Issues

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Preoccupied

Words by Naomi Evans and illustrations by Julio Brenes
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Occupy Studio: Blackness, Protest, and Dirty Pin-Ups

Essay by Sekou Cooke
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Collisions

Essay by Germane Barnes and Shawhin Roudbari
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Making Policy Public

Projects by the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit organization that uses design and art to improve civic engagement
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Global Events?

MAS Context diagrams global events
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Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium

Text by Iker Gil
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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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Setting Up New Relationships Between City and Nature

Iker Gil interviews Diana Balmori
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Survivor Maracaibo

Architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn share their experience living in Maracaibo, where informal inventions address social and economic conditions
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Case Study #2: Walden 7

Project by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
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Shanghai Streets

Photographer Rob Smith captures images of everyday life in the streets of Shanghai
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Second Sun

Project by WEATHERS
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Radiation and Telecom: Émission

Project by Jordan Geiger
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24COA: A Visual Score

Project developed as part of the Pen & Bow workshop at Georgia Tech’s College of Architecture led by Andrew Ruff. Visual score interpreted by ETHEL.
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Typo

Project by NEMESTUDIO
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We Print Because We Can

Essay by Patrick Sykes
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Makin’ It

Script by Julia and John McMorrough
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Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge

Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker
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Family

Project by Dana Elkhoury and Katlyn Reichelt
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Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos

Introduction by Diego Arraigada
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Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
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Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof

Project by Ted Brown
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Designing for Other Things to Happen

Essay by Rojkind Arquitectos
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The Street as Platform

Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
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Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications

Essay by José García Soriano and Carmen López Albert
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Utopias in the Gaps

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

Observations

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Re-enactment: Lilly Reich’s Work Occupies the Barcelona Pavilion

Essay by Laura Martínez de Guereñu
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José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
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Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983

Essay by Andy Sturdevant
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Spontaneous Uses

Text and drawings by SIAA with photography by Lauro Rocha
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A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
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Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side

Iker Gil interviews Lee Bey
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Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture

Essay by Juan Ignacio del Cueto Ruiz-Funes
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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
Mas observations 2024 the century and consumers buildings 01

The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast

Essay and project by Kate Catterall
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Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay

Essay by Sean Burkholder and Karen Lutsky
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Urban Exploration as Creative Practice

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Hanover and Over Again!

Essay by Jason Griffiths
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JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond

Celebrating the work of JNL Graphic Design
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Mundo Mendo Goes to Seoul: The World of Luis Mendo on Display

Iker Gil interviews Luis Mendo about his exhibition Mundo Mendo
Mas observations 2023 from resources to rubble eric allix rogers 01

From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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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
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Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Seeing Richard Nickel

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
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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.