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MAS Context 2025 Year in Review

Exploring the Archives: Chicago History Museum - March 7

GOFF film screening - March 10

The Totality and Paradox of Asbestos

Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges: An Interview With L. Kasimu Harris

Identity as Infrastructure: How Span’s Design Shapes Culture, Institutions, and Public Life - February 24

Reading MASP as a Work of Urban Design

Why Ella Briggs Captivates Us: A Female Challenger of Modernism

Robert L. Wesley (1937–2026)

A Dark Age for the Renaissance Center

MAS Context launches its new book Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House

Dakar’s Last Bubble Houses

Modern Architecture of Madrid

Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds

A Career in Five Projects: Jaume Bach

Strike! An Accidental Return to Wild

What Happened to Gerri’s Palm Tavern?

Common Chicago - September 19, 2025–January 31, 2026

Northerly Island at 100

Sacred Shift: Contested Heritage, Public Memory, and Sustainable Futures in Places of Ritual Reuse

A Visual Journey Through Pascal Greco’s Hong Kong

Evans Woollen: Tracing the Forgotten History of the “Dean of Indiana Architects”

From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center

Unidad Vecinal: A Flexible Architecture Continuously Activated

Ishinomaki Laboratory: A Furniture Company with a Deep Social Mission

Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition

Shanghai Transforming

MAS Context donates Kristine Fallon’s oral history to…

Twenty-Five Years After Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza

Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism

Now / Arriving 2025: Perkins&Will

Now / Arriving 2025: New Office

Now / Arriving 2025: Eric Rothfeder Architect

Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth

Plywood City

Emili Donato: Plans Are Made

Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson

We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System

The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future

Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration…

Art and Materiality: Unlocking Stories Embedded in the Materials of a…

Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the…

The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater

Chasing the Sun: The Coastal High-Rises of Benidorm

From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street

Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present

Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side

Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville

Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of…

Chicago Women in Architecture at 50: Seven Milestone Exhibitions that…

Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford

Capturing the Feeling of John Portman

Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the…

Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s…

Atlas des Régions Naturelles: Documenting and Categorizing the French…

The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster

A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight

A History of Preservation in Chicago

Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern

The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters

The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia

A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney

Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden

Mid-Continent Modern

Jason Pickleman (1965–2024)

JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and…

The Japanese House Inside and Out

The Birds, the Couple, and My Doppelgänger in Reverse

Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland

The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the…

Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay

Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History

Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving,…

Dialogues: Kristine Fallon

Dialogues: Dan Wheeler

Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley