Issues

Collective Nesting: Urban Housing Prototype

Project by Julia Sedlock
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Cluster Container Housing for the Disabled

Project by Stanley Tigerman, Tigerman McCurry Architects

Difference and Innovation in New Housing Typology

Project by Lingchen Liu and Chenglong Wang

University and Student Housing in the Center of Amsterdam

Project by Alejandro Konrad Stöhr
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Despair

Architect Edward Emile Richardson explains the impact that the public housing laws have had in the public housing system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
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Typo

Project by NEMESTUDIO
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Logistical Ecologies

Project by Hinterlands Urbanism and Landscape with MODUS Collective
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Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition

Project by Design With Company
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Birdhouses/Feeders

Urban interventions by street artist and designer XAM
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Chicago Production: Producer as Consumer

Iker Gil interviews Jake Nickell, founder and Chief Community Officer of Threadless
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Futures: Expo Boston ‘76

Text and chronology by Michael Kubo, Chris Grimley, and Mark Pasnik
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Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More

Essay by Roberto Soundy and project by URBANÍSTICA—Empresa Metropolitana de Vivienda y Desarrollo Urbano de la Ciudad de Guatemala and Asociación Centroamericana Taller de Arquitectura (a—c—t—a)
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An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition

Essay by Panos Dragonas
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Two Million Homes for Mexico

Text and photographs by Livia Corona Benjamin
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One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952

Essay by Michelle Benoit
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On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method

Essay by Clara Olóriz Sanjuán
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Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge

Text and photographs by Bianca Bosker
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Can Architecture Be Ordinary?

Essay by Deborah Fausch
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Bilbao’s Strategic Evolution: The Metamorphosis of the Industrial City

Essay by Ibon Areso
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Architecture Without Idealism (Of A Sort)

Essay and project by John Szot
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Cooperative Dream

Iker Gil interviews Jeanne Gang
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The Chicago Freight Tunnels

Essay by Bruce G. Moffat
Mas issue events designing venues 01

Designing Venues

Iker Gil interviews Doug Garofalo
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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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A Frame of Mind

Essay Paul Mougey
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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.
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Places, Not Spaces

Architect and painter Maya Brittain examines the transformation of the Veneto region in Italy during the last thirty years
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Case Study #1: Nakagin Capsule Tower

Project by Kisho Kurokawa architect & associates
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Case Study #2: Walden 7

Project by Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura
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Case Study #4: The Whale

Project by Frits van Dongen of de Architekten Cie.
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Breaking Bad: When Architecture is Turned into a Criminal

Essay by Tania Tovar Torres
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What Kind of Vigilante Are You?

Issue statement by Iker Gil, editor in chief of MAS Context
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New Deal Utopias

Text and photographs by Jason Reblando
Mas issue legacy architecture and the city 01

Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof

Project by Ted Brown

Observations

Mas observations 2021 cooperative housing 01

Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End

Essay by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983

Essay by Andy Sturdevant
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Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)

Architects remember Stanley Tigerman
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En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas

Text and interview by Departamento del Distrito (Francisco Quiñones & Nathan Friedman)
Mas observations 2019 a career in five projects 01

A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater

Iker Gil interviews Carlos Ferrater
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La Ricarda: A Work in Progress

Essay by Fernando Alvarez and Jordi Roig
Mas observations 2021 architectures offering to academe 01

Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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Story Poles

Text and photographs by David Schalliol
Mas observations 2021 an industrial legacy worth saving 01

An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving

Essay by Iker Gil
Mas observations 2020 contributions of the basque exile to mexican architecture 01

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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Geographies of the Lockdown in Barcelona: Mapping the City from Home

Text and maps by 300.000 km/s
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Chilean House: Domestic Images

Text by Pablo Brugnoli, Francisco Díaz, and Amarí Peliowski
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Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales

Text by Ethel Baraona Pohl
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On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya

Text and projects by Brinda Somaya
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José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles

Essay by Antonio Cobo
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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House of the Architect

Text by Iker Gil
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Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity

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
Mas observations 2023 the englewood nature trail 01

The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside

Text by Michelangelo Sabatino with photographs by Will Quam
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Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Unnamed Spaces

Marta Bogéa, Mônica Junqueira de Camargo, and Pedro Kok in conversation with Alvaro Puntoni and João Sodré of GRUPOSP
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Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later

Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida

Essay by Denise Scott Brown
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After Demolition

Photo essay by David Schalliol
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Will We, Chicago?

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.