Issues

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Identity

Artwork and text by artist Nick Gentry
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Printing the Identity of Los Angeles

Text by Chad Kouri with comments by Glenn Hinman, Julia Luke, James Black, Anthony Burrill and Cody Hudson with photography by Andreas E.G. Larsson
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Make Bold Plans, or Something Along Those Lines

Notes on the BOLD identity by Renata Graw, Founder of Normal
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Discussing University Works

A conversation between Andrew Clark, Judith De Jong, Alexander Eisenschimdt, Iker Gil, Jimenez Lai, Paul Preissner, Juan Manuel Rois, and Karla Sierralta
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Seeing Triborough

Visual essay by Sam Holleran
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Surveillance by Designers

We asked a few great Chicago designers to give us their view of surveillance
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Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers

THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT: opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus
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The Street as Platform

Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
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Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications

Essay by José García Soriano and Carmen López Albert
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Utopias in the Gaps

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro with projects by Holes of Matter
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An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition

Essay by Panos Dragonas
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Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More

Essay by Roberto Soundy and project by URBANÍSTICA—Empresa Metropolitana de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de la Ciudad de Guatemala and Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a)
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Where Do Good Ideas Come From?

Essay by Benjamin Brichta, the Network Architecture Lab, an experimental unit at the Columbia University GSAPP directed by Kazys Varnelis
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Suburbia Gone Wild

Text and images by photographer Martin Adolfsson
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Surviving Respectability

Germane Barnes and Shawhin Roudbari interview Krystina François
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Jason = More

Iker Gil interviews Jason Pickleman
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More Identities

Prada Transformer by OMA / Rem Koolhaas
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A Disappearing Bilbao

Essay by Patxi Eguíluz
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EMBT Goes East

Mateu Baylina and Xavi Ayala interview Benedetta Tagliabue
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Places, Not Spaces

Architect and painter Maya Brittain examines the transformation of the Veneto region in Italy during the last thirty years
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Repetition

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My Dad is Better Than Yours: Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Interviews with Three Shortlisted Contestants at the 9th Annual Architecture Awards

Text by Gem Barton
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Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal

Essay by Tania Tovar Torres
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What Kind of Vigilante Are You?

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

Observations

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Seeking Zohn

Text by curators Mimi Zeiger and Tony Macarena (Lorena Canales and Alejandro Olávarri) as well as Alejandro Hernández Gálvez
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Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Betty Blum (1931–2022)

Architects and colleagues remember Betty Blum
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Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History

Iker Gil interviews Germane Barnes
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JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond

Celebrating the work of JNL Graphic Design
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Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland

Project by Cédric Van Parys
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The Birds, the Couple, and My Doppelgänger in Reverse

Text by Umi the Cat and project by Imu Chan Architecture
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The Super Roof Turns 50

Iker Gil and William Baker interview Rudolph Bergermann and Knut Göppert
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Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
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Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment

Text and photographs by Jason Reblando
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Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving

Essay by Iker Gil
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Chilean House: Domestic Images

Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski
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Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast

Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik
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Spontaneous Uses

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha
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A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater