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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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Printing the Identity of Los Angeles

Text by Chad Kouri with comments by Glenn Hinman, Julia Luke, James Black, Anthony Burrill and Cody Hudson with photography by Andreas E.G. Larsson
Mas issue character micro modifications stories of dingbat dwellers 01

Micro-Modifications: Stories of Dingbat Dwellers

Text by Joshua G. Stein with photographs by Paul Redmond
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What Kind of Vigilante Are You?

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Jason = More

Iker Gil interviews Jason Pickleman
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More Identities

Prada Transformer by OMA / Rem Koolhaas
Mas issue events in good we trust 01

In Good We Trust

John Hickenlooper and Bruce Mau present the Denver Biennial of the Americas
Mas issue living a frame of mind 01

A Frame of Mind

Essay Paul Mougey
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Lanai Networks

Landscape architect Marcel Wilson explains the history, challenges and opportunities that Lanai Island in Hawaii is facing
Mas issue speed vector portraits 01

Vector Portraits

Photographs by Andrew Bush
Mas issue bold logistical ecologies 01

Logistical Ecologies

Project by Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape with MODUS Collective
Mas issue trace embracing idiosyncratic weirdness 01

Embracing Idiosyncratic Weirdness

Iker Gil and Andrew Clark interview Moby
Mas issue repetition posconflicto laboratory 01

Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More

Essay by Roberto Soundy and project by URBANÍSTICA—Empresa Metropolitana de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de la Ciudad de Guatemala and Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a)
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Harlem Time Tracker

Text and photographs by Camilo José Vergara
Mas issue ordinary can architecture be ordinary 03

Can Architecture Be Ordinary?

Essay by Deborah Fausch

Events

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Aberration: Live in Los Angeles

MAS Context Fall Talks 2011
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MAS Context x Los Angeles x BMD

MAS Context Spring Talks 2015
Mas event 2016 dingbat 01

Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
Mas event 2021 pioneering black architects in los angeles and chicago 03

Pioneering Black Architects in Los Angeles and Chicago: A Reflection by Janna Ireland and Lee Bey

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
Mas events 2021 territories of territory extraction 01

Territories of Territory Extraction

Exhibition
Mas event 2021 a renewed experimentalism 01

A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
Mas event 2019 tracing traces 14

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019

MAS Context Fall Talks 2019
Mas event 2022 tracing traces 01

Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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Starship Chicago

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Bilbao issue launch in Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
Mas event 2016 geoff manaugh 01

Geoff Manaugh: A Burglar’s Guide to the City

MAS Context Spring Talks 2016
Mas event 2014 alison fisher 01

Alison Fisher: The Contextual Megastructure

MAS Context Fall Talks 2014
Mas event 2024 exploring architectures response to evolving societal changes 01

Exploring Architecture’s Response to Societal Changes

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
Mas events 2024 beyond closure anthony overton 01

Beyond Closure | Chicago

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
Mas event 2025 material acts 02

Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design

MAS Context Spring Talks 2025
Mas event 2025 beyond closure minneapolis 02

Beyond Closure | Minneapolis

MAS Context Spring Talks 2025

Observations

Mas observations 2021 nancy abshire lifetime award 01

2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire

Presentation by architect Nancy Abshire
Mas observations 2021 only girl architect only 01

Only Girl Architect Lonely

Essay by Susan King
Mas observations 2020 contributions of the basque exile to mexican architecture 01

Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
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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
Mas observations 2023 from resources to rubble eric allix rogers 01

From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside

Text by Michelangelo Sabatino with photographs by Will Quam
Mas context observations 2023 hanover and over again 01

Hanover and Over Again!

Essay by Jason Griffiths
Mas observations 2024 building culture denise scott brown 05

Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown

Julian Rose interviews Denise Scott Brown
Mas observations 2024 departures and arrivals 01

Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame

Essay by Alexander Eisenschmidt
Mas observations 2025 material acts 01

Material Acts: Re-fusing

Interview with Laurens Bekemans, Ben Loescher, Meredith Miller, and Virginia San Fratello by the Material Acts team (Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu)
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Capturing the Feeling of John Portman

Photo essay by Phil Donohue
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Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Kristine Fallon

Iker Gil interviews architect Kristine Fallon

News

Mas issue bilbao bilbaos strategic evolution 02

Bilbao issue featured in the Los Angeles Times
Mas event 2021 domestic exploration ardmore columbus 06

MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
Mas event 2021 radical logic 01

MAS Context receives a 2021 Graham Foundation grant
Mas news 2021 mas context and the 2021 chicago architecture biennial 01

MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Mas event 2021 domestic exploration ardmore columbus 04

MAS Context 2021 Spring Talks
Mas news 2019 mas context at the ad architecture and design museum

MAS Context at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum
Mas event 2019 geometry of light barcelona pavilion 01

Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
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MAS Context in Archizines Exhibition in Moscow
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Chatter Chat: Constructive Communication
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MAS Context 2014 Fall Talks
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MAS Context supports BairBalliet’s installation during Concéntrico’s Festival 2025

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Joshua G. Stein

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Brian Guido

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Joanna Grant

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Jennifer Bonner

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Bobby Joe Smith III

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Evan Mather

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Paulette Singley

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Andreas E.G. Larsson

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Eric Bricker

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Mitch Epstein

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Andrew Bush

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PORT Urbanism

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Jon Johnstone

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Jim Abele

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Glenn Hinman

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James Black

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Moby

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Jones, Partners: Architecture

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Camilo José Vergara

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TALL

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Jennifer Park

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Martine Syms

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Whitney Moon

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Tapio Snellman

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Jennifer Mahanay

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Sarah Blankenbaker

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Phil Donohue

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Ben Loeterman

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Arturo Soto

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Martin Schwartz

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