MAS Studio is an architecture and design studio based in Chicago with a focus on residential, commercial, civic, and cultural projects. Founded in 2006 by Iker Gil with the curation and design of the exhibition Synchronizing Geometry at the Mies van der Rohe-designed S.R. Crown Hall at IIT, in 2024, architects Julie Michiels and Jacob Chartoff joined the firm as partners. They bring over twenty years of experience each, leading interdisciplinary teams and working on residential, commercial, institutional, cultural, and educational projects of diverse scales and complexity.
The studio develops its work with an emphasis on built work, exhibitions, research, and publications. Some of the recent work of MAS Studio includes several unit renovations in Bertrand Goldberg’s iconic Marina City, the artistic intervention Geometry of Light (in collaboration with Luftwerk); co-curating Exhibit Columbus 2020–2021 and being the associate curator of Dimensions of Citizenship, the US Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale; designing the websites for Rojkind Arquitectos (with Normal) and Schweikher House (with Segura), and co-editing the books Radical Logic: On the Work of Ensamble Studio and Art in Chicago Neighborhoods as part of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) “Year of Public Art.”
