Issues
Domestic Hats
Figural Monuments: Six Ways to Commemorate Celebrity Mishaps
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
Case Study #2: Walden 7
Trace
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
Farmer’s Work
Immanent Cartography
More Marina
More Identities
EMBT Goes East
In Good We Trust
CDF 2011 proposal
Survivor Maracaibo
Places, Not Spaces
Point Clouds
Lanai Networks
Audience as Participants
Making Visible the Invisible
Despair
What is Your Favorite Public Space?
Under the Bridge
Talk to Your City
Race to Build
Logistical Ecologies
The Big Shift
Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition
Negotiating Legality
A Sound Life
Futures: Expo Boston ‘76
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge
Utopias in the Gaps
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Surveillance in the News
The Street as Platform
The Traveller
Politicians Under Surveillance
What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives
Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Designing for Other Things to Happen
Filter Island
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
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
Hochhaus in Zürich Leutschenbach
Events
Block Party
Germane Barnes: Intersect
Design with Company: Stone Wall Stand In
Outpost Office: Public Utilities
BairBalliet: Crop Top
Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
Domestic Explorations: Ardmore House + Columbus House 1
Concentrico: Rethinking Our Built Environment Through Design
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Geometry of Light: Farnsworth House
Nocturnal Landscapes: Urban Flows of Global Metropolises / Chicago
Geometry of Light: Barcelona Pavilion
Geometry of Light fundraiser
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Couplings 2018
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Chris Cornelius: Indigenously
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Mass Market Alternatives
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis
Couplings 2016
Luftwerk: solarise
Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Conor O’Shea: Designing Urban Biodiversity
MAS Context x Luftwerk x Marina City
Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It
Periphery
Design With Company: Spaces With Stories
Couplings 2023
Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
A Lot With Little
A Lot With Little Opening Reception
Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little
Albert C. Ledner at 100
A Lot With Little Chicago
Welcome to Tribuneville: An Imaginary Vision of an Old Chicago That Could Have Been
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024
James Florio at Tippet Rise
Lost & Found Tour
Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville
Welcome to Tribuneville Reception
Observations
From the Mississippi Watershed
John Moutoussamy at 100
Catalog for the Post-Human
This is not the Huarte House
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Without Michael
Nivola in New York | Figure in Field
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
Almost Perfect
Spontaneous Uses
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
Where the Sky Meets the Earth
The Super Roof Turns 50
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
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
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
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
Hanover and Over Again!
Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Urban Exploration as Creative Practice
Unnamed Spaces
Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
There’s A Place Called Kokomo (Opalescent Glass)
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight
As the Whole World Watched: Protest, Action, and Violence in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention
Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern
A History of Preservation in Chicago
Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the City of Steel Frame
Material Acts: Re-fusing
Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford
Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of Architecture
Architecture Across the Americas: A Look at the Five Finalists of the 2025 Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize
From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street
Chasing the Sun: The Coastal High-Rises of Benidorm
The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater
Art and Materiality: Unlocking Stories Embedded in the Materials of a Gilded Age Mansion
Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World
We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System
The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future
Emili Donato: Plans Are Made
Plywood City
Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth
Dialogues
Dialogues: Matthew Hoffman
Dialogues: Margaret McCurry
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
Dialogues: Kristine Fallon
Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson
News
MAS Context supports Germane Barnes’s installation during Concéntrico 08
MAS Context supports Outpost Office’s installation during Concéntrico 10
MAS Context supports BairBalliet’s installation during Concéntrico’s Festival 2025
MAS Context supports Design With Company’s installation during Concéntrico 09
Archizines Live Chicago feat. MAS Context
MAS Context collaborates with the Graham Foundation
MAS Context 2019 Fall Talks
Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context collaborates with Meneo
Marina City event featured in Architect magazine
Plural, New Art Director of MAS Context
Aberration Reviewed by Richard Prouty
MAS Context 2022 Fall Talks
“Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio” opens in Milwaukee
MAS Context 2022 Year in Review
MAS Context 2023 Spring Talks
MAS Context partners with the 2023 Chicago Architecture Biennial
MAS Context 2023 Year in Review
MAS Context 2024 Spring Talks
Public Services by Outpost Office to remain in Logroño
Klaus’s “Welcome to Tribuneville” wins first place, practitioner, in RIBAJ's annual drawing competition
MAS Context 2024 Fall Talks
MAS Context 2024 Year in Review
MAS Context Reading Room Expands
MAS Context 2025 Spring Talks
Contributors
TALL
Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Emanuel Admassu
Design With Company
Stewart Hicks
Barbara Stauffacher Solomon
Norell/Rodhe
Lydia Kallipoliti
Jennifer Bonner
Jason Griffiths
Matthew Hoffman
Anna & Eugeni Bach
Luftwerk
Verity-Jane Keefe
José Ronco
William Chyr
William Baker
Molly Meyer
Thurman Grant
Ang Li
Ryan Palider
Tricia Van Eck
Luis Urculo
Deborah Richmond
Jeremiah Chiu
Petra Bachmaier
Steven Hillyer
Yuka Martín Mendo
Jennifer Newsom
Jacob Chartoff
Matt Clark
George Legrady
Masahiro Harada
Thomas Hillier
Candy Chang
Jordan Geiger
Frank Fantauzzi
Roberto Soundy
Zenovia Toloudi
Chip Lord
Dan Rybicky
Florence Twu
John Stirratt
Christina Shivers
An Te Liu
John Zukowsky
Whitney Moon
Jordi Roig
Lake Verea
David Salkin
Tapio Snellman
Mauricio Rocha
Outpost Office
Cédric Van Parys
Yuge Zhou
Virginia San Fratello
Marlon Blackwell Architects
Nicolas Grospierre