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Surveillance in the News

A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.
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A Choice of Weapons: Image Notes from Minneapolis

Photo essay by Jennifer Newsom
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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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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.
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Race to Build

Diagrams by Iker Gil and André Corrêa
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Architectural Narratives

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Harlem Time Tracker

Text and photographs by Camilo José Vergara
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We Print Because We Can

Essay by Patrick Sykes
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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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The Street as Platform

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

THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT: opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus
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Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage

Essay by Roy R. Behrens

Events

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Starship Chicago

MAS Context Fall Talks 2017
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Vigilantism issue launch

MAS Context Fall Talks 2021
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Natalie de Blois at 100

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
Mas event 2022 1972 accumulations 01

1972/Accumulations

MAS Context Fall Talks 2022
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Harry Seidler: Modernist

MAS Context Fall Talks 2018
Mas event 2018 can we not open our eyes to our own treasures 01

Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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Couplings 2018

MAS Context Spring Talks 2018
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paper/architecture

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Periphery

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023

Observations

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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

Iker Gil interviews Lee Bey
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Present Futures: Mechanics of Ethnocratic Colonial Urbanism

Project by Rula Zuhour with photography by Samer Sharif
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2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire

Presentation by architect Nancy Abshire
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An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving

Essay by Iker Gil
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Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
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Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing

Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
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Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat

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

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Margaret McCurry

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels interview architect Margaret McCurry

News

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BILBAO newspaper interviews editor in chief Iker Gil

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Welcome to the new MAS Context website

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MAS Context in Archizines Exhibition at Storefront

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MAS Context 2021 Year in Review

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Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France acquires Nocturnal Landscapes

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Elizabeth Blasius to Write Monthly Column for MAS Context

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MAS Context contributors included in the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale

Contributors

Jennifer Newsom

Contributor

The Coop Network Group of The Architecture Lobby

Contributor

Tamara Crespo

Contributor

Tom James

Contributor

Phredy Wischusen

Contributor

Lee Bey

Contributor

Jayne Kelley

Contributor

Ersela Kripa

Contributor

Stephen Mueller

Contributor

Fred Scharmen

Contributor

Eric Rothfeder

Contributor

Nancy Abshire

Contributor

Craig Mod

Contributor

Emily Louise Allen

Contributor

Lynn Becker

Contributor

Alejandro Hernández Hernández

Contributor

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