Addressing issues that affect the urban context

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

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Turning Point Two: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

What Kind of Vigilante Are You?

Welcoming a New Character

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Character Plotting

Text and diagrams by Joseph Altshuler

Getting Cute

Text and project by Joanna Grant

Exploring the City You Grew Up In

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Men of Steel in a Grey Landscape

Text and photographs by Fidel Raso

Apoptosis

Text and photographs by Carlos Copertone

The Potential of the Territory Beyond

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context, and John Szot, guest editor of this issue

More by Spirit of Space

Spirit of Space share with us their take on MORE and MAS Context

Global Events?

MAS Context diagrams global events

Entering the Second Year with more Energy

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Unlike Queen Victoria, We Are Amused

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Meaningful Information

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Identity

Artwork and text by artist Nick Gentry

Demand and Propose

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Part of Your Network

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Embrace Your Conflict

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

The Emperor’s Castle

Project and text by Thomas Hillier

Finding Your Speed

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

A Retroactive Introduction

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Learning to Communicate

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Waiting to be Revealed

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

A production of Production

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Dismantling boundaries

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

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Territories of Practice: Kimisagara Community Center, Rwanda

Text, images, and drawings by Killian Doherty

Futures: Expo Boston ‘76

Text and chronology by Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley, and Mark Pasnik

Takis Zenetos: Unbuilt Tropes

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl, Elina Karanastasi, and Nikos Skoutelis based on a text by Nikos Skoutelis

Modern Masterpieces Revisited

Text and images by Luís Santiago Baptista

Reinterpreting our Traces

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

River Ending

Photographs by Sreedeep with an intro text by Kamalini Mukherjee

Dizzy

Project by Charlie O’Geen and Frank Fantauzzi. Text by Phreddy Wischusen

Residential Archaeology

Text and diagrams by Juan Carlos Tello

Architectural Narratives

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Building Stories

Drawings by Chris Ware with text by Klaus.

True Repetition

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Two Million Homes for Mexico

Text and photographs by Livia Corona Benjamin

Concealed Carry, Repeat

Text, photograph, and pattern by James Goggin

Urban Prisons

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Revisiting the Ordinary

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Drawings, Storytelling, and Subjectivity

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

The More Important Something Is, The More It Is Hidden

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Undergrounding

Photographs by Theo Simpson with text by Tom James

Building and Demolishing Legacies

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

New Deal Utopias

Text and photographs by Jason Reblando

One Wall Away: On Hidden Spaces

Text and photographs by Jan Theun van Rees

7 Modes of Counterespionage

Text by Sumayya Vally and Sarah de Villiers of Counterspace

Visualizing Electromagnetic Fields

Text and project by Luke Sturgeon and Shamik Ray

Constructive Debates

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

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Spanning Lines of Longitude and Latitude

Essay by Iker Gil and Andrew Clark, editors of MAS Context University Works

Micro-Modifications: Stories of Dingbat Dwellers

Text by Joshua G. Stein with photographs by Paul Redmond

Character and Composition, A Response

Text and project by Design With Company

Assemblages of Ordinary Life

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

Growing up Modern: A Family Story

Text and photographs by Julia Jamrozik and Coryn Kempster

Drawing Soane’s

Text and drawings by Eu Jin Lim

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20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects

Text and selection by García de la Torre Arquitectos with illustrations by Meneo

Mas Is More

Issue introduction by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Want More?

MAS Context wanted MORE and collected a list of 100.

More of More

MAS Context asked several people working in different fields to give us their definition of the concept of More.

Living Facts

MAS Context selects facts and numbers about the way we live around the world.

Farming the Air

MAS Context collects facts about wind power

What Amuses You?

Your responses to the question by MAS Context

White House 2.0

Text and project by Arielle Assouline-Lichten & Wayne Congar of the think-tank lab/RAD

Moving Beyond Buyer and Seller

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

Suburbia Gone Wild

Text and images by photographer Martin Adolfsson

Obsessive Consumption

Text and illustrations by Kate Bingaman Burt

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The Disappearing Architect: Four Moves Towards Invisibility

Text by Ya´el Santopinto and Jonathan Wong

I know I’ve Seen the Master Plan

Text by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes from OMNIBUS with photographs by Lorenz Bürgi

Unlikely, but Possible

Issue statement by Iker Gil and Paul Mougey, editor in chief and editor of MAS Context respectively

