Observations
MAS Context Observations features individual articles focused on the intersection between the built environment and other disciplines. The articles initiate or expand upon themes explored by MAS Context. This section is also the home to particular series, such as featuring exhibitions across the world affected by COVID-19, and In Context (a recontextualization of our archives by our readers).
G. E. Kidder Smith Builds
Iker Gil interviews Neil Donnelly, Angelo Maggi, Andrea Nalesso, Michelangelo Sabatino, and Siiri Tännler
Way Beyond Bigness
The Need for a Watershed Architecture
Essay by Derek Hoeferlin
On the Origins of High Water
Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger interview Virginia Hanusik
The Significant Life and Uncertain Future of the Helen Plum Library
Essay by Iker Gil and Julie Michiels
F: Reconstituting Tolstoy College
Essay by Liz Park with an introduction by Collective Question
From the Mississippi Watershed
Iker Gil interviews David Schalliol
Eibar, the Factory City
Essay by Luis Ulacia and photographs by José Ronco
Story Poles
Essay and photographs by David Schalliol
John Moutoussamy at 100
Essay by Iker Gil
This is not the Huarte House
Essay by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone
Catalog for the Post-Human
Project by Parsons & Charlesworth
A Field Guide to Sprawl Mountain
Modeling Waiting in the Landscape of Dismantled Transit
Essay and project by Joshua G. Stein
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation
Lifetime Achievement Award
Nancy A. Abshire
Cartographic Evidence of Invisible Cities
Essay by Olga Subirós
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Remembering architect Helmut Jahn and his work
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Essay by Denise Scott Brown
Only Girl Architect Lonely
Essay by Susan F. King
Nocturnal Landscapes in Photography
Greg Girard
David Schalliol interviews Greg Girard
Home and Away
The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment
Text and photographs by Jason Reblando
Goodbye to the Amber Glow
Essay by Ann Lui and Craig Reschke, with photographs by David Schalliol
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl
A Total Work of Art
The Salime Hydroelectric Power Plant
Text by Patxi Eguiluz and Carlos Copertone
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Text by Iker Gil
A Dialog of Difference:
Reflections on Bruce Goff’s Ford House
Texts by Petra Bachmaier, Leo Berk, Assaf Evron, Grant Gibson, Sidney K. Robinson, David Skidmore, and Mary Woolever. Introduction and photographs by Iker Gil.
SGN: On the Utility Poles of Ho Chi Minh City
Essay and photographs by Noritaka Minami
Otl Aicher. Metro Bilbao. Architecture and Landscape
Exhibition curated by Gilermo Zuaznabar
The Changing Transportation Landscape in Chicago
Text and selection by Rachel Cole
The Great Lakes Architectural Expedition
Exhibition curated and designed by Galen Pardee
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
Concentrico 2020
A look at the sixth edition of Concéntrico, Logroño’s International Festival of Architecture and Design
Present Futures
Mechanics of Ethnocratic Colonial Urbanism
Project by Rula Zuhour. Photographs by Samer Sharif.
Template for a Cooperative Network
of Small Architecture Practices
Text by Gabriel Cira, Peggy Deamer, Ashton Hamm, James Heard, Will Martin, Quilian Riano, Shawhin Roudbari, and Christian Rutherford
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Essay by David Schalliol
Converging at Architecture
An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Interview between architects Jeanne Gang and Ann Lui excerpted from the book Studio Gang: Architecture
Bauhaus Chicago: Design in the City
Text by Alison Fisher, curator of the exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Text by Daniel Talesnik, curator of the exhibition at the Center for Architecture
Practice, Product, Protocol
Exhibition on the work of Jacob Comerci, Matīss Groskaufmanis, and Eduardo Mediero
Cars: Accelerating the Modern World
Exhibition description and tour by Brendan Cormier, co-curator of the exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Geographies of the Lockdown in Barcelona
Mapping the City from Home
Text and maps by 300.000 km/s
Visualizing Disasters and an Ongoing Crisis
Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik
Shameless Copy
Texts by LIGA curators and Abilio Guerra on the exhibition at LIGA and the houses of Terra e Tuma
Chilean House: Domestic Images
Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski on the exhibition at the Centro Cultural La Moneda
Re-enactment:
Lilly Reich’s Work Occupies the Barcelona Pavilion
Essay by Laura Martínez de Guereñu, author of the artistic intervention at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
Without Michael
Jonathan Solomon remembers Michael Sorkin
El Jinete Amarillo
Texts by Tamara Crespo and Fidel Raso on the exhibition at Centro e-LEA Miguel Delibes
Food With A Face
Essay by Kathryn Clarke Albright
Nivola in New York | Figure in Field
On the exhibition on display at the Cooper Union
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl on the exhibition at Matadero Madrid
Poured Architecture: Sergio Prego on Miguel Fisac
On the exhibition on display at the Graham Foundation
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Text and projects by Brinda Somaya
Off the Grid
Belgian Graphic Design from the 1960s and 1970s
as Seen by Sara De Bondt
Text by Sara De Bondt
En-Medio: Casa Cueva
Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)
The MIES Project
Architectural historian Michelangelo Sabatino interviews photographer Arina Dähnick
International Research and Design Forum
Creating New Architecture Through Research
A two-day event organized by the SOM Foundation and IIT College of Architecture
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
Essay by Fernando Alvarez and Jordi Roig
Memories of La Ricarda:
The Gomis Bertrand and Bonet Families Reflect on a Historic House
Southern Exposure
The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
Iker Gil interviews Lee Bey
No Compromise
An Interview with Stanley Tigerman
Chinese Communal Graphic Standards
Text and project by Raven Xu
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the
Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Essay by Antonio Cobo
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Essay by Andy Sturdevant
A Career in Five Projects
Carlos Ferrater
Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
Hurricane Harvey, the Golden Triangle, and the Inequality of Relief
Essay by Elizabeth Blasius
Stanley Tigerman (1930-2019)
Architects remember Stanley Tigerman
Memory Card Sea Power
Iker Gil interviews David Southwood
Pittsburgh as a Project: Reimagining the Modern
Essay by Rami el Samahy, Chris Grimley, and Michael Kubo
Liminal Frontier Climate Adaptation and the American Coast
Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik
Atlantic City
Iker Gil interviews Brian Rose. Photographs by Brian Rose.
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)
Spontaneous Uses
Text and drawings by SIAA. Photographs by Lauro Rocha.
Connections: 48 Years
Lecture by Barbara Kasten
A Receding Coast
Essay and photographs by Virginia Hanusik
Almost Perfect
Iker Gil interviews Luis Mendo and Yuka Martin Mendo
Rebel Garages
Essay and policy proposals by Future Firm
Visual Explorations of Our Daily Environment
Visualizations by Scott Reinhard
In Context | Katya Tylevich
Katya Tylevich recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Ross Wolfe
Ross Wolfe recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Chris Berthelsen
Chris Berthelsen recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Léopold Lambert
Léopold Lambert recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Suzanne Strum
Suzanne Strum recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Tomas Skovgaard
Tomas Skovgaard recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Martine Syms
Martine Syms recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Diego Arraigada
Diego Arraigada recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Michael Kubo
Michael Kubo recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Brendan Crain
Brendan Crain recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Javier Arbona
Javier Arbona recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Mason White
Mason White recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | dpr-barcelona
dpr-barcelona recontextualizes the MAS Context archives
In Context | Mimi Zeiger
Mimi Zeiger recontextualizes the MAS Context archives