MAS Context is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization that addresses issues that affect the urban context through publications, events, and installations.
Chicago, IL
Joined April 2010
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The County Board ignored interest from three developers who wanted to adapt and reuse the nationally significant Will County Courthouse.
It could have been anything—now it will be an empty lot.
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📢!!! @SavingPlaces / AACHAF Conserving Black Modernism grant program now seeking submissions for the 2024 round of funding. Grants to $150K for public/non-profit modern-era sites designed by Black architects. More here and LMK if I can help w/ questions: savingplaces.org/black-moder…
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Sobre arquitectura sostenible y “culpable”. Aquí la prometida versión extendida de las entrevistas a Marta Peris y Noemí Blager, comisaria de la exposición ‘A lot with little’, ahora en @MASContext en Chicago.
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Last episode of New Angle: Voice Season 2 drops today: a double-header on the two female partners in The Architects Collaborative, Sally Harkness and Jean Fletcher, and their attempt to design a better cul-de-sac.
"Architecture, Family Style"
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Recognizing Denise Scott Brown’s work is necessary for understanding American #architecture in the second half of the twentieth century. From architectural historian @AshleyGardini: bit.ly/3ReWdP7 #architecture
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Google’s new renderings of planned Thompson Center makeover - Chicago Sun-Times chicago.suntimes.com/columni…
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We’re honoured to be one of 10 international architecture firms featured in the immersive film exhibition, A Lot With Little, curated by Noemi Blager. The exhibition is currently showing at MASCONTEXT in Chicago till January.
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Any reading on or around Paul Rudolph is always welcome.
New in Observations: “Past, Present, and Future of the Sarasota School of Architecture.”
In her monthly column, @blaservations discusses the influence of the Sarasota School of Architecture and the need that preservation has to embrace a full continuum.
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Get to know another Chicagoan of the Year. Amanda Williams is a conscientious artist — her public art project Redefining Redlining explores a deep history of racial injustice. Read about it below:
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Habrá una versión extendida de las entrevistas próximamente. De momento, si queréis saber sobre esta exposición (vista en @la_Biennale, ahora en @MASContext y programada en Berlín, Zurich o Londres), tiene web propia. alotwithlittle.com/
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Al hilo de la exposición alotwithlittle.com, la síntesis de dos conversaciones con su comisaria, Noemí Blager, y con la arquitecta Marta Peris, que diseñó con José Manuel Toral las viviendas de Cornellà, seleccionadas para la muestra.
Empecemos el día con... Arquitectura
‘Mucho con poco’, una exposición internacional en Chicago que pone como ejemplo 85 viviendas públicas de Cornellà. El proyecto de Peris+Toral se muestra en @MASContext.
🔊 Una propuesta de @InigoPicabea
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Empecemos el día con... Arquitectura
‘Mucho con poco’, una exposición internacional en Chicago que pone como ejemplo 85 viviendas públicas de Cornellà. El proyecto de Peris+Toral se muestra en @MASContext.
🔊 Una propuesta de @InigoPicabea
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Great Block Club Chicago story by Quinn Meyers on the Goose Island Overlook, a volunteer-created urban oasis along the river in the midst of industrial Elston across the a huge new, multi-story warehouse.
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It's probably too late for me: Younger generation, save yourselves!
ICYMI, for her monthly column, @blaservations discusses pay and labor equity in the history and cultural work sectors.
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This week Preservation Futures’s Jonathan Solomon shared images of the old Chicago Federal Building and the Mies-designed Federal Center co-existing during demolition and construction in the mid 1960s as part of Tracing Traces, organized by @MASContext at the Burnham archives
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Sigo pensando que estos espacios son de lo mas auténtico de nuestra arquitectura y no se pueden perder
Architect and photographer Ana Amado’s new work “Lavadoiro” is a multidisciplinary reflection on public washing places (called lavadoiros in Galician).
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Belleza.
Architect and photographer Ana Amado’s new work “Lavadoiro” is a multidisciplinary reflection on public washing places (called lavadoiros in Galician).
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Since, as @Furmadamadam pointed out, Helmut Jahn's 1985 James R. Thompson Center is facing partial demolition, let us remind ourselves also of the mesmerizing drawings Jahn produced for this building. #architecture #drawing archdaily.com/954146/the-tho…
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The @artinstitutechi's Chicago Architects Oral History Project is an amazing treasure, and I'm elated to see a new generation of archivists gathering stories from a new generation of architects.
Today, we are releasing Chicago-based architect Dan Wheeler’s oral history. Iker Gil interviewed Dan Wheeler to learn about his upbringing, his education, his ongoing remarkable career, key projects of @wheelerkearns, and teaching.
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#comics & #architecture: Now that Chris Ware is doing a Spanish Tour, it might be worth reminding that he was so gracious as to send us a drawing for the cover of our guest-edited issue @MASContext #20: Narrative. mascontext.com/issues/narrat…
Continuamos haciendo Historia del cómic, queridas.
Hoy a las 19h, @pintamonas,@comicarchitect y @raquelarte_ presentarán a Chris Ware en el @museoreinasofia.
¡Ay, que no queda nada!
Si queréis más información, podéis mirarlo aquí 👉 mtr.cool/limpfuzpyq
