4 / Living
Winter 2009
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, Participate.
Contributions by Eric Bricker, Maya Brittain, Andrew Clark, Iker Gil, James Lockhart, Paul Mougey, Karla Sierralta, Brian Strawn, and Jimenez Lai who is also the cover designer.
Living Facts
MAS Studio selects some fascinating facts and numbers about the way we live around the world
Survivor Maracaibo
Architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn share their experience living in Maracaibo, where informal inventions address social and economic conditions
Assembly Required
Andrew Clark introduces the packages, pieces and steps behind the styled and priced dioramas by Ikea
A Frame of Mind
Essay by writer and actor Paul Mougey
Selling Lifestyle
Iker Gil interviews Eric Bricker, director and producer of Visual Acoustics, a film that celebrates the life and career of Julius Shulman
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
Places, Not Spaces
Architect and painter Maya Brittain examines the transformation of the Veneto region in Italy during the last 30 years
Point Clouds
Graphic novel by architect Jimenez Lai
Case Study # 1 | Nakagin Capsule Tower
Project by Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates
Case Study # 2 | Walden 7
Project by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
Case Study #3 | The UFO Houses
Project based on a design by Matti Suuronen
Case Study #4 | The Whale
Project by Frits van Dongen, de Architekten Cie
Case Study #5 | Linked Hybrid Complex
Project by Steven Holl Architects