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

Ljubica Slavković

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

Maria Moreno-Carranco

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