Issues

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Living

Issue 4
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Living Facts

MAS Context selects facts and numbers about the way we live around the world.
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Living in Cabrini

James Lockhart, a former resident of Cabrini Green, shares his memories with Iker Gil about growing up in the Chicago Public Housing.

Survivor Maracaibo

Architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn share their experience living in Maracaibo, where informal inventions address social and economic conditions
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A Frame of Mind

Essay Paul Mougey
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Case Study #3: The UFO Houses

Project based on a design by Matti Suuronen
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Case Study #2: Walden 7

Project by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
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Case Study #1: Nakagin Capsule Tower

Project by Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates
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Point Clouds

Graphic novel by architect Jimenez Lai
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Case Study #4: The Whale

Project by Frits van Dongen of de Architekten Cie.
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Places, Not Spaces

Architect and painter Maya Brittain examines the transformation of the Veneto region in Italy during the last thirty years
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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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Assembly Required

Andrew Clark introduces the packages, pieces and steps behind the styled and priced dioramas by Ikea
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Case Study #5: Linked Hybrid Complex

Project by Steven Holl Architects
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Being Small, Living in Tokyo, and Being Unique

Short essay by Masaki Endoh
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Is Romanticism Alive and Well and Living in America?

Review by Morris Lesser
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I am a Japanese Urban Explorer (haikyo) Living in Tokyo

Short essay by neji_maki_dori
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Architectural Narratives

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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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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On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method

Essay by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán
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One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952

Essay by Michelle Benoit
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An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition

Essay by Panos Dragonas
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Can Architecture Be Ordinary?

Essay by Deborah Fausch
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Manufactured Landscapes

Photo essay by photographer Edward Burtynsky
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Narrow Streets Los Angeles

Photographer David Yoon narrows existing streets of Los Angeles to see the effects on the city
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Shanghai Streets

Photographer Rob Smith captures images of everyday life in the streets of Shanghai
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Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City

Essay by Ibon Areso

Observations

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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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Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
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Where the Sky Meets the Earth

Text and photographs of Structures of Landscape in Tippet Rise by James Florio
Mas observations 2019 a career in five projects 01

A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
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La Ricarda: A Work in Progress

Essay by Fernando Alvarez and Jordi Roig
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Betty Blum (1931–2022)

Architects and colleagues remember Betty Blum
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Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown

Text by Denise Scott Brown
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1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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House of the Architect

Text by Iker Gil
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Almost Perfect

Iker Gil interviews Luis Mendo and Yuka Martin Mendo
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Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)

Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work
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Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
Mas observations 2021 cooperative housing 01

Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

Iker Gil interviews Lee Bey
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José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
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Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983

Essay by Andy Sturdevant
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En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas

Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)
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From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol