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MAS Context 2025 Year in Review
MAS Context 2025 Year in Review
As we share a few highlights from the past year, we hope you’ll consider supporting our work through a charitable donation .
Exploring the Archives: Chicago History Museum - March 7
Exploring the Archives: Chicago History Museum - March 7
RSVP Rebekah Coffman, Jojo Galvan, and Elena Gonzales, public historians at the Chicago History Museum, will showcase items from the museum collection.…
GOFF film screening - March 10
GOFF film screening - March 10
No RSVP required Film screening of GOFF , a documentary that explores the life of architect Bruce Goff, one of the most innovative yet forgotten…
The Totality and Paradox of Asbestos
The Totality and Paradox of Asbestos
From locomotives to colorful vinyl tiles to cigarettes, asbestos was in thousands of goods—from the commercial to the industrial—for over a hundred years.…
Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges: An Interview With L. Kasimu Harris
Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges: An Interview With L. Kasimu Harris
In 2018, L. Kasimu Harris noticed that the Black bars and lounges that were once ubiquitous in his hometown of New Orleans, Louisiana, were rapidly…
Identity as Infrastructure: How Span’s Design Shapes Culture, Institutions, and Public Life - February 24
Identity as Infrastructure: How Span’s Design Shapes Culture, Institutions, and Public Life - February 24
RSVP Lecture by John Pobojewski, Bud Rodecker, and Nick Adam, partners at Span, a Chicago-based studio crossing the boundaries of communication design…
Reading MASP as a Work of Urban Design
Reading MASP as a Work of Urban Design
In this essay, architect and urbanist Judith K. De Jong positions the Museu de Arte São Paulo (MASP) as a deeply contextual work of urban design as part…
Why Ella Briggs Captivates Us: A Female Challenger of Modernism
Why Ella Briggs Captivates Us: A Female Challenger of Modernism
Essay by Dörte Kuhlmann excerpted from the book Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect (Princeton University Press)…
Robert L. Wesley (1937–2026)
Robert L. Wesley (1937–2026)
Remembering architect Robert L. Wesley, whose career we captured in an oral history we conducted in 2022.
A Dark Age for the Renaissance Center
A Dark Age for the Renaissance Center
Architect John Portman’s Renaissance Center is both a Detroit icon and a monument to the city’s response to urban renewal. As the building nears its…
MAS Context launches its new book Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House
MAS Context launches its new book Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House
MAS Context is thrilled to announce Sam and Ruth Van Sickle Ford House , a book published by MAS Context that begins a new series focused on individual…
Dakar’s Last Bubble Houses
Dakar’s Last Bubble Houses
Photojournalist and videographer Andrea Ferro documents the last “bubble houses” in Dakar, a city that was home to one of the largest concentrations of…
Modern Architecture of Madrid
Modern Architecture of Madrid
Modern Architecture of Madrid , an exhibition curated by Javier Revillo and featuring photography by Ana Amado, documents several architectural…
Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
The first major exhibit showcasing architect Bruce Goff’s work in thirty years, Bruce Goff: Material Worlds invites a new look at Goff’s work of…
A Career in Five Projects: Jaume Bach
A Career in Five Projects: Jaume Bach
Barcelona-based architect Jaume Bach has selected a series of projects that represent key breakthroughs in his career of almost six decades.
Strike! An Accidental Return to Wild
Strike! An Accidental Return to Wild
What Happened to Gerri’s Palm Tavern?
What Happened to Gerri’s Palm Tavern?
Gerri Oliver stewarded Chicago’s Palm Tavern, a storied Bronzeville venue rooted in the Jim Crow era, for nearly seventy years until a convergence of…
Common Chicago - September 19, 2025–January 31, 2026
Common Chicago - September 19, 2025–January 31, 2026
CommonChicago showcases a series of recently completed andnewly commissioned projects for this exhibition by Chicago-basedpractices that envision a shared…
Northerly Island at 100
Northerly Island at 100
Sacred Shift: Contested Heritage, Public Memory, and Sustainable Futures in Places of Ritual Reuse
Sacred Shift: Contested Heritage, Public Memory, and Sustainable Futures in Places of Ritual Reuse
A Visual Journey Through Pascal Greco’s Hong Kong
A Visual Journey Through Pascal Greco’s Hong Kong
Evans Woollen: Tracing the Forgotten History of the “Dean of Indiana Architects”
Evans Woollen: Tracing the Forgotten History of the “Dean of Indiana Architects”
From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
Unidad Vecinal: A Flexible Architecture Continuously Activated
Unidad Vecinal: A Flexible Architecture Continuously Activated
Ishinomaki Laboratory: A Furniture Company with a Deep Social Mission
Ishinomaki Laboratory: A Furniture Company with a Deep Social Mission
Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition
Learning from the Damen Silos Demolition
Shanghai Transforming
Shanghai Transforming
MAS Context donates Kristine Fallon’s oral history to…
MAS Context donates Kristine Fallon’s oral history to…
Twenty-Five Years After Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
Twenty-Five Years After Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza
Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism
Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism
Now / Arriving 2025: Perkins&Will
Now / Arriving 2025: Perkins&Will
Now / Arriving 2025: New Office
Now / Arriving 2025: New Office
Now / Arriving 2025: Eric Rothfeder Architect
Now / Arriving 2025: Eric Rothfeder Architect
Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth
Stonewall: Movement, Monument, Myth
Plywood City
Plywood City
Emili Donato: Plans Are Made
Emili Donato: Plans Are Made
Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson
Dialogues: Sidney K. Robinson
We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System
We the Blvd: A Call to Activation Along the Chicago Boulevard System
The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future
The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future
Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration…
Modern Forms: Nicolas Grospierre’s Ongoing Photographic Exploration…
Art and Materiality: Unlocking Stories Embedded in the Materials of a…
Art and Materiality: Unlocking Stories Embedded in the Materials of a…
Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the…
Last Stop: An Exploration of the Neighborhoods at the Ends of the…
The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater
The Show Goes on at the Rogers Theater
Chasing the Sun: The Coastal High-Rises of Benidorm
Chasing the Sun: The Coastal High-Rises of Benidorm
From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street
From Utility to Art: The History of 1544 North Sedgwick Street
Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present
Chicagoland on Wheels: Roller Skating from the 1880s to the Present
Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side
Florence Scala: The Joan of Arc of Chicago’s Near West Side
Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville
Klaus: Welcome to Tribuneville
Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of…
Permastone and Formstone: Modern Marvels or the Margarine of…
Chicago Women in Architecture at 50: Seven Milestone Exhibitions that…
Chicago Women in Architecture at 50: Seven Milestone Exhibitions that…
Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford
Exploring the Specificities of Place, from Panama to Oxford
Capturing the Feeling of John Portman
Capturing the Feeling of John Portman
Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the…
Departures and Arrivals: From the City of Malleable Concrete to the…
Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s…
Field Theory Under Threat: The Uncertain Future of Walter Netsch’s…
Atlas des Régions Naturelles: Documenting and Categorizing the French…
Atlas des Régions Naturelles: Documenting and Categorizing the French…
The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster
The 1900 Galveston Storm: United States’ First Modern Natural Disaster
A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight
A Cor-Ten Steel Landmark Hiding in Plain Sight
A History of Preservation in Chicago
A History of Preservation in Chicago
Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown
Building Culture: An Interview with Denise Scott Brown
Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern
Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern
The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters
The Culture of Shellfish Harvesters
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
The Return of Michigan Central Station: Interrogating Nostalgia
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
A Career in Five Projects: Carol Ross Barney
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
Restoring the Sears, Roebuck & Company’s Sunken Garden
Mid-Continent Modern
Mid-Continent Modern
Jason Pickleman (1965–2024)
Jason Pickleman (1965–2024)
JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and…
JNL Graphic Design: Celebrating a Studio that Sculpted the Visual and…
The Japanese House Inside and Out
The Japanese House Inside and Out
The Birds, the Couple, and My Doppelgänger in Reverse
The Birds, the Couple, and My Doppelgänger in Reverse
Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland
Sentinels: Iron Portals of Chicagoland
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the…
The Century and Consumers Buildings: Their Complicated Saga and the…
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
Five Bay Landscapes: Saginaw Bay
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Griot, Storytelling, and the Manipulation of History
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving,…
Gertrude Lempp Kerbis: A Career of Determination, Problem Solving,…
Dialogues: Kristine Fallon
Dialogues: Kristine Fallon
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
Dialogues: Dan Wheeler
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
Dialogues: Robert L. Wesley
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