4 / Living
Winter 2009

LIVING is the fourth issue of MAS Context. This issue explores how LIVING is unique, complex, mutable, rough, trendy, and enjoyable. It ultimately defines who we are. LIVING diagrams trends, explores transforming cities, interviews film directors, reflects on cinema, showcases typologies, portraits social conditions, and visualizes the future. Discuss, Enjoy, Share, Participate.

Contributions by Eric Bricker, Maya Brittain, Andrew Clark, Iker Gil, James Lockhart, Paul Mougey, Karla Sierralta, Brian Strawn and Jimenez Lai who is also the cover designer.

1. Living Facts
   MAS Studio Selects Some Fascinating Facts and Numbers about the Way We Live Around the World
   
2. Survivor Maracaibo
   Architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn Share Their Experience Living in Maracaibo, Where Informal Inventions Address Social and Economical Conditions
   
3. Assembly Required
   Andrew Clark Introduces the Packages, Pieces and Steps behind the Styled and Priced Dioramas by Ikea
   
4. A Frame of Mind
   Essay by Writer and Actor Paul Mougey
   
5. Selling Lifestyle
   Iker Gil Interviews Eric Bricker, Director and Producer of Visual Acoustics, a Film That Celebrates the Life and Career of Julius Shulman
   
6. Living in Cabrini
   James Lockhart, a Former Resident of Cabrini Green, Shares His Memories With Iker Gil About Growing Up in the Chicago Public Housing.
   
7. Places, Not Spaces
   Architect and Painter Maya Brittain Examines the Transformation of the Veneto Region in Italy during the Last 30 Years
   
8. Point Clouds
   Graphic Novel by Architect Jimenez Lai
   
9. Case Study # 1 | Nakagin Capsule Tower
   Case Study #1 | Nakagin Capsule Tower
   
10. Case Study # 2 | Walden 7
    Case Study #2 | Walden 7
    
11. Case Study #3 | The UFO Houses
    Case Study #3 | The UFO Houses
    
12. Case Study #4 | The Whale
    Case Study #4 | The Whale
    
13. Case Study #5 | Linked Hybrid Complex
    Case Study #5 | Linked Hybrid Complex