Harlem Time Tracker

Text and photographs by Camilo José Vergara

Bold

Amusement

Living

Work

Events

Makin’ It

Script by Julia and John McMorrough

Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal

Essay by Tania Tovar Torres

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Lequeu’s Characters

Essay by Max Jarosz

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Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City

Essay by Ibon Areso

Layoff Moveon

Iker Gil interviews Jessica Lybeck

Immanent Cartography

Essay and photographs by Nick Axel

More Marina

Essay by Andrew Dribin

Jason = More

Iker Gil interviews Jason Pickleman

More Identities

Prada Transformer by OMA / Rem Koolhaas

EMBT Goes East

Mateu Baylina and Xavi Ayala interview Benedetta Tagliabue

In Good We Trust

John Hickenlooper and Bruce Mau present the Denver Biennial of the Americas

Places, Not Spaces

Architect and painter Maya Brittain examines the transformation of the Veneto region in Italy during the last thirty years

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A Village by the SEZ: The Dafen Sample of China’s Urbanization

Essay by designer, editor, and critic Jiang Jun, with photography by Yu Haibo

Towards Open Architecture

Essay by Simon Scheithauer

Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition

Project by Design With Company

Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

Essay by Benjamin Brichta, the Network Architecture Lab, an experimental unit at the Columbia University GSAPP directed by Kazys Varnelis

Revealing the Secrets Behind the Designs

Diagrams by Salottobuono

Printing the Identity of Los Angeles

Text by Chad Kouri with comments by Glenn Hinman, Julia Luke, James Black, Anthony Burrill and Cody Hudson with photography by Andreas E.G. Larsson

Tracing Wright

A conversation between Richard Wright, Zoë Ryan, and Iker Gil

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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)

Typo

Project by NEMESTUDIO

An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition

Essay by Panos Dragonas

We Print Because We Can

Essay by Patrick Sykes

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One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952

Essay by Michelle Benoit

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On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method

Essay by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán

Utopias in the Gaps

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro with projects by Holes of Matter

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Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications

Essay by José García Soriano and Carmen López Albert

Surveillance in the News

A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.

The Street as Platform

Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult

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Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage

Essay by Roy R. Behrens

Materiality of Deletion

Essay by Christo de Klerk

Can Architecture Be Ordinary?

Essay by Deborah Fausch

Designing for Other Things to Happen

Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos

Mas issue legacy architecture and the city 01

Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof

Project by Ted Brown

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Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro

Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture

Essay by Denise Scott Brown

Circulating Borders: The BMW Guggenheim Lab

Essay by Marina Otero Verzier

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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Virginia Tech, School of Architecture + Design

Introduction by Kathryn Clarke Albright

Hotel Affect-ed

Project by Sando Billey Thordarson

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A Viewpoint: A Continuous Circuit

Project by Laura Cano Benito

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ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture

Introduction by Josep Lluís Mateo

Events

Out of Context

MAS Context Spring Talks 2011

Alison Fisher: The Contextual Megastructure

MAS Context Fall Talks 2014

MAS Context x Luftwerk x Marina City

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MAS Context x Los Angeles x BMD

MAS Context Spring Talks 2020

Mas event 2020 luftwerk on mies van der rohe 01

Luftwerk on Mies van der Rohe: Reinterpreting Space Through Light and Color

Territories of Territory Extraction

La Ricarda: An Architectural and Cultural Project

1972/Accumulations

Mas issue character character and composition a response 01

Characters in the Theater of Everyday Life

JNL Graphic Design studio visit

MAS Context Spring Talks 2013

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Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley: A Year on the Road with Venue

Heritage Bicycles: Production

MAS Context Spring Talks 2013

Periphery

There is Room

MAS Context Spring Talks 2022

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Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois

Ecosistema Urbano: Designing Atmospheres for Social Interaction

MAS Context Spring Talks 2022

Helmut Jahn: In a Flash

Modernism as Character: Nathan Eddy

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2021

Future Landmarks: Strategies for Cultural and Architectural Preservation

Battleship Berlin

Medium Matters: Architectural Representation After Construction

Vigilantism issue launch

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Charles Colbert at 100

Ensamble Studio: Radical Logic

Mas issue character growing up modern a family story 18

Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants

Natalie de Blois at 100

Nighttime as a Unique Territory

Lacol: Cooperative Ecosystems

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Pioneering Black Architects in Los Angeles and Chicago: A Reflection by Janna Ireland and Lee Bey

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Domestic Explorations: Ardmore House + Columbus House 1

