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Issues

Mas issue energy prelinger archives 01

Prelinger Archives

Films from the Prelinger Archives showing the type of energy and ideals that the United States had during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s
Mas issue surveillance what does big brother see while he is watching 01

What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives

Iker Gil interviews Simon Menner
Mas issue production documenting production cover

Documenting Production

Eight films on Production from the Prelinger Archives
Mas issue legacy building legacies cover

Building Legacies

Diagrams by Jacob Chartoff
Mas issue ordinary designing for other things to happen 08

Designing for Other Things to Happen

Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos
Mas issue surveillance networked urbanism 01

Networked Urbanism: Using Technology to Improve our Cities

Iker Gil interviews John Tolva
Mas issue surveillance 14 abbott h thayer vanishing ducks 01

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

Essay by Roy R. Behrens
Mas issue speed race to build 01

Race to Build

Diagrams by Iker Gil and André Corrêa
Mas issue repetition harlem time tracker 01

Harlem Time Tracker

Text and photographs by Camilo José Vergara
Mas issue repetition 10 rorschach images 01

10 Rorschach Images

Project by Ana Miljacki, Lee Moreau, and Sarah Hirschman
Mas issue repetition one architect three approaches 01

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

Essay by Michelle Benoit
Mas issue surveillance manifesto for cctv filmmakers 01

Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers

THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT: opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus

Events

Mas event 2021 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2021

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
Mas event 2017 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
Mas event 2018 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
Mas event 2022 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
Mas event 2019 tracing traces 14

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
Mas event 2020 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2020

MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
Mas event 2015 exploring the ryerson and burnham archives 01

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

MAS Context Spring Talks 2015
Mas event 2016 couplings 11

Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
Mas event 2021 a renewed experimentalism 01

A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
Mas event 2020 uppland film screening 01

Uppland

MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
Mas event 2018 can we not open our eyes to our own treasures 01

Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 envisioning new spatial organizations 01

Envisioning New Spatial Organizations

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
Mas event 2022 1972 accumulations 05

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

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022

Observations

Mas observations 2018 in context leopold lambert 01

In Context: Léopold Lambert

Léopold Lambert recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas issue 2018 in context suzanne strum 01

In Context: Suzanne Strum

Suzanne Strum recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context katya tylevich 01

In Context: Katya Tylevich

Katya Tylevich recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context ross wolfe 01

In Context: Ross Wolfe

Ross Wolfe recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context chris berthelsen 01

In Context: Chris Berthelsen

Chris Berthelsen recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context tomas skovgaard 01

In Context: Tomas Skovgaard

Tomas Skovgaard recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context mimi zeiger 01

In Context: Mimi Zeiger

Mimi Zeiger recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context dpr barcelona 01

In Context: dpr-barcelona

dpr-barcelona recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context mason white 01

In Context: Mason White

Mason White recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context javier arbona 01

In Context: Javier Arbona

Javier Arbona recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context brendan crain 01

In Context: Brendan Crain

Brendan Crain recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context michael kubo 01

In Context: Michael Kubo

Michael Kubo recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observations 2018 in context diego arraigada 01

In Context: Diego Arraigada

Diego Arraigada recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
Mas observation 2018 in context martine syms 01

In Context: Martine Syms

Martine Syms recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
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 seeing richard nickel 01

Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 1 1 2 01

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

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
Mas observations 2023 seeking zohn zara pfeifer 01

Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
Mas observations 2023 from resources to rubble eric allix rogers 01

From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2019 spontaneous uses cover

Spontaneous Uses

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha
Mas observations 2019 a receding coast 01

A Receding Coast

Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik
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
Mas observations 2020 contributions of the basque exile to mexican architecture 01

Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes

News

Mas event 2022 1972 accumulations 01

MAS Context 2022 Fall Talks
Mas news 2022 new mas context website span 04

New MAS Context website designed by Span
Mas news 2014 ordinary cover 05

Ordinary Cover
Mas issue conflict the emperors castle 12

Welcome to the new MAS Context website
Mas event 2021 domestic exploration ardmore columbus 06

MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
Mas event 2021 medium matters 01

MAS Context 2021 Fall Talks
Mas event 2020 walter netsch at 100 01

MAS Context 2020 Spring Talks
Mas event 2019 marita gomis la ricarda 04

MAS Context 2019 Fall Talks
Mas event 2018 alexandra lange 07

MAS Context 2018 Fall Talks
Mas news 2017 bold issue winner of 50 books 50 covers 01

Bold issue winner of 50 Books/50 Covers
Mas news 2017 mas context included in a print 01

MAS Context included in A PRINT

Contributors

Prelinger Archives

Contributor

Ken Tadashi Oshima

Contributor

Lake Verea

Contributor

Léopold Lambert

Contributor

Simon Menner

Contributor

Zack Ostrowski

Contributor

James Goggin

Contributor

Rick Valicenti

Contributor

Geoff Goldberg

Contributor

Bianca Bova

Contributor

Tim Samuelson

Contributor

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