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The Supurban Project
Writing on Useful Projects
The Abando Passenger Interchange: A Project Traveling Over Eighty Years
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
IDOM Offices
Jesús Galíndez Slope and Paul Casals Square
Filter Island
Second Sun
Typo
KTC 234: Knowledge Trade Center
Re-Imagining Wellness in Humboldt Park
In Support of the Speculative Project: A Chicago Legacy
Filter Island
Figural Monuments: Six Ways to Commemorate Celebrity Mishaps
Journey with Maps: A Cultural Emergency Project in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Bangkok Piers
Pratunam Pier
Bridging Ban Krua
Collective Nesting: Urban Housing Prototype
Immanence
A House for a Farmer and His Dog Plus Requisite Outbuildings
Sculptural object: A House
A Lot with Little
Four Black Boxes and a Beacon: a Theater for Roanoke, Virginia
H(id)den
There Is No There There
The Ruins of Modernism
Sydney Concert Hall
The Gap
Vehicles of Memory
Museum Würth
Museum Würth
Thinly Town: Reversible Landscape of the Underpopulated Village
The Memorial of Jorge Oteiza Standing on the Kawasaki Harbor
Jorge Oteiza Museum 2009
Museum of Sculptor Jorge Oteiza in Golf
Modern Times
Hochhaus in Zürich Leutschenbach
Lasesarre Football Stadium
Reckoning with Vacancy
Of All of the Facts, and All of the Figures
The Big Shift
The Available City
The Limits of Google
The Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion
Nightworks
Forum Pavilion
The Big Shift
Farhana
Reconciling Infrastructural Artifacts
Vocalization Machines
Edison Redux
Montreal: Port/City
Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition
A Viewpoint: A Continuous Circuit
Bangkok Market: An Architecture of 3 Ecologies
Office Space Zürich See
Dysfunctional Landmarks
Tourist Topography in Paraty, Brazil
Revitalization of the Southwest of Merida, Yucatán: “Chain-Value” Buildings
Musical Acoustics Research & Coordination Institute (M.A.R.C.I.)
Flamenco Diffusion Center
Recirculation in Terramar
University and Student Housing in the Center of Amsterdam
Erik Gunnar Asplund’s Stockholm Public Library Expansion
“Conservatori del Liceu” Building in El Raval Neighborhood
New Topography for “Autòdrom St. Pere de Ribes”
A New Zorrotzaurre
The High Life
Making Architecture That Heals
Chicago Boogie-Woogie
Hotel Affect-ed
RUBIXtube
Writing Without Words
South Chicago Collaborative
The Truffle
Urban Matrix
Bangkok: The Three Ecologies
Family
Off-Grid Scenarios: Solutions for the Endless City
Beirut City
Concert Hall in Dubrovnik
Walking the Blue Line
The Traveller
Cut/Fill
Circle the Wagons: A Community Enclave
Cluster Container Housing for the Disabled
Difference and Innovation in New Housing Typology
Something Exceptional
Dead Ringers
New York is Not a Place
Computer Models II
Reurbanization of the Nervión River Docks
Case Study #1: Ecoboulevard Vallecas
Case Study #4: Powerplant
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Politicians Under Surveillance
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Automatic Revisited: Fabricating Sustainable Concrete Elements
10 Rorschach Images
Olympic Village 2016+
Triangulation/Ribs
Logistical Ecologies
Ring of Steel
Wrong Chairs
L.A. Recalculated
Visualizing Electromagnetic Fields
A Bastion of Design
Case Study #5: Linked Hybrid Complex
Case Study #2: Public Farm 1
Negotiating Legality
Exposed Urbanity
Zigzags in Mina del Morro
On the Question of #whOWNSpace
Dizzy
Architecture Without Idealism (Of A Sort)
Getting Cute
Alma de Rímel & The Glammatics
I on the Streets
Case Study #1: Nakagin Capsule Tower
Case Study #3: Photovoltaic Canopy
The Emperor’s Castle
Character and Composition, A Response
Case Study #2: Walden 7
Small / Large Inflatables
Case Study #3: The UFO Houses
Farmland World
The Classy Order
Case Study #4: The Whale
The Room
Utopias in the Gaps
Changes are Coming
24COA: A Visual Score
European Prize for Urban Public Space
Talk to Your City
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
Boom Bust Rubble Dust
White House 2.0
Making Policy Public
On the Quickening of History
We Print Because We Can
Water Shore Habitat
Building Legacies
Undergrounding
Drawing Soane’s
Character Plotting
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
Bold
A Strategic Vision for the Center of Dense Cities: Madrid as a Case Study
Depicting Patterns
Making Visible the Invisible
Through the Lens of Food
Lines of Reading
University Works
Obsessive Consumption
Bauhaus 2009
Bilbao
Vertical Urban Factory
Publics Works
Living in Cabrini
Loopty Loops (#ALWAYSWIP)
Everything is a Remix
Revealing the Secrets Behind the Designs
Chicago Production: Software to Produce
Communication
Discussing University Works
Visibility
Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium
El Peine del Viento
Repetition
Suburbia Gone Wild
What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives
Mumbai Disconnected
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge
An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications
Events
La Ricarda: An Architectural and Cultural Project
Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis
Conor O’Shea: Designing Urban Biodiversity
Couplings 2023
Inhabiting the Water
Couplings 2016
Nina Rappaport: Vertical Urban Factory
Couplings 2018
Killian Doherty: Yekepa
Now / Arriving 2023
Suburbia Gone Wild
Chris Cornelius: Indigenously
Carlos Bedoya: Invisible Geometries
Geometry of Light fundraiser