Block Party

Architectures of Vigilantism

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2020

Uppland panel discussion

Uppland

MAS Context Spring Talks 2020

Walter Netsch at 100

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019

Clive Wilkinson: The Theatre of Work

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Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley

Marita Gomis: La Ricarda

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022

Geometry of Light: Farnsworth House

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Nocturnal Landscapes: Urban Flows of Global Metropolises Exhibition Opening

Mas event 2019 nocturnal landscapes instituto cervantes 01

Nocturnal Landscapes: Urban Flows of Global Metropolises / Chicago

Mas event 2019 cartography and photography 01

Cartography and Photography: Revealing Global Metropolises

MAS Context Spring Talks 2019

Tobias Armborst: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion

Verity-Jane Keefe: Operating Between the Cracks

MAS Context Spring Talks 2019

Geometry of Light: Barcelona Pavilion

Geometry of Light fundraiser

Carlos Bedoya: Invisible Geometries

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018

In Your City by the Lake

AGENCY: Undercurrents

Harry Seidler: Modernist

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018

Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?

Couplings 2018

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018

Envisioning New Spatial Organizations

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018

Jai Alai Blues

Starship Chicago

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017

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Celebrating 20 years of the Guggenheim Bilbao

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Analog 2017: John Pobojewski

Analog 2017: Alisa Wolfson

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Analog 2017: Aaron Rodgers & Angee Lennard

Analog 2017: Charles Adler

Analog 2017: Sean Lally

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Analog 2017: Parsons & Charlesworth

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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

Analog 2017

Charles Rice: Interior Urbanism

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Fundraising for Mexico and Puerto Rico

John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives

Mass Market Alternatives

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017

paper/architecture

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Bilbao issue launch in Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017

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Bilbao issue launch in Bilbao

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017

Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis

Couplings 2016

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Christopher Marcinkoski: Speculative Urbanization and The City That Never Was

Unfinished Spaces

Koldo Lus Arana: Architectural Narratives / Building stories

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

Germane Barnes: Intersect

Analog 2016: Zoë Ryan

Analog 2016: Jeanne Gang

Analog 2016: Martin Kastner

Analog 2016: Lucas Daniel

Analog 2016

Geoff Manaugh: A Burglar’s Guide to the City

MAS Context Fall Talks 2015

Chris Grimley and Mark Pasnik: Heroic

Thomas Kelley: NK

MAS Context Fall Talks 2015

Josep Lluís Sert / A Nomadic Dream

Pitchfork studio visit

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Exploring the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago

Sensing and Sensibility: Politics and Technology in the Contemporary City

A Capsule as a House

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The Aesthetic of Transience

Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction

Nocturnal Landscapes: Museo en la Calle

A Lot You Got to Holler

MAS Context Fall Talks 2015

Michel Rojkind: Recent Work

Bruce G. Moffat: Chicago Freight Tunnels

MAS Context Fall Talks 2014

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Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It

MAS Context Spring Talks 2014

Suburbia Gone Wild

MAS Context Spring Talks 2013

Corkins Exchange 2012

Analog 2012: Sam Vinz

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Analog 2012: Dieter Roelstraete

Analog 2012: Marc Fisher

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Analog 2012: David Sieren and Sam Rosen

Analog 2012: Andrew Clark

Mas event 2012 analog john pobojewski 01

Analog 2012: John Pobojewski

Analog 2012: David Rueter

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Analog 2012: Sean Lally

Analog 2012: Jimenez Lai

Analog 2012

MAS Context Spring Talks 2012

Mas issue ownership cooperative dream 01

Studio Gang: Ownership

Aberration: Live in Los Angeles

Analog 2011: Rick Valicenti

Mas issue communication getting graphic 07

Analog 2011: Craighton Berman

Analog 2011: Cody Hudson

Analog 2011: Lisa Smith and Caroline Linder

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Analog 2011: Jason Pickleman

Mas event 2011 analog cheryl towler weese 01

Analog 2011: Cheryl Towler Weese

Analog 2011: Karen Semone

Analog 2011: Jeremiah Chiu

Mas event 2011 analog strawn sierralta 01

Analog 2011: Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta

Analog 2011: Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer

Mas issue visibility visualizing urban hidrology 06

Analog 2011: Sarah Dunn

Analog 2011: Andrew Moddrell and Christopher Marcinkoski

Mas issue aberration architecture without idealism 13

Analog 2011: John Szot

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Analog 2011: Jessica Rodrigue

Mas issue work isolated building studies 08

Analog 2011: David Schalliol

Analog 2011: Lee Bey

Analog 2011

The Area

The Area panel discussion

Inhabiting the Water

Mas issue ownership invention and tradition 23

Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes

Design with Company: Stone Wall Stand In

Victor Lundy at 100

Design With Company: Spaces With Stories

Couplings 2023

Mas event 2023 now arriving announcement small

Now / Arriving Spring 2023

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Harry Seidler at 100

Mas observations 2022 way beyond bigness 08

Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure

Mas observations 2019 liminal frontier 13

Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change

Now / Arriving 2023: DAAM

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Now / Arriving 2023: Future Firm

Mas event 2021 domestic exploration ardmore columbus 05

Now / Arriving 2023: Kwong Von Glinow

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Starship Chicago II Premiere

Starship Chicago II

Kwong Von Glinow: There is Room

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023

A Lot With Little

A Lot With Little Opening Reception

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Now / Arriving Fall 2023

Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little

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Naomi Pollock: The Japanese House Since 1945 | Wrightwood 659

Albert C. Ledner at 100

Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner

Marta Maccaglia: A Lot With Little

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Naomi Pollock: The Japanese House Since 1945 | Schweikher House

Now / Arriving Spring 2024

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Outpost Office: Public Utilities

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Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024

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Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light

James Florio at Tippet Rise

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Lost & Found Tour

Mas event 2024 welcome to tribuneville 03

Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville

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Exploring Architecture’s Response to Societal Changes

Mas event 2024 welcome to tribuneville 10

Welcome to Tribuneville Reception

Phil Donohue: The Future Was Then

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Félix Candela from Mexico City to Chicago

John Portman: A Life of Building

BairBaillet: Crop Top

Gunnar Birkerts at 100

Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

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Koray Duman: Spaces of Generosity

Mas event 2025 now arriving new office 01

Now / Arriving 2025

Thus We Advance, Harvesting Our Caravans

Aesthetic Codes of Interconnected Populations

Katya Tylevich recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

Observations

In Context: Katya Tylevich

In Context: Chris Berthelsen

Chris Berthelsen recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: dpr-barcelona

dpr-barcelona recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Mason White

Mason White recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Javier Arbona

Javier Arbona recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Michael Kubo

Michael Kubo recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Diego Arraigada

Diego Arraigada recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Martine Syms

Martine Syms recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Suzanne Strum

Suzanne Strum recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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In Context: Léopold Lambert

Léopold Lambert recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Ross Wolfe

Ross Wolfe recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Mimi Zeiger

Mimi Zeiger recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Brendan Crain

Brendan Crain recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

In Context: Tomas Skovgaard

Tomas Skovgaard recontextualizes the MAS Context archives

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Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City

Text by Alison Fisher

Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik

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House of the Architect

Text and photographs by David Schalliol

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Chicago Women in Architecture at 50: Seven Milestone Exhibitions that Illustrate a Rich History of Advocacy and Support

Text by Susan King

Story Poles

Catalog for the Post-Human

Project and text by Parsons & Charlesworth

Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment

Text and photographs by Jason Reblando

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The Changing Transportation Landscape in Chicago

Text and selection by Rachel Cole

Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl

On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya

Text and projects by Brinda Somaya

Off the Grid: Belgian Graphic Design from the 1960s and 1970s as Seen by Sara De Bondt

Text by Sara De Bondt

Chinese Communal Graphic Standards

Text and project by Raven Xu

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En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas

Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)

Mas observations 2022 exact dutch yellow 01

What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?

Text by Marin R. Sullivan

Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown

Text by Denise Scott Brown

Mas observations 2023 beyond the landmarks 01

Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana

Text and photographs by David Schalliol

Lavadoiro

Text and photos by Ana Amado

Mas observations 2021 a dialogue of difference 01

A Dialog of Difference: Reflections on Bruce Goff’s Ford House

Texts by Petra Bachmaier, Leo Berk, Assaf Evron, Grant Gibson, Sidney K. Robinson, David Skidmore, and Mary Woolever

Template for a Cooperative Network of Small Architecture Practices

Text by the Coop Network Group of The Architecture Lobby

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Geographies of the Lockdown in Barcelona: Mapping the City from Home

Text and maps by 300.000 km/s

Shameless Copy

Texts by LIGA curators and Abilio Guerra

Chilean House: Domestic Images

Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski

El Jinete Amarillo

Text by Tamara Crespo and photography by Fidel Raso

Mas observations 2020 nivola in new york 01

Nivola in New York | Figure in Field

Text by Steven Hillyer and Roger Broome

En-Medio: Casa Cueva

Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)

Spontaneous Uses

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha

Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac

Text by Carlos Copertonee, Patxi Eguiluz, and Iker Gil

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Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez

Where the Sky Meets the Earth

Text and photographs of Structures of Landscape in Tippet Rise by James Florio

Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez

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Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside

Text by Michelangelo Sabatino with photographs by Will Quam

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The Birds, the Couple, and My Doppelgänger in Reverse

Text by Umi the Cat and project by Imu Chan Architecture

Mid-Continent Modern

Introduction by Jeffery S. Poss with text and photographs by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope

The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters

Texts by Miguel Losada and Pedro G. Losada, with photography by Pedro G. Losada

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Atlas des Régions Naturelles: Documenting and Categorizing the French Landscape

Text and photographs by Eric Tabuchi and Nelly Monnier

From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol

This is not the Huarte House

Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone

Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work

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Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe

Essay by Denise Scott Brown

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Only Girl Architect Lonely

Essay by Susan King

Mas observations 2021 cooperative housing 01

Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl

An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving

Essay by Iker Gil

Otl Aicher. Metro Bilbao. Architecture and Landscape

Exhibition curated by Gilermo Zuaznabar

The Great Lakes Architectural Expedition

Exhibition curated and designed by Galen Pardee

Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes

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Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future

Essay and photographs by David Schalliol

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Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang

Ann Lui interviews Jeanne Gang

Without Michael

Jonathan Solomon remembers Michael Sorkin

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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

Iker Gil interviews Lee Bey

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No Compromise: An Interview with Stanley Tigerman

Fresh Meat interviews Stanley Tigerman

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

Essay by Antonio Cobo

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

Essay by Andy Sturdevant

Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)

Architects remember Stanley Tigerman

Atlantic City

Iker Gil interviews Brian Rose

Almost Perfect

Iker Gil interviews Luis Mendo and Yuka Martin Mendo

Mas observations 2019 a career in five projects 01

A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater

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Memories of La Ricarda: The Gomis Bertrand and Bonet Families Reflect on a Historic House

The Gomis Bertrand family and Victoria Bonet, daughter of the architect Antonio Bonet Castellana, share their memories about the Casa Gomis

La Ricarda: A Work in Progress

Essay by Fernando Alvarez and Jordi Roig

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.

Will We, Chicago?

Iker Gil and William Baker interview Rudolph Bergermann and Knut Göppert

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The Super Roof Turns 50

Seeing Richard Nickel

Architects and colleagues remember Betty Blum

Betty Blum (1931–2022)

1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida

Essay by Denise Scott Brown

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Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk

Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske

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SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing

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Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat

Iker Gil interviews Germane Barnes

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Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History

Art at the James R. Thompson Center

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Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity

Iker Gil interviews Luis Mendo about his exhibition Mundo Mendo

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

Celebrating the work of JNL Graphic Design

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The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community

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

Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

Marta Bogéa, Mônica Junqueira de Camargo, and Pedro Kok in conversation with Alvaro Puntoni and João Sodré of GRUPOSP

Unnamed Spaces

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Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast

Essay and project by Kate Catterall

Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland

Project by Cédric Van Parys

The Japanese House Inside and Out

Essay by Naomi Pollock

There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)

Odile Compagnon remembers Paul Chemetov

Paul Chemetov (1928–2024)

A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight

A Conversation with Jack Bowman

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As the Whole World Watched: Protest, Action, and Violence in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Essay by Marin R. Sullivan

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern

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Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown

Julian Rose interviews Denise Scott Brown

A History of Preservation in Chicago

Essay by Alexander Eisenschmidt

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Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame

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Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s Louis Jefferson Long Library at Wells College

Essay by Iker Gil

Material Acts: Re-fusing

Interview with Laurens Bekemans, Ben Loescher, Meredith Miller, and Virginia San Fratello by the Material Acts team (Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu)

Capturing the Feeling of John Portman

Photo essay by Phil Donohue

Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford

David Schalliol interviews Arturo Soto

Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of Architecture

A look at five finalist projects selected for the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize

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

Chasing the Sun: The Coastal High-Rises of Benidorm

Photo essay by Iker Gil

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

Iker Gil interviews Giovanni Aloi

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

Iker Gil interviews Nicolas Grospierre

We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System

Essay by Rogelio Cadena

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The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future