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The Supurban Project
Writing on Useful Projects
The Abando Passenger Interchange: A Project Traveling Over Eighty Years
20th Century Architecture: Through the Lenses of Seven Projects
In Support of the Speculative Project: A Chicago Legacy
Sculptural object: A House
Immanence
Four Black Boxes and a Beacon: a Theater for Roanoke, Virginia
A Lot with Little
Vocalization Machines
Reconciling Infrastructural Artifacts
Farhana
Figural Monuments: Six Ways to Commemorate Celebrity Mishaps
Journey with Maps: A Cultural Emergency Project in Freetown, Sierra Leone
Filter Island
The Big Shift
Second Sun
The Limits of Google
The Arsenal of Inclusion and Exclusion
Nightworks
Re-Imagining Wellness in Humboldt Park
H(id)den
KTC 234: Knowledge Trade Center
There Is No There There
Forum Pavilion
The Big Shift
Filter Island
Of All of the Facts, and All of the Figures
Reckoning with Vacancy
A House for a Farmer and His Dog Plus Requisite Outbuildings
Hochhaus in Zürich Leutschenbach
Museum Würth
Museum Würth
The Memorial of Jorge Oteiza Standing on the Kawasaki Harbor
Jorge Oteiza Museum 2009
Edison Redux
Modern Times
Museum of Sculptor Jorge Oteiza in Golf
Montreal: Port/City
Thinly Town: Reversible Landscape of the Underpopulated Village
The Ruins of Modernism
Sydney Concert Hall
Collective Nesting: Urban Housing Prototype
The Gap
Bridging Ban Krua
Vehicles of Memory
Pratunam Pier
Bangkok Piers
Lasesarre Football Stadium
IDOM Offices
Jesús Galíndez Slope and Paul Casals Square
A New Zorrotzaurre
Dysfunctional Landmarks
The High Life
Late Entry to the Chicago Public Library Competition
Writing Without Words
Bangkok Market: An Architecture of 3 Ecologies
Office Space Zürich See
New Topography for “Autòdrom St. Pere de Ribes”
“Conservatori del Liceu” Building in El Raval Neighborhood
University and Student Housing in the Center of Amsterdam
Recirculation in Terramar
Flamenco Diffusion Center
Musical Acoustics Research & Coordination Institute (M.A.R.C.I.)
Revitalization of the Southwest of Merida, Yucatán: “Chain-Value” Buildings
Tourist Topography in Paraty, Brazil
A Viewpoint: A Continuous Circuit
Hotel Affect-ed
Erik Gunnar Asplund’s Stockholm Public Library Expansion
RUBIXtube
South Chicago Collaborative
Chicago Boogie-Woogie
Typo
Making Architecture That Heals
The Truffle
Something Exceptional
Case Study #4: Powerplant
Case Study #1: Ecoboulevard Vallecas
Architecture and the City: Berlin, Tempelhof
Urban Matrix
The Available City
Radiation and Telecom: Émission
Dead Ringers
Alma de Rímel & The Glammatics
Getting Cute
A Bastion of Design
Logistical Ecologies
The Emperor’s Castle
I on the Streets
Reurbanization of the Nervión River Docks
Farmland World
Case Study #3: Photovoltaic Canopy
Case Study #2: Public Farm 1
Zigzags in Mina del Morro
Case Study #5: Linked Hybrid Complex
Case Study #1: Nakagin Capsule Tower
Architecture Without Idealism (Of A Sort)
Walking the Blue Line
On the Question of #whOWNSpace
Negotiating Legality
Olympic Village 2016+
L.A. Recalculated
The Room
Exposed Urbanity
Computer Models II
Visualizing Electromagnetic Fields
Small / Large Inflatables
Triangulation/Ribs
Ring of Steel
The Traveller
Politicians Under Surveillance
Cut/Fill
Wrong Chairs
Circle the Wagons: A Community Enclave
Cluster Container Housing for the Disabled
Dizzy
Utopias in the Gaps
10 Rorschach Images
Automatic Revisited: Fabricating Sustainable Concrete Elements
Bangkok: The Three Ecologies
New York is Not a Place
Family
Beirut City
Off-Grid Scenarios: Solutions for the Endless City
Difference and Innovation in New Housing Typology
Concert Hall in Dubrovnik
Case Study #3: The UFO Houses
Case Study #2: Walden 7
