Issue 4
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, and participate.
MAS Context selects facts and numbers about the way we live around the world.
Architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn share their experience living in Maracaibo, where informal inventions address social and economic conditions
Andrew Clark introduces the packages, pieces and steps behind the styled and priced dioramas by Ikea
Essay Paul Mougey
Iker Gil interviews Eric Bricker, director and producer of Visual Acoustics, a film that celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman
James Lockhart, a former resident of Cabrini Green, shares his memories with Iker Gil about growing up in the Chicago Public Housing.
Architect and painter Maya Brittain examines the transformation of the Veneto region in Italy during the last thirty years
Graphic novel by architect Jimenez Lai
Case Study #1: Nakagin Capsule Tower
Project by Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates
Project by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Project based on a design by Matti Suuronen
Project by Frits van Dongen of de Architekten Cie.
Case Study #5: Linked Hybrid Complex
Project by Steven Holl Architects