Studio Gang: Ownership
Analog 2012: Sam Vinz
Analog 2012: Marc Fisher
Analog 2012: Jimenez Lai
Analog 2012: Sean Lally
Analog 2012: Andrew Clark
Analog 2012: Dieter Roelstraete
Analog 2012: John Pobojewski
Analog 2012: David Rueter
Analog 2012: David Sieren and Sam Rosen
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Exploring the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago
Sancho-Madridejos: The Space Within the Fold
Michael Kubo: Collective–LOK
Michel Rojkind: Recent Work
Territories of Territory Extraction
Geometry of Light: Farnsworth House
N H D M: Figurations and their Grounds
Nathan Friedman: En-Medio
Geometry of Light: Barcelona Pavilion
Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
The Complex and Multifaceted Work of Leandro Valencia Locsin
Luftwerk on Mies van der Rohe: Reinterpreting Space Through Light and Color
Ecosistema Urbano: Designing Atmospheres for Social Interaction
Verity-Jane Keefe: Operating Between the Cracks
Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois
Thomas Kelley: NK
Domestic Explorations: Ardmore House + Columbus House 1
Marita Gomis: La Ricarda
Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure
Alison Fisher: The Contextual Megastructure
Design with Company: Stone Wall Stand In
Nocturnal Landscapes: Museo en la Calle
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley: A Year on the Road with Venue
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2020
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Natalie de Blois at 100
Jai Alai Blues
Building Subjects: Ideas on Housing from Chinese Vernacular Architecture
Walter Netsch at 100
Block Party
Ensamble Studio: Radical Logic
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Germane Barnes: Intersect
Celebrating 20 years of the Guggenheim Bilbao
Nighttime as a Unique Territory
Spaces With Stories
Charles Colbert at 100
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Pioneering Black Architects in Los Angeles and Chicago: A Reflection by Janna Ireland and Lee Bey
Analog 2011
Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley
Corkins Exchange 2012
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
1972/Accumulations
Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
Bilbao issue launch in Bilbao
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
In Your City by the Lake
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Observations
The MIES Project
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
Pittsburgh as a Project: Reimagining the Modern
Chinese Communal Graphic Standards
Catalog for the Post-Human
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
A Field Guide to Sprawl Mountain: Modeling Waiting in the Landscape of Dismantled Transit
Present Futures: Mechanics of Ethnocratic Colonial Urbanism
At Home with the Collective
A Total Work of Art: The Salime Hydroelectric Power Plant
Nocturnal Landscapes in Photography: Greg Girard
Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
Memory Card Sea Power
Memories of La Ricarda: The Gomis Bertrand and Bonet Families Reflect on a Historic House
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Atlantic City
The Super Roof Turns 50
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
A Receding Coast
After Demolition
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Will We, Chicago?
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds
Almost Perfect
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Dialogues
News
Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
McCormick Foundation Writes About Ownership Event
Repositioning the historic Schweikher House
Nocturnal Landscapes receives ICUB grant
MAS Context 2021 Spring Talks
MAS Context in Archizines
Tour of Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
MAS Context Receives a 2013 Graham Foundation Grant
MAS Context receives a 2022 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context receives a 2016 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context receives a 2021 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context receives a 2015 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context participates in the Architecture Book Fair
“On Light, Time, and Materiality” by James Florio opens at pinkcomma gallery in Boston
MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
Aberration Reviewed by Richard Prouty
MAS Context Boundary Featured on ArchDaily
Plural, New Art Director of MAS Context
MAS Context Collaborates with John Szot Studio
MAS Context collaborates with dpr-barcelona on Una Revolución de Formas book
Iker Gil presents at AIA Convention
Chatter Chat: Constructive Communication
MAS Context launches its new book Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio
MAS Context 2019 Fall Talks
MAS Context 2019 Spring Talks
“Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio” opens in Milwaukee
Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France acquires Nocturnal Landscapes
MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
Elizabeth Blasius to Write Monthly Column for MAS Context
Ordinary Cover
Shop
Urban Matrix
Bold
University Works
Bilbao
Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio
Communication
Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio–Deluxe Edition
Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio–Deluxe Edition + Limited Edition Artist-Made Print
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