Issues

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Production

Issue 16
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Documenting Production

Eight films on Production from the Prelinger Archives
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Filming Production

Iker Gil selects a series of short films that document the processes and outcomes generated by individuals and small businesses
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A production of Production

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Chicago Production: Raw Quality

Iker Gil and Andrew Clark talk to Arnold Horween III, president of Horween Leather Co., and John Culliton, VP sales
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Chicago Production: Creating a Lifestyle

Iker Gil interviews Michael Salvatore, owner and CEO of Heritage Bicycles General Store
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Chicago Production: Software to Produce

Rod Hunting interviews Jason Fried, founder and CEO of 37signals
Mas issue production chicago production producer as consumer 01

Chicago Production: Producer as Consumer

Iker Gil interviews Jake Nickell, founder and Chief Community Officer of Threadless
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Vertical Urban Factory

Essay by architectural critic, curator and educator Nina Rappaport
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Writing on Useful Projects

Chad Kouri interviews Jonn Herschend from THE THING Quarterly
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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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Manufactured Landscapes

Photo essay by photographer Edward Burtynsky
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Requiem

Essay by architect Deborah Richmond
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Your Favorite Objects

Here are your favorite objects, the ones you can’t live without, the ones you use to produce whatever you produce, the ones with the most sentimental value or the ones with the best stories.
Mas issue hidden archipelagos of detritus 01

Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
Mas issue debate room at the top 05

Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage

Essay by Roy R. Behrens
Mas issue legacy all history is contemporary history 07

All History is Contemporary History

Iker Gil interviews Adrian Shaughnessy
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Designing for Other Things to Happen

Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos
Mas issue surveillance materiality of deletion 01

Materiality of Deletion

Essay by Christo de Klerk
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Architectural Narratives

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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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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ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture

Introduction by Josep Lluís Mateo
Mas issue repetition building repetition through history 01

Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications

Essay by José García Soriano and Carmen López Albert
Mas issue repetition utopias in the gaps 01

Utopias in the Gaps

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro with projects by Holes of Matter
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Repeat with Me

Manifesto by Urtzi Grau and Cristina Goberna from Fake Industries Architectural Agonism
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On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method

Essay by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán
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We Print Because We Can

Essay by Patrick Sykes
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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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Tracing Wright

A conversation between Richard Wright, Zoë Ryan, and Iker Gil
Mas issue communication sound life 01

A Sound Life

Iker Gil interviews movie sound designer Oriol Tarragó
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Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City

Essay by Ibon Areso
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Publics Works

Essay by Maria Moreno-Carranco
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Farmer’s Work

Architect Kathryn Clarke Albright studies farmers markets and reveals the pleasures and demands of the farmer’s work
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More Marina

Essay by Andrew Dribin
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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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(As) American (As) Power

Iker Gil and Andrew Clark interview photographer Mitch Epstein, author of American Power
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Farming the Air

MAS Context collects facts about wind power
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Makin’ It

Script by Julia and John McMorrough

Observations

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Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
Mas observations 2022 the super roof at 50 michael zimmermann 01

The Super Roof Turns 50

Iker Gil and William Baker interview Rudolph Bergermann and Knut Göppert
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Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 1 1 2 01

1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
Mas observations 2023 som computer group 06

SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing

Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
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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
Mas observations 2024 urban archaeology lost buildings of st louis 01

Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2024 five bay landscapes saginaw bay 13

Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay

Essay by Sean Burkholder and Karen Lutsky
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Unnamed Spaces

Marta Bogéa, Mônica Junqueira de Camargo, and Pedro Kok in conversation with Alvaro Puntoni and João Sodré of GRUPOSP
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This is not the Huarte House

Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone
Mas observations 2020 contributions of the basque exile to mexican architecture 01

Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
Mas observations 2020 access for all 01

Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik
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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
Mas observations 2020 on the precious work of brinda somaya 01

On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya

Text and projects by Brinda Somaya
Mas observations 2019 la ricarda a work in progress 01

La Ricarda: A Work in Progress

Essay by Fernando Alvarez and Jordi Roig
Mas observations 2022 from the mississippi watershed 01

From the Mississippi Watershed

Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol