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Issues

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Despair

Architect Edward Emile Richardson explains the impact that the public housing laws have had in the public housing system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
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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.
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Two Million Homes for Mexico

Text and photographs by Livia Corona Benjamin
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One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952

Essay by Michelle Benoit

Events

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Housing for All: A Tour of the National Public Housing Museum

MAS Context Spring Talks 2025
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Couplings 2016

MAS Context Fall Talks 2016
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023

MAS Context Fall Talks 2023
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Exploring Architecture’s Response to Societal Changes

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
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Boliglaboratorium: A Danish Housing Lab

Exhibition
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Common Chicago

Exhibition

Observations

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The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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John Moutoussamy at 100

Essay by Iker Gil
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At Home with the Collective

Excerpts from a conversation between MAS Context and Alexander Eisenschmidt on a research project that he calls “At Home with the Collective” accompanied by a selection of work from a seminar and studio at UIC.
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Will We, Chicago?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney

Iker Gil interviews Carol Ross Barney
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As the Whole World Watched: Protest, Action, and Violence in Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Evans Woollen: Tracing the Forgotten History of the “Dean of Indiana Architects”

Essay by writer Phillip Cox and photographer Niall Cronin
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From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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What Happened to Gerri’s Palm Tavern?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Margaret McCurry

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels interview architect Margaret McCurry

News

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MAS Context 2025 Spring Talks
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MAS Context 2025 Year in Review

Contributors

Lisa Yun Lee

Contributor