Issues
Domestic Vigilance as an Aesthetic Practice
Territories of Practice: Kimisagara Community Center, Rwanda
Notable Realities: Balancing from World to World
Character Plotting
Looking to Introduce Something Inconvenient
Build Simply: South of the Border
Publics Works
The Open Letter and the Spreadsheet
F*ck Your Tectonics
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
Narrative
Networked Urbanism: Using Technology to Improve our Cities
The Disappearing Architect: Four Moves Towards Invisibility
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Architectural Narratives
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
Events
Conor O’Shea: Designing Urban Biodiversity
N H D M: Figurations and their Grounds
Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure
Analog 2012: Jimenez Lai
Analog 2012: Sean Lally
Verity-Jane Keefe: Operating Between the Cracks
AGENCY: Undercurrents
Couplings 2016
Couplings 2018
Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois
Tobias Armborst: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Lacol: Cooperative Ecosystems
Couplings 2023
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2020
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2021
Despina Stratigakos: Unconscious Bias in Architecture
The Complex and Multifaceted Work of Leandro Valencia Locsin
A Lot You Got to Holler
Koldo Lus Arana: Architectural Narratives / Building stories
Luftwerk on Mies van der Rohe: Reinterpreting Space Through Light and Color
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Harry Seidler at 100
Analog 2012
Celebrating 20 years of the Guggenheim Bilbao
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes
Analog 2011
Architectures of Vigilantism
Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley
Natalie de Blois at 100
Charles Colbert at 100
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Harry Seidler: Modernist
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Observations
Practice, Product, Protocol
Template for a Cooperative Network of Small Architecture Practices
Present Futures: Mechanics of Ethnocratic Colonial Urbanism
A Receding Coast
After Demolition
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
Seeing Richard Nickel
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk
Spontaneous Uses
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
Will We, Chicago?
Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
At Home with the Collective
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Dialogues
News
MAS Context 2022 Fall Talks
Thirst, New Art Director of MAS Context
MAS Context 2023 Spring Talks
MAS Context in Archizines Exhibition at Storefront
MAS Context contributors included in the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale
Plural, New Art Director of MAS Context
Most read articles in 2020
Iker Gil presents at AIA Convention
MAS Context participates in the Architecture Book Fair
Communication reviewed by Archidose
“Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio” opens in Milwaukee
“On Light, Time, and Materiality” by James Florio opens at pinkcomma gallery in Boston
MAS Context 2022 Year in Review
MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Ordinary Cover
Contributors
Elina Karanastasi
Julio Brenes
Departamento del Distrito
Lebbeus Woods
John McMorrough
Joseph Altshuler
Ann Lui
Cyrus Peñarroyo
Roger Broome
Matt Clark
Dennis Milam
Zack Morrison
Michelle Benoit
Odile Compagnon
Florence Twu
SIAA
Jeremiah Chiu
De Peter Yi
Urban-Think Tank
Lisa Hirmer
Emanuel Admassu
Clive Wilkinson
Eduard Bru
Lorenz Bürgi
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Michal Ojrzanowski
Juan Herreros
Frank Fantauzzi
KOGAA
Office for Political Innovation
Sekou Cooke
Luís Santiago Baptista
Edward Emile Richardson
Geoff Goldberg
Coryn Kempster
Julia Jamrozik
Jack Henrie Fisher
Joanne Preston
Ya’el Santopinto
John Tolva
Julie Michiels
John Tolva
Jeanne Gang
N H D M
Interboro Partners
Aisling O’Carroll
Marcia Lausen
The Chicago Architectural Club
Rachna Kothari
Eduardo Mediero
Jones, Partners: Architecture
Marcel Wilson
Ali Fard
José Abásolo
Matīss Groskaufmanis
Galen Pardee
James Goggin
Dan Wheeler
Amarí Peliowski
Grant Gibson
Killian Doherty
Michael Meredith
Michael Hirschbichler
Kwong Von Glinow
Bonnie McDonald
Jimmy Carter
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
Christian Dimmer
Gabriel Cira
Ambient Information Systems
Ordinary Architecture
Amir Berbić
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Elizabeth Blasius
Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Sarah Hirschman
Cristina Gamboa
Paola Aguirre
Siiri Tännler
DAAM
PORT Urbanism
Evangelina Guerra Luján
The Coop Network Group of The Architecture Lobby
Zenovia Toloudi
John Szot
The Night Gallery
Daniel Talesnik
George Aye
Peter Exley
Francisco Díaz
Brian McGrath
Lucas Daniel
Sumayya Vally
Nancy P. Lin
Smout Allen
Alissa Anderson
Jennifer Bonner
Stewart Hicks
Chris Cornelius
Architecture Is Fun
Derek Hoeferlin
A.L. Hu
JAHN
Abigail Chang
Tom Harris
Kekeli Sumah
Parsons & Charlesworth
Thomas Kelley
Diana Balmori
Marc Fischer
Laura Forlano
David Southwood
Julia McMorrough
Urbanlab
Christopher Wolf
Andrea Nalesso
Ethel Baraona Pohl
Joshua G. Stein
Landon Bone Baker Architects
elii
Max Kuo
Emily Bills
JGMA
Alexander Eisenschmidt
Nathan Friedman
3D Design Studio
Katherine Solomonson
Mimi Zeiger
Germane Barnes
Sean Canty
Rula Zuhour
Ryan Palider
Kathryn Clarke Albright
Ania Jaworska
Nina Helstein
Conor O’Shea
Jayne Kelley
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
Monica Chadha
Olga Subirós
Ang Li
Stuart Cohen
fala
Noritaka Minami