Issues
Domestic Vigilance as an Aesthetic Practice
Territories of Practice: Kimisagara Community Center, Rwanda
Notable Realities: Balancing from World to World
Narrative
Character Plotting
Looking to Introduce Something Inconvenient
The Open Letter and the Spreadsheet
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
Publics Works
Farmer’s Work
F*ck Your Tectonics
Jason = More
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
Networked Urbanism: Using Technology to Improve our Cities
Designing Venues
In Good We Trust
Places, Not Spaces
Build Simply: South of the Border
The Disappearing Architect: Four Moves Towards Invisibility
Futures: Expo Boston ‘76
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Architectural Narratives
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
Utopias in the Gaps
Surveillance in the News
The Street as Platform
Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers
Materiality of Deletion
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Circulating Borders: The BMW Guggenheim Lab
Discussing University Works
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos
Virginia Tech, School of Architecture + Design
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
Waseda University, Department of Architecture
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Built Environment
Events
Contemporary Spanish Architecture Practices: BEAR and HANGHAR
N H D M: Figurations and their Grounds
Conor O’Shea: Designing Urban Biodiversity
Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2021
Charles Colbert at 100
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Natalie de Blois at 100
Lacol: Cooperative Ecosystems
Architectures of Vigilantism
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2020
Luftwerk on Mies van der Rohe: Reinterpreting Space Through Light and Color
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Tobias Armborst: The Arsenal of Exclusion & Inclusion
Despina Stratigakos: Unconscious Bias in Architecture
Verity-Jane Keefe: Operating Between the Cracks
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
AGENCY: Undercurrents
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Couplings 2018
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017
Celebrating 20 years of the Guggenheim Bilbao
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Couplings 2016
Koldo Lus Arana: Architectural Narratives / Building stories
The Complex and Multifaceted Work of Leandro Valencia Locsin
A Lot You Got to Holler
Analog 2012: Sean Lally
Analog 2012: Jimenez Lai
Analog 2012
Analog 2011
Denise Scott Brown: In Other Eyes
Couplings 2023
Harry Seidler at 100
Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure
Kwong Von Glinow: There is Room
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
Building Enjoyable Living Environments Through Architecture, Art, and Design
John Szot: Roman Mixtapes
Watershed Architecture
Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little
Designing Life: The Modernist Architecture of Albert C. Ledner
Marta Maccaglia: A Lot With Little
Bruce Goff at the Art Institute of Chicago
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024
Observations
Practice, Product, Protocol
Urban Exploration as Creative Practice
Template for a Cooperative Network of Small Architecture Practices
From the Mississippi Watershed
This is not the Huarte House
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Only Girl Architect Lonely
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Present Futures: Mechanics of Ethnocratic Colonial Urbanism
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Without Michael
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
A Receding Coast
Spontaneous Uses
At Home with the Collective
Will We, Chicago?
After Demolition
Seeing Richard Nickel
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat
Seeking Zohn
House of the Architect
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond
The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community
Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside
The “Passion Tax” is History
Hanover and Over Again!
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
Mid-Continent Modern
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters
Dialogues
Dialogues: Carol Ross Barney
Dialogues: Dawn Hancock
Dialogues: Margaret McCurry
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
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MAS Context 2022 Fall Talks
“On Light, Time, and Materiality” by James Florio opens at pinkcomma gallery in Boston
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MAS Context 2022 Year in Review
MAS Context 2023 Spring Talks
MAS Context contributors included in the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale
The Graham Foundation supports Dark Matter University’s book
MAS Context donates Margaret McCurry’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context 2023 Fall Talks
MAS Context supports Outpost Office’s installation during Concéntrico 10
MAS Context 2024 Spring Talks
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