Issues

Mas issue information the data city 07

The Data City

Essay by Richard Prouty, writer and author of the blog One-Way Street
Mas issue visibility at night 08

Atnight: Visions Through Data

Research and cartography by Pablo Martínez and Mar Santamaría
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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
Mas issue work layoff moveon 01

Layoff Moveon

Iker Gil interviews Jessica Lybeck
Mas issue surveillance networked urbanism 01

Networked Urbanism: Using Technology to Improve our Cities

Iker Gil interviews John Tolva
Mas issue living survivor maracaibo 01

Survivor Maracaibo

Architects Karla Sierralta and Brian Strawn share their experience living in Maracaibo, where informal inventions address social and economic conditions
Mas issue information lines of reading 05

Lines of Reading

Artwork by Jack Henrie Fisher, graphic designer and design research at Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands
Mas issue speed notes from the velodrome 01

Notes from the Velodrome

Essay by Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard and faculty at the GSD
Mas issue repetition we print because we can 01

We Print Because We Can

Essay by Patrick Sykes
Mas issue surveillance in the news 01

Surveillance in the News

A selection of quotes on surveillance from the news.
Mas issue surveillance the street as platform 01

The Street as Platform

Essay by Dan Hill, Executive Director of Futures at the UK’s Future Cities Catapult
Mas issue surveillance manifesto for cctv filmmakers 01

Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers

THE FILMMAKER AS SYMBIONT: opportunistic infections of the surveillance apparatus
Mas issue surveillance the traveller 01

The Traveller

Project by Jens Sundheim and Bernhard Reuss
Mas issue surveillance materiality of deletion 01

Materiality of Deletion

Essay by Christo de Klerk
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Drawings, Storytelling, and Subjectivity

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste

Essay by Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
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Surveillance

Issue 22

Observations

Mas observations 2021 a field guide to sprawl mountain 01

A Field Guide to Sprawl Mountain: Modeling Waiting in the Landscape of Dismantled Transit

Essay and project by Joshua G. Stein
Mas observations 2022 madrid diversa rainer torrado 02

Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds

Text by Ariadna Cantis and Javier Peña Ibañez
Mas observations 2022 will we chicago 01

Will We, Chicago?

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2021 nancy abshire lifetime award 01

2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire

Presentation by architect Nancy Abshire
Mas observations 2021 only girl architect only 01

Only Girl Architect Lonely

Essay by Susan King
Mas observations 2020 access for all 01

Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures

Text by Daniel Talesnik
Mas observations 2020 twelve cautionary urban tales 01

Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
Mas observations 2019 jose miguel de prada poole 01

José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
Mas observations 2019 groundscraper city 01

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

Essay by Andy Sturdevant
Mas observations 2019 visual explorations of our daily environment 01

Visual Explorations of Our Daily Environment

Visualizations by Scott Reinhard
Mas observations 2022 after demolition cover

After Demolition

Photo essay by David Schalliol
Mas observations 2022 betty blum 01

Betty Blum (1931–2022)

Architects and colleagues remember Betty Blum
Mas observations 2023 som computer group 06

SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing

Essay by Shelby Doyle and Nick Senske
Mas observations 2023 baxter international and corporate campus architecture baxter 01

Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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
Mas observations 2023 the englewood nature trail 01

The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 the passion tax is history 01

The “Passion Tax” is History

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
Mas observations 2023 sarasota school of architecture 01

Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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
Mas observations 2024 sentinels iron portals of chicagoland 03

Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland

Project by Cédric Van Parys