Issue 26-25

Legacy

Graphic design by Iker Gil and Bud Rodecker
Cover by Tom Harris

Welcome to our Legacy issue. This issue focuses on the buildings, places, books, ideas, and proposals that have left or will leave a strong mark on our urban environment. Which are the buildings and proposals that have influenced our understanding and approach to architecture? What can we learn from those that are no longer standing? How are these legacies carried forward, from the formats that are used to the validity that those legacies may have across generations? We will showcase those small and groundbreaking aspects that have left a lasting legacy in our lives. And we are not just looking at the past. We look forward, speculating about the future legacies that today’s world will generate.

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Building and Demolishing Legacies

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context

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Heritage is Ineffable

Essay by Geoff Goldberg

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Urban Matrix

Project by Stanley Tigerman

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Filter Island

Project by Urbanlab

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The Big Shift

Project by PORT Urbanism

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All History is Contemporary History

Iker Gil interviews Adrian Shaughnessy

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Building Legacies

Diagrams by Jacob Chartoff

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The Parkway: A Curated Legacy

Essay by Aisling O’Carroll

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The Future of Neglect

Essay by Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss

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New Deal Utopias

Text and photographs by Jason Reblando

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Wallpaper

Essay by Andrea Dietz

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The Lehman Invisible Monument

Essay by Fabrizio Gallanti

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The Short Life and Long History of The Pagoda

Essay by Carlos Copertone and Patxi Eguiluz

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Never-Loved Buildings Rarely Stand a Chance: Josep Lluís Sert in Cambridge

Essay by Alexandra Lange with photographs by Lee Dykxhoorn

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When the Future Was Here

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