Stories by Mimi Zeiger
“It’s time to abolish the architecture critic”
“The cruelness of demolishing LACMA when Angelenos are unable to bear witness should not be ignored”
“We must recognise the workers who make museum-going a smooth architectural experience”
“What are we left with when architecture is stripped of its spatiality, materiality and aesthetics?”
“Design strategies robust enough to resist this new political climate have yet to emerge”
“Building cannot be separated from the economics that drive construction”
“Creative office space is the dominant aesthetic of our time”
“What to do with old houses?”
“These initiatives represent an opportunistic desire to play with extreme conditions”
“The insidious return of hippie architecture”
“Koolhaas may think we’re past the time of manifestos, but that’s no reason to play dumb”
“History has become a trove of artefacts ready for appropriation”
“As dense metropolises become overwhelmed, the countryside is seen as an escape hatch”
Breaking Ground book on buildings by women “is both needed and problematic”
“Venturi Scott Brown’s MCASD addition should be saved because it is by Venturi Scott Brown”
“Architecture as intellectual inquiry needs to take more risks”
“Architecture can feel like a paltry gesture in times like ours”
“Is architecture really as guileless as Aravena’s Biennale suggests?”
“The Petersen isn’t a good building, it’s a western-town front posing as architecture”
“Architecture is finally moving beyond a homogeneous status quo”
“Biennials and design fairs function much like film festivals”
“An object lesson for designers caught on the hamster wheel of producing interestingness”
