Issues

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A Choice of Weapons: Image Notes from Minneapolis

Photo essay by Jennifer Newsom
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Behind the Bilbao Effect: An Overnight Success in 20 Years

Essay by Koldo Lus Arana
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Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City

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

Text by Iker Gil
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More Marina

Essay by Andrew Dribin
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More Identities

Prada Transformer by OMA / Rem Koolhaas
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What is Your Favorite Public Space?

We asked you, our public, about your favorite public space
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Speedway, Indiana

Research and diagrams by Stephen Killion
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Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More

Essay by Roberto Soundy and project by URBANÍSTICA—Empresa Metropolitana de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de la Ciudad de Guatemala and Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a)
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An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition

Essay by Panos Dragonas
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Belly Flops

Short Essay by Michelle Benoit
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Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge

Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker
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Drawing Tokyo

Short essay by Luis Mendo
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Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
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Discussing University Works

A conversation between Andrew Clark, Judith De Jong, Alexander Eisenschimdt, Iker Gil, Jimenez Lai, Paul Preissner, Juan Manuel Rois, and Karla Sierralta
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Hochhaus in Zürich Leutschenbach

Project by Davide Blasi

Observations

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Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983

Essay by Andy Sturdevant
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From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol
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Catalog for the Post-Human

Project and text by Parsons & Charlesworth
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Only Girl Architect Lonely

Essay by Susan King
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Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang

Ann Lui interviews Jeanne Gang
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Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik
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Without Michael

Jonathan Solomon remembers Michael Sorkin
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On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya

Text and projects by Brinda Somaya
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At Home with the Collective

Excerpts from a conversation between MAS Context and Alexander Eisenschmidt on a research project that he calls “At Home with the Collective” accompanied by a selection of work from a seminar and studio at UIC.
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Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana

Text and photographs by David Schalliol
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Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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The “Passion Tax” is History

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial

Monthly Column by Elizabeth Blasius
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A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney

Iker Gil interviews Carol Ross Barney
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A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight

A Conversation with Jack Bowman
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A History of Preservation in Chicago

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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Architecture Across the Americas: A Look at the Five Finalists of the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize

A look at five finalist projects selected for the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
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From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

Essay by Alison Cuddy
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Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the Subway Lines in New York City

Iker Gil interviews Brian Rose
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We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System

Essay by Rogelio Cadena