Issues
Writing on Useful Projects
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
Dysfunctional Landmarks
Something Exceptional
Negotiating Legality
Utopias in the Gaps
European Prize for Urban Public Space
Making Policy Public
Bilbao
Bold
Repetition
Visibility
Communication
University Works
Character Plotting
Makin’ It
Turning Point One: 1983 Flooding
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
Publics Works
Want More?
Jason = More
More Identities
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
EMBT Goes East
Designing Venues
In Good We Trust
Living in Cabrini
Lanai Networks
Depicting Patterns
Making Visible the Invisible
Lines of Reading
Talk to Your City
Revealing the Secrets Behind the Designs
Chicago Production: Software to Produce
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Tracing Wright
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
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
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives
Designing for Other Things to Happen
The Big Shift
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Discussing University Works
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos
Virginia Tech, School of Architecture + Design
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
Waseda University, Department of Architecture
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Built Environment
Events
Conor O’Shea: Designing Urban Biodiversity
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
Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
Territories of Territory Extraction
Charles Colbert at 100
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Ensamble Studio: Radical Logic
Natalie de Blois at 100
Sancho-Madridejos: The Space Within the Fold
Domestic Explorations: Ardmore House + Columbus House 1
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2020
Luftwerk on Mies van der Rohe: Reinterpreting Space Through Light and Color
Walter Netsch at 100
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Verity-Jane Keefe: Operating Between the Cracks
Carlos Bedoya: Invisible Geometries
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Couplings 2018
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis
Couplings 2016
Michael Kubo: Collective–LOK
Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
The Complex and Multifaceted Work of Leandro Valencia Locsin
Michel Rojkind: Recent Work
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
Design With Company: Spaces With Stories
Couplings 2023
Now / Arriving Spring 2023
There is Room
Kwong Von Glinow: There is Room
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
Contemporary Spanish Architecture Practices: BEAR and HANGHAR
A Lot With Little
A Lot With Little Opening Reception
Now / Arriving Fall 2023
Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little
Albert C. Ledner at 100
Marta Maccaglia: A Lot With Little
Bruce Goff at the Art Institute of Chicago
A Lot With Little Chicago
Now / Arriving Spring 2024
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024
Exploring Architecture’s Response to Societal Changes
Beyond Closure | Chicago
Gunnar Birkerts at 100
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
Beyond Closure | Minneapolis
Models Off-Site
Now / Arriving 2025
Observations
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Architecture Across the Americas: A Look at the Five Finalists of the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
From the Mississippi Watershed
John Moutoussamy at 100
This is not the Huarte House
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
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Chilean House: Domestic Images
Without Michael
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
Atlantic City
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
At Home with the Collective
Will We, Chicago?
The Super Roof Turns 50
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
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
House of the Architect
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
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
Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture
Hanover and Over Again!
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Unnamed Spaces
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
Mid-Continent Modern
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
Paul Chemetov (1928–2024)
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight
As the Whole World Watched: Protest, Action, and Violence in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern
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
Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College
Material Acts: Re-fusing
Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford
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
Chasing the Sun: The Coastal High-Rises of Benidorm
The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater
Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the Subway Lines in New York City
Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World
We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System
The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future
Dialogues
Dialogues: Carol Ross Barney
Dialogues: Joe Valerio
Dialogues: James Goggin
Dialogues: Dawn Hancock
Dialogues: Architecture Is Fun
Dialogues: Margaret McCurry
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
Dialogues: Kristine Fallon
News
MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
MAS Context receives a 2021 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context launches its new book Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio
MAS Context 2021 Spring Talks
Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context receives a 2016 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context receives a 2015 Graham Foundation grant
Tour of Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Chatter Chat: Constructive Communication
Iker Gil presents at AIA Convention
MAS Context Receives a 2013 Graham Foundation Grant
MAS Context Boundary Featured on ArchDaily
Plural, New Art Director of MAS Context
Aberration Reviewed by Richard Prouty
Elizabeth Blasius to Write Monthly Column for MAS Context
MAS Context receives a 2022 Graham Foundation grant
“On Light, Time, and Materiality” by James Florio opens at pinkcomma gallery in Boston
“Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio” opens in Milwaukee
MAS Context receives a 2023 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant
MAS Context 2023 Year in Review
MAS Context supports Outpost Office’s installation during Concéntrico 10
Public Services by Outpost Office to remain in Logroño
MAS Context donates Robert L. Wesley’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context receives a 2024 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant
MAS Context donates Dan Wheeler’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
The Graham Foundation supports Borderless Studio’s book
MAS Context 2024 Year in Review
MAS Context supports BairBalliet’s installation during Concéntrico’s Festival 2025
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