MAS Studio is an architecture and design studio based in Chicago with a focus on residential, commercial, civic, and cultural projects. The experience and skill of each partner allows the studio to deliver unique design solutions that are thoughtful, innovative, and carefully crafted.

MAS Context is a Chicago-based, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2009 that collaborates with local, national, and international contributors to create and share work about the built environment. We partner with artists, scholars, practitioners, and organizations to develop rigorous work and facilitate dialogue with people who care about the past, present, and future of where they live. Among the many outcomes of our practice is a generative culture of design and ideas in Chicago, reflecting a diverse array of voices and perspectives.

Established in 1979 by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill, the SOM Foundation is an independentnonprofit organization that has provided more than $3.3 million in fellowships to 350 designstudents and faculty around the world, including many who have gone on to become some ofthe most innovative and celebrated architects, engineers, and designers today. The SOM Foundation currently offers annual awards across the United States, Europe, and China.

Iker Gil and Michel Rojkind were appointed as the 2024 Morgenstern Visiting Chairs at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). As part of their appointment, Michel and Iker taught an advanced studio during the Spring 2024 semester titled “Beyond Sustainability: A New Era of Reciprocity.”Established by a gift from the Victor A. Morgenstern Family Foundation, the Morgenstern Visiting Chair in Architecture is an architectural practitioner of the highest caliber, who has a substantial body of work that is widely and recently recognized in the field.Previous Morgenstern Visiting Chairs include Rozana Montiel, Gustavo Utrabo, Vincent James, Sou Fujimoto, Johanna Hurme, Sasa Radulovic, Juan Herreros, Natalie de Vries, Glenn Murcutt, and David Chipperfield among others.

Iker Gil and Mimi Zeiger were the 2020–2021 Exhibit Columbus Curators.Exhibit Columbus is a program of Landmark Columbus Foundation and embodies its mission by being a locally responsive and globally engaged proponent for the design heritage of Columbus, Indiana. Through symposia, exhibitions, public events and guided tours, online and print publications, and educational activities, Exhibit Columbus interprets Columbus’ design heritage and engages a diverse public of community members, students, professionals, and enthusiasts.

I taught 3rd Year undergraduate architecture studios for six years.During the summer of 2016, I co-taught with Petra Bachmaier of Luftwerk the bLUMEN summer course that culminated with the installation of a pavilion in Homan Square.During the spring and summer of 2018, I co-taught with Ann Lui a course that culminated with the exhibition "Design Artist Citizen Site: Exploring Belonging" in Venice as a partner program of the 2018 US Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale.

The U.S. Department of State selected The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the University of Chicago to serve as co-commissioners of the United States Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The pavilion was curated by Niall Atkinson, Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Chicago; Ann Lui, Assistant Professor at SAIC and co-founder of the architecture office Future Firm; and Mimi Zeiger, an independent critic, editor, curator, and educator based in Los Angeles.The exhibition was later presented at Wrightwood 659, a non-commercial exhibition space in Chicago designed by architect Tadao Ando. The exhibition ran from February 28, 2019 until April 27, 2019.

Chicago Expander CRITICAL STUDIES, DESIGN RESEARCH AND SPECULATIONDirected by Iker GIl and Antonio PetrovIn response to the ecological challenges of the 21st century, the Chicago Expander is a new research initiative at Archeworks that brings together thinkers, designers and practitioners from a variety of disciplines to construct new discourses on regionalism and architecture, and develop new models addressing large and small-scale design. Within this interdisciplinary framework we aim to reconceptualize Chicago’s position in the region and the world. In order to meet these challenges the workshops aim to spatialize the formation of Chicago as a larger geographic entity and recast the city and its region as a spatial model to expand the understanding of the interrelationships of the boundaries between the city, its hinterland and Lake Michigan in relation to Chicago’s role in a global ecology. Within this broader ambition the Chicago Expander focuses on the idea of dismantling the regions prevailing geographic, spatial and cultural meanings to activate critical questions that challenge conventional boundaries [and perceptions] about the city, its hinterland, and its position in the world.

Spring 2012 - “Colombia Transformed. Architecture = Politics” Lectures by David Escobar, Fernando Villa, Vladimir Belogolovsky and Giancarlo Mazzanti.Fall 2011 - “European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2011” Lectures by Ramon Bosch and Beth Capdeferro, Helmut Jahn, Patrick Blanc and Carolyn Armenta Davis.Spring 2011 - “Young Architects of Spain: A Window to the Unknown” Lectures by Enrique Sobejano, Studio IDE, Strawn.Sierralta, PORT Architecture + Urbanism, and Antón García-Abril.Fall 2010 - “Restoring, Regenerating, Rethinking: The urban transformation of Madrid, Barcelona & Bilbao” Lectures by Ibon Areso and Belinda Tato.

Tianjin Binhai New Area CBD // Chengdu Steel Pipe Master Plan // 35th Street Metra Station // Valencia del Mar – Marina Real Juan Carlos I Competition (with Carlos Ferrater & Peñin Arquitectos) // Chicago 2016 bid proposal

Casa Barcelona Project 2005