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Preoccupied

Words by Naomi Evans and illustrations by Julio Brenes
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Occupy Studio: Blackness, Protest, and Dirty Pin-Ups

Essay by Sekou Cooke
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Making Policy Public

Projects by the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization that uses design and art to improve civic engagement
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Collisions

Essay by Germane Barnes and Shawhin Roudbari
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Global Events?

MAS Context diagrams global events
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Shanghai Streets

Photographer Rob Smith captures images of everyday life in the streets of Shanghai
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Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature

Iker Gil interviews Diana Balmori
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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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Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge

Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker
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We Print Because We Can

Essay by Patrick Sykes
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Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications

Essay by José García Soriano and Carmen López Albert

Events

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N H D M: Figurations and their Grounds

MAS Context Spring Talks 2022
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Characters in the Theater of Everyday Life

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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The Complex and Multifaceted Work of Leandro Valencia Locsin

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It

MAS Context Spring Talks 2014
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Germane Barnes: Intersect

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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Clive Wilkinson: The Theatre of Work

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
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Starship Chicago

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Harry Seidler: Modernist

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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Bilbao issue launch in Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Couplings 2018

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018

Observations

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Re-enactment: Lilly Reich’s Work Occupies the Barcelona Pavilion

Essay by Laura Martínez de Guereñu
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Spontaneous Uses

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha
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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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Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik
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Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

Iker Gil interviews Lee Bey
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Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
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Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
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Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983

Essay by Andy Sturdevant

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Margaret McCurry

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels interview architect Margaret McCurry
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Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley

Iker Gil interviews architect Robert L. Wesley

Contributors

Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP)

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Nick Axel

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Jeffrey T. Schnapp

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Knut Göppert

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