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MAS Context Fall Talks 2025

James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal

Book launch with James Florio and Anna Mort on September 4

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Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition

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Monthly Column

Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Shanghai Transforming

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Photo Essay

Shanghai Transforming

Photo essay by Juan de Dios Pérez

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18 of a Kind

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Exhibition

18 of a Kind

August 7–August 30

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Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab

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Exhibition

Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab

July 5–August 31

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Twenty-Five Years After Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

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Photo Essay

Twenty-Five Years After Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

Photo essay by Luis Asín

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BairBalliet: Crop Top

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Installation

BairBalliet: Crop Top

Installation by BairBalliet on view at Concéntrico between June 19–26, 2025.

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Plywood City

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Photo Essay

Plywood City

Text and photos by Iker Gil

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Emili Donato: Plans Are Made

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Exhibition

Emili Donato: Plans Are Made

Exhibition about Emili Donato co-curated by Jordi Roig and Miguel Jiménez

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Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson

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Oral History

Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson

Iker Gil interviews architect Sidney K. Robinson

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Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World

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Interview

Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration of Modernist Architecture Around the World

Iker Gil interviews Nicolas Grospierre

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From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

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Essay

From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

Essay by Alison Cuddy

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James Florio: Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal

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Essay

When the Future Was Here

Essay by Paola Aguirre and Michelle Ha Tucker with photographs by David Schalliol

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Essay

An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving

Essay by Iker Gil

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Essay

From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

Essay by Alison Cuddy

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Photo Essay

Eibar, the Factory City

Essay Luis Ulacia and photography by José Ronco with an introduction by Iker Gil

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Photo Essay

Manufactured Landscapes

Photo essay by photographer Edward Burtynsky

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Vertical Urban Factory

Essay by architectural critic, curator and educator Nina Rappaport

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NEWS

MAS Context 2025 Fall Talks

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MAS Context launches its new book Thirtysix Views of Inverted Portal

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MAS Context donates Kristine Fallon’s oral history to The Art Institute of Chicago

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Summer Sale at the MAS Context Reading Room

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MAS Context supports BairBalliet’s installation during Concéntrico’s Festival 2025

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Vigilantism

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Character

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Monthly Column

Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

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Monthly Column

Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of Architecture

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius