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Getting Cute

Text and project by Joanna Grant
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Introducing the Black Bird

A conversation between architect Grant Gibson and his late partner T.E. Cames
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Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City

Essay by Ibon Areso
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Yes We Can

Photographer Cesar Russ documents the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States
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Ordinary

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An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition

Essay by Panos Dragonas
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Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage

Essay by Roy R. Behrens
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What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives

Iker Gil interviews Simon Menner
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The Street as Platform

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

Events

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Domestic Explorations: Ardmore House + Columbus House 1

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
Mas event 2020 building subjects 01

Building Subjects: Ideas on Housing from Chinese Vernacular Architecture

MAS Context Fall Talks 2020
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
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Couplings 2018

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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Characters in the Theater of Everyday Life

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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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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Inhabiting the Water

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023

Observations

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A Dialog of Difference: Reflections on Bruce Goff’s Ford House

Texts by Petra Bachmaier, Leo Berk, Assaf Evron, Grant Gibson, Sidney K. Robinson, David Skidmore, and Mary Woolever
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Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work
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Re-enactment: Lilly Reich’s Work Occupies the Barcelona Pavilion

Essay by Laura Martínez de Guereñu
Mas observations 2021 cooperative housing 01

Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl
Mas observations 2020 access for all 01

Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik
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Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)

Architects remember Stanley Tigerman
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En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas

Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)
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Will We, Chicago?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
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Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk

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
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Betty Blum (1931–2022)

Architects and colleagues remember Betty Blum

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley

Iker Gil interviews architect Robert L. Wesley
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Dialogues: Margaret McCurry

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels interview architect Margaret McCurry

News

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Nocturnal Landscapes receives ICUB grant
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MAS Context Receives Graham Foundation Grant
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The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant for MAS Context
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MAS Context receives a 2016 Graham Foundation grant
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MAS Context receives a 2021 Graham Foundation grant
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MAS Context receives a 2015 Graham Foundation grant
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MAS Context receives a 2022 Graham Foundation grant
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MAS Context Receives a 2013 Graham Foundation Grant
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Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
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Chatter Chat: Constructive Communication
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MAS Context 2018 Fall Talks
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MAS Context 2021 Spring Talks
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MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
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The Graham Foundation supports David Schalliol’s book Social Landscapes
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MAS Context participates in the Architecture Book Fair
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MAS Context supports Design With Company’s installation during Concéntrico 09
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MAS Context Receives 501 (c) (3) Status

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