Issues

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Ordinary

Issue 23
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Revisiting the Ordinary

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Superordinary: On the Problematique of the Ordinary

Essay by Antonio Petrov
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Can Architecture Be Ordinary?

Essay by Deborah Fausch
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Zen and the Ordinary

Short essay by Henry Shukman
Mas issue ordinary theres nowt so ordinary as folk 03

There’s Nowt So Ordinary as Folk

Short essay by Ordinary Architecture (Elly Ward and Charles Holland)
Mas issue ordinary lilli pot spaces rendezvous in tokyo 01

Ordinary Lilli-pot Spaces: Rendezvous in Tokyo

Essay by Zenovia Toloudi
Mas issue ordinary glamour alleys as a mechanism of the extra ordinary 08

Glamour: Alleys as a Mechanism of the (extra) Ordinary

Essay by Linda Just
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The Brain is Square

Essay by Alberto Campo Baeza
Mas issue ordinary there is no there there 15

There Is No There There

Project by Michael Hirschbichler
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Precise Response, Novel Future

Text and photographs by Michal Ojrzanowski
Mas issue ordinary the veneer of nostalgia 02

The Veneer of Nostalgia: Dingbat Life in Slums of Beverly Hills

Essay by Joshua G. Stein
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Designing for Other Things to Happen

Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos
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Commercial Strip Tease

Essay by David Karle
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Domestic Hats

Installation by Jennifer Bonner
Mas issue ordinary in suburbia 01

In Suburbia

Short essay by Tom Keeley
Mas issue ordinary a first look at china 01

A First Look at China

Text and photographs by Steven Montgomery
Mas issue ordinary design inside our daily lives 01

Design Inside Our Daily Lives

Essay by Regina Pozo
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Wrong Chairs

Project by Norman Kelley (Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley)
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Assemblages of Ordinary Life

Chronology by Office of Political Innovation with introductory text by Iker Gil
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Public

Issue 8
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Makin’ It

Script by Julia and John McMorrough
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Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City

Essay by Ibon Areso
Mas issue bilbao three key organizations 01

Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium

Text by Iker Gil
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More Identities

Prada Transformer by OMA / Rem Koolhaas
Mas issue events in good we trust 01

In Good We Trust

John Hickenlooper and Bruce Mau present the Denver Biennial of the Americas
Mas issue public what is your favorite public space 01

What is Your Favorite Public Space?

We asked you, our public, about your favorite public space
Mas issue repetition original copies 03

Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge

Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker

Observations

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Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work
Mas observations 2021 home and away 01

Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment

Text and photographs by Jason Reblando
Mas observations 2020 casa chilena 15

Chilean House: Domestic Images

Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski
Mas observations 2019 jose miguel de prada poole 01

José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
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Spontaneous Uses

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha
Mas observations 2019 a career in five projects 01

A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
Mas observations 2022 the super roof at 50 michael zimmermann 01

The Super Roof Turns 50

Iker Gil and William Baker interview Rudolph Bergermann and Knut Göppert
Mas observations 2022 betty blum 01

Betty Blum (1931–2022)

Architects and colleagues remember Betty Blum
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SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing

Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
Mas event 2015 jnl graphic design 01

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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Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside

Text by Michelangelo Sabatino with photographs by Will Quam
Mas observations 2024 urban archaeology lost buildings of st louis 01

Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

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
Mas observations 2024 building culture denise scott brown 05

Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown

Julian Rose interviews Denise Scott Brown
Mas observations 2024 a history of preservation in chicago 01

A History of Preservation in Chicago

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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 2025 materialities laleh motlagh 02

Art and Materiality: Unlocking Stories Embedded in the Materials of a Gilded Age Mansion

Iker Gil interviews Giovanni Aloi
Mas observations 2025 modern forms swiss medical research foundation 01

Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World

Iker Gil interviews Nicolas Grospierre