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