Issues
Parsons, the New School of Design, School of Constructed Environments
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Built Environment
Hidden
Legacy
What Kind of Vigilante Are You?
Tokyo
Ordinary
Surveillance
Production
Visibility
Ownership
Aberration
Speed
Work
Why We Got Into Character
My Dad is Better Than Yours: Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Interviews with Three Shortlisted Contestants at the 9th Annual Architecture Awards
Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal
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
Isolated Building Studies
Layoff Moveon
Empty
Farmer’s Work
Architecture Without Idealism (Of A Sort)
Immanent Cartography
More Marina
More of More
EMBT Goes East
Designing Venues
In Good We Trust
A Frame of Mind
Places, Not Spaces
Material Energies
What Amuses You?
Through the Lens of Food
Build Simply: South of the Border
On the Quickening of History
Logistical Ecologies
Second Sun
The Party is Over
Tokyoites
A Sound Life
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
Harlem Time Tracker
Typo
An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition
We Print Because We Can
Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge
Utopias in the Gaps
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Surveillance in the News
The Street as Platform
Materiality of Deletion
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Drawings, Storytelling, and Subjectivity
Urban Matrix
New Deal Utopias
Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
Waseda University, Department of Architecture
The Ruins of Modernism
Events
Concentrico: Rethinking Our Built Environment Through Design
Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois
Building Enjoyable Living Environments Through Architecture, Art, and Design
Ecosistema Urbano: Designing Atmospheres for Social Interaction
Future Landmarks: Strategies for Cultural and Architectural Preservation
Medium Matters: Architectural Representation After Construction
Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
Territories of Territory Extraction
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
Nighttime as a Unique Territory
Block Party
Building Subjects: Ideas on Housing from Chinese Vernacular Architecture
Architectures of Vigilantism
Uppland
Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Tobias Armborst: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Terry Evans: Ancient Prairies and Fragmented Landscapes
Couplings 2018
Jason Reblando: New Deal Utopias
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Starship Chicago
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Couplings 2016
Christopher Marcinkoski: Speculative Urbanization and The City That Never Was
Unfinished Spaces
New Aging with Matthias Hollwich and Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko
Geoff Manaugh: A Burglar’s Guide to the City
Photography and Place
Sensing and Sensibility: Politics and Technology in the Contemporary City
Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
The Complex and Multifaceted Work of Leandro Valencia Locsin
A Lot You Got to Holler
Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley: A Year on the Road with Venue
The Area panel discussion
Couplings 2023
Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure
Starship Chicago II Premiere
Starship Chicago II
There is Room
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
A Lot With Little
A Lot With Little Opening Reception
Marta Maccaglia: A Lot With Little
A Lot With Little Chicago
Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been
Virginia Hanusik: Into the Quiet and the Light
Observations
Visual Explorations of Our Daily Environment
Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment
From the Mississippi Watershed
Story Poles
This is not the Huarte House
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Chilean House: Domestic Images
El Jinete Amarillo
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast
A Receding Coast
Almost Perfect
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds
Will We, Chicago?
Seeing Richard Nickel
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
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
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
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana
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
Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside
Hanover and Over Again!
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Urban Exploration as Creative Practice
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
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
Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland
The Japanese House Inside and Out
Mid-Continent Modern
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
Paul Chemetov (1928–2024)
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters
Dialogues
News
MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
MAS Context launches its new book Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio
Shawhin Roudbari, co-guest editor of Vigilantism, interviewed by the University of Colorado Boulder ENVD
Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context collaborates with Luis Mendo
MAS Context Receives a 2013 Graham Foundation Grant
MAS Context Boundary Featured on ArchDaily
MAS Context Collaborates with John Szot Studio
Elizabeth Blasius to Write Monthly Column for MAS Context
“On Light, Time, and Materiality” by James Florio opens at pinkcomma gallery in Boston
MAS Context supports Design With Company’s installation during Concéntrico 09
MAS Context receives a 2023 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant
The Graham Foundation supports Dark Matter University’s book
Molly Hanse and David Schalliol join MAS Context’s team
MAS Context donates Margaret McCurry’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context 2023 Fall Talks
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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
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Germane Barnes
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Shawhin Roudbari
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N H D M
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Ecosistema Urbano
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Rula Zuhour
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Lydia Kallipoliti
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VAPAA Collective
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Sekou Cooke
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Emily Bills
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Michelangelo Sabatino
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Gabrielle Esperdy
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Joanne Preston
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Grant Gibson
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Gary Riichirō Fox
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Siiri Tännler
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Stephen Killion
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Natasha Egan
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Architecture Is Fun
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Lee Bey
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Kwong Von Glinow
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Monica Chadha
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Peter Exley
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Andres L. Hernandez
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KOGAA
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Killian Doherty
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Brian Lee
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Kelly Bair
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Sarah Dunn
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Stephen Mueller
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Cheryl Towler Weese
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Marcia Lausen
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Michel Rojkind
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John Szot
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Thomas Hussey
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Katherine Darnstadt
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Ryan Palider
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Jeanne Gang
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John Tolva
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Julia Luke
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Karen Semone
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Strawn Sierralta
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Susan King
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Brinda Somaya
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Departamento del Distrito
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Yuka Martín Mendo
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Galo Canizares
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Sean Canty
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Demar Matthews
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Spirit of Space
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Liz Potokar
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Diana Balmori
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John Tolva
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
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Thomas Hillier
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Michael Chrisman
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Brendan Crain
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Network Architecture Lab
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Eleanor Chapman
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Conor O’Shea
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Lawrence Abrahamson
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Ali Fard
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Tom James
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Theo Simpson
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Jordan Geiger
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Frank Fantauzzi
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Léopold Lambert
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Jones, Partners: Architecture
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Camilo José Vergara
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Lyndon Valicenti
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Kyle Fletcher
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Rojkind Arquitectos
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Linda Just
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3D Design Studio
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Steven Montgomery
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Chris Bennett
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Rachna Kothari
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Ross Wolfe
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An Te Liu
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James Florio
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Katherine Solomonson
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Marin R. Sullivan
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Whitney Moon
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Tom Lee
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Donna Kacmar
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DAAM
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Akima Brackeen
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Rebecca Elliott
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Alice Liu
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Fabien Cappello
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Catherine Baker
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Alberto Ortega Trejo
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Patti Gilford
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Outpost Office
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Studio Becker Xu
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Antonio Torres