Case Study #4: The Whale
Boom Bust Rubble Dust
Character and Composition, A Response
The Classy Order
On the Quickening of History
Changes are Coming
Water Shore Habitat
Talk to Your City
European Prize for Urban Public Space
White House 2.0
Making Policy Public
We Print Because We Can
Undergrounding
Building Legacies
Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Escuela de Arquitectura y Estudios Urbanos
Virginia Tech, School of Architecture + Design
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
Circulating Borders: The BMW Guggenheim Lab
A Strategic Vision for the Center of Dense Cities: Madrid as a Case Study
Mumbai Disconnected
Through the Lens of Food
Depicting Patterns
Making Visible the Invisible
Lines of Reading
El Peine del Viento
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Design, Architecture, and Built Environment
Waseda University, Department of Architecture
ETH Zürich, Faculty of Architecture
Living in Cabrini
A Frame of Mind
Bauhaus 2009
Publics Works
Want More?
Jason = More
More of More
More Identities
Building the Symbol of a Remarkable Transformation
In Good We Trust
EMBT Goes East
Designing Venues
Drawing Soane’s
Loopty Loops (#ALWAYSWIP)
Turning Point One: 1983 Flooding
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
Layoff Moveon
Futures: Expo Boston ‘76
Chicago Production: Software to Produce
Suburbia Gone Wild
Everything is a Remix
Where Do Good Ideas Come From?
Obsessive Consumption
A Sound Life
Revealing the Secrets Behind the Designs
Vertical Urban Factory
Bold
What Kind of Vigilante Are You?
Repetition
Visibility
Communication
University Works
Character Plotting
Makin’ It
Bilbao
Designing for Other Things to Happen
An Obituary for the Greek City of Repetition
Posconflicto Laboratory: More and More about Less and Less and Less and Less about More and More
Can Architecture Be Ordinary?
Tracing Wright
Materiality of Deletion
One Architect, Three Approaches: Bertrand Goldberg’s Early Experiments with Prefabrication, 1937-1952
What Does Big Brother See, While He is Watching? A Look at the Secret Stasi Archives
On the Search for Spatial Patterns: Repetition as the Crystallization of a Design Method
24COA: A Visual Score
Original Copies: Inside China’s Imitation Binge
The Street as Platform
Surveillance in the News
Claude, Are you Dreaming, or is this Really Happening?
Building Repetition Through History: Motivations And Implications
Events
La Ricarda: An Architectural and Cultural Project
Dingbat 2.0: The Iconic Los Angeles Apartment as Projection of a Metropolis
Conor O’Shea: Designing Urban Biodiversity
Now / Arriving 2023: DAAM
Now / Arriving 2023: Future Firm
Now / Arriving 2023: Kwong Von Glinow
Analog 2012: Dieter Roelstraete
Alison Fisher: The Contextual Megastructure
Our Public Space: Who Owns It, Who Shapes It, and Who Benefits From It
Suburbia Gone Wild
Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley: A Year on the Road with Venue
Corkins Exchange 2012
Analog 2012: Sam Vinz
Analog 2011
Analog 2012: Marc Fisher
Analog 2012: David Sieren and Sam Rosen
Analog 2012: Andrew Clark
Analog 2012: John Pobojewski
Analog 2012: David Rueter
Analog 2012: Sean Lally
Analog 2012: Jimenez Lai
Studio Gang: Ownership
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2020
Sancho-Madridejos: The Space Within the Fold
Nighttime as a Unique Territory
Pioneering Black Architects in Los Angeles and Chicago: A Reflection by Janna Ireland and Lee Bey
Domestic Explorations: Ardmore House + Columbus House 1
Block Party
Building Subjects: Ideas on Housing from Chinese Vernacular Architecture
Luftwerk on Mies van der Rohe: Reinterpreting Space Through Light and Color
Can we not open our eyes to our own treasures?
Nathan Friedman: En-Medio
Couplings 2018
Envisioning New Spatial Organizations
Chris Cornelius: Indigenously
Jai Alai Blues
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2017
Carlos Bedoya: Invisible Geometries
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2019
Joshua G. Stein and Paulette Singley
Marita Gomis: La Ricarda
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2022
Geometry of Light: Farnsworth House
Verity-Jane Keefe: Operating Between the Cracks
Geometry of Light: Barcelona Pavilion
Geometry of Light fundraiser
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2018
1972/Accumulations
In Your City by the Lake
Harry Seidler: Modernist
Walter Netsch at 100
Starship Chicago II Premiere
Engineering Ecosystems: The Mississippi River Watershed and its Infrastructure
Starship Chicago II
There is Room
Kwong Von Glinow: There is Room
Tracing / Traces: Architecture and the Archive 2023
Inhabiting the Water
Design with Company: Stone Wall Stand In
Design With Company: Spaces With Stories
Couplings 2023
Now / Arriving Spring 2023
A Renewed Experimentalism: Exploring Late Modernism
Ecosistema Urbano: Designing Atmospheres for Social Interaction
Architecture’s Social, Ecological, and Political Agency
Territories of Territory Extraction
Charles Colbert at 100
Ensamble Studio: Radical Logic
Living Modern: Surveying Influential Houses and their Inhabitants
Natalie de Blois at 100
Shaping Our Built Environment: Documenting, Analyzing, and Celebrating Women’s Contributions to the Built Environment in Spain and Illinois
N H D M: Figurations and their Grounds
Albert C. Ledner at 100
Marta Maccaglia: A Lot With Little
Bruce Goff at the Art Institute of Chicago
A Lot With Little Chicago
Now / Arriving Spring 2024
Outpost Office: Public Utilities
Watershed Architecture
Contemporary Spanish Architecture Practices: BEAR and HANGHAR
A Lot With Little
A Lot With Little Opening Reception
Now / Arriving Fall 2023
Mauricio Rocha: A Lot With Little
The Complex and Multifaceted Work of Leandro Valencia Locsin
Nocturnal Landscapes: Museo en la Calle
Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Michel Rojkind: Recent Work
Celebrating 20 years of the Guggenheim Bilbao
John Szot: Mass Market Alternatives
Killian Doherty: Yekepa
Bilbao issue launch in Chicago
Bilbao issue launch in Bilbao
Couplings 2016
Germane Barnes: Intersect
Nina Rappaport: Vertical Urban Factory
Thomas Kelley: NK
Exploring the Ryerson & Burnham Archives at the Art Institute of Chicago
Michael Kubo: Collective–LOK
Observations
The MIES Project
Pittsburgh as a Project: Reimagining the Modern
A Career in Five Projects: Carlos Ferrater
Chinese Communal Graphic Standards
On the Precious Work of Brinda Somaya
Catalog for the Post-Human
Drawing the Ring of Steel: A Counter-Monument for Belfast
Present Futures: Mechanics of Ethnocratic Colonial Urbanism
A Field Guide to Sprawl Mountain: Modeling Waiting in the Landscape of Dismantled Transit
At Home with the Collective
Only Girl Architect Lonely
2021 Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award: Nancy A. Abshire
Helmut Jahn (1940-2021)
Studio: Architecture’s Offering to Academe
Nocturnal Landscapes in Photography: Greg Girard
Home and Away: The Filipino Diaspora and the Built Environment
Cooperative Housing as a Means More Than an End
A Total Work of Art: The Salime Hydroelectric Power Plant
An Industrial Legacy Worth Saving
Contributions of the Basque Exile to Mexican Architecture
Converging at Architecture: An Interview with Jeanne Gang
Madrid Diversa: Five Perspectives on the City Through Maps, Photographs, and Sounds
From the Mississippi Watershed
A Receding Coast
Liminal Frontier: Climate Adaptation and the American Coast
Almost Perfect
Memories of La Ricarda: The Gomis Bertrand and Bonet Families Reflect on a Historic House
La Ricarda: A Work in Progress
Chilean House: Domestic Images
Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales
En-Medio: Súper Servicio Lomas
Southern Exposure: The Overlooked Architecture of Chicago’s South Side
José Miguel de Prada Poole and the Perishable Architecture of Soap Bubbles
Groundscraper City: Touring the Subterranean Structures of Minneapolis-St. Paul 1978–1983
Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019)
Memory Card Sea Power
Access for All: São Paulo’s Architectural Infrastructures
Atlantic City
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
Threatened, Altered, and Demolished: Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates’ Built Work at Risk
House of the Architect
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Beyond the Landmarks: A Personal Look at Columbus, Indiana
Art at the James R. Thompson Center
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving, and Proactivity
After Demolition
The Super Roof Turns 50
Betty Blum (1931–2022)
1 + 1 > 2: Letter to Biljana, Notes to Frida
Will We, Chicago?
Chicago School Closures: Ten Years Later
Changing Narratives and Confronting History Through Two Chicago Monuments: The Christopher Columbus Memorial and the Chicago Torture Justice Memorial
Urban Archaeology: Lost Buildings of St. Louis
Hanover and Over Again!
Urban Exploration as Creative Practice
Unnamed Spaces
Mundo Mendo Goes to Seoul: The World of Luis Mendo on Display
JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and Cultural Landscape of Chicago and Beyond
The Englewood Nature Trail: Urban Morphology and Community
Lavadoiro
Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture
Dialogues
Dialogues: Margaret McCurry
Dialogues: Architecture Is Fun
Dialogues: Matthew Hoffman
Dialogues: Carol Ross Barney
Dialogues: Joe Valerio
Dialogues: James Goggin
Dialogues: Dawn Hancock
Dialogues: Natasha Egan
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
News
Elizabeth Blasius to Write Monthly Column for MAS Context
MAS Context Boundary Featured on ArchDaily
MAS Context Collaborates with John Szot Studio
MAS Context in Archizines
Aberration Reviewed by Richard Prouty
Plural, New Art Director of MAS Context
McCormick Foundation Writes About Ownership Event
Ordinary Cover
Iker Gil presents at AIA Convention
MAS Context Receives a 2013 Graham Foundation Grant
MAS Context receives a 2022 Graham Foundation grant
“On Light, Time, and Materiality” by James Florio opens at pinkcomma gallery in Boston
MAS Context receives a 2023 The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation grant
“Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio” opens in Milwaukee
MAS Context supports Outpost Office’s installation during Concéntrico 10
MAS Context Donates Margaret McCurry’s Oral History to The Art Institute of Chicago
MAS Context 2023 Year in Review
MAS Context 2019 Fall Talks
MAS Context 2021 Year in Review
Centre régional de la photographie Hauts-de-France acquires Nocturnal Landscapes
MAS Context participates in the Architecture Book Fair
MAS Context receives a 2021 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context and the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennial
MAS Context launches its new book Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio
MAS Context 2021 Spring Talks
Nocturnal Landscapes receives ICUB grant
Luftwerk and Iker Gil receive a 2019 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context 2019 Spring Talks
Repositioning the historic Schweikher House
MAS Context receives a 2016 Graham Foundation grant
MAS Context collaborates with dpr-barcelona on Una Revolución de Formas book
MAS Context receives a 2015 Graham Foundation grant
Tour of Chatter: Architecture Talks Back
Chatter Chat: Constructive Communication
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