About the publisher
Mas Context
Chicago · Architecture & design · Since 2009
Mas Context is a nonprofit organization based in Chicago. It was founded in 2009 to share ideas and support discussion about urban design and the built environment. Its reach is global. It shares its work through a topic-based journal, books, public events, exhibitions and installations, an online platform called Observations, and a series of long conversations with architects and artists called Dialogues. Iker Gil is its editor in chief. By July 2025 it had published 33 journal issues and 3 books. All of its content is archived online and open access.
For eight winters, one sculpture kept calling him back. James Florio returned to the same hill again and again, often in extreme wind and snow, carrying an 8×10 camera and knowing he might not be able to make a photograph at all. Photography Book Spotlight