Issues
Waseda University, Department of Architecture
Debate
Narrative
Boundary
Makin’ It
Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Archipelagos of Detritus: The Need for a Theory on Spatial Waste
Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture
Discussing University Works
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
New Deal Utopias
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
Harlem Time Tracker
10 Rorschach Images
Typo
An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition
We Print Because We Can
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
Utopias in the Gaps
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Surveillance in the News
The Street as Platform
What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives
Abbott H. Thayer’s Vanishing Ducks: Surveillance, Art, and Camouflage
Materiality of Deletion
Designing for Other Things to Happen
Filter Island
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
In Good We Trust
Survivor Maracaibo
Shanghai Streets
The Big Shift
Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition
Designing Venues
Chicago Production: Creating a Lifestyle
Tracing Wright
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City
Three Key Organizations: Bilbao Metrópoli 30, BILBAO Ría 2000, and the Bilbao Bizkaia Water Consortium
Farmer’s Work
More Marina
Jason = More
More of More
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
Events
Killian Doherty: Yekepa
Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis
Nathan Friedman: En-Medio
Couplings 2018
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Mass Market Alternatives
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Couplings 2016
New Aging with Matthias Hollwich and Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko
Josep Lluís Sert / A Nomadic Dream
Sensing and Sensibility: Politics and Technology in the Contemporary City
Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
The Aesthetic of Transience
Uppland
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
1972/Accumulations
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Naomi Pollock: The Japanese House Since 1945 | Wrightwood 659
Outpost Office: Public Utilities
Naomi Pollock: The Japanese House Since 1945 | Schweikher House
Bruce Goff at the Art Institute of Chicago
A Lot With Little
Couplings 2023
Floodplain Futures: Flood Insurance and the Economy of Climate Change
Periphery
Starship Chicago II Premiere
Starship Chicago II
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
The Area
The Area panel discussion
Alison Fisher: The Contextual Megastructure
Out of Context
Observations
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
En-Medio: Casa Cueva
Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the Precedent They Might Set
Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast
Unnamed Spaces
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial
Hanover and Over Again!
Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture
Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside
The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community
JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond
Mundo Mendo Goes to Seoul: The World of Luis Mendo on Display
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
SOM’s Computer Group: Narratives of Women in Early Architectural Computing
Baxter International and Corporate Campus Architecture: Chicagoland’s Technological Architecture Under Threat
Seeking Zohn
From Resources to Rubble: Evaluating Chicago’s Demolition Delay Ordinance in its Twentieth Year
House of the Architect
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Art at the James R. Thompson Center
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
At Home with the Collective
Will We, Chicago?
The Super Roof Turns 50
Seeing Richard Nickel
What, Exactly, is Exact Dutch Yellow?
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
Sainsbury Wing: Objection from Denise Scott Brown
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Connections: 48 Years
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Only Girl Architect Lonely
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Writing in Stone Veneer: New Orleans Public Schools’ Past and Future
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Chilean House: Domestic Images
Dialogues
News
MAS Context collaborates with Leo Burnett’s Department of Design
MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
MAS Context Donates Margaret McCurry’s Oral History to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context 2014 Fall Talks
Iker Gil presents at AIA Convention
MAS Context Boundary Featured on ArchDaily
MAS Context partners with the 2019 Chicago Architecture Biennial
MAS Context 2018 Fall Talks
MAS Context collaborates with Meneo
Debate issue recognized in the STA 100 competition
Tour of Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Chatter Chat: Constructive Communication
Shawhin Roudbari, co-guest editor of Vigilantism, interviewed by the University of Colorado Boulder ENVD
Contributors
Departamento del Distrito
Nathan Friedman
Jason Reblando
Alisa Wolfson
MarySue Barrett
David Hays
Wojtek Chodzko-Zajko
Ang Li
Michael Kubo
Will Straw
Zack Ostrowski
Gregory Delaney
VAPAA Collective
Francine Judd Stock
Natasha Egan
Sancho-Madridejos
Tim Samuelson
Quilian Riano
Janna Ireland
Kelly Bair
Mônica Junqueira de Camargo
Marta Bogéa
Ya Vaughn Harlston
David Salkin
Andrew Fenchel
Fernando Álvarez
Dawveed Scully
Rebecca Elliott
Alice Liu
Frank Butterfield
Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher
Paola Antonelli
Sam Holleran
An Te Liu
Katherine Solomonson
Marin R. Sullivan
Sergio Lopez-Pineiro
François Schuiten
Livia Corona Benjamin
Dennis Maher
The Central Intelligence Agency
Terry Satomi
George Legrady
Luis Chillida
Yasutaka Yoshimura
Conor O’Shea
Pedro Gadanho
Carl H. Nightingale
Yorgos Rimenidis
Elina Karanastasi
Nikos Skoutelis
Vassiliki-Maria Plavou
Frank Fantauzzi
Chat Travieso
Antonio Cobo
Yuka Martín Mendo
Ibon Areso
Juan Luis de las Rivas
Christopher Baker
Sarah Hirschman