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MAS Context Fall Talks 2025
Unbuilding/Rebuilding: Recentering the Architectural Archive
Presentation by Rebekah Coffman, curator of religion and community history at the Chicago History Museum, and Aries Gomez, Lilly collections fellow at the Chicago History Museum. The event will take place at 2716 West Division Street, Chicago, IL 60622.
MAS Context Fall Talks 2025
salazarsequeromedina: Small Adaptations
Lecture by Laura Salazar and Pablo Sequero, cofounders, with Juan Medina, of the architecture office salazarsequeromedina. The lecture will take place at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago (31 West Ohio Street, Chicago IL 60654).
The lecture is organized by MAS Context and the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago as part of the exhibition Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory.
MAS Context Fall Talks 2025
Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable
MAS Context and the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture, in collaboration with Yale School of Architecture, are organizing the book launch of Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable that will include presentations by Deborah Berke, Thomas Kelley, Margaret McCurry, George Papamattheakis, and John Ronan. The program will take place at at S. R. Crown Hall, home of IIT's College of Architecture (3360 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60616).
MAS Context Fall Talks 2025
Marin R. Sullivan: Isamu Noguchi’s Designs for a Better World
Lecture by Marin R. Sullivan, co-curator of the upcoming exhibition Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer” at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta. The lecture will take place at the Society of Architectural Historians (1365 North Astor Street, Chicago, IL 60610).
MAS Context Fall Talks 2025
Fernand Pouillon: France’s Most Wanted Architect
Film screening of Fernand Pouillon: France’s Most Wanted Architect with director Jean-Marie Montangerand in attendance. The event is organized in partnership with the Alliance Française, Villa Albertine, and as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The screening will take place at the Alliance Française de Chicago (810 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610. Please enter via 54 West Chicago Avenue).
MAS Context Fall Talks 2025
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2025
On Saturday, December 6, 2025, MAS Context will organize the ninth edition of our Tracing / Traces event offering a behind-the-scenes look at selected items from the Art Institute of Chicago’s Ryerson & Burnham Art and Architecture Archives.
We are a platform that commissions and shares relevant ideas, proposals, and experiences that connect diverse disciplines and place. We want the work to respond to our current context while having a rigor and depth that makes it relevant through time and changing conditions.
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From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
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Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism
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The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future
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Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present
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Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side
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