: Tomas Skovgaard
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Ishinomaki Laboratory: A Furniture Company with a Deep Social Mission
From the Mississippi Watershed
Story Poles
John Moutoussamy at 100
This is not the Huarte House
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Only Girl Architect Lonely
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
A Dialog of Difference: Reflections on Bruce Goff’s Ford House
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Chilean House: Domestic Images
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Almost Perfect
Spontaneous Uses
In Context: Chris Berthelsen
In Context: Michael Kubo
At Home with the Collective
The Super Roof Turns 50
Seeing Richard Nickel
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Seeking Zohn
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Art at the James R. Thompson Center
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
Mundo Mendo Goes to Seoul: The World of Luis Mendo on Display
JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond
The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community
Hanover and Over Again!
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Urban Exploration as Creative Practice
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
Unnamed Spaces
Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast
Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland
There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters
Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown
A History of Preservation in Chicago
Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame
Material Acts: Re-fusing
Chicago Women in Architecture at 50: Seven Milestone Exhibitions that Illustrate a Rich History of Advocacy and Support
Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side
Architecture Across the Americas: A Look at the Five Finalists of the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present
From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street
Chasing the Sun: The Coastal High-Rises of Benidorm
The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater
Emili Donato: Plans Are Made
Plywood City
Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth
Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism
Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition
Unidad Vecinal: A Flexible Architecture Continuously Activated
Evans Woollen: Tracing the Forgotten History of the “Dean of Indiana Architects”
From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
Sacred Shift: Contested Heritage, Public Memory, and Sustainable Futures in Places of Ritual Reuse
Northerly Island at 100
What Happened to Gerri’s Palm Tavern?
Strike! An Accidental Return to Wild
A Career in Five Projects: Jaume Bach
Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
Why Ella Briggs Captivates Us: A Female Challenger of Modernism
Reading MASP as a Work of Urban Design
On Bruce Goff’s Ford House: Sidney K. Robinson Interviews Don Tosi
The Totality and Paradox of Asbestos
Ignasi de Solà-Morales and the Metropolis
Luis Peña Ganchegui at 100
The Chicago Stock Exchange Trading Room and the Economies of Ornament
The Wesley House: A Home, A Landmark, A Legacy
The Fascist Architecture Industrial Complex
Under the Influence of Lilly Reich
Route 66: A Personal Reflection in Today’s Context
Dialogues
Dialogues: James Goggin
Dialogues: Margaret McCurry
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
Dialogues: Kristine Fallon
Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson
News
Radical Logic featured in Modern in Denver
MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
MAS Context contributors featured in the 2015 Chicago Architecture Biennial
New MAS Context website designed by Span
MAS Context supports Design With Company’s installation during Concéntrico 09
MAS Context 2023 Fall Talks
Klaus’s “Welcome to Tribuneville” wins first place, practitioner, in RIBAJ's annual drawing competition
MAS Context 2024 Fall Talks
MAS Context donates Kristine Fallon’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context 2025 Fall Talks
MAS Context supports BairBalliet’s installation during Concéntrico’s Festival 2025
MAS Context 2025 Spring Talks
MAS Context 2025 Year in Review
Contributors
OMA
Thomas Beyer
Thomas Hussey
Thomas Kelley
Brinda Somaya
Tomás Ruiz
Thomas Hillier
Tomas Skovgaard
Inés Vachez Palomar
Jürgen Mayer H.
Germane Barnes
Ania Jaworska
Jimenez Lai
Joanna Grant
Gregory Delaney
Lydia Kallipoliti
Jana McCann
Carol Ross Barney
Ciro Miguel
Max Jarosz
Francesco Marullo
Anna & Eugeni Bach
KOGAA
Sarah Dunn
Terry Evans
Matthias Hollwich
Ryan Palider
John Tolva
Gilermo Zuaznabar
Matīss Groskaufmanis
Abilio Guerra
Sean Canty
Jennifer Newsom
Maria Moreno-Carranco
John Tolva
Xavi Ayala
Naoto Fukasawa
César Reyes Nájera
Jeffrey T. Schnapp
Troy Conrad Therrien
Andrew Bush
Pedro Gadanho
Richard Mosse
Interboro Partners
Evangelina Guerra Luján
Vassiliki-Maria Plavou
Tom Kaczynski
Fake Industries Architectural Agonism
Zenovia Toloudi
Norman Kelley
Roberto Boettger
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
Paola Antonelli
Busy Beaver Buttons Co.
Rudolf Bergermann
Sonia Madrigal
Fabien Cappello
Catherine Baker
Kotchakorn Voraakhom
Sana Syed
Antonio Torres
Yuge Zhou
Laurens Bekemans
Koray Duman
BairBalliet
Mia Baarup Tofte
Keiji Ashizawa
Tomomi Hashimoto
Drumlin
Nowhere Collaborative
Ross Barney Architects
Deborah Berke
Jeffrey Peixoto
Brian Gladstein
Karl Jones