Issues
Hochhaus in Zürich Leutschenbach
Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal
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
Layoff Moveon
Farmer’s Work
More Marina
Jason = More
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
EMBT Goes East
Designing Venues
In Good We Trust
Survivor Maracaibo
Places, Not Spaces
Narrow Streets Los Angeles
What is Your Favorite Public Space?
A Village by the SEZ: The Dafen Sample of China’s Urbanization
Under the Bridge
Logistical Ecologies
Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Tracing Wright
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
Typo
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
Utopias in the Gaps
Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
The Street as Platform
Materiality of Deletion
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Designing for Other Things to Happen
New Deal Utopias
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Discussing University Works
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos
Tourist Topography in Paraty, Brazil
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Built Environment
The Gap
Events
Jonathan Solomon: Short-Cuts
Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
Natalie de Blois at 100
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley
Marita Gomis: La Ricarda
La Ricarda: An Architectural and Cultural Project
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Nathan Friedman: En-Medio
Couplings 2018
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Couplings 2016
Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It
Out of Context
Couplings 2023
Harry Seidler at 100
There is Room
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024
Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville
BairBaillet: Crop Top
Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design
Thus We Advance, Harvesting Our Caravans
Aesthetic Codes of Interconnected Populations
Observations
Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
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)
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
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
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
At Home with the Collective
Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds
The Super Roof Turns 50
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat
Seeking Zohn
From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year
House of the Architect
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana
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
The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community
Lavadoiro
Hanover and Over Again!
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Urban Exploration as Creative Practice
Unnamed Spaces
Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
The Japanese House Inside and Out
There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
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
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
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
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
Dialogues
Dialogues: Dawn Hancock
Dialogues: Margaret McCurry
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
Dialogues: Kristine Fallon
Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson
News
Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France acquires Nocturnal Landscapes
MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
MAS Context participates in the Architecture Book Fair
MAS Context 2018 Fall Talks
MAS Context collaborates with dpr-barcelona on Una Revolución de Formas book
Doug Garofalo 1958-2011
“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
Molly Hanse and David Schalliol join MAS Context’s team
MAS Context donates Robert L. Wesley’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
Contributors
Karen Lutsky
Antonio Petrov
John P. Klingman
Joanne Preston
Monica Chadha
David Schalliol
Noritaka Minami
Michel Rojkind
David Hays
Alissa Anderson
Javier Arbona
Ed Marszewski
Paul Butt
Andrew Ruff
Whitney Moon
Donnie Madia
Erick Williams
Ben Loeterman
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