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Filming Production

Iker Gil selects a series of short films that document the processes and outcomes generated by individuals and small businesses
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Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers

THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT: opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus
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A City in Film

Iker Gil interviews Koldo Serra
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Breaker Assembly

Film by Edward Burtynsky
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Under the Bridge

Film and essay by Nora Niasari
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Amusement

Film by Jon Cole
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A City at Work

Spirit of Space films Chicago at work
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Documenting Production

Eight films on Production from the Prelinger Archives
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Building Legacies

Diagrams by Jacob Chartoff
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Designing for Other Things to Happen

Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos
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Almost There

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels in conversation with Dan Rybicky
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Living

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Infra

Photo essay by Richard Mosse
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Beyond Built Architecture

Ethel Baraona Pohl and César Reyes Nájera from dpr-barcelona interview Jonathan Gales, founding member of Factory Fifteen
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Harlem Time Tracker

Text and photographs by Camilo José Vergara
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Two Million Homes for Mexico

Text and photographs by Livia Corona Benjamin
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The Street as Platform

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

Essay Paul Mougey
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CDF 2011 proposal

Architects Sharon Haar and Iker Gil propose the first Chicago Design Festival
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Everything is a Remix

Iker Gil interviews Kirby Ferguson, writer, director, editor and author of the Everything is a Remix series
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Selling Lifestyle

Iker Gil interviews Eric Bricker, director and producer of Visual Acoustics, a film that celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman
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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
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Mumbai Disconnected

Iker Gil interviews Camilla Nielsson, co-director with Frederik Jacobi of the documentary Mumbai Disconnected

Events

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Jai Alai Blues

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Future Landmarks: Strategies for Cultural and Architectural Preservation

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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The Area

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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Starship Chicago II

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
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Starship Chicago II Premiere

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
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The Area panel discussion

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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Nakagin Capsule Tower: Japanese Metabolist Landmark on the Edge of Destruction

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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Couplings 2018

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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Starship Chicago

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Analog 2017

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Killian Doherty: Yekepa

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Bilbao issue launch in Bilbao

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 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Unfinished Spaces

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Photography and Place

MAS Context Spring Talks 2016
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Josep Lluís Sert / A Nomadic Dream

MAS Context Spring Talks 2015
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Harry Seidler: Modernist

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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David Schalliol: The Area

MAS Context Fall Talks 2014
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Aberration: Live in Los Angeles

MAS Context Fall Talks 2011
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Helmut Jahn: In a Flash

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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Modernism as Character: Nathan Eddy

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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Battleship Berlin

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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Charles Colbert at 100

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
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Uppland panel discussion

MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
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Uppland

MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
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Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
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Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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Geometry of Light: Barcelona Pavilion

MAS Context Spring Talks 2019
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Geometry of Light fundraiser

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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1972/Accumulations

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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In Your City by the Lake

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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Out of Context

MAS Context Spring Talks 2011
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Analog 2011

MAS Context Fall Talks 2011

Observations

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Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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After Demolition

Photo essay by David Schalliol
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Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work
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Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
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Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik
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En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas

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

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha

News

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MAS Context 2023 Spring Talks
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MAS Context 2022 Year in Review
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MAS Context 2022 Fall Talks
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MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
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Lecture by James Florio on the making of Radical Logic
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MAS Context 2021 Fall Talks
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Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
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MAS Context 2018 Fall Talks
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MAS Context collaborates with Meneo
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Ordinary Cover

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