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Ghost Streets and Disembodied Workers in San Francisco

Essay by Chris Carlsson
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What is Your Favorite Public Space?

We asked you, our public, about your favorite public space
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Downtown’s Will to Form

Essay by architect and urban designer Alex Lehnerer
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Utopias in the Gaps

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro with projects by Holes of Matter
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Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?

Iker Gil interviews astronaut Claude Nicollier

Events

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Lacol: Cooperative Ecosystems

MAS Context Spring Talks 2021
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Walter Netsch at 100

MAS Context Spring Talks 2020
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Bilbao issue launch in Chicago

MAS Context Spring Talks 2017
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Couplings 2023

MAS Context Spring Talks 2023
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Albert C. Ledner at 100

MAS Context Spring Talks 2024
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Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2024

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
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Tracing Rick Valicenti

MAS Context Fall Talks 2024
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Germane Barnes: Turn the Mic Up

MAS Context Spring Talks 2026

Observations

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In Context: Léopold Lambert

Léopold Lambert recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
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Will We, Chicago?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing

Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
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A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney

Iker Gil interviews Carol Ross Barney
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Material Acts: Re-fusing

Interview with Laurens Bekemans, Ben Loescher, Meredith Miller, and Virginia San Fratello by the Material Acts team (Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu)
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The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

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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Luis Peña Ganchegui at 100

Text and projects from the Peña Ganchegui Archive
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Antifascist Architects: Kiyoshi Kuromiya

Text by Andrew Santa Lucia and Daniel Roche

Dialogues

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Dialogues: Margaret McCurry

Iker Gil and Julie Michiels interview architect Margaret McCurry
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Dialogues: Kristine Fallon

Iker Gil interviews architect Kristine Fallon

News

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MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial

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