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Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
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Exhibition
Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory
MAS Context and the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, in collaboration with Concéntrico, present the exhibition Concéntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory. The exhibition will be on display from October 1, 2025, until January 12, 2026, at the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago (31 West Ohio Street, Chicago, IL 60654).
Exhibition
Common Chicago showcases a series of recently completed and newly commissioned projects for this exhibition by Chicago-based practices that envision a shared present and future. The exhibition will take place at the MAS Context Reading Room (1564 North Damen Avenue, Suite 204, Chicago, Illinois 60622).
The exhibition is presented within the context of SHIFT: Architecture in Times of Radical Change, the sixth edition of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Gallery visits are available September 19, 2025–January 31, 2026 by appointment. To book a visit, please use our calendar form to see available dates and times.
We are a platform that commissions and shares relevant ideas, proposals, and experiences that connect diverse disciplines and place. We want the work to respond to our current context while having a rigor and depth that makes it relevant through time and changing conditions.
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Bruce Goff’s Fabulous (and Bedazzled) Material Worlds
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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From Design to Destruction: Archiving the World Trade Center
Monthly column by Elizabeth Blasius
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Virgil Abloh, Edith Farnsworth, and Midcentury Modernism
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The National Public Housing Museum: A House Museum for the Future
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