Articles by Mimi Zeiger

In this week’s reprint by Metropolis, author Mimi Zeiger explores the new M+ Museum in Hong Kong, finally open to the public. “Designed by Herzog & De Meuron, the impressive building asserts the city’s cultural ascendancy while also magnifying the region’s unescapable political tensions”.

Newspapers’ largely white, male architecture critics are a reflection of the structural inequalities of the built environment and are not equipped to deal with our current time of crisis, says Mimi Zeiger. On 8 January, just days after insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, architecture critic Blair Kamin announced on Twitter that after nearly three decades he would

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I can’t stop thinking about refugia. In the years, months, and days before the COVID-19 pandemic, the term was confined to the literature and philosophy of climate crisis, referring to pockets of life that through geographic isolation or species resilience manage to hang on in spite of the environmental forces against them. Think of clusters of Pacific Northwest barnacles nestled high on coastal outcroppings to avoid falling prey to sea snails. Or old-growth forests insulated from rising temperatures in cool mountain valleys.

Coronavirus has changed the relationship between cities and their rural hinterlands, writes Mimi Zeiger, casting new light on the essays accompanying Rem Koolhaas’ now-shuttered Countryside exhibition. Reading Countryside, A Report, a book of essays on rural areas by the Dutch architect and his research studio AMO, during the time of Covid-19 is like trying to

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Jane Hall’s Breaking Ground aims to rectify gender inequality by singling out female architects from their male counterparts. But, ahead of International Women’s Day this year, Mimi Zeiger argues this corrective project could do more harm than good. As a female writer who writes about female architects, I’m often asked to make lists of female

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Jane Hall’s Breaking Ground aims to rectify gender inequality by singling out female architects from their male counterparts. But, ahead of International Women’s Day this year, Mimi Zeiger argues this corrective project could do more harm than good. As a female writer who writes about female architects, I’m often asked to make lists of female

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Following protests about working conditions at well-known museums – like the Marciano Art Foundation and MoMa – Mimi Zeiger says it’s time to address architecture’s relationship to unfair labour practices. A symbol of the Freemasons – the architecturally familiar square and compass – decorate the facade of the hastily shuttered Marciano Art Foundation, formerly the

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The third Chicago Architecture Biennial draws attention to the biggest issues facing today’s society, but falls short of exhibiting architecture that is trying to solve them, says Mimi Zeiger. The third edition of Chicago Architecture Biennial (CAB) opened its doors one day before Chicago school children gathered in Mies van der Rohe’s Federal Plaza as

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This Article was originally published on Metropolismag